The Feel Your Pain forum open thread: “Do you believe God wants you to be president?” Hillary: “I guess we’ll find out;” the Obamessiah enters Messiah College, defends small-town diss– “Cling” is in the Bible!
I’ve had such a wonderful, unplugged Sunday with my family. Hope you did, too. Now, I’m looking at Hillary Clinton’s mug on CNN. It’s the “Compassion Forum.” She’s babbling about God and democracy and I don’t know what. Is she going to cry? Oh, no. She’s launching into an anecdote about a woman whose grandson was murdered and how strongly she believes in her faith. Fact checker alert.
“It’s about grace. It’s not about Me.”
She’s laying it on thick.
Agonizingly fake.
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More fakery: Hillary swilling beer.
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8:36pm Eastern. Newsweek’s Jon Meacham asks with a straight face: “Why do you think it is that a loving God allows people to suffer? …And you have 30 seconds.”
Hillary: All pious. “Ooooooh. I can’t wait to ask him.”
8:39pm Eastern. Campbell Brown: Do you have a favorite Bible story?
Hillary cites the book of Esther.
8:42pm Eastern. A Muslim asks about compassion. Hillary’s talking about Gore bulbs and global warming.
8:47pm Eastern. Jon Meacham–the guy is asking for an SNL parody–asks with a straight face: “Do you believe God wants you to be president?”
Hillary: “I could be glib and say, ‘I guess we’ll find out.’”
Hillary says she believes in humility.
8:52pm Eastern. The Obamessiah makes his entrance at Messiah College.
Overload.
8:54pm Eastern. First question for Obama is about his small-town clingy diss.
Obama’s new spin: “Cling” is in the Bible! Oh, and it’s the government’s fault.
And this is a distraction.
9:03pm Eastern. Meacham: Does life begin at conception?
Obama: I haven’t come to a firm resolution on that question. I don’t presume to know the answer to that question.
9:10pm Eastern. Meacham asks about Obama’s “babies-as-punishment” remark. Obama: “All I meant was we have to prevent teenage pregnancies.” Actually, he wasn’t talking about “prevention.” He was talking about abortion as after-the-fact birth control.
9:25pm Eastern. Obama: Jeremiah Wright has been distorted.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright told a congregation in Norfolk, Va., on Sunday that reporters sneaked into a private funeral service a day before, in which he blasted America’s founding fathers for slavery and white supremacy and received standing ovations for attacking FOX News for covering his anti-American sermons.
Barack Obama’s retiring pastor delivered a sermon at Bank Street Memorial Baptist Church, where his late uncle had been the pastor, about overcoming trouble. The public appearance was his first since news broke that the Democratic presidential candidate’s pastor frequently rails on the United States.
“Some troubles that come up in your life come up out of nowhere,” Wright said. At the end of the two-hour-plus service, about two dozen ministers gathered around Wright and his daughter to pray for them. One of the ministers asked God to give Wright courage as “the world tries to demonize him.”
Though Wright said nothing about Obama or the uproar itself, he alluded to the controversy while briefly back in the pulpit Saturday to deliver a eulogy for a late congregant of Trinity United Church of Christ — former appellate judge R. Eugene Pincham.
Wright, who is on sabbatical before retiring from Trinity United, said America’s mistreatment of blacks is the result of the founding fathers, who “planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic.”
First reported by The Chicago Sun Times, Wright told mourners at the funeral that Thomas Jefferson, who partook in “pedophilia,” would also be considered unpatriotic these days because he wrote, “God would punish America for the sin of slavery.” He also quoted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who said that the U.S. has a “congenital birth defect.”
What a left-left-left wing forum. CNN says there will be another one. Will they be able to find a single conservative leader of faith to ask questions?
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My pain is your description of Shillary and my “bitterness” is directly related to the fact that the Democrat party cannot seem to bring themselves from the marxist, socialist wing back to the middle.
Please let us know if she lays on hands, cures a leper or casts out a demon. Might be worth watching then.
bitter compassion, baby, the donkey way
Sure am glad we have people like Michelle who can watch that stuff, so the rest of us don’t.
