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In his February 10 Washington Times column, titled "End of the Constitution: Obamacare birth-control mandate would defeat the First Amendment," Jeffrey Kuhner called President Obama "an anti-Christian, anti-religious bigot" whose "goal is to purge Christianity from civil society, to marginalize religion from the public square." Kuhner's attack is in response to the president's announcement that he would require most employers to cover contraceptives for women. President Obama later announced an accommodation in which insurance companies would directly offer contraception coverage to employers who have religious objection to such coverage.
Washington Times: "Mr. Obama Is An Anti-Christian, Anti-Religious Bigot"
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I believe that people who lie without conscience are called sociopaths. I sincerely hope that Kuhner's family break through to him and get him the medical help he needs to function normally again, to rejoin society.
But for the time being, it hardly seems appropriate for a any paper, even a known hate site like the Washington Times, to employ someone with mental health issues. Perhaps letting him go will begin the healing process, to show him that he's not just being a partisan idiot, but really needs help with his problems.
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Paul.. didn't you hear/read/know? President Obama is spending 100's of millions of dollars on a Colosseum.. and then having shipped in some ferocious lions... ?
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Paul, I agree this much hate and the hate that is being promoted in this country is a mental illness. Yet Paul you have me a little confused with this article. First I was told he was a member of Reverend Wright's church which is Christian. Then I was told he was an atheist. Then I was told he was an Muslim. Now Paul I am being told he is an anti-Christian anti-religious bigot. Can't process all those adjectives. He has had so many religious beliefs during these past two years. I also know adjectives and adverbs are opinion words, opinions of their user.
The right to freedom of religion allows the right to those whose religious or non-religious belief allow contraception. President Obama is not forcing anyone to use contraception. That would be an infringement of Constitutional Rights. It prevents a woman to speak to whether she wishes to be a mother or not. That is an infringement based on gender. President Obama is making it available for those who wish to use it no matter what their religious views are.
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First I was told he was a member of Reverend Wright's church which is Christian. Then I was told he was an atheist. Then I was told he was an Muslim. Now Paul I am being told he is an anti-Christian anti-religious bigot. Can't process all those adjectives. He has had so many religious beliefs during these past two years. I also know adjectives and adverbs are opinion words, opinions of their user.
It goes by days of the week. I believe Tuesdays he's a Muslim, Wednesdays he's an atheist, Thursdays he's from Kenya, and Fridays he's a socialist. He takes the weekend off.
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Jeff
I think you forgot to mention here at the times you are right wing zealots that enjoy being cheerleaders for all of uniformed crazy's , because it pays the bill's
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I certainly hope for the Washington Times sake that they realize they have a contributor that should not write.
Hatred has been rampant since 2008. It's vile and disgusting.
Another reason to spend your money on newspapers other than this rag.
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#1.3:It goes by days of the week. I believe Tuesdays he's a Muslim, Wednesdays he's an atheist, Thursdays he's from Kenya, and Fridays he's a socialist. He takes the weekend off.
That is marvelous, I tell ya! Absolutely marvelous. I especially like that "he takes the weekend off"!
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I believe that people who lie without conscience are called sociopaths.
Yeah, that pretty much says it all about this column...
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Ooooh, bigot! The latest and nastiest buzzword, to be taken as far lower than anything else; take that, Mr. President...
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See the video starting at 2:25,
http://www.c-span.org/Events/WH-Modifies-Rule-on-Preventive-Health-Services-and-Religious-Institutions/10737428227/
Our President talks about the import of religious liberty, his faith and women's health.
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Maybe President Obama really is anti-Christian and anti-religious and is trying to use the authority of the state to oppress religionists, especially Christians. So what? Isn't that what many religionists, especially Christians, are trying to do to those who don't share their beliefs? Why is okay for one, but not for the other, and wrong for one but not for the other?
Yes, the President's mandate is flying in the face of anti-birth control religionists and will attempt for force them to do something that goes against their beliefs, as well as the First Amendment (and it'll probably be struck down as un-Constitutional, as it should). And that's got the ultra-fundamentalist religionists all in a tizzy. But how is it different from them trying to use the power of the state to deny people to practice what they want, such as marriage equality?
The government, on all levels, should stay out of religious practices, with some extreme exceptions (no one has the right to toss virgins into volcanoes to appease some god). All religions should stay out of government, with some extreme exceptions (the government can't tell people they're not allowed to use incense in their services [this is just an example] because it violates a "smoke-free" public environment).
