Fired up about what, really?
Question for John Goodie re: his guest commentary piece, “Convention leaves ‘em fired up and ready”, Friday, Sept 14. Are you as proud and fired up of your democratic party’s attempt to forbid the word God and the words about Jerusalem to be in their platform? Are you “proud” of the sight of your party booing during the vote taking? Remember this was booing against God and our constitution on both of which our country was founded. How much more do we need to convince us that this president is a believer of socialism? It disgusts and saddens me to see your party blindly following such a path.
Helen Marquardt
Gilbert
azlakerman posted at 11:39 pm on Tue, Sep 18, 2012.
Yes so we send out Clint Eastwood a senile old man to embarrass himself and the GOP by talking to Chair! Wow what a Joke ! Yes we are Fired Up much more than the senile Repubs cause we have a reason to be. We will get four more years of a President that has saved you and our Country from Financial Collapse ,Killed bin landen, Put millions back to work , got our Country out of W's war in Iraq that we should not have been in, also highly horors and respects all of our Veterans at the Dem Convention and always as compared the word VETERANS was not even mentioned at the Repub Convention. Oh and by the way once our Pres found out about the word God was placed in the Platform. Not an issue. Please go back and watch your GOP Cronies at their Convention and please try to stay awake. Tell Clint keep your day job!
wdgnas posted at 7:01 am on Wed, Sep 19, 2012.
helen: any relation to az superior court judge philip marquardt?
My Take posted at 10:33 am on Wed, Sep 19, 2012.
He is speaking of the mood after the convention. I also don’t see the necessity of why he needs to mention Jerusalem? Once again Republicans make it their mission to always find something wrong.
No one is booing the constitution or God. You refuse to accept that the Republicans are in favor of running a theocratic government that intrudes in American’s personal lives.
Many Americans believe in the separation of church and state.
We are also not a nation that believes in just one religion.
I get tired of Republicans talking as if they are somehow the keepers of the constitution and they and only they understand and live by it. May I remind you that we have a President that is a constitutional scholar.
Engaged Voter posted at 10:49 am on Wed, Sep 19, 2012.
"Remember this was booing against God and our constitution on both of which our country was founded."
Helen, did you go to school here in Arizona? Just taking notes on where people who are either completely ignorant of American History (or are just lying about it) went to school.
For the record, no one was booing any god(s), they were booing the sabotage of the vote. And our great country wasn't founded on any gods either...unless you want to make the stretch to the Roman gods, since our Republic was founded on the Roman Republic's model.
Guess how many times our Constitution mentions any gods, Jesus, or the Bible?
Come on, take a guess. ;)
Accuracy posted at 11:04 am on Wed, Sep 19, 2012.
One good thing did happened for Mitt Romney’s campaign and Pro-Life supporters during the Democratic National Convention, when Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, called out President Barack Obama's record on abortion and pointed out that a second Obama term will mean taxpayer-funded abortions nation-wide.
At DNC, Keenan issued what she called warnings about a Romney presidency. "He (Mitt Romney) would overturn Roe vs. Wade and sign into law a wave of outrageous restrictions on a woman's ability to make decisions about her pregnancy," she said.
Bingo6 posted at 11:12 am on Wed, Sep 19, 2012.
Sorry Helen this isn't a theocracy, as much as you and your ignorant Republicans want it to be in this country at least until November we are still able to believe or not believe.
You want to live in a theocracy move to Israel or the Middle. Eastern country of your choice.
VofReason posted at 12:54 pm on Wed, Sep 19, 2012.
No no the country was not built on belief in God, other than the fact it is on your money. Oh, that isn't really too important is it? Other than the fact that everyone in the country carries God in their pocket. Right. Maybe it meant Roman Gods? Yet more proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Mister Lightoller posted at 5:57 am on Thu, Sep 20, 2012.
Many on the left complain that the election in 2004 was "stolen" by the Republicans. Yet during the Democratic convention a vote was obviously stolen from their own members. During this vote in question, it was, at best, a tie. But the leadership knew how bad it would look so they went ahead and "determined" that in the opinion of the chair, their motion recognizing God and Jerusalem passed. I really don't blame those who booed for doing so. Obviously their vote was inconvenient, and so their leadership went with the result they had already preordained.
Rich posted at 8:28 am on Thu, Sep 20, 2012.
"No no the country was not built on belief in God,..."
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..."
That's the first document produced by the government of the United States. A country that, by this document became a free and sovereign state. It not only justifies it's rebellion through God, but sets forth a plan for government based on 'rights' that come from God. In fact without God, the government of the United States has no reason or justification for existence, by it's own words.
Accuracy posted at 10:42 am on Thu, Sep 20, 2012.
Rich posted words from our nation's “Declaration of Independence”, the charter that created the United States of America.
The “Declaration of Independence” was the founding principles of America. And yes, it was a history-changing declaration that powerful, intrusive government was contrary to "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," and that the people had a God-given right to a more libertarian system of government.
VofReason posted at 12:39 pm on Thu, Sep 20, 2012.
Rich, you know I was saying that tongue in cheek. Anyone who denies the belief in God in the foundation of the United States either doesn't know history or is trying to pretend it was different