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Southern Baptists -- Hillary's Reverend Right?
So today in the New York Times ... Just now in fact, it is revealed that Hillary Clinton has a nice, easy good ole boy going around the South for her. A guy named Burns Strider. He is a Southern Baptist. He was a Southern Baptist missionary in Hong Kong. She hired him to woo southern voters. He sounds unthreatening enough, but can anyone explain why someone who is after all supposed to be a progressive democrat would hire someone who represents a religious right group that sure isn't a feminist haven, that wants to convert Jews, that has a LONG history of racism, that Jimmy Carter left, if it isn't to play the racist card against Obama? He actually was religious point man for Congressional Democrats which also should raise a few eyebrows.
No principles, I tell you.
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I think time will reveal that Hillary's actions don't match her campaign promises - exactly like George W. Bush's campaign in 1999 didn't.
May 2, 2008 6:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Esther, it's even better than that.
Since moving to D.C. (at least) back around '92 she linked up with a fundamentalist, but very secretive religious group called The Fellowship.
The Fellowship has sexually segregated "worship," though the members are known to chat each other up. Who are some of those other members?
Oh, how about George "Macacca" Allen? Or Rick Stantorum? Or Sam Brownback (just to name three)?
BTW: They don't collect all in one place (except once a year at the National Prayer Breakfast in D.C.) but further separate themselves into (their term) "cells."
Yes, and there are also allegations that one of their main purposes is to transform D.C. and the government itself to better conform to Protestant Christian values. Wonder how that tidbit would influence her base of Jewish supporters, or what that huge Catholic turnout in PA would have thought about her participating in an attempt to change our government into a theocracy that leaves them in the dust?
Check out this article in the Nation.May 2, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
where are there links proving this post? sounds like more snark, since the times piece is actually rather Charles Gibson / George Stephanopoulos - esque.
May 2, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
If Southern Baptists are unacceptable, are Roman Catholics unacceptable as well?
And if you reject both as political participants, how much of the United States are you willing to work with?
May 2, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
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