As much as I think the responsible use of contraceptives is a good and wise thing, and I desire easy and affordable access to them, it's not up to me as an atheist to tell Catholics or anyone else that they must pay for it for somebody else. If certain birth control methods are too expensive, take it up with the corporate manufacturers that gouge people to make the 1% even wealthier. Go after them. I certainly don't want to be a partisan to stuffing the wallet of some drug company CEO who's already making a seven-or-eight-figure-a-year salary. I see them as more of a threat to birth control access than some piddly Catholic school with an insurance benefit.
And, by the same token, it's not up to Catholics, other Christians, or any religionists to tell me how I'm suppose to live my life, whom I can marry, etc., under the threat of the law because of their beliefs. No one's religion determines my or anyone else's civil, human and Constitutional rights.
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I don't know what's worse, being an atheist or being part of a religion and following none of its tenants.
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will attempt for force them to do something that goes against their beliefs, as well as the First Amendment (and it'll probably be struck down as un-Constitutional, as it should).
I agree.
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I guess that the only thing he isn't is a moonie.
Well.. his wife would know that.. she's the only one that has seen his arse..
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because it pays the bill's
Not to mention everything the zealots touche it becomes tax free, you name it.
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Who went to church more often: Obama or Reagan? 'Nuff said.
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Buckeye... Reagan went to church in his head... only if he didn't remember.
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I believe that people who lie without conscience are called
sociopathsPoliticians.
Had to fix that for ya.
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NON-Catholics know when they go to work at a Catholic organization; that it is CATHOLIC and therefore they shouldn't expect them to violate their consciences.
No one is "forced against their will" to go to work at a Catholic organization.
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FTA:
The real aim is to smash the Catholic Church as a bulwark against the sexual revolution, reducing it to a quisling of the liberal regime.
Catholic leaders rightly stood up. The Church understood it was under siege.
Well I don't believe President Obama is trying to smash the RCC. I think the RCC has done a good enough job of that themselves. They have proven themselves to be liars and con men operating under the guise of a church.
Let me know when the children are safe from those in the RCC preisthood will ya ?? Oh and all the leaders who hid them for years while the sick bastards hurt more innocent children, well I guess they were just doing the will of their god mammon huh ??
Faith without works is dead just as works without faith is empty of God.
That is how I see the RCC and those who support their evil as being holy.
They should clean up their own house and remove the mote from their eye before trying to remove the sliver from the eye of those they preach to.
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So, should a Muslim Hospital be able to require it's female employees to wear a Burka etc.?
Should Muslim Hospitals be able to not hire women?
Should an Employer's Religion be able to override American Law?
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Obama has made the compromises and here are the delusional, rabid Obama haters again.
The church is under seige? Not exactly. Its called being increasingly out of touch with the modern world for about a thousand years.
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I would say no.. but it all depends on how much a person wants the job.. isn't that what it is all about? It all depends on how much a job is worth to you.. and what a person is willing to put up with... In today's society many have forgotten that..it isn't the employee that makes the terms.. the employer does.
Employees should not be dictating to the employer .. unless the employee is paying the employer.
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Washington Times: "Mr. Obama Is An Anti-Christian, Anti-Religious Bigot"
One black president, and an all white everyone else government, and they are calling him the bigot.
Seems like we need a 12 step for all the white bigots in government. All we hear is white politicians and repukians bashing the one black man in office.
None of these white politicians have done much for the people or for our country, and all they can do is point their little white fingers at the black man that's trying to clean up all the previous white man's problems and wars they have created.
All the republican needs to look in the mirror and see the real truth in Washington.
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President Obama has already found a solution that allows the Catholic Church to pass the cost of birth control (for women employed by their financial enterprises) to the insurance companies. Right wingers can't let the fact that it's now a non-issue get in the way of spreading lies and milking the situation to create divisiveness. The Democratic party has always represented the interests of Catholic families and workers, but now right wing extremists are seeking a wedge to separate Catholics from the party that works to benefit them. Barack Obama is a publically confessed Christian, and lives his faith, so why would he be anti Christian, anti religion? Also, why would anybody read a rag like the Wash. Times when the Washington Post is one of the best newspapers in the country?
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More BS from the Washington Times?
This is the reason why I cancelled my subscription in the first month. I have more respect for the National Enquirer (a LOT more) than this filthy rag.
*YAWN*
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Stop buying the rag. We don't need it in the outhouse in these times.
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Anti-christian? Anti-religious?
Is he referring to the President who goes to church every Sunday with his family? Or the President who attended the National Prayer Breakfast? That President? Or was Kuhner referring to the President who quotes scripture from memory? Or maybe the President who ends his speeches with "... and God bless the United States of America." That President? Is he referring to the President who started the tradition of the Easter Prayer Breakfast at the White House? That President?
Wow. I guess the reich-wing continues on with it's old M.O.: "When the facts fail you, just make @!$%# up."
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Btw- Par4: Going to church doesn't necessarily make you a good christian any more than standing in the garage makes you a good car.
