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God and Jerusalem

requiescat in pace Wrote: Sep 14, 2012 1:28 PM

“Obama has just publicly refused to meet with Netanyahu while he is in our country attending the UN General Assembly. Too busy, says our hero. American Jews are fast losing power and influence, and radical Muslims are bringing Shari’a to America. You can see it happening. Most American Jews are still brain-locked, because they are liberals. Half of American Jews will still vote for Obama rather than admit they were wrong — disastrously wrong — about liberalism ever since the radicals took over in 1968. Obama’s surrender signals are understood all over the world, except at home.” James Lewis in American Thinker (9/14/12)

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God and Jerusalem

Who would have thought that God and Jerusalem would become controversial issues at this year's Democratic National Convention?

Previous Democratic Party platforms had mentioned God and referred to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. After both were initially missing from this year's platform, someone apparently realized that this was likely to raise questions about Democrats that they could ill afford to have raised in an election year.

So the convention faced a vote on whether to restore God and Jerusalem to their party's platform. Rather than risk a roll-call vote from the delegates, the chair called for a voice...