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To: SJackson
During their 2012 Convention, the Democrats voted out God and Israel. People can play the YouTube video themselves. The voice vote was clear.
3 posted on 07/31/2014 5:36:20 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

I remember that Tony Villar got diss for that


5 posted on 07/31/2014 5:38:42 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SkyPilot; Kaslin; SeekAndFind; miss marmelstein; left that other site; Yaelle; Sarah Barracuda; ...
During their 2012 Convention, the Democrats voted out God and Israel. People can play the YouTube video themselves. The voice vote was clear.

What happened was that the 'Rat platform, it was noticed, was presented to the convention (1)without mention of G-d and (2)without the statement of recognition of Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. This would have been the first 'Rat platform in recent history with those omissions. So the Obama WH got a little worried and ordered the Convention to amend the platform to correct the language.

With respect to the insertion of a "Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel" statement then, Los Angeles mayor Villagarosa, presiding over the convention, didn't trust the delegates to do that via a regular head count vote. Rather than be embarrassed by such a vote ending up in a rejection of the "Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel" statement in the platform, Villagarosa opted for a voice vote. Listening in, it would seem that the "nays" were in the majority on three occasions. Nonetheless, Villagarosa arbitrarily declared that the Jerusalem statement received a majority of the voice vote and stuck it officially in the platform, albeit reluctantly.

Given that history, it's no surprise that the Pew polling results of Americans on support for Israel in the current conflict show such a gap between members of the two parties.

26 posted on 07/31/2014 6:52:03 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: SkyPilot

Good. I’m not the only human who remembered that.


30 posted on 07/31/2014 7:23:00 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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