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Pete Buttigieg's knee-jerk compulsion to scold Christians pops up again at second debate
American Thinker ^ | 06/28/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/28/2019 8:12:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

If you ask me to pick a winner at the Democratic debate on night two in Miami, I would have said Pete Buttigieg.  He came off as reasonable, clear-thinking, pithy, and pleasant.  He respected time limits.  I didn't agree with him on anything, but he gave a sense of coming from rational grounding.  Maybe his leftie ideas could be tempered with real-world realities.  Maybe he could be persuaded...

But then, then, then, then...he couldn't stop himself.  The transcript:

We have to talk about one other thing, the Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion. Now, our party doesn't talk about that as much, largely for a very good reason, which was we are committed to the separation of church and state. We stand for people of any religion and no religion. But we should call out hypocrisy, for a party that associates itself with Christianity."

Buttigieg whipped out for about the umpteenth time his unsolicited opinion about just how un-Christian all those inadequate, wicked, dare-I-say sinful Christians out there really are, hooking his argument up to the border surge issue.  Gotcha.  Bad Christians.  Not like good-Christian me, that paragon of all virtue-signals.

It was about as attractive as a fart in church.

Here's the video of him coming out with his Inner Scold at no one's request:

What's interesting is that most of the rabid left, whose Democratic Party he identifies with, prefer to launch attacks on Christianity itself.  They hate Christianity, not to mention the idea of God.  It's obvious in their court cases challenging this cross or that manger scene in public space, prayer in public schools, crosses at military cemeteries, etc.  Democrats themselves have booed God at one of their recent party conventions.  President Obama rarely ever went to church services, and his references to faith in speeches always threw in the non-faith of atheists into his mix,

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To: Big Red Badger

Sociopaths are also deceptively charming.

Butt-edge is intentionally marketing
himself as the white Obama.


41 posted on 06/28/2019 9:26:57 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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Thanks SeekAndFind.

42 posted on 06/28/2019 11:38:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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