GRANTHAM, Pa. - There was a moment of levity on Sunday night when Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was asked at a nationally televised faith forum whether she believed “God wants you to be president?”
” Well, I could be glib and say we’ll find out,” Clinton said to laughter from the audience.
“But I — I don’t presume anything about God. I believe, you know, Abraham Lincoln was right in admonishing us not to act as though we knew God was on our side,” she said.
The forum was held at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, just over a week before the state’s crucial primary pitting Clinton against Barack Obama, who also addressed the event. Candidates were asked questions about their faith and how it influenced their positions on a range of issues from poverty to abortion.
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What’s all the fuss. There is no God. Its’ merely an invention to reassure self aware beings that this is not all there is.
- Posted by james@Alex (”OMG, did you just make up a book of the bible?”) I have 1 Timothy in my copy of the King James. Do a little bit of research before mocking. It strengthens your joke.
@Jacques - shame you didn’t read past the title, because at some point you would have realized that you misinterpreted it.
- Posted by SeanGod is the Creator of this earth. So, yes religion has a lot to do with everything in life. A country that agrees with ‘In God We Trust’, remember. No one is higher than God. Should you go there, then your chances of rising above him will be ‘zero’. Obama acknowledges what has been planted in him from birth, the maturing of his position to be placed by God to carry out his mission in which he has been blessed with. That is the President of the United States of America. Hillary, as well as all of us will have our chance to shine. Hang in there Hillary, but change your ways. Might be advisable for you toget with that change’ that Obama is so freely asking us all. To unite together in change for all Americans. Stop trying to place yourself, where you are not blessed to set.
- Posted by Nisey01Throughout the campaign, Obama’s behavior has smacked of mendacity and arrogance; NAFTA-gate and Bitter-gate have now made his traits abundantly clear. Thank God Obama was exposed for what he is before the all-important Pennsylvania Primary! How did a man like that graduate from Harvard Law School as Magna Cum Laude!! They must have awarded him Equal Opportunity Grades, or else he was the only one graduating that year! As my Bishop would say, “GO FIGURE!” !!
The Orange Couty Register newspaper published in California had a marvelous editorial page today, with all three primary articles (Thomas Sowell, George F. Will and Rich Lowry) severely taking Obama to task, as he well deserves.
However, the best of all therein was the Politcal Cartoon by Mike Ramirez / Investor’s Business Daily, which showed the Pope waving to the warm applause of the greeting crowd in America, and Obama standing behind the Pope making a comment on-the-side as follows: “The crowd is only here because they’re bitter and the gun shops are closed.” !! RIGHT ON, Ramirez !!
- Posted by JamesRight after reading the title I stopped reading.
Any ‘leader’ trying to justify his/her action because he/she asked god over it is a lying (…) that is not to be trusted.
THEY want to be whatever, it is not ‘god’s will’.
Enough of these individuals that try to justify anything by using someone else’s faith.
- Posted by JacquesWhy does religion have to play a roll in candidates “speeches” ? They should just concentrate on the issues that effect the public. Being religous doesn’t make a good president. Look at Bush. He talks to God on a regular basis. Look at what a failure he is!
- Posted by jif13If “God” was even mentioned in the electoral process in Australia the candidates would be considered nutters. Religion should not have ANYTHING to do with the presidency.
To John who called Ralph Nader a lobbyist puppet; could you be any more incorrect?
- Posted by JaymoHillary is puppet like Ralph Nader which the power of lobbyist want her to stay in the race and take the front runner Obama poll down.
- Posted by johnHello!, Obama is not a muslim and people should stop peddling that rumour. I am a sound Republican but it is not right for people to be labeling Barack Obama a muslim without doing justice to research him and get the answers to their questions. It is rather shameful of us to engage in any form of smear campaign just to give our own candidate an advantage.
All people need to do is read is books and books written by other people about him, even before he knew he was going to run for the office of the POTUS. If you like, the book is on sale at malltropolitan.com and some other places as well. Please let us run a good campaign without destroying one another, let us run on merits and facts and not on hatred and falsehold. As we castigate the candidates, let us do a soul search to see if we have any latent racism in us that could compromise and cloud our judgement. Let us be true to ourselves for it is only when we are true to ourselves that we can be true to others.
- Posted by JoshI don’t think God gets involved in who is going to be president. We would not have gotten Bush, if that were the case. I hope is God is involved he gives us Oboma.
- Posted by marilyn nowQ - do you believe “God wants you to be president?” A - ” Well, I could be glib and say we’ll find out,” Clinton said to laughter from the audience.
Now what’s so funny about that? Suppose God wants Clinton to be president. Would that make it a sure thing?
Cases in point - God wanted the Israelites out of Egypt and needed a lot of help from people using “tricks” to get the job done. It was very iffy. And. God wanted to destroy the World Trade Center. Just like getting the chosen people out of Egypt, God needed help from “tricks” and people.
Those who rely on God alone, no help from “tricks” and people will surely be disappointed. Hillary got any more “tricks” up her sleeve? How about Barak and Johnny?
- Posted by mauiIs It True That Hillary Clinton’s Boss on Watergate Committee Fired Her for Unethical Misconduct?
- Posted by swuzy.
Are the postings on the websites below legit?
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Is it true that Hillary’s boss on the Watergate committee fired her, refused to give her a letter of recommendation and said she was a liar, did unethical things. Didn’t he say that she conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality, that she was an unethical and dishonest lawyer, that he should have reported her to the bar association for disciplinary action, and that she wrote a fraudulent legal memorandum which if submitted to a judge would have gotten her disbarred, and that he could not recommend her for any subsequent position of public or private trust?
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http://www.jzeifman.com/
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/hillarys-c rocodile-tears-in-connecticut
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Can anyone confirm or debunk this?
Thanks.
…and God said “…sure, go ahead and make a fool out of yourself. I could use a good laugh.”
- Posted by Mike, Fredericksburg VAMAQUAMI, to be a Christian it means that one has to believe that Jesus was a son of God and God himself. Muslims do not believe that, if Obama believes that Jesus is a son of God and a Lord savior, then he is a Christian.
- Posted by Nikita