January 31st, 2012 at 9:35AM
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America | Simon & Garfunkel

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January 24th, 2012 at 8:35PM
I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love. — Mitt Romney • Employing, in a stump speech, one of the most laughably overwrought and saccharine lines we’ve heard from the world of politics. This sort of canned rhetoric is especially damaging to Mitt Romney in a way that it wouldn’t be for a Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul or Rick Santorum, reason being that Romney has a habit of painstakingly inserting, verbatim, the same lines (schmaltzy as they may be) into almost every appearance he has. GOP debate? Better say America needs to lead the free world while the free world leads the whole world. Post-primary pump-up speech? Better start quoting “America the Beautiful.” It adds up to foster the very impression Romney can’t afford — that of tone-deafness, and of overly produced, focus-group tested patter. source (via • follow)
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September 2nd, 2011 at 6:18PM
godlessthinker: “I’m calling on Americans to pray and fast like Jesus did and as God called the Israelites to do in the Book of Joel.”-Rick Perry It is clear that Rick Perry seeks to make America a Christian nation and demean it’s secular heritage and system of function. It is not fair to allow a man who is basically advocating for the exclusion of religious minorities from what is perceived to be American culture by making it wholly Christian to represent the people of America. I argue that Rick Perry is unAmerican simply by the fact that his idea of American culture removes the true patchwork of American society with the intention of replacing it with with people who are ideologically similar to him (i.e. Christians). “In 2006 he said that he believed the Bible to be inerrant. He also said that those who did not accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior would be going to hell. Pressed a little on the sheer wickedness and stupidity of that last claim, the governor did allow that he himself wasn’t omniscient enough to be sure on such doctrinal matters. He tells us that he is a “firm believer” in the “intelligent design” formulation that is creationism’s latest rhetorical disguise, adding that the “design” could be biblical or could have involved something more complex, but is attributable to the same divine author in any event. Whether he chooses to avail himself of the wiggles or not, Perry can be reasonably sure that the voting base of the theocratic right has picked up his intended message.”-Christopher Hitchens (slate.com)

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“I’m calling on Americans to pray and fast like Jesus did and as God called the Israelites to do in the Book of Joel.”
-Rick Perry

It is clear that Rick Perry seeks to make America a Christian nation and demean it’s secular heritage and system of function. It is not fair to allow a man who is basically advocating for the exclusion of religious minorities from what is perceived to be American culture by making it wholly Christian to represent the people of America. I argue that Rick Perry is unAmerican simply by the fact that his idea of American culture removes the true patchwork of American society with the intention of replacing it with with people who are ideologically similar to him (i.e. Christians).

“In 2006 he said that he believed the Bible to be inerrant. He also said that those who did not accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior would be going to hell. Pressed a little on the sheer wickedness and stupidity of that last claim, the governor did allow that he himself wasn’t omniscient enough to be sure on such doctrinal matters. He tells us that he is a “firm believer” in the “intelligent design” formulation that is creationism’s latest rhetorical disguise, adding that the “design” could be biblical or could have involved something more complex, but is attributable to the same divine author in any event. Whether he chooses to avail himself of the wiggles or not, Perry can be reasonably sure that the voting base of the theocratic right has picked up his intended message.”
-Christopher Hitchens (slate.com)

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