Posted on 09/19/2008 5:02:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Because they are masochists.
The list you have in your post refers to the organizations that are sponsoring the protest rally against Iran (to which Hillary and Sarah Palin were originally invited).
There is another event - an "interfaith" gathering, that will take place in the Grand Hyatt, to which Ahmadinejad has been invited (paid for by Obama's campaign finance chairman, Penny Pritzker). This is the event that is being sponsored by the Quakers, Mennonites, World Council of Churches, among others.
Just a note to everyone: remember that Malcolm is a good guy and is the one who invited Gov. Palin. He should have accepted the offer to have Wexler come in Hillary’s place and keep Palin.
J-E-A-L-O-U-S. If YOU were hilllereee would you want to be on the same stage as the beautiful and distinguished Governor of Alaska...Sarah Palin????????
I think what we fail to realize and continually refuse to accept is that the Obama campaign will unify the nation around one enemy: Conservatives.
Obama and his most ardent supporters actually really do believe that Christian conservatives are Evil and a transcendent threat surpassing Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Iran.
Conservatives think they are being hyperbolic but deep down accept us.
Juan Cole was being honest about Palin, He views her as worse than an Islamic radical killer. Obama would rather sit down with Ahmadinejad than Palin.
Hate is the Left’s new family value. Its what keeps them together.
Fascinating...
so this is the “other” rally that Sarah might attend?
I have mixed feelings... World Council of Churches is way Liberal.
I hope they don’t end up ambushing her.
Or am I being too paranoid?
No insult was intended. I was making a poor joke about Quaker Oats.
He probably represents a very Orthodox Jewish district in Brooklyn.
No. There is a third rally (or protest) to take place in front of the Grand Hyatt - the object of which is to protest the Ahmadinejad dinner (the dinner sponsored by the World Council of Churches, Quakers, Mennonites, etc.). I don't know what protest rally Sarah Palin might attend - the latest I heard was that she and McCain would be attending some UN meetings (definitely not the Ahmadinejad dinner).
I can tell you a quaker story from the late 60’s that may put it in perspective. The meeting I used to attend in Eugene Oregon (a place that made Bezerkley look conservative) used to have a contingent of young men in uniform attend Sunday meetings. No one ever treated them any different than anyone else from the meeting, yet in town they were often spit upon and called baby killers.
Quakers are by nature a pacifist group, but there is no requirement to be so. If you break Quaker “doctrine”, you are generally not judged by the congregation, because we believe that is God's business in the afterlife. We very much live our lives by what our conscience tells us to do, and except that service to the country is a personal decision and not dictated by faith. Penn believed in pacifism, and the tradition has continued, but many of us accept that it may not be the only way.
Thanks so much for the info...
I’ll wait until I find out which rally she’ll be invited to & write a letter to the organizers thanking them for being
great Americans.
I’ll mail it at the same time I mail my letter to the Hyatt Corp., canceling our Hyatt Gold Passport card. :)
Especially coming from Charles Rangel. He knows about being Tax Exempt and NYC.
“For a liberal, he is more like Joe Lieberman than the usual foaming at the mouth leftists.”
They are few and far between!
Ah, so the Quakers and the Mennonites are the ones who invited him and the Jewish groups are protesting. That makes things a lot clearer.
It is so strange to me to hear that the Mennonites have morphed into Quaker type liberals. The Mennonites that I knew in PA were plain people, dressed like the Amish, no buttons on their clothes, little white caps on the women and men wore the big black hats. The church that I grew up in was an off shoot of the Mennonites that just weren’t plain.
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