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Employees should not be dictating to the employer .. unless the employee is paying the employer.
If you think hard enough you'll see the employees pay the employers because they have to make more than they get paid otherwise "You're fired".
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. I think the RCC has done a good enough job of that themselves. They have proven themselves to be liars and con men operating under the guise of a church.
RCC is just a washed up government heirarchy that used to control and influence a large part of the modern world; and now that it's relegated to little more than an archaic curiosity in the heart of Italy with little or no direct control of modern nations, it's pathetically attempting to flex its atrophied muscles through this 'revival' of ignorance in the United States.
Don't be complacent, though. Ignorance is easily established, and there are leaders within this country working hard at ensuring such. It took centuries of struggle and the Enlightenment to bring us out of the Dark Ages and the Church's control - but it seems that those lessons learned by our forefathers are slowly being forgotten and marginalized by those who wish to regress our nation and culture.
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Only way GOP can win is by bending reality.
Reminds me of worries people had about LHA creating black holes and destroying world. GOP may warp space-time so radically they create singularity that sucks US into black hole of stupidity and lunacy.
I know LHA worries had to do with quantum physics, not general relativity. Just go with it.
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They've already created that Black Hole of Stupidity and Lunacy, it's called CPAC.
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Btw- Par4: Going to church doesn't necessarily make you a good christian any more than standing in the garage makes you a good car.
You're not talking to the piper here.. I'm not a great "Christian" at all.. Before I was married many of the 10 Commandments I broke.. except for kill ..which I never acted out..unless you want to apply it to my military service...
I believe in the right of people to worship the religion they wish..go to the 'church' they wish to go to.. what doesn't set well with me and others.. is the onslaught of people trying to dictate their religion through changing the landscape of this country via the 'good book'. Public Laws override all laws in this country.. not religious laws.
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If you think hard enough you'll see the employees pay the employers because they have to make more than they get paid otherwise "You're fired".
Actually the Employer is giving you the opportunity to make an income.. If you do not perform well.. just like in any job .. you are replaceable. One person owns the business and hires people to work for them.. the other walks in looking for a job.. there are literally millions of people looking for a job.. and the one business hiring.. which position would you rather be in? The person hiring.. or the person looking for a job? So, who can dictate to whom?
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Religions are not exempt from the Requirement to follow Public Laws.
Just because you have a Religious Belief that conflicts with the Law, doesn't mean you can ignore the Law.
They've already created that Black Hole of Stupidity and Lunacy, it's called CPAC.
AAAGGHH!!! Only way we can survive is to expand event horizon with strange matter! Quick, throw in Palin!
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Public Laws override all laws in this country.. not religious laws.
That should read : Not just religious laws..
Public Laws override all laws in this country.. not 'Just" religious laws.
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If only he truly were,the derrr rrright MIGHT have something.
The hot air coming from their mouths is only increasing the global temperatures.
Public Laws override all laws in this country.. not 'Just" religious laws.
Would that include DOMA?
We live in a country where some dream of a religious theocracy and hate those that oppose the notion. Religion is said to be the opiate of the masses but it effects people differently. Some get so high they loose touch with reality or their religion. The freedom to believe in a religion or not is a basic tenant of democracy. Religion or the lack of it is a private matter and should be banned from any public square. You religion ends were my nose begins.
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#3 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:28 PM ESTI read the Washington Times once and that was once too much.
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#4 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:49 PM ESTIt was so bad, I didn't even use it as bird lining - out of respect for any life form.
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WA Times is equivalent to the printed Drudge Report. Yellow journalism at it's worst.
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These so-called Christians need to take a step back and look at what they've become.
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#5 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:14 PM EST#5:These so-called Christians need to take a step back and look at what they've become
Unfortunately Louie, they have been like this ALL THE TIME! The election of a Democratic, Black man just drove them over the edge.
It was always there though, that's how they took control in the first place; through fear, hate and domination of the subservient class (s).
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It was always there though, that's how they took control in the first place; through fear, hate and domination of the subservient class (s).
That's why so many of them are attacking education. Educated people see right thru their BS and refuse to go for it.
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Per Teapublicans-down with education!
The Republican motto--"keep em stupid, keep em Republican"
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#5.2:That's why so many of them are attacking education. Educated people see right thru their BS and refuse to go for it.
You're absolutely correct (I try not to use the word "right" unless I have no other choice)!
"Barefoot and pregnant" is true repeated dogma for these bastards. I cringe when I think about them. Also along with this double barreled dogma goes "ignorant" meaning unknown to and unaware of.
Totally mind-blowing and disgusting!
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The election of a Democratic, Black man just drove them over the edge.
