Now that the exit polls showed that “moral values” motivated a lot of voters to elect Republicans, we’re going to enjoy the spectacle of Democrats trying to use “God talk” to woo back those voters. It should be interesting.
For example, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, a pro-abortion Catholic, was on CNN’s Lou Dobbs show, started talking about God and got called on it by Dobbs.
PELOSI: ... And we have to define what values are. Values are, of course, being persons of faith and family and love of country. They also are about ministering to the needs, as it says in the Gospel of Matthew, of the least of our brethren.
So we have to grow the middle class and expand it. We have to protect the environment, which is God’s creation. We have to meet the needs of the American people. We have to reach to a higher purpose, and I believe we have that opportunity now.
DOBBS: Minority Leader, I’m just—I’m just a simple fellow, secular as I can be. Are we going to hear every politician now, because of exit polls, start couching every issue in moral or religious terms?
PELOSI: I believe that you will see more of that, but I quite agree with you, that we have to get to the issues that are the role of government. I think on the values side, the so-called religious issues side, we have to enlarge that issue, because what we’re in danger now in our country is the blurring of the issue of church and state. But I as a devout Catholic was concerned when bishops—some bishops, not all bishops said that it was a sin to vote for John Kerry. That’s absolutely wrong. And that—our own Constitution is at stake if they think that they can blur the issue of church and state.
So I think that, as President Kennedy said when he ran in 1960, imagine then, they didn’t want religion to have a strong role. At that time, he said, “The issue is not what church I believe in, the issue is what America I believe in.” And that’s where we have to take this issue.
First, notice how she backtracks when Dobbs asks her if all these politicians are going to start using religious language. And how clumsily it sounds when she does it. Not at all natural.
It’s also funny to see her weigh in on a theological issue: “... some bishops, not all bishops said that it was a sin to vote for John Kerry. That’s absolutely wrong.” Thank you, Rep. Pelosi, for your theological judgment. May we expect an encyclical from your office on the matter? If this is how the Democrats are going to react to this election for the next two or four years, it’s going to be very entertaining.
Nancy, Is John Kennedy your bishop?
Devout Catholic? Which “Catholic Church” is she talking about? Oh, I see, its this one:
http://www.catholicchurchinamerica.org/pages/2/index.htm
It must be, because her votes reflect their beliefs.
This letter is written to Nancy Pelosi by Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer. It is a wonderful repudiation of her psuedo-Catholicism.
Those who reside on the far left of the political spectrum seem to have completely lost their minds. Today’s “Boca Raton News” reports that more than a dozen Kerry supporters have received psychotherapy since their candidate lost.
Far left publications all over the US, and even in foreign countries are predicting that Kerry will “unconcede” the election based on the rampant voter fraud in Ohio. This is echoed in Pravda (the real Pravda, not the St. Louis Post Dispatch who just think they’re Pravda), under the Headline “Did Bush Fix the Elections?”
In fact, if you follow some of the ultra-liberal web sites, you’ll find “proof” that the whole election was a fraud. It seems that the companies that made the electronic voting machines designed the things to deliver the election to the President. Check out baltimorechronical.com. In an article titled “The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy”, Thom Hartmann writes that Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) won his election just after stepping down as head of the company that made the voting machines that had been recently installed in the state. According to Hartmann, Hagel plans to run for President in 2008.
It’s sad, really. The election’s over. The President received a significant majority of the votes. If there was fraud anywhere, it would seem that the mainstream media would be all over it. Wouldn’t Dan Rather love to report that something was rotten in Ohio?
Would Kerry have conceded so quickly if there was a chance, any chance, that there might have been something crooked going on? I seriously doubt it.
The libs are so frustrated, confused, and angry that they can’t think straight. Put them on TV and they babble incoherently, like Senator Pelosi. They’re going to therapists and threatening to leave the country. They’re out of touch with the American people and they’re trying to fix it all in a week. It’s like trying to learn a foreign language. It’s going to take some time.
Dobbs gave her a free re-elect Nancy pass. She’s kicking off her campaign at the Church’s expense and considering the make up of her district, she’ll be the next Thurmond of the House.
Only in CAlifornia: a dim bulb behind those bright eyes.