Posted on 03/23/2006 12:28:28 PM PST by Crackingham
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the Bible yesterday to criticize a stringent border security measure that, among other things, would make it a federal crime to offer aid to illegal immigrants.
"It is hard to believe that a Republican leadership that is constantly talking about values and about faith would put forth such a mean-spirited piece of legislation," she said of the measure, which was passed by the House of Representatives in December and mirrored a companion Senate bill introduced last week by Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and the majority leader.
"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself," she said. "We need to sound the alarm about what is being done in the Congress."
Mrs. Clinton, who is running for re-election this year and is leading in polls for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke at a news conference in Manhattan with more than 30 immigrant leaders after meeting with them privately.
The meeting took place in an atmosphere of mounting urgency, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on its flock to oppose the measure, and tens of thousands of immigrants around the country stepped up a series of protest rallies in anticipation of a Senate vote on competing immigration bills next week.
Mr. Frist's bill, like the House measure, would make it a crime to be in the United States without proper papers and would add guards and fencing along the Mexican border, and speed deportation.
Some versions, including one proposed by Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, would expand the definition of alien smuggling to include help to illegal immigrants already here.
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Coming from the spawn of satan, that's quite a statement, isn't it?
How would she know . . . it has been probably a few years since she actually studied it!
Oh, like she's an authority on the Bible? The Dem's and Liberals politicize morality and moralize politics ..... they make political hay over abortion and say that illegal immigration is moral according to the Bible .....
Funny, but I didn't think the GOP had an immigration plan. Hillary's getting a little ahead of her jiggly.
The biblical interpretation can be debated, but what gets me is that she thinks this will help her in red states???? She is a lawyer with no political instincts.
Hillary is loosing it and exposing herself for the fake she is.
Hillary Clinton, in comments critical of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s homeless policies, sought to remind all of us that “Christmas celebrates ‘the birth of a homeless child.’
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:DjzRMCN-0uIJ:www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/12-13-04.asp+Hillary+Clinton+Jesus+and+Mary+were+homeless&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
I think the cottage cheese on her legs has risen to her head.
I guess this depends on what your definition of 'the Bible' IS.
Yep, she's no different than George Bush when it comes to border security and illegal immigration.
So, I guess the whole 'Render unto Caesar' thing is eliminated. Cool.
Hitlery obviously pandering for the illegal alien vote... hurl time...
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
bttt
"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself," she said. "We need to sound the alarm about what is being done in the Congress."
ANY tough on crime approach is against Christian teaching.
We are asked if someone robs us of our wallet to also give him our cloak. Somehow I doubt that Mrs. Clinton would ever live up to that standard. Seeing as how she herself violated the 10 Commandments by stealing things from the White House as she moved out.
Mean-spirited? Is it mean-spirited to enforce law? Or, as the Liberal/Socialist extremists portray it, every lawbreaker is a "victim", somehow, with an excuse for reckless disregard for societal rules being "justified".
Screaming about "caring for people" (aka, vote-buying), while disregarding the well-being and recognition of the needs of legal societal members, is a flagrant affront to the vast MAJORITY, who play by the rules.
It's getting closer and closer to the time when this accommodation of extremists who hate being accountable at all will have to be shown that laws DO matter, and consequences for your acts is what our country is based upon.
The 'Rat Party's forte is in advocating the violation and the undermining of our nation's laws.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I have visions of the Heinous Harridan touching a Bible and then getting zapped like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz when she tried to take the ruby slippers from Dorothy!! I wonder if anyone has tried to sprinkle her with holy water to see if she screams with pain!
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