What? The majority of Catholics voted for Mr Obama! Perhaps they drove themselves over the edge.
I'm very amazed a well-known paper like the Washington Times would sink so low to allow such far-right lies to be printed. This rhetoric has gone too far that I fear this country would end up being like Nazis Germany. If people can't stop to think and just follow their party like zombies, this nation will be lost.
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#6 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:23 PM ESTI'm very amazed a well-known paper like the Washington Times...
Well-known does not mean respected. The Washington Times is run by Sun Myung Moon, who is basically a Korean Pat Robertson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times#Political_leanings
The Washington Times is a trash of a rag, roughly equivalent to the New York Post. This isn't to say that all conservative-leaning papers are trash, as The Wall Street Journal maintains at least some journalistic integrity. The same cannot be said for The Washington Times.
- 5 votes
No Rupert Murdoch/Newscorp. media outlet is free from far right wing propaganda. The WSJ is no different.
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Then by default, this guy and others like him are woman haters. Then again, that was obvious from the start.
Now, back to this christianity stuff. Maybe it's time we started passing laws that state that if someone declares a religion, they have to follow not only secular law, but the laws of their religion, too. If you are going to fight against the idea of birth control, then don't be a hypocrite and use it. In fact, I think that a christian caught using birth control should be imprisoned. Ooh, too draconian for some of you? Too bad. You aren't worried about draconian when you are telling women what to do!
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#7 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:25 PM ESTI think that a christian caught using birth control should be imprisoned
Hang or burn them.
The Washington Times is to modern day right-wing racists what Prada was to the Politiboro of the old Soviet Union.
- 12 votes
#8 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:25 PM ESTRight! Anyone opposing Obama or his policies is a racist/s/
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Do you mean:
Right! Anyone opposing Obama or his policies is a fascist?
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Right! Anyone opposing Obama or his policies is a racist/s/
No. But but some are. Sarcasm aside. Do you really think that Obama is an anti-Christian, anti-Religious bigot? And do you think that he's a Muslim? Some believe this just because the Washington Times says it, then it must be true. It's nothing more than propaganda to be digested by racists and bigots.
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The issue here is the oft cited "seperation of church and state" Obama has clearly crossed the line. For a so-called constitutional scholor, he ain't too bright.
Socialist, Fascist, Muslim, Commie, whatever. Obama is all about government control. His control! In trying to shove this down the throats of Catholics and others who have an anti-birth control stance, he has violated his oath of office which entails upholding the constitution. He needs to step down.
I believe his retreat from his earlier position was to head off a possible treason trial after he leaves the Oval Office.
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#9 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:27 PM ESTThe issue here is the oft cited "seperation of church and state" Obama has clearly crossed the line.
And yet his proposal is already status quo in many parts; i.e., not much will/should change.
Twenty-eight states already require that health insurance plans cover contraception; eight states do not even exempt churches from that requirement, as the Obama administration’s rules would, even before the president announced an expanded religious exemption on Friday. New York, whose Catholic archbishop has railed so vehemently against the administration on this issue, already lives under the rule he decries — it’s state law. The rule is also partially enshrined in federal law thanks to a December 2000 ruling of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. More than a dozen congressional Republicans proposed that this same rule become federal law in 2001, to a furious outcry from precisely no one.
Emphases mine.
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The President didn't cross the line. If you read the law, it does as much to maintain separation of church and state, as well as religious freedoms.
The paper debased itself by allowing this type of hatred (lies) to be propagated through the media.
I'll type slowly. We are not a religious state. We are not a theocratic state. We will defend anyones right to associate with any religion.
However, please leave your religion at home. It has no business to be part of the private or public sector.
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#9.2:However, please leave your religion at home. It has no business to be part of the private or public sector
Thank you for saying what needed to be said-again and in plain English!
I agree with you - and how did religion become such an integral part of the business of GOVERNMENT in the first place?
We cannot allow this to happen; the next thing is the religious nuts will want all of the control (they already want the control but we won't allow it). They don't pay taxes as it is, which should not be tolerated at all.
These religious fanatics and nuts should first pay their share, and then stfu! In that order.
- 14 votes
Hundreds of Catholic universities and hospitals, even located outside the 28 states with the mandate, have been offering contraceptives coverage under their health insurance plans for years in order to attract the best and brightest faculty and staff.
Well, it appears as though this outrage is exposed for all to see it for what it is, invented.
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We cannot allow this to happen; the next thing is the religious nuts will want all of the control (they already want the control but we won't allow it). They don't pay taxes as it is, which should not be tolerated at all.
They certainly aren't making any secret of their real intentions either, which is to allow all employers, not just religious ones, to deny contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans on the basis of their religious beliefs.
Just another reason the employer based health insurance system was the worst idea ever and is not sustainable.
