Falling in Love With a Lie
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The American public loves a good lie, especially when it is necessary to achieve a desirable end. This behavior must be changed.
It was convention time in America just a few days ago, a time the networks devoted to a mostly meaningless “infomercial” presented by the best brainwashers Kenmore could design for both sides of the political divide.
But when the Democratic infomercial ran, there was a problem. The Democratic “platform,” a mostly unread and forgotten anachronism, left out any mention of God or recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
For the record, almost every U.S. presidential candidate in recent years has advocated recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. However, after the election, no candidate once elected has ever fulfilled that promise. The embassy of the United States, as do the embassies of almost every other nation, remains in Tel Aviv.
But none of that matters. Voters, especially those who love Israel and those who believe that the Turks should be punished for the Armenian Genocide of 1915, expect to hear a reassuring fib. Most will not contribute money to those who refuse.
Now, the Democratic Convention could have proven that theory false. When the Obama campaign learned that the Jerusalem myth had been taken out of the platform and the word “God” had not been put into the platform, Antonio Villaraigosa, convention chairman and Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, was ordered to pass a motion to change the platform. It required two-thirds of the convention to approve it.
The problem was that Villaraigosa was not “ready for prime time.” He had a streak of honesty. He took a voice vote three times but could not get a two-thirds majority. Twice he avoided ruling because he knew the result was not what the party bosses wanted.
But Villaraigosa was a quick study. On the third try, after receiving instructions from a “higher authority,” he told a lie. He declared there to be a two-thirds majority when there was none. And not a single Democratic leader complained. All of them went before the cameras and praised President Obama for putting God and Israel back in the Democratic platform, no matter how much democracy had to be sacrificed.
Most Republicans, after listening to the voice vote and watching the Democratic leadership lie to their own delegates, called to media attention that at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party wanted nothing to do with God or Israel. But, these pundits missed the point.
Simply put, it was a public disgrace to place the name of God into a document by “bearing false witness” to the authority that placed it there. But what was most disturbing was not that the Democratic leadership approved it. More importantly, the American public mostly ignored it.
Nor can I avoid taking my fellow Republicans to the woodshed on this issue. Many Republicans want to hear the fairy tale that the debt ceiling will not be raised. Yet, we all know it will be raised.
And while the constituents of both parties demand a policy requiring jobs be brought back to America, both Democrats and Republicans join in the passage of outsourcing templates of “free trade” like NAFTA and legislation that has enabled the World Trade Organization to become a world government.
One day, voters must require honesty. Since Barack Obama pledged as a candidate in 2008 to recognize the genocide of the Armenians by the Turks, and since he never did so, someone ought to ask him whether he knew that such a move was counterproductive to NATO unity and simply “fudged” to find votes.
Perhaps he should also be asked whether he knows that the 2012 pledge to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is presently impossible and just a fabrication to fleece campaign funds from those who demand delusion.
Robert M. Levy is chairman of the Moore County Republican Party. Contact him at Law52@prodigy.net.
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Courseaire 8 months, 1 week ago
That convention & vote pretty much summed up the entire Obama administration.
Mythreekids 8 months, 1 week ago
Matter of opinion...just like eyes...everyone has them, whether they work or not. The 'truth" of most history discourse depends upon whose story is being told (by whom). At least there was no one 'intelligent' enough' to have a conversation with an empty chair at the Dem Convention. As for the addition/passage of those two amendments, the reality of it is neither the Repubs nor the Dems really care and neither the success or failure of world rests upon them. In my opinion, just another thing to distract from what is truly important. Acceptance or nonacceptance of God is a personal decision. Whether TelAviv or Jerusalem (I have been to both) is the Capital of Israel is for them to decide, not America. So...important to me...NO. What I would like to see both sides accomplish is progress towards resolution to our problems without personal eviseration. No matter the party affiliatioin, at the and of the day, learn to respectfully disagree. None of us are right all the time.
Toyboy52 8 months, 1 week ago
How can the Democrat Party which prides itself on it's advocacy of civil liberties cheer an illegal ruling by it's convention chairman and cheer a man who orders the arrest of a film maker? Where is the Hollywood free speech crowd? Where are those who decried the blacklist? Are they really happy with Joe McCarthy so long a's he is a Democrat named Obama?
MikeNC 8 months, 1 week ago
For those who may have missed the vote to put God and Jerusalem back into the Democratic Party's Platform verbage; here it is. What's not talked about is why God and Jerusalem was not included from the beginning...Mike
Platform Amendments Stir Tension at DNC by WSJDigitalNetwork
OldPilot 8 months, 1 week ago
If you want to live, financially at least, like a Republican vote for Democrats, been cleaning up Republican messes since 1933.
skylinefirepest 8 months, 1 week ago
OldPilot...are you serious?? Are you SERIOUS??? Six TRILLION in NEW debt under this idiot! And you can't say that's a Republican mess. We excelled under Reagan so where's your beef? We didn't do badly under Nixon or Eisenhour so would you say that all these Republican messes are maybe just in your head??
geoffcutler 8 months, 1 week ago
Old Pilot...I thinking that...oh, what's the use? Never mind.
