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Declaring War on the Church

Well the above video from the Romney campaign removes all doubt that the HHS Mandate is going to be front and center in the fall campaign.  Obama was campaigning with Sandra Fluke yesterday, as Ed Morrissey at Hot Air details here.  Obama’s war on the Catholic Church, and his attempt to promote schism within the Church, may play a decisive role in the swing states like Ohio that will decide this election.

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Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 9:08am

Someone was there interviewing people as they left the Fluke/Obama rally. It’s an amusing video.

Paul W. Primavera
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 1:04pm

Thank you, Donald, for this post!

Chris Pennington
Chris Pennington
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 5:46pm

Actually everything is A-OK.

President Obama, Archbishop Dolan and very likely Mitt Romney will be attending the annual Al Smith Catholic Charities dinner together. It should be a great photo op and good laughs all around!

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Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 6:01pm

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G-Veg
G-Veg
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 6:16pm

I’ve got to tune out until election day. News that 2012 is shaping up to be a replay of 2008 is too depressing for words. I can’t begin to imagine why my fellow Americans voted for Mr. Obama to begin with, much less why they’d do so again. Here we are though, again watching a GOP challenger slip in the polls. This time though, it is astounding that we have an utter failure of policy and the President’s lead grows daily. Remind me again how voting for Santorum was foolish because he couldn’t win a General campaign.

Give some good news guys. I’m sure I’m not the only loyal reader who needs it!

anzlyne
anzlyne
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 6:37pm

Wow. “Be Not Afraid!” was an eloquent choice for Mitt Romney to quote the Pope. Yes he is trying to appeal to Catholic voters, and I hope Catholic voters listen, stay informed be active and pray. Be Not Afraid.

We can Not be afraid of what almost seems cataclysmic around us culturally and politically.

When I hear those words and think of young Karol W lying face down hiding from Nazis – he knew what he was talking about when he said not to be afraid.
And the brave people of Ukraine, Latvia — saints- who kept their faith in the face of real evil. The little prayer book in my purse is called “Mary Save Us” – smuggled out of Siberia– the author, Adele, a catechism teacher, did die in the camp.. in the 1950’s.

I hope voters take this war on religion seriously. All you eastern europeans now in heaven pray for us.

Tito Edwards
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Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 7:20pm

Don,

I’ve seen many other polls showing the opposite.

I still think Obama is going to win in a squeaker, but I hope to be proven dead wrong.

Mary De Voe
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 7:22pm

Anzlyne: “All you eastern europeans now in heaven pray for us.” All the saints and angels in heaven, pray for us.”

Mary De Voe
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 8:02pm

The communist government officials raped Lech Walesa’s daughters while he waited in the next room listening to their screams. Only the voters can stop Obama’s rape of little children’s conscience rights. Walesa knows the evil and Walesa is endorsing for Romney.

Art Deco
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 8:51pm

Gallup polls registered voters, not likely voters. Rasmussen is the major which uses a likely voter screen as a matter of course. I think NPR has attempted that as well.

Art Deco
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 8:53pm

Just which is the constituency to whom Sandra Fluke would appeal?

Elaine Krewer
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Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 10:11pm

I got a call today from a pollster asking a bazillion questions about mainly local and state races, about name recognition for various local/state candidates and whether I had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of them, etc. I wasn’t completely decided about several of the races she asked about, and didn’t really have any opinion on some of the people she mentioned, but when she asked how likely I was to vote, I said “very likely” and when she asked whether I would vote for Romney or Obama I said “definitely Romney.” So maybe I just nudged the polls a tiny fraction of a point in the “red” direction….

PM
PM
Thursday, August 9, AD 2012 11:06pm

I am interested in whether there is a poll taking demographic – if that is a correct term for polls about which I agree with G-Veg – that counts people who decline participation.

A month or so ago, there was a call from someone who said they were from Gallup and I declined participation. Maybe caller ID would be helpful. I’ve seen some very long alpha-numeric ID’s, city-state ID’s, and other generic words (like service) and am wary.

Just a glimmering hope that many may remain silent in resolve in this intimidating atmosphere, such as when using lawn signs or bumper stickers causes an occasion for sin for someone.

Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Friday, August 10, AD 2012 2:52am

Lord Courtney famously remarked that there are lies, damned lies and statistic.

It is worth noting that the noble lord was not merely an excellent mathematician (he was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge) but a President of the Royal Statistical Society (1897 – 1899)

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Friday, August 10, AD 2012 5:31am

War on the Church?

Don’t worry about the Church.

Worry about Obama.

They declared war on drugs 50 or 60 years. Who won that one?

Mary De Voe
Friday, August 10, AD 2012 8:33am

Donald McClarey says: “The communist government officials raped Lech Walesa’s daughters while he waited in the next room listening to their screams.”

Source Mary? I have never read that.

Ask Lech Walesa. Walesa is the most reliable source.

Mary De Voe
Friday, August 10, AD 2012 9:10am

I am sorry Donald, I do mean to be rude. I saw Lech Walesa on television weeping, his hands to his eyes, confessing what he had endured, and this is what he confessed: that “the communists took his minor daugters into the next room and he heard them screaming”. This happened when the communists tried to break Walesa and Solidarnocs (sp) the Gdansk shipyard solidarity encouraged by John Paul II, something one does not forget decades later. The fact that Walesa is still alive and can vouch for the truth of this is relevant. Otherwise you may do as needs to be done.

Mary De Voe
Friday, August 10, AD 2012 3:57pm

Thank you, Donald. I am thinking too, of Jerzy Popielusko (sp), the Cathoic priest whom the communists beat and drowned, who is now up for canonization. I am going to continue to look as this is very relevant to Obama’s election. Obama is a man who will not permit people the use of their free will and their conscience and I see no difference between a war on God, a war on the Catholic Church and a war on the individual person made in the image and likeness of God. There is a very enlightening episode by Fulton J. Sheen entitled “The Glory of Being an American.” Bishop Sheen says that persons make up “WE, the people”. Communism is made up of “the masses”. When the individual no longer has any value to the party, he ceases to exist. The communist party error in that logic is that the communist party did not give the human being existence and therefore cannot take existence away.

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