- 11 votes
I believe his retreat from his earlier position was to head off a possible treason trial after he leaves the Oval Office.
Thanks for letting me know you can't be taken seriously.
not just religious ones, to deny contraceptives on the basis of their religious beliefs.
Yes, they want to pick a fight over contraceptives. In the year 2012! Could we get any luckier?
- 9 votes
You got to love it when the right wing nuts and anti-Obama types weigh in on any subject on the 'vine.
They prove that we shouldn't be focusing on math and science with our education system. For a much too large segment of our population we have to take care of reading, comprehension, honesty, and critical thinking first. We'll try to get them to understand the constitution and democracy after they learn what the four letter F A C T means.
Of course the right wingers are all stoked up after listening to the outright racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and religious bigotry spewed for four days at CPAC. True conservatives who actually love our country must be embarrassed to death by what they hear at CPAC.
- 10 votes
Socialist, Fascist, Muslim, Commie, whatever. Obama is all about government control.
The fact that you can't seem to pick one of those smears when at least three of them are exclusive to a couple of the others says it all about what a load of bull@!$%# that statement is.
On the other hand:
Obama is all about government control.
You just described every politician to have ever lived, including Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Ron Paul, etc.
- 4 votes
Ronald Reagan? That my friend is a big fat leftist lie. Most of the GOP want less government, not more.
Now go do your gutless best and collapse my comment. Hide the truth.
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LBB,
You fail at life and each comment you make proves it!
- 1 vote
Ronald Reagan? That my friend is a big fat leftist lie. Most of the GOP want less government, not more.
Correction: most Republicans claim to want less government, but their actions usually expand it. That's the lie.
Now go do your gutless best and collapse my comment.
When you give me an excuse with an ugly, pointless statement like that, I really ought to. Obey the Code of Honor:
Above all else, respect others. Address issues and arguments and refrain from making personal attacks.
You're an adult. Act like it.
Same for you Justin. You're behaving just as badly.
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Pay all taxes like everybody else then we can discuss further more.
Isn't there some form of psych meds available for Obama Derangement Syndrome?
- 15 votes
#10 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:59 PM ESTYes.. mushrooooooms in a pic-a-nic basket while sitting on the edge at the Grand Canyon.
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#10.1:Yes.. mushrooooooms in a pic-a-nic basket while sitting on the edge at the Grand Canyon.
Rotflmao,and plenty of 'rooms' :-)
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psych meds available for Obama Derangement Syndrome - something like the permanent terror threat graphic on Fox news ranging from amber to red ... all registered Republican/Teabaggers/right wingnut mood ring device - they could change color to warn the rest of us.
- 7 votes
Oh Man.. plenty of shrooms.. Those were the days my friend.. "Like fer shure"
- 3 votes
You guys are definitely not talking about the stuff that goes on a pizza.. ;-)
You CAN put them on pizza.
It would be a BAD idea to eat it, and a VERY BAD idea to eat more than a very small slice.
:)
Sounds like he's pretty Christian to me. I can remember when Christians themselves were the biggest anti-Semites.
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#11 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 2:59 PM ESTLet's see, he was a radical Christian, then a secret Muslim and now he is an anti-Christian, anti-religious bigot whose goal is to purge Christianity from civil society and to marginalize religion from the public square.
Wow, all that in just 3 years?
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#12 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:07 PM ESTWow, all that in just 3 years?
May be he can purge us of the GOP in his next five years.
- 11 votes
#12.2:Then he would be a Saint.
Without a doubt- or any opposition! Truly.
(Hi friend)
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This was a brief summary of the column. It said much more and people should read it:
Is America sliding toward autocratic rule? This is the essential question of Barack Obama’s presidency. Mr. Obama vowed to “fundamentally transform” the United States. Despite his incompetence and economic failure, the president is making good on his central promise: the destruction of our constitutional republic. He is trying - piece by painful piece - to reverse the legacy of the Founding Fathers. Conservatives have underestimated him at their peril. For Mr. Obama is not simply an inept, liberal president in the mold of Jimmy Carter. He is an ideological revolutionary who seeks to sweep away traditional America.
The American war of independence did not just overthrow British imperial domination. The Founders forged something almost unique in history: a nation devoted to individual liberty, Christian civilization and federalism. The rule of men was replaced bythe rule of law. The linchpin was constitutional government based on the separation of powers and checks and balances. The American system is entirely predicated on the Constitution. Once the Constitution becomes meaningless or just an inconvenient piece of paper, the American experiment is over. The republic is dead.
