Posted on 10/11/2007 6:09:12 AM PDT by shortstop
No need to apolizige! My husband was born and raised in OKC., not that that has anything to do with Reid’s statements.
“Harry Reid has it posted on his web-site that he is a better member of his church because he is a Democrat.”
So Harry claims to be a better Mormon? I think the more appropriate spelling for him omits the second m.
Do you have any link to what he actually said? I’ve read the transcript of his speech that was published before he delivered it, and I couldn’t find anything attacking mormon leaders, or talking about evangelicals.
I can’t write about it if I can’t link to a source :-)
Ping to read later
Harry Reid is as mean spirited as you can get - his egregious take on Christianity, Mormons, or any sect, is just plain uncomfortable for the rest of us. Harry Reid must have a tumor on the brain, something is driving him plain nuts.....except when it comes to land deals………………. Where is the ethics committee on Reid, he should be recused or what ever form you use to get rid of a US Senator who ain’t fitten to represent my country in any form.
Well, since the remark doesn't hurt Reid's political career one bit but just might hurt his fellow Mormon Mitt Romney's attempts to win over evangelical voters, it' s not unreasonable to speculate that's exactly why he made it.
You do have a point...He needs more or else he ought to retire. I think the Congress & Senate ought to be tested for drugs,alcohol & dementia. Since regular people can be tested in their jobs so should they.
Does Harry include Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter? All Southern Baptist!
As an evangelical Christian I am laughing...I mean, really...
Do you not wonder why they are not more outraged?
I have not heard him say anything against Muslims. I have heard him go into ecstasy over illegal aliens.
He's literally coming out in open rebellion against the leadership of the Church, as far as I can tell. That's usually excommunication material.
In Harrys’ frustration he revealed the democrat view of Christians and Christianity. All of Hillary and OBamas acting saying the republican don’t own the ‘faith issue’, was a veiled contrivance. This has always been their view of Christianity, despite their protestations to the contrary. These people live a life in the realm of fiction, cabable of confabulating on any subject at the speed of thought. They are liars and always will be liars. There is no truth in any of the democrats.
As George Bailey would say; “You’re nothing but a warped, frustrated old man.”
LORD, GOD, PLEASE, Isn’t it long past time that he left the public stage? Would you please arrange it? Amen.
He is a scab on a festering wound.
= = =
I think it’s more accurate to assert that he’s quite akin to . . .
the oozing puss from a grossly infected hemroid on a syphlitic donkey.
Or may be more accurately . . .
the oozing puss from a grossly infected hemroid on her unroyal lowness—her hideous heinous—Shrillery.
First, does Reid get any traction from a comment like this?
The answer is "yes." He gets a lot of traction from it.
The second question is, "Why does he get traction?" There are several different answers, a few of which I'll toss in below.
Obviously he will get traction from liberals, but that's a given.
He probably gets some serious traction with it among Mormons, whose religion is often rather sharply denigrated by "evangelicals." That's natural, and "evangelicals" have only themselves to blame for it.
And Reid probably gets traction -- in some cases perhaps quite a bit of it -- among practicing Christians who do not consider themselves "evangelicals," and whose experiences with "evangelicals" (self-described) have been unpleasant.
The problem, of course, is to properly define exactly who are the "evangelicals." It's a very slippery term, and difficult to define precisely.
But Reid isn't relying on a definition -- he's appealing to people's subjective opinion of "evangelicals." We've all met people who describe themselves as "evangelicals," and who exhibit an unpleasant priggishness, shallowness, and judgmentalism that gives one the creeps -- in much the same way a really ardent Greenie does. (We meet people like that all the time, from all walks of life. The difference is that these unpleasant ones strongly and proudly introduce themselves as Christians.)
I'm not saying that all, or even most, "evangelicals" fall into that class: they don't. But everybody knows people like this, whose behavior makes Christianity seem unpleasant.
Harry Reid is playing on that, and he will score points with it.
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