Posted on 09/07/2012 8:25:20 AM PDT by re_tail20
In just three short minutes, Democrats handed the 2012 election to Republican Mitt Romney.
In a surreal floor vote at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., at 5:04 p.m., long before prime-time viewers flipped on their TVs, delegates split — hard — on whether to include a simple mention of God in their platform, and to declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
“Awkward,” “embarrassing,” “stupid,” “unforced error,” said Democrat Paul Begala. That doesn’t even begin to capture what will be a game-changing event in the presidential election.
With no advance warning and no fanfare, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a rising star in the party, took to the podium. He gave the floor to the head of the platform-drafting committee, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland.
“As an ordained United Methodist minister, I am here to attest and affirm that our faith and belief in God is central to the American story and informs the value we have expressed in our party’s platform,” he said. “In addition, President Obama recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and our party’s platform should as well.”
Well. The delegates voted — by yelling ‘yay’ or ‘no.’
Spotlight Mr. Villaraigosa. “In the opinion of the chair — let me do that again.”
He did. Another vote, half yay, half no.
“I, uh, I guess — ” said the by-now formerly rising party star, turning for help.
An unknown woman sidled up and told him, “You just gotta let them vote, and let them do what they’re gonna do.”
Finally, in vote 3, the “no’s” clearly won, but the teleprompter said otherwise and the motion was deemed passed: God and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel were back in the party platform.
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He is a typical United Methodist pastor, shallow, nieve and foolish.
” Honey Boo Boo beat out Clinton’s DNC speech on Wednesday....
I’m not sure whether I should be happy or disappointed... “
I hear ya.
Believe me, this is what I bring up in my conversations with so-called pro-life Democrats!
No surprise there. I watched a few minutes of Juan sKerry - who by the way served in Vietnam -, flipped him the bird and then flipped the channel.
This article misquotes the unknown woman. She did not say “you just gotta let them vote and then you gotta let them do what they’re gonna do.” She said “you just gotta RULE and then you gotta let them do what they’re gonna do.”
She was basically telling him to go ahead and rule in a way that he knew did not reflect the actual vote, and then the delegates would have to file a challenge to the ruling if they had a problem with it.
The Democrat party has officially and undeniably become a Godless institution. Thousands of their party delegates voted three times to keep even a single mention of God out of their party platform, and did it during a live TV broadcast.
BTW, I’m not sure it was a good idea to pray that the Democrats would expose themselves at the convention, given that Bill Clinton would be there... But praise God, he knew what you meant... ;)
A leftist exposed is a leftist defeated.
They can’t run on what they believe in, or they’d not see the halls of power, ever.
nerd
Oh, I totally agree, but my second comment was meant as a joke, as Bill Clinton has a long history of “exposing himself”...
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