This is what’s at stake. Mr. Obama is acting like an arbitrary tyrant. He is running roughshod over the Constitution, egregiously, repeatedly and deliberately violating its restraints and clear limits on federal power. He has publicly admitted that he finds Congress a nuisance, an “obstacle” to his secular socialist project. He has said that he often thinks about “going it alone.” In fact, this is what he has done - so far, largely with impunity.
He waged an illegal war in Libya. The last time Congress officially declared war was in December 1941. Yet Mr. Obama went one step further, something his predecessors - Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush - never did: He refused even to ask Congress for authorization. Mr. Obama ignored the War Powers Act, flagrantly circumventing congressional authority.
Moreover, late last year, the massive National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was signed into law, which potentially allows for the military - not domestic courts - to indefinitely detain American citizens suspected of ties to terrorism. The vaguely worded NDAA undermines the rule of law and due process, enabling the government to abrogate the fundamental right to trial. It lends itself to abuse of state power - the very thing our Founders warned against. In the wrong hands, the NDAA could be used as a weapon to persecute - and imprison - political opponents under the guise of fighting terrorism. This is the same administration that has lumped anti-abortion and anti-illegal-immigration activists with radical Islamists as possible “threats” to national security.
Yet it is not just national security. Mr. Obama has created countless policy czars possessing Cabinet-like powers without the approval or consent of the Senate. Recently, he appointed Richard Cordray to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - despite the fact that he lacked needed support in the Senate. Mr. Obama’s response: Take a hike. He parachuted in Mr. Cordray as a recess appointment even though Congress was not in recess. The president has usurped congressional oversight - a clear and dangerous violation of the Constitution.
His greatest assault, however, is on religious freedom. Fortunately, his latest effort sparked a rebellion. Mr. Obama had declared war not just on the Catholic Church, but on the First Amendment. The administration ordered almost all religious organizations to provide health insurance coverage that includes free birth control and sterilization procedures - even the morning-after pill, which can induce abortions. Otherwise, under Obamacare, Catholic hospitals, charities and universities would face major fines totaling millions of dollars. The choice was clear: Catholic institutions must either abandon their fundamental tenets or go bankrupt. The contraceptive mandate denied the conscience rights of the church. It was state-sanctioned coercion of private entities to act against their explicit religious beliefs. This is why it triggered such furor among Catholics and non-Catholics alike. If such basic liberties could be trampled on, then nothing - and no one - is safe from big government’s crushing grip. Fortunately, a three-week outcry forced him to back off.
Like many on the radical left, Mr. Obama is an anti-Christian, anti-religious bigot. His goal is to purge Christianity from civil society, to marginalize religion from the public square. He essentially told the church that Washington, not the Vatican, will dictate how it must run its affairs and administer its social services. He demanded that Catholics sacrifice their beliefs on the altar of secular liberalism. The state - with him at its helm - is the new pagan church. Women’s “reproductive health care” trumps Catholic positions on birth control and abortion. The fact that most health insurers already cover contraception and that it is widely available and accessible to women - just go to your local Walgreens - means nothing to feminists or the powerful abortion lobby. The real aim is to smash the Catholic Church as a bulwark against the sexual revolution, reducing it to a quisling of the liberal regime.
Catholic leaders rightly stood up. The Church understood it was under siege. That may not be over. Mr. Obama could win a second term. Hence, Obamacare - along with its contraceptive mandate - might not be repealed and may even expand. If so, he will have succeeded in giving birth to his Frankenstein monster: a post-constitutional, post-American soft tyranny.
- 3 votes
#13 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:17 PM ESTthank you #13.
Wondering how newsvine will react when we, all alone, attack Iran. Does the amateur white house staff even have anyone with any international or military experience? So far, we have 3 years of on the job training in economics, military. Not much success at all. Two surges in Afghan, no indictments of wall streeters rigging bonds, banks passing them off using purchased ratings, and trading the bush tax cut extension for one year of extended unemployment benefits that have now run out.
The last is the root cause of dramatic lowering of unemployment rate being praised. Good news is that jobs are opening up, alas, years late. I do not blame Obama for the 2008 bubble crash. I do not blame Obama for all of the slow recovery. Suggest he is in campaign mode, lots of talk and promises.
Experienced people vote based on results.
- 2 votes
Well since you agree all of us experienced folks should vote based on results-----------OK!!
Obama/Biden 2012
- 13 votes
DBE928- I read until the first outright blatant lie.
Despite his incompetence and economic failure, the president is making good on his central promise: the destruction of our constitutional republic.
When you can show me Pres. Obama promising the destruction of our constitutional republic I'll read more. Otherwise, I'm not wasting my time.
- 11 votes
I should delete #13 for clear copyright infringement, but since there's a discussion under it, I'll leave it be.
Don't do it again.
- 9 votes
If you were to delete #13 it should be because it's a load of ignorant, hypocritical, unapologetically misleading lies. Don't believe me?
