Santorum, with footnotes
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Santorum, with footnotes
Sounds like everybody's favorite Inquirer columnist is campaigning for GOP chairman -- good luck with that. Here's the Elephant in the Room's analysis of our current political condition...with footnotes:
I believe America is a center-right country. (1) We should not back away from the policies that have built this great nation just because European progressivism is "in." (2) America will not thrive if we continue to abandon capitalism (3); our leadership role in the world, backed by a strong military (4); and the values our forefathers bequeathed to us in our founding documents. (5)
1. Is that why Democrats received more popular votes in four of the last five presidential elections and control both houses of Congress by a huge margin?
2. "In"? How many of the more than 69 million Americans who voted for Obama knew what "European progressivism" is?
3. What about continuing to abandon any kind of regulation or law enforcement?
4. Does "leadership" include "pre-emptive war"?
5. Like separation of church and state?
Will, where does the term "separation of church and state" appear in our founding documents? Nothing prohibits government leaders from practicing religion or holding religious convictions. Religion is to be protected from the state; it is not the other way around. For the record, I don't really support Santorum for GOP chairman.— jfar86
Comment removed.- Great news. The more this elephant is out there spewing his super right wing ideas - the more Dems will be elected locally and nationally. I am looking forward to the next few years of watching those war-mongering neocons, being more and more ignored.— pal
"Religion is to be protected from the state; it is not the other way around." . . . . . Actually it's both. There are two religion clauses in the First Amendment: 'Congress shall make no law (1) respecting an establishment of religion, or (2) prohibiting the free exerciser thereof' The establishment clause is what separates church from state.
Nice tie Rick...— Hamlet- It's the first Amendment.... I know the right is usually in a big rush to get to # 2, but come on you can atleast read the first one. I want to take the opportunity to shoot down a popular belief that the Bill of Rights, actually starts @ 2. (pun intended)— gee1971
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- All the neolibs keep telling us, at any criticism of their 0bamassiah, that "0bama won, get over it". Well that should go both ways - your Empty Suit Junior won, get over it.— fafafooey
1. I'm 40 years old, and to this point in my lifetime only 3 Democrats have occupied the White House, totaling 13 years. 2. Many voters don't know about European progressivism because liberals running for office tend to hide their liberalism for fear of losing. 3. It was regulation that got Fannie and Freddie in trouble to begin with, and started this mess. 4. Pre-emptive war, or the possibility of another 9/11. Easy choice. 5. Congress shall make no law..does not provide for the complete absence of religion from the public square, it only says that Congress shall make now law.— jmc- I actually thought Santorum made a lot of sense for once. He didn't name the person he wants though. I probably wouldn't punch him but I doubt my conversation with him would last 30 minutes. Probably throw an Utleyism at him and flip him the bird. He deserves little else.— James TL
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- Nobody can cut and past like Will. Hey Will, what are you going to do when the DN folds? You are not smart enough for NPR.— CD75
- You're right jmc, the intent of the 1st amendment is not to drive religion from the public square. Rather, it is to prevent preferential treatment of one religion over another within the public square, and thus to enable all the ability to exercise their religion freely.— legatus
- The values our forefathers bequeathed to us in our founding documents? Follow the link below to watch Ricky say that one of those specific values, the pursuit of happiness, harms America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03zFTTqHScI— Max
- Many things in the Constitution are implied. And there a reason it is usually referred to as "separation of *church* and state" not separation of religion and state. This distinction seems to fly over the heads of many Christians.— Hamlet
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