by Karen on October 30, 2008
Update: Dave of NoGod has apparently spoken to one of the men who participated in the rally & is going to to be writing a post about the conversation soon.
Via NoGod comes the story of Obama aids insisting on having the opportunity to make it clear that atheists are not welcome on the Obama bus at a recent presidential rally in Pennsylvania.
Here’s the run down.
A couple of Pennsylvanians recently attended a presidential rally in their home state where they submitted a question for McCain’s representatives about how McCain is going to reach out to the eight or so percent of Pennsylvanians who are atheists, agnostics and humanists.
McCain’s people said McCain would be everyone’s president regardless if they have faith or not.
The moderator then proceeded to ask another question of Obama’s representatives who insisted upon being allowed to answer the same question. And they got ugly.
Don Miller pointed out that Obama has advisers for every group but atheists and agnostics and stated that there were no grand efforts to reach out to “a group of pagans”.
D. Paul Monteiro spoke of Obama’s religious beliefs and how he said “no” to people who wanted his support on church and state issues. He then followed it up by stating that Obama was not “some crazy wacko atheist trying to make sure that your children grow up to marry trees”.
These are not random assholes popping off at the mouth on their own time, but paid representatives of Obama and the DNC in their official capacities saying this kind of shit. Imagine the firestorm it would’ve caused if it was any other group but atheists.
by Karen on August 29, 2008
What else is there to say about this article besides that? Charles Dolan, head of Cablevision and one of the people named in the article, donated $25K to the RNC in May of 2000 and 2002. In June 2004 he gave $25K to the RNC. In 2007 & 2008 he gave thousands to Guiliani, McCain and Thompson.
Does that sound like a dedicated Democrat that is incensed with the Democratic party? How about Donald Trump who gave Hillary Clinton a wopping $600? What about Danit Aharon who appears to have given $25K to a group for John McCain in California and $10K to the RNC in addition $2300 to both John McCain’s primary fund and general election fund?
Is it possible that these people are liberals and progressives who’ve had it with the Democratic party? Or is it more likely that these people are Republicans who have donated money to the Democrats for reasons completely unrelated to actually supporting democratic ideas?
And it’s not like the information quoted above is something one has to dig for especially in this day and age. I found this information utilizing nothing but the names mentioned in the article and this site that lets you look up such information.
So what gives? Why would ABC put up such an article? I say it’s because we live in the day and age where the news agencies have taking to creating news not reporting it. They don’t care if they’re outright lying. They’re just hoping we don’t catch their asses.
And let’s face it. A lot of people immediately trust anything they read/see in the news and once the story is out there – well, it’s out there. The seed is planted. The seed this time around is this.
The Democratic party is in trouble. It’s losing people and money, especially money. It’s just a matter of time before it’s declared dead so don’t even bother getting involved yourself because it’s dying. Dying we said!!!
It’s sort of like feminism. It’s declared dead or dying every time some dipshit gets in the news for being a dipshit. The only exception is that the news agencies literally pull dipshits out their asses when it comes to the Democratic party.