Despite his incompetence and economic failure,
No proof, no justification, nothing of value in this statement.
This is what’s at stake. Mr. Obama is acting like an arbitrary tyrant. He is running roughshod over the Constitution, egregiously, repeatedly and deliberately violating its restraints and clear limits on federal power.
That is absolutely ridiculous. At no point in time has Obama done anything that was prohibited by the Constitution; he has not overstepped any of the boundaries placed on the office of the President.
He has publicly admitted that he finds Congress a nuisance,
They ARE a nuisance! Whenever he tries to get something done, the do-nothing Republicans attack him and filibuster, trying to prevent anything from happening.
an “obstacle” to his secular socialist project.
Anyone who thinks Obama is a socialist knows absolutely nothing about what socialism is and nothing about what Obama has actually done in office. And the "secular" part is a compliment. The Founding Fathers who this article's writer seems to loves so much specifically set up our government as an entirely secular one.
He has said that he often thinks about “going it alone.” In fact, this is what he has done - so far, largely with impunity.
If he DIDN'T try to get something done without Congress's nonexistent help, he would have been criticized for doing nothing. He can't win with the neocons.
He waged an illegal war in Libya.
Entirely false, for two reasons. First of all, it was not technically a war, as Congress did not declare it as such. Second, and more importantly, it was not illegal.
The last time Congress officially declared war was in December 1941.
Here's a fun fact: Congress didn't declare the Vietnam War, Korean war, or any other one since then because it gives the military a much more free rein. It is very unlikely that they will ever "officially" declare war ever again.
Mr. Obama ignored the War Powers Act, flagrantly circumventing congressional authority.
That act is unconstitutional. The Constitution specifies that the President is the Commander in Chief of the military, and does not give Congress the power to control the President's actions in that regard. The act modifies the system of checks and balances, and as such most be put in the form of a constitutional amendment; otherwise it is invalid. Besides, there have been at least 125 occasions where the President has used military action without Congressional approval. There is ample precedent for Obama's actions.
I could debunk pretty much every statement in this moronic article, but I don't think it's necessary. Do you?
- 7 votes
Birth control is not only used to prevent pregnancy. Birth control gets prescribed for a variety of medical conditions. As you know condoms were originally "used" to prevent STD"s. When birth control was illegal, condoms were advertised as disease prevention. The repubs keep wanting to take us back to an era when evolution was misunderstood, birth control and abortions illegal, Negoes had no rights, and workers had no rights, no benefits and paid very little.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/11/15/142358413/the-pill-not-just-for-pregnancy-prevention
- 5 votes
#14 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:17 PM ESTKuhner is just another right wing nut,As for myself i'am sick & tired of this horse crap.i believe its just another item the republicans think they can run on (Not) 87% of the RC church take contraceptives.NO one is making women use it,It happens to be a woman's choice as it should be. Lets stop the hate & get on with the real issues.This is 08 all over again only worse because its never STOPPED. I happen to like our president and plan on voting for him again.
- 12 votes
#15 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:19 PM EST#15:This is 08 all over again only worse because its never STOPPED. I happen to like our president and plan on voting for him again.
I'm with you on this one, sweetheart! Will these hateful, spiteful, narrow-minded ignorant people ever get over this derangement syndrome?
Unfortunately, I feel the answer is NO, so we must carry on! (without them).
Some of them will die with this hate. Too bad- but better them than me!
- 10 votes
What I can't understand--the Catholics are so against abortion, but they are against birth control too.
Logically, if birth control were readily available to women, that would cut down on abortions.
I must be missing something.
- 4 votes
Nope you are not missing anything. Their thinking just does not make any sense. I believe that most women of the Catholic faith use some kind of BC. Why anyone would be against BC is beyond me. How many unwanted pregnancies do they want anyway? This is far beyond stupid. If those women do not protests this bs then they are hypocrites IMO.
- 8 votes
#15.2:What I can't understand--the Catholics are so against abortion, but they are against birth control too....Logically, if birth control were readily available to women, that would cut down on abortions....I must be missing something.
What you are missing is the part that states that YOU are to have NO SEX!
NO SEX means no need for contraceptives; ergo, no ABORTION needed or required!
They have it all worked out for YOU -the woman! Trust them, they know!
- 6 votes
You're missing the little boys.
Religious folk LOVE little boys.
Stick it in a little boy, you don't need birth control OR an abortion.
It's the catholic solution!
GET IT?
Ted 050247
What I can't understand--the Catholics are so against abortion, but they are against birth control too.
Logically, if birth control were readily available to women, that would cut down on abortions.
I must be missing something.