See, all it took was a little Texas hospitality to keep Hillary in the race and now she is a born again, gun totting, God fearing woman.
Very glad to hear it.
My Sunday was good too, and I’m not going to ruin it with talk of Babbling Shill or the Bitter One.
See ya tomorrow.
Blessings all around.
I’m wondering why a loving God is making the American people suffer with this nonsense.
Good night Shooter and all. I’m calling it a night too.
What, you guys aren’t going to stay up for the “Compassion Forum”?
Here’s something I’ve been thinking, about why the GOP has failed to sustain its seemingly crushing tide.
A decade ago, the only party that would have a Presidential candidate describe herself as “a born again, gun toting, God fearing woman” would have been a Republican. Now in 2008, it is (clearly a joke) but Hillary herself is touting these credentials.
Which makes me think that a) conservatives were successfully able to change the terminology in such an effective way that both Democrats are trying to appeal to those segments mentioned above, but b) the GOP was completely unable to sustain electoral success.
Ask any person in the Clinton era if the 2008 Dems would be having such an argument and you chided for such crazy talk.
Ugh, she is making me sick.
Where is Barry O?
Did any conservative religious leaders get to ask Hillary a question? I’d be shocked it CNN allowed that.
Haha. Obama stacked crowd?
Will anyone at CNN note the irony of Sen. Obama at Messiah College?
Was able to spend the afternoon and evening just relaxing. Don’t want to think about
the Lioness of Tuzla or her resident pervert, Slick. Am going to call it a night, also.
Ya’ll have a very pleasant evening. G’night Michelle.
Who’s “misconstruing” Obama’s words? We have audio and transcripts that don’t take him out of context.
She believes in humility and flys around on a broom too, what more could you want?
Gee, that didn’t take long. One “bitter” question and the reporters move on. John Adams will be on shortly. That should be more informative than Obama showing us how much he cares.
As it should be. Me as well.
No need to listen to those politicians tonight. It can wait for a “work day”.
So if he doesn’t know when life begins, then he doesn’t have a problem with possibly (in his mind) killing babies? He just admitted that he doesnt have a problem with killing fetuses even though he doesnt know if they are “alive” or not.
The pain will end when El Skanky and Oblahmas pictures are both on the back of milk cartons.
Obama’s nose should start growing longer.
Cant take any more of this. Just plain sickening.
Best wishes to you and your family Michelle. Good night.
The funny thing is that because Obama has gotten this far, whether he wins or loses, TONS of Americans WILL be bitter after this election. You can bet that Obama will be bitter if he loses.
I really can’t believe the pass that this guy gets on all this stuff from the media. If he wins, he’ll be worse than Carter. But the media will blame the bitter Republicans somehow.
It’ll be Bush’s fault.
Interesting that Clinton chose Esther as her favorite book, especially considering that it’s one of only two books in which God is not mentioned.
She liked Esther because the guy who was trying to dethrone her got hung.
Now THAT is funny!!
Best one liner on the web I’ve read in a while.
Obama has not yet come to a firm resolution that life begins at birth.
On April 14th, 2008 at 12:53 am, INC said:
yeah Inc, you know he thinks that pregnant women are suffering from a problem that needs to be treated like any other disease. It makes you wonder how he responds when a friend tells him she’s pregnant. ‘Oh, I’m sorry? That’s too bad?’ (I’ll apologize for this one right off, and probably should be edited for posting it but. . . maybe he says that because that’s what his daddy said about him - I know, that’s awful and probably the worst thing I’ve ever said, and I’m sorry. If it’s too over the top, edit it - but I was just kidding. I generally sensor myself.)
This guy gets a pass. . . at some point Obama will go too far, and all the media kings’ horses and all the media kings’ men won’t be able to spin him together again.
Between the two of them…
I misspoke…
I could have worded it better…
Constantly having to spin “what they meant”
Just the kind of morons we want “opening dialog” with world leaders….
Yeah Right…
For Barak, life begins at eighteen when one can vote.
