STAY OFF MY THREADS!
Posted on 09/08/2010 2:58:08 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Presumed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney came out Wednesday against the planned burning of the Quran by a Florida pastor, saying that doing so would endanger American troops.
“Burning the Quran is wrong on every level,” the former Massachusetts governor said in a statement to POLITICO. “It puts troops in danger, and it violates a founding principle of our republic.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41895.html#ixzz0yyeKLaDE
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How's about you?
Cool and windy today.
The winds are starting to come down from the north.
BHO was in town today, in case you didn't see the news today. ;-)
Whatever you say, bloss.
The flailing president goes to Ohio to jack his numbers back.
Can you send some of that 80 degree weather this way? Lots of hot air to spare in Cleveland today........
Be civil.
You post a thread, we post on it, which often means to the person that posted the thread.
Let me say it again ...
Find a new playmate.
Absolutely right! The idea this burning puts our troops in danger is pure stupidity. If anything, giving in to the muslims emboldens them.
You never responded when I posted to you about Mitt’s Muslim problem, were you aware of it?
If Palin had said that she objected to burning the Koran because "it violates a founding principle of our republic," you bet I'd object. But she didn't utter that absurdity -- Romney did.
"Our nation was founded in part by those fleeing religious persecution. Freedom of religion is integral to our charters of liberty. We don’t need to agree with each other on theological matters, but tolerating each other without unnecessarily provoking strife is how we ensure a civil society. In this as in all things, we should remember the Golden Rule. Isn’t that what the Ground Zero mosque debate has been about?" -- Sarah Palin
"Burning the Quran is wrong on every level,” the former Massachusetts governor said in a statement to POLITICO. “It puts troops in danger, and it violates a founding principle of our republic." -- Mitt Romney
STAY OFF MY THREADS!
Well, unlike any Romney, she has her kid in the military, so she has, literally, skin in the game.
Mitt, rumored to have attended Harvard don’t ya know, made a inane statement about a private citizen doing as he pleases, and some how trying to tie the state to religion, but of course being Mormon and from Utah( or Mass, or New Hampshire, or Michigan, or California..) he might not be able to distance himself mentally from the whole religion/politic thing, which as I said, would bring up, I think fairly, his Mormonism as a matter of public politics. So, you could say, the ever tone deaf Mitt, has steped into the church/politics do-do again.
I love how she twists the knife. She knows how to always work our message into the discussion.
Yet your post at its foundation echoes my husband's take on the issue: Islam would rather see us dead than to tolerate our presence. Period. This holds true whether we burn Korans nor not.
Perhaps it is better to burn Korans now and keep the war and warning symbolic and bloodless, to state clearly our resolve to preserve our way of life, than to gratify our own vanity by remaining proper and polite; that path IS vanity and will lead beyond symbolic war to concrete war. Perhaps Korans burned now will save bloodshed later.
After all, a "No Trespassing" sign on a fence is not what prevents a person from hopping over that fence. It's the symbolism of the sign that does it -- or not, and when the symbolism of the sign is ignored, there are consequences.
Certainly, refraining from burning Korans will do nothing to prevent Islam from trying to fulfill its goal of forcing worldwide domination.
So I'm thinking you may be right -- that Palin, Mark Levin, Petreus, and all the other folks I normally agree with have it wrong this time, and "The pastor of that little church down in Gainesville has it right."
Thanks for taking the time to write that post and helping to remind us that war is indeed neither polite nor proper, and that symbolic acts that offend can be powerful preventative weapons to minimize future bloodshed, counterintuitive as they may seem.
No, actually, Palin didn’t say the same thing at all. Only Romney made the ridiculous charge that burning Korans “violated” a founding principle. Palin said no such thing. And in any case, Palin has it wrong in two ways: it IS necessary to provoke strife as a symbolic warning (see Grumplestiltskin’s very excellent post 159) to a religion that would establish itself in our nation but aggressively refuse to reciprocate our tolerance, and the Golden Rule cannot apply when threatened with an enemy determined to destroy us, and THIS IS WAR, an ancient one that’s been going on for 1,400 years. Palin, like most Americans, will deny that unpleasant reality for as long as she can. Jesus never told his followers to lay down and allow themselves to be slain by their enemies.
Agreed, but I also agree with Palin's view of the Murder Mosque. They may have a "right" to do it, but it's wrong.
And I challenge you to find one 'feminist' freeper who has railed against Bachmann.
Thank you for making the point, Lakeshark. Pissant lives in a world of black and white, though, and based on his rules (and others here), if you support a RINO, you are thus, a RINO too.
True, both insensitive.
In addition, Islam is responsible for burning bibles, burning down churches, murdering and raping those who leave Islam or those who won’t convert to Islam. It was insensitive to murder those in the twin towers.
Well; G_L, you ARE consistant and persistant and don't want ANYONE ('specially that "D" fella) to say bad things about Mitt!
But you DO this in EVERY stinkin' thread you start!
HAven't you figgered out that it IS going to happen and that there is NOTHING you can do about it except appear as a spoiled little girl; always wanting HER way?
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