This is interesting that the washington times would dare even use the word bigot. They have a long history of open bigotry. They have have a few well know white supremacists on staff.
read some of the gems here from the southern poverty law center.
www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/spring/the-news-that-fits
Marian Kester Coombs is a woman who believes America has become a "den of iniquity" thanks to "its efforts to accommodate minorities." White men should "run, not walk" to wed "racially conscious" white women and avoid being out-bred by non-whites.
It is not only a cult run newspaper, but it is full of bigots.
- 8 votes
#16 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:48 PM EST#16:Marian Kester Coombs is a woman who believes America has become a "den of iniquity" thanks to "its efforts to accommodate minorities." White men should "run, not walk" to wed "racially conscious" white women and avoid being out-bred by non-whites....
It is not only a cult run newspaper, but it is full of bigots.
And I must thank her for showing us what a cowardly, inferior, frightened piece of spit she really is. But she won't last, thank goodness. Father Time and Mother Nature will deal with her as no one else can. That's why I have no worries about her or people like her.
I never forget that "everybody gets a turn"- whether it is in "the barrel" or "free" out on the playground of life!
- 8 votes
...or the even more notorious Robert Stacy McCain:
...Robert Stacy McCain, a key Washington Times editor who has suggested that "perfectly rational people" react with "altogether natural revulsion" to interracial marriage.
- 5 votes
WOW-what a swell bunch of folks Robert Mccain and Marian Coombs and their followers are. Real christians, real Americans----------------NOT!
- 7 votes
... suggested that "perfectly rational people" react with "altogether natural revulsion" to interracial marriage
Robert Stacy McCain's interpretation of "perfectly rational people" is defined as racial bigots.
- 5 votes
They are against contraception and abortion because they are afraid that the brown population will be the majority in a decade. If we breed more, that won't happen, it is the only argument that makes any sense.
- 3 votes
weld, try this:
all the abortions since 73 in USA. If you accept that all were born and natural 50% would have had a family themselves = 75 million missing Americans today.
About 35 million would be brown population.
Think about it. If Catholics were against black and brown people, they would promote abortions, not prohibit them.
The enemy is some one else. The army did use Catholics to protect brown and black voter rights marchers a couple generations ago.
this is whats gonna happen.
catholic men are gonna scream and cry and bitch and moan all the way through november.
and then 65% of the catholics are gonna vote for obama.
thats how catholics roll.
- 8 votes
#18 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:57 PM ESTI think what the GOP is mad about is that Obama is anti fake christian. All the people in the GOP are fake christians because they don't want health care for the sick and don't want to help the poor. Jesus was all about helping the poor and healing the sick. The GOP is against Jesus and christianity and they hate the democrats for obeying God.
- 5 votes
#21 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:01 PM ESTWell thank you John!
I could not have said it better myself.
I don't know what kind of Bible these "right wing Christians" are reading, but it sure is not the bible I was raised on.
I think they are lying again.
- 1 vote
These days it would seem to be in mr. obamas favor if he were anti religion and anti christian for it is they who have ruined this country with bigotry and hate.
- 1 vote
#23 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:53 PM ESTEmployers should not be able to tell employees what kinds of medicine they can take.
If the catholic church doesn't want people to use their insurance for birth control, then they'd better stop paying them wages too while they are at it.
In the end, it all comes down to the exact same thing.
This latest attack gambit is a bull@!$%# attempt at distraction.
- 7 votes
#24 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:16 PM ESTeveryone seems to end their speech with god bless America. Does he bless America? Does he bless North Korea, Iran, Somalia? Do the speech givers in those counrties end their speechs the same way? Would it be better if the prez ended his speech with god bless the world.
- 1 vote
#25 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:34 PM ESTI couldn't agree more. Just because we ask God to bless us doesn't mean He is on our side. We in turn should not ask for blessing, but bless God for all that He has done for us. When we praise God we focus on Him, not our needs as a nation, but about our nation's need to please God who is our creator.
Would a painting tell the artist what he wants, or would the painting praise the artist for his handiwork!
- 1 vote
It's kind of aggravating when people say or write ridiculous opinions like "[Insert name of politician] wants to destroy America/hates Jesus/hates women/wants good people to live in the street/..." You get the idea.
There are plenty of intelligent, reasoned arguments that you can employ to go after the president or anyone else in office, but this kind of nonsense just 1) makes you look like an insane person, 2) causes sensible people to reject your voice, and 3) actually impedes the ability of anyone else to make a reasonable argument because then it turns into "oh those people over there are all just racist, bigoted, uneducated liars," and then no one hears any of the voices from your side.
Hyperbole is killing any chance to get people to actually analyze the important things.
- 3 votes
#26 - Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:44 PM ESTit is a good point, it is also the intention of said Hyperbole.
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