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Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
Ann Coulter on politicians faking being religious
Lucifer is my homeboy http://www.anncoulter.com/ http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=272
OBAMA: LUCIFER IS MY HOMEBOY
by Ann Coulter
September 17, 2008
It's another election season, so that means it's time for Democrats to start uttering wild malapropisms about the Bible
In 2000, we had Al Gore inverting a Christian parable into
something nearly satanic. Defending his nutty ideas about the Earth
during one of the debates, Gore said: "In my faith tradition, it's
written in the book of Matthew, where your heart is, there is your
treasure also." And that, he said, is why we should treasure the
environment.
First of all, people who say "faith tradition" instead of
"religion" are always phony-baloney, "Christmas and Easter"-type
believers.
Second, Jesus was making almost the exact opposite point, saying: "Do not
store up for yourselves treasures on Earth," where there are moths,
rust and thieves, but in heaven, because, Jesus said, "where your
treasure is, there your heart will be also."
I guess that's the kind of mix-up that can happen when your theological adviser is Naomi Wolf.
Then in 2004, Democratic presidential candidate and future Trivial
Pursuit answer Howard Dean told an interviewer that his favorite part
of the New Testament was the Book of Job. The reporter should have
asked him if that was his favorite book in all three testaments.
And now in 2008, we have Democrats attacking Sarah Palin for being
a Christian, while comparing Obama to Jesus Christ. (And not in the
sarcastic way the rest of us do.)
Liberals have indignantly claimed that Palin thinks the founding
fathers wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, which is Olbermannic in the
sense that (a) if it were true, it's trivial, and (b) it's not true.
Their claim is based on a questionnaire Palin filled out when she
was running for governor of Alaska in 2006, which asked the candidates
if they were "offended by the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of
Allegiance." Palin answered: "Not on your life. If it was good enough
for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me, and I'll fight in
defense of our Pledge of Allegiance."
As anyone can see, Palin was not suggesting that the founding
fathers "wrote" the Pledge of Allegiance: She said the founding fathers
believed this was a country "under God." Which, um, it is.
For the benefit of MSNBC viewers who aren't watching it as a joke,
the whole point of the Declaration of Independence was to lay out the
founders' breathtaking new argument that rights came not from the king,
but from God or, as the Declaration said, "Nature's God," the
"Creator."
That summer, in 1776, Gen. George Washington -- a charter member
of the founding fathers -- rallied his troops, saying: "The time is now
near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be
freemen or slaves. ... The fate of unborn millions will now depend,
under God, on the courage and conduct of the army."
So Washington not only used the phrase "under God," but gave us
one of the earliest known references to the rights of the "unborn."
That's right! George Washington was a "pro-life extremist," just like
Sarah Palin.
There is no disputing that a nation "under God" was "good enough" for the founding fathers, exactly as Palin said.
Meanwhile, on the House floor last week, Democratic Rep. Steve
Cohen of Tennessee compared Palin to Pontius Pilate -- and Obama to
Jesus. Cohen said: "Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus,
who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor." Yes, who
can forget the Biblical account of how Jesus got the homeless Samaritan
to register as a Democrat in exchange for a carton of smokes!
Rep. Cohen would be well-advised to stay away from New Testament references.
As anyone familiar with the New Testament can confirm for him,
there are no parables about Jesus passing out cigarettes for votes,
lobbying the Romans for less restrictive workfare rules or filing for
grants under the Community Redevelopment Act. No time for
soul-saving now! First, we lobby Fannie Mae to ease off those lending
standards and demand a windfall profits tax on the money-changers in
the temple.
David Freddoso's magnificent new book, The Case Against Barack Obama
Alinsky is sort of the George Washington of "community
organizers." If there were an America-hater's Mount Rushmore, Saul
Alinsky would be on it. He tried to hire Hillary to work for him right
out of Wellesley. A generation later, those who had trained with
Alinsky did hire Obama as a community organizer.
In Freddoso's book
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to
the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology and history
(and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or
which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against
the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his
own kingdom -- Lucifer."
I suppose it could have been worse. He could have dedicated his book to George Soros.
Even liberals eventually figured out that they shouldn't be
praising Satan in public, so the Lucifer-as-inspiration paragraph was
cut from later editions of Alinsky's book. (But on the bright side,
MSNBC adopted as its motto: "Who is to know where mythology leaves off
and history begins -- or which is which.")
That's exactly what happens to most Democratic ideas -- as soon as
they are said out loud, normal people react with revulsion, so
Democrats learn to pretend they never said them: I was NOT
comparing Palin to a pig! I did not play the race card! I did not say I
would meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions!
Sarah Palin might be just the lucky break the Democrats need. As a
staunch pro-lifer, Palin could give Democrats an excuse to steer away
from topics they know nothing about, like the Bible
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