Posted on 12/08/2013 6:53:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As a host of the daytime talk show "The View," Barbara Walters questioned why politicians, including the presidents, swear on a Bible while taking office when there is separation of church and state.
"That is very true, but it starts almost with the oath of office which usually ends with 'So help me God,'" Walters said during the talk show, after actress Jane Seymour's remarks over a new political ad by Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas in which he apologizes for backing President Barack Obama's signature health care law, or "Obamacare," and also highlights the importance of the Bible in politics.
Seymour told the hosts of the show Thursday: "I think it's really unfortunate when you have to bring religion into politics. I think religion is a very personal thing, a very personal thing."
"Now, most presidents swear on a Bible before taking office, even though we have the separation between church and state," Walters continued during the talk show, which has aired on ABC since 1997.
"You see it again and again," Walters said during the show which focuses on a panel of five female co-hosts who discuss social and political issues. "You don't have to use a Bible. Teddy Roosevelt didn't. John Quincy Adams swore on a law book and Lyndon Johnson took the oath on a book he thought was the Bible. We don't know what the book was ... We talk about the separation between church and state and almost every president ends up saying so help me God."
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Because, my dear liberal hack, there is no “separation of church and state”.
I would bet that that ignoramus has never even read the Constitution.
A world class dumb ass.
I truly, truly do not know how she ever ascended to the heights she occupies now.
She is way too ugly and stupid to have slept her way to the top.
The separation was to keep the government out of church, but not for the Representatives from themselves from the Bible. She is an old commie, loved Jane Fonda and Castro as well.
What an ignorant s...tudent of history, and incompetent observer of events in her lifetime.
Then again, maybe she's trying to still justify her affair with a married senator as "victimless", and doesn't want to be held accountable for her actions.
seriously??
I saw a Barbara Walters twitter joke somewhere a day or so ago...it went something like.
When Barbara Walters was young a tweet was something she fed to her dog.
lol
The stampede is beginning...
Sounds like this Old Skank should have sought treatment for the Clap sooner than she did. Too bad.
“so help me God” I don’t care a rats patootie what that old hag has to say.
The Holy Queeran would be perfectly acceptable, however.
Too many big words in it for her.
“Because, my dear liberal hack, there is no “separation of church and state”.”
and that is exactly why they keep the schools a shambles, so children cannot learn the true meaning of what it means to be a free American.
it’s the same as when I student is told they cannot wear a particular shirt with a saying on it, and they say the schools is infringing on their right to “free speech”. they didn’t learn in school that free speech means the government cannot make laws infringing on speech. elsewhere, its what the market will bear.
Blow jobs.
Office lights do have switches, you know.
There is just no accounting for taste. Monica Lewinsky is no raving beauty either, yet her particular “talent” bagged her a President.
Who knows, Barbara may have a particular “talent” all her own, what with her lisp.
Does not surprise me in the lest she is that clueless and ignorant of history....
I pretty much expect all libtards to be that ignorant...
They rarely let me down...
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