by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Artur Davis, articulate, intelligent, honest, and spot on in his criticism of both Vice President Joe (Dufus) Biden and President Obama. ( CNN ) - Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama, said Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden was propagating "racial viciousness" when he said Mitt Romney's regulatory policies would "put y'all back in chains." Biden made the comments Tuesday to a predominantly black crowd in Danville, Virginia, a city with a long history of racial tension. In May Davis announced he was switching to the GOP, leaving the door open to a future political bid as a Republican. Skip Davis, who is black, said the comment smacked of a type of divisiveness he said was all too common in the South. "It brought back memories for me," Davis told Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room." "It brought back memories of th
Les,
ReplyDeleteI copied this from a blog I read. It is real words, and real comments, from a person who is a bleeding-heart liberal progressive and she is talking about terrorists.
Here is link:
http://www.jesusneedsnewpr.net/adopt-a-terroritst-says-christian-group/
And here are her comments:
"Hmmmm…. I think the best thing to do for our “enemies” is try to understand them. It seems to me that poverty leads to desperation and desperation leads to fundamentalism… where else can you turn if your world has been utterly obliterated by the “world”?
I don’t hate terrorists (even as a skeptic) because I feel that these people have suffered in ways that we spoiled Americans just can’t fully digest. As a teacher, I’ve learned to acknowledge that children living in desperate or unhappy situations will act out. How is it any different for people just because they turn 18?
I think loving other people is about being willing to listen to their stories and feel compassion for them as best as possible. That’s a really hard thing to do when we feel personally threatened by them, I know!!!
Even so, I think (even as a skeptic!!!) that perhaps Jesus offered a great solution that had been expresses in Eastern religions as well: love others as yourself.
It doesn’t mean that a person can’t be angry or self-defensive (Jesus certainly got angry from time to time), but what it does mean to me is that it is the burden/ moral obligation for every person (believer or not) is to try to understand his or her fellow human being and do the best he or she can do by that person.
Just my $0.02 as a secular humanist."
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Yeesh.
Donald in Bethel, CT
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