OldPilot 8 months, 1 week ago
Let's see: ignored all the warning signs of the 9/11 attacks, then quite rightly jumped into Afghanistan, then abandoned that effort to attack Iraq for no good reason, ran both off budget, no war tax but refused to raise taxes after cutting taxes based on the Clinton era surplus. Eight years of insanity and now skylinefirepoop and geoffcutoff are upset? Spare us all! PS: 1) the bailout started under Bush. 2) Excelled under Reagan? The debt didn't skyrocket under Reagan? So: First question: vote for the Democrat and move forward or Republican and move back to the 11th century? Second question: are some of us "liberal" or just smart, well educated and proud to be everything the right wing hates?
The_AnonymusProfit 8 months, 1 week ago
The_AnonymusProfit gives OldPilot a little short history lesson.
9/11 warning signs ignored - Flase
Usama offered to US 3 times under clinton - True
Abandoned Afganistan - False
No good reason for Iraq - False( ever head of democracy bub, just cause your guy screwed it up doesnt mean Bush didnt succeed.)
Ran both off budget - Can you really argue about accrued debt when your guy has doubled what GWB spent in half the time?
OldPilot, you can not rewrite history just because it does not conform to your wants.
Thatcher 8 months, 1 week ago
Your first answer to your second question is correct. Cheers!
Pappy 8 months, 1 week ago
Old Pilot....I think you just crashed !!!
coffecreme 8 months, 1 week ago
For those who missed it ... The republicans didn't include the troops in their verbiage .. Not one thank you or not one acknowledgement
skylinefirepest 8 months, 1 week ago
Oldpilot...did I start calling you names or something to bring out your childish name calling?? If so I apologize...but I don't remember doing that....so my question is why can't you extreme Obama loving kool aid drinking suck up to the left tax the rich spend your grandchildren's money spend us into oblivion abandon our European allies bow to the altar of the Liar in Chief Democrats comment on any subject without name calling, huh???
geoffcutler 8 months, 1 week ago
geoffcutoff? C'mon, OldPilot, you can do better than that.
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
OldPilot, Mr. Cutler likes to be referred to as Saint Geoff of the Pines.
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
All these discussions remind me of a Friday night high school football game. The cheerleaders on one side get up and scream and holler about how great their team is, then the other side does the same thing. Neither convinces the other that what they are saying is true, but we all enjoy the booty shaking and gymnastics. It should be noted that the cheering continues on both sides right down to the final whistle, even if one side is 50 points behind. The difference between high school football and politics is that, in politics, the loosing side wants to blame the fans of the winning side for their loss.
JD 8 months, 1 week ago
These comments about the "47 percent" by Mittens were not only insulting and demeaning, they were ignorant. The majority of the people who do not pay income taxes are from the red states, not the blue ones. So, in effect, "Mitt the Twit" was calling his own potential voters layabouts and moochers. Let's face it, this guy is fit for one job only -- running a vulture capital firm. He was a mediocre Governor and he's proving to be an even worse Presidential campaigner for what the 4th or 5th time in his multiple attempts for the office since the late '90's?!
by JD
OldPilot 8 months, 1 week ago
The problem "The_AnonymusProfit" and his, her or it's ilk , such as "skylinefirepest" have is that no matter how much they sputter and rant they can't change history...not much for spelling or grammer either but that's another issue.
The_AnonymusProfit 8 months, 1 week ago
Your right OldPilot, history cant be changed, but you seem to have missed alot of current history, or have very bad sources.
9/11 warning signs ignored - Flase
Usama offered to US 3 times under clinton - True
Abandoned Afganistan - False
No good reason for Iraq - False( ever head of democracy bub, just cause your guy screwed it up doesnt mean Bush didnt succeed.)
Ran both off budget - Can you really argue about accrued debt when your guy has doubled what GWB spent in half the time?
SH59 8 months, 1 week ago
911 warnings were not false, it's recently been in the news. But sadly Romney is going down hill and won't make it to the presidency. At least the Republicans have another 4 years to come up with a decent candidate who knows what he's doing and someone who isn't ruled by the Tea Party. They have really screwed things up this year and it's all going to backfire on them in November.
JD 8 months, 1 week ago
What no one has a comment on Romney insulting his base. Or you want to keep on talking about 9/11 and the failure of GWB's presidency? Come on look at the chart above of the 'moochers' and 'layabouts' all in Red States. I am appreciative NC did not make the list, but still Romney insulted his base. How does that make you feel?
Courseaire 8 months, 1 week ago
So, if I read your chart right, the medium number is 35% rather than 47%, but that represents all filers, not those that voted for or will vote for Obama. Still pretty pathetic.
JD 8 months, 1 week ago
Couseaire,
I don't get how you are reading the chart. Mitt said that the 47% that don't pay taxes are moochers and layabouts that don't pay federal taxes. I have shown that those in Red states are the biggest offenders for not paying federal taxes. If by Mitt's thought that those 47% are in lock with Obama, I am saying that is incorrect if the Red states would not vote for Obama anyway. Ergo Mitt is insulting his base.
What's pathetic is that Romeny is reduced to insulting his base and calling them Democrats. Yea it's pathetic just like Romney.
The red states have the higher rate of those that depend on welfare and most do not pay federal taxest. And the number is not 35%. The smallest red number is 39% while the highest is 45%, which puts the average at about 43% of people in Republican states collect benefits that Mitt is decrying against those Republican states as a Democratic fault for them not paying taxes.
Mitt the Twit needs to stop being divisive and playing at dirty politics. But he has no substance to run on and just the option of "not Obama." Of course 'If he was Latino'...
Courseaire 8 months, 1 week ago
See reply on "Democrats Won Battle of the Conventions"
JD 8 months, 1 week ago
Likewise Couseaire