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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
How would the far left treat FDR today?
Considering how freaked out they are over comments Gov. Palin made in her church a few months ago where she said:
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
… it makes you wonder how they’d treat FDR today if he had been around to pray for six and a half minutes to the entire nation the night the war with Iraq started, like he did hours after US and allied soldiers began storming the beaches of Normandy:
Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too — strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment — let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace — a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy will be done, Almighty God.
Amen.
Wow … FDR sounded like a theocratic monster! /sarc
Does the far left truly believe that politicos who are unashamed to pray for God’s guidance and for God’s blessings in public harbor secret fantasies of turning our country into a theocratic nation? If so, how’d that work out for Harry Truman? JFK? Lincoln?
Seriously – does the left have ANY concept of history whatsoever?
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I agree with Powerline’s review of Charlie and Sarah.
This is interesting.
We don’t have cable or satellite tv at the present time, so we’ve been watching a local station that reruns old programs from th ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Some of them are great, some of them are rotten, and most are somewhere in between. The thing that strikes me about all of them is that none of them mocked people of faith. Most were not explicitly religious, but all respected religion.
Contrast that with the media’s attitude now.
If this is progress, you can have it.
Our wonderful hostess asked:
Our friends on the left have no problems at all with Democrars expressing religious sentiments, because they know that:
1 – Such sentiments are being expressed solely to appeal to us bitter God ‘n’ guns rubes, to get our votes; or (or probably and)
2 – Such sentiments, if actually believed by the Democrat in question, wouldn’t actually have any influence on their political positions.
As long as the words mouthed by the Democratic candidates are essentially meaningless, our friends on the left don’t really care. But let a Republican utter such, even phrased in the blandest of terms, and, watch out! It’s a Christian theocracy headed our way!
Only when it supports the liberal narrative. Other then that…it never happened.
Nowadays the Liberal perspective is to cater to the wishes of these men not fight against them. So many of the late and great Dems that made up this party have been cast aside and only mentioned when it fit the need. They don’t know history and they close their ears and gnash their teeth when it doesn’t fit their narrative. – Lorica
The Democratic Party today is not the Democratic Party of FDR, Truman, Kennedy, or Jackson (Andrew or “Scoop”). But they’re not the only ones who have problems with the expression of religious faith in pubic life: Peggy Noonan, a conservative, practically fell over from a case of the vapors when Bush mentioned God or faith several times in his second inaugural. One worries that her head would have exploded, had she been forced to listen to Lincoln’s second inaugural address.
This hostility towards expressions of faith in public life leaves me scratching my head. I’m not a religious person (far from it, in fact), but only a willfully ignorant fool doesn’t recognize the role of religion in America’s history and public life. Far from fearing it (as the coastal elites seem to), I welcome expressions of faith from our leaders; they reassure me that our elected leaders understand the role of ethics and morality in governance.
It’s the people who cry foul when a public figure talks about faith who worry me.
Peggy Noonan is not all that conservative.
Another great reply to our liberal friends would be to ask which Democrat closed a rather famous and notable speech with: