The Huck Goes Home To Wingnut Jeebus

Agreed. But comparing the level of fundamentalism of an American city with a place like Tehran with "spent time driving through" is basically irresponsible. Statements like that is when conservatives like to bust out everybody's favorite, "If you don't like it here..."

 

No, that's your job. And you really do try.

 

Yeah, and 100 pennies equal a dollar. Happy collecting.

 

The thing that's sad about all of this is looking back at history and seeing exactly how many HUGE decisions a President made based on his faith alone. Not many. Yet we talk about Christians or Mormans or any other candidate - it will even come up on the left (Gasp!) - like they have the plague.
I'm not undermining the religion factor completely, but comparing the shitstorm that is made about a candidate's religion and what a President has ACTUALLY done solely based on their religious beliefs ... maybe it isn't the ONLY issue to be concerned with.

 

This guy says you're full of shit.

 

If a liberal lawyer says there should not be murder, then it's applauded by liberals.

If a Christian quotes the commandment that says so, liberals scream in panic that a Theocracy is just around the corner.

 

Thanks for comin' out, you're right, so long as the candidate isn't fundamentalist. For me, there's a big difference between someone who is religious and someone who is a fundamentalist. Then I think you have to believe that will color their time in office.

It's like this: In my experience, there isn't much difference between the average Iranian and the average American. Both are probably in their hearts decent, just want a nice life for themselves and for their families, a house with a big TV and maybe get to go on vacation twice a year.

But because a wingnut is in charge in Iran, it paints an entire people with the same crazy brush. Well, I'm just saying the world's view of America is creeping along those same lines. I like just about every American I've met. But once you started putting fundamentalists in office, that definitely has an effect on perception. And as is the case with Iran, it's the people in charge who become the image of a country, not the average man on the street.

Anyway, it's not my country, it's not my fight. I'm just telling you how things look from the outside looking in.

 

Hell, FDR led the nation in prayer during his radio addresses during the war. Liberals would have booted FDR for that now.

 

Yawn, the adults are trying to have a conversation. Run along and play.

 

Not a single argument addressing the truly crazy shit in the original post.
Sad, really.

 

FWIW, Tehran isn't a city with frequent suicide bombings and other nastiness associated with Islam fundamentalists. Iran is one of the more socially stable Muslim nations, so in that regard Jones' analogy has merit.

As for Huckabee, his claims of health care and education for everyone being "from hell" seem pretty damn contradictory to what it says in, you know, the Bible. That second half of the book is about a dude who devoted his life to helping people, namely the less fortunate. That stuff is straight from the Good Book. No "lefty spin," it's right there in black and white.

o_t, I know what you mean when talking about having to pay for someone else's education. I really do. I don't agree though, because by telling the nation pay for your own education, you create serfdom. Little children can't go out and work to pay for their own education, and it's not their fault if they have poor and/or deadbeat parents. By denying those kids access to education, it perpetuates a cycle that essentially equals serfdom.

 

Is it too late for me to point out that, contrary to Texas wingnut lady, not only did public schools not start in Moscow, neither did socialism or communism?