I thought it was interesting that (at least when I was tuned in) the fact that the forum was at Messiah College was not that evident. Maybe CNN wanted to avoid the Obamessiah connection to be underplayed… or maybe Messiah College wanted to avoid it? Usually at these types of events it seems to me that the hosting college gets some air time to show their campus/plug the school..Maybe that happened but I didn’t see it. My son went there and did tech work for these forums..he said that there are people holding applause signs so that the participants will receive “polite applause” at the appropriate times. Don’t know how they decide when the “appropriate” times are. Noticed that Jim Wallace was there…the Dems anointed one to reach out to the religious community. This might have been interesting if they had invited say a James Dobson to ask questions.
European kings created New World slavery. The men fighting in the “Revolutionary War” fired a shot “heard ’round the world.” In 1787 the Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance Act. The Northwest Ordinance Act (Article 6) banned slavery in the new territories. The Northwest Territories became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. This act created a bloc of free states that joined the northeastern states in 1860 to confront the powers in the southern states that wanted to continue slavery. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 were just tests of the intent of the Northwest Ordinance Act and were the sparks that caused the civil war.
Biblical “scholar” Wright is just a manipulative ingrate.
Fortunately, John McCain had the good sense not to fall for the CNN set up. The CNN game plan was to give the Democrats softball questions and then to pummel McCain with questions about how Republicans can claim to have religious faith while they toss people out of hospitals and toss poor people out of their homes. Campbell Brown is a liberal Democrat as is Jon Mechem. CNN did the same stunt last year and tricked Israel’s president Shimon Peres into being interviewed. Peres should have known that once Christine Amanpour was assigned, it would be a hit piece. Amanpour told Peres that the interview would be about Judaism. Instead, she peppered Peres with accusations about Israel’s “violations of international law”. When Peres tried to rebut her, Amanpour kept thundering “Your words, your words” at Peres. This is the same trick that CNN had prepared for McCain. Fortunately, this time CNN did not have the criminal in the dock.
Amanpour is THE worst. I ALWAYS change the channel when she is on. It is obvious that she is so full of herself. She is the most elitist of the elitists. I dislike her more than Nancy Grace, and that’s saying something. Amanpour never offers anything of substance, it is always spin to her view.
Can an image be any more manufactured than this Obama’s image? It is really starting to get scary how contrived this person is.
On April 14th, 2008 at 10:21 am, ThackerAgency said:
Agreed! Double agreed! And is one of the many reasons why I gave up watching cnn, entirely, many years ago.
Please let us know if she lays on hands, cures a leper or casts out a demon. Might be worth watching then.
She’s already speaking in tongues — forked tongues!
On April 13th, 2008 at 9:22 pm, suzieviews said:
Obama’s nose should start growing longer.
It’s racist to imply Obama has a long nose…
My “baby” turned 8 Saturday. It was a glorious day and found us at a Little League game in the morning. How time flies! I just felt so peaceful, so happy, just being there with my family. What a great country the U.S. is. People like Obama and Clinton (and probably McCain) spout all these stupid things, trying to “relate” to average people. And you know what? I almost feel sorry for them. They will NEVER have an experience like that because they’ve so far removed themselves from what is “normal.”
I found the transcript of the event.
Dr. Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is one name I recognize. He was there and I saw one question he asked about Southern Baptist faith-based abstinence work in Africa. Obama punted and gave a non-answer.
This was the next interchange with Obama. (I read about this on Jill Stanek’s website and that’s when I searched for the transcript).
What I want to know is what kind of a dad can sit there and talk about his girls having sex at age 12 or 13? This is unconscionable to me.
Of course she couldnt answer this. Suffering occurs because we live in a fallen world. Suffering comes to both the just and the unjust. If we allow it, God will take our suffering and make something good come from it, and draw us closer to Him. God never allowed a hurt to go unused.
He knows it does - it’s only common sense. But he cant admit that and still call himself a democrat. He would see himself forced out of the race so fast it would make his head spin, not to mention all the funding the dems would lose from planned parenthood.
And she’s still not convincing anybody.