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Posted on 07/29/2012 11:42:01 AM PDT by Milagros
In Israel, Romney declares Jerusalem to be capital Republican presidential hopeful says 'ayatollahs in Iran are testing our moral defenses'
Ynet reporters, AP Latest Update: 07.29.12, 21:19 / Israel News
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday declared Jerusalem to be the capital of the Jewish state and told an Israeli audience that the United States has "a solemn duty and a moral imperative" to block Iran from achieving nuclear weapons
(Excerpt) Read more at ynetnews.com ...
http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=32874
...During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Bill Clinton said: “I recognize Jerusalem as an undivided city, the eternal capital of Israel, and I believe in the principle of moving our embassy to Jerusalem.” He never reiterated this view as President...
...During the 2000 presidential campaign George W. Bush promised that as President he would immediately “begin the process of moving the United States ambassador to the city Israel has chosen as its capital.” In June 2001, however, Bush followed Clinton’s precedent and used the presidential waiver to prevent the embassy from being moved...
Changing gears, there was a time when presidential candidates traveling to volatile regions of the world for the purpose of promoting their campaigns at expense of perceived unity, would have been ostracized. Now they all do it of course. It reflects more unfavorably on Mitt, IMO, who claims to promote leadership over partisanship. It also isn't smart to focus attention on Israel at a time when their neighbors are involved in civil wars.
Not that Mitt isn't right on occasion or that we or the world shouldn't know his position on the subject; his website, debates and interviews inside America are far better ways to accomphish that goal without adding fuel to the fires in the Middle East.
Very bold and very much appreciated. Thank you, Governor Romney.
Mitt Romney is simply saying what reasonable minded people know, Jerusalem IS the capital of Israel.
Within the first 100 days of a Romney Presidency you’ve got to clean out that rats nest. They made Iraq and Afghanistan untenable and harm our interests throughout the world.
Petromail from SA and friends is the cause of this. It’s time to develop our own energy and ignore their threats.
“Within the first 100 days of a Romney Presidency you’ve got to clean out that rats nest. They made Iraq and Afghanistan untenable and harm our interests throughout the world.”
I was FAR from a Romney fan during the Primaries, but he certainly seems to understand the Middle East a heck of a lot better than ANY president since Reagan...and maybe Reagan too.
OOoooooooh!
Did he say that the sun would rise tomorrow, too??
Regarding your tagline:
Don’t worry, the way you talk about Mitt Romney he won’t be able to tell that you’re a Christian.
That's ok. Mitt couldn't tell that his chosen god was racist; either.
Regarding hertagline:
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.
The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.
This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."
Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.
Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.
2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'
Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'
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August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:
(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)
1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson "The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."
We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood. According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented. |
Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:
"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.
The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."
(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).
When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:
"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."
When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:
"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."
(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)
Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.
“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.
At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.
One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.
(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)
AFAIK, Mitt has made no statement of his chosen church's stand BEFORE he was 32 years old, or about it's changed stance AFTER that time.
He’s not “my boy”;however, Obama is someone I do NOT want as my president for the next four years. Obama has already shown he’s a socialist without a conscience.
I’m willing to gamble on being called a “Gentile” by Mitt Romney rather than dealing with the death of my country at the hands of Obama.
Thank God, so far, we are still able to vote.
Willard
I do not believe he has a vindictive disdain for America, the Constitution, Christianity, and of course, Israel
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Source ???
I think it will be much harder for Romney to walk this back, after making a solid statement for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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Just watch him...
he’ll make it look easy, just for you...
;)
See #71
Willard “sustains” those teachings...
When he gets back State-side, he should have lunch with Mr. Cathy
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I doubt if Conservative Mr Cathy would want to hang out with your Liberal Progressive Willie...
Mr Cathy is a moral man who disagrees with same sex marriage...
Why on Earth would the Christian man Mr Cathy want to be a hypocrite and align himself with the immoral Willard who pushes same sex marriage and homosexuals adopting ???
Why did Jesus meet and actually eat with sinners, might be a better question. Was it because Jesus saw himself as a sinner as well? No. Because he had love for all mankind - a rare human quality. Touche!
Um, could it be Mr Cathy doesn't want a second Obama Regime ??? And, at this point in the election cycle, there is only one way to stave off that threat?
Also, let us not forget the value of celebrity endorsements, especially when the celebrity lands in the Oval Office. Quoth the endorser:
In some ways, it is fitting that I share this distinction with Truett Cathy. The Romney campaign comes to a sudden stop when we spot a Chick-fil-A. Your chicken sandwiches were our comfort food through the primary season, and there were days that we needed a lot of comforting. So, Truett, thank you and congratulations on your well-deserved honor today.
I doubt if Conservative Mr Cathy would want to hang out with your Liberal Progressive Willie...
He already did, last May 12, at Liberty U, of all places. See link above.
But He did NOT tell them it was ok to continue the path they were on; but to "...go and sin no more."
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