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Subscribe to RSSTwo priceless ads out of Missouri we didn't mention yesterday, but thought we'd get up today. Do you think they should crack our top 10? Thoughts? (Hat tip: Politico's Martin.)
This one is for state senate... Was this ad made by Linda McMahon?
What exactly is a "Combat Bible"? This is for MO-8.
Here's how St. Louis Today's Political Fix blog sums it up: "Sowers taught at West Point and served in the Army special forces -- and the "combat bible" he says he brought with him in the field. ... The ad hits a lot of key notes for a rookie candidate running to unseat a longtime incumbent in a Republican district: It's no accident that Sowers, a Democrat, recites the phrase 'new blood' twice in the 30-second ad -- but does not mention his partisan affiliation once."
(By the way, does Cillizza, Blake, Sonmez and WaPo know this other "Fix" blog exists?)
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What does the Bible have to do with anything? Unless you think the wars are crusades? Religion has no place in government .... and never has !
KeepN it Real, I live in Missouri most of these people sleep with their bible. Why do you think they call it the bible belt. If you took their bible away they'd die.
In Missouri's 8th congressional, a candidate cannot win unless holding a bible in one hand and a gun in the other...Even Democrats must face the reality of a constituency comprised of undereducated evangelical Wal-Mart shoppers....McCain carried the district by 26%. Limbaugh casts his ballot from Missouri's 8th. If you want a true representation of today's republican party...come visit us. Gays need not apply. Nearly 35% are unemployment due to the Bush recession, and more than half lack health care. But they pray a lot and love their guns....
Hey! That sounds like Lee Greenwood singing "I'm Proud to be an American"..... Gotta go.
Funny how you libs always say anybody with a different opinion is undereducated.
I live in the 8th congressional. Come visit. Our county is 57% dem-43% republican, come to think of it........................maybe they are undereducated.
Wow...57% of the 8th District is comprised of Democrats.
Bush carried the 8th with 64% of the vote and McCain with 62% of the vote....The 8th District hasn't been represented by a Democrat in over 20 years....How do you red-necks do it? Hog-tie all the Democrats on election day?
Personal insults. The only thing the dems do on this sight nonstop. They always say they desire political discussion with mutual respect, but never show any. Sad, I think it was just today Disgusted in P.A. was saying we should all respect one another and work to solve the nation's problems. Next blog he is putting down caribou barbie?
Maybe if you could all stop with the wasilla hillbilly, bible spice, caribou barbie, right wing whack jobs, christian lunatic fringe, stale pale and male, and stupid red neck insults there might be some more honest discussion on how to help this country. I will excuse eric and feisty. They don't know any better and I never read what they say anymore anyway.
I do however expect more from Nash, Ron, Disgusted, and many others.
This proud message of civil discourse comes from the party of Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, and O'Reilly....
If the bible gives some soldier comfort and keeps them from blowing their own brains out, I'm all for it.
Making the bible or any other religious documents available to our soldiers is just fine with me. Making it a requirement is scary.
I consider the Nieves ad threatening. And Sowers hits all the hot buttons for a rural state - the Bible, Eye-rack (this pronunciation is my personal pet peeve,) and blood. As for the Combat Bible - aren't soldiers issued a small Bible?
What did George Washington read to his troops before he took them across the Delaware River to attack the Hessians in Trenton? George read them Thomas Paine's Liberal tract "The American Crisis" to inspire them to make that fateful attack that saved our American Revolution with a much needed victory during the darkest days of the revolution. George Washington's "combat bible" was a Liberal pamphlet promoting the Liberal ideals our country was founded upon.
Let's face it god does not occupy foxholes with soldiers, if there were a god then there would be no foxholes. Throughout history religion has been the root cause for war and the main reason why billions have died from the violence of war. Just look now at our neverending war against al-Qaeda, a war being fought because of religion and religious fanatics. Our secular armed forces are being perverted into a christian crusader army and the corrupt christians think that they can abuse our armed forces into helping them cram their worthless lying religion down everyone's throats around the world.
Adolph Hitler and the Nazis believed the false christian god was on their side and look what happened to them. If the false christian god is really on our side then maybe one of the evangelical christian lunatic fringers might care to explain why we haven't won yet against Muslim al-Qaeda and the Taliban. What's wrong christian fanatics isn't your false god stronger and more omnipotent than the false muslim god? Why does your false christian god allow so many of your christian crusaders to be killed in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Religion is the root of all evil, religion is the evil unleashed from Pandora's Box! A real shame that so many aren't adult enough to rid themselves of their imaginary friend, something we teach children to do by 8 or 9 years old. All gods are nothing but figments of our imaginations and it's time for people around the world to wake up and smell that reality.
Eric,
Thomas Paine. Not even a statute of him I don't believe in this country. Died poor I believe.
I read somewhere that it was Paine who came up with the name for our country - The United States of America. Not sure if this is true, but I did read this many years ago.
Religion is personal and should remain outside politics. The trouble is that too many people vote Bible issues and not their pocketbooks. Give credit to the GOP because religion is exactly how the republican party continues to win despite the evidence and their own words that show they care about money, big business and not the people who work in those businesses. Too many people falsely believe that republicans have a lock on religion and moral values; I know many deeply religious people who are democrats.
There are two forms of comfort one looks too when facing potential death as a soldier. There is the physcial comfort that a soldier is assured of when they can feel the leg of a fellow soldier leaning against theirs while in a fire fight and knowing that each have the back of the other, and there is the mental comfort where a soldier finally reaches that level of comfort in accepting the fact that they may die in combat. Most soldiers in combat experience the former but many do not achieve the latter. So after the activity of a combat situation is over where the mind is too busy to think of anything but fighting and surviving (which takes the soldier into a different mental and emotional state) the person then crashes back to earth where the mind becomes victim to a realization of all the potential dangers to life and limb the soldier just experienced. It is during these times where comfort is required. If one's belief in God and their religion can help during these times so be it, but a caring and supportive hand on the shoulder or back is a more immediate form of relief from the realities just experienced. For those seeking comfort in their religion or God, if only that God would reach out and allow the soldier to literally feel their touch, all would be well.
CA, Tuscaloosa, AL
"For those seeking comfort in their religion or God, if only that God would reach out and allow the soldier to literally feel their touch, all would be well."
It's my personal belief that's why God put each of us here and what he expects each of us to do. It's on that we will be judged. We are God's hands--and need to reach out in kindness and support to those in need-whether it be soldiers or the unemployed or the sick and uninsured.
Unfortunately, that's not how the right wingers see it--
Ginger, I agree with you. WE are the hands and feet of Christ.
What's up with Missouri? You got a religious nutjob saying the bible will do combat. In other words hate the Koran and Muslims. No religion out ranks any. Then you've got the Lt Gov wanting to repeal the healthcare law.
Linda McMahon couldn't have made that ad. Her smackdown is spending billions to snoop on other candidates and she makes it known she is a fiscal hawk.
Eric, I will pray for you and you partner. You are a soulless human in need of a God. You probably have many in the form of money, drugs, work or sex. Whatever, you have no faith, just misguided, false knowledge and hate. It's haters like you that make these discussion boards interesting, but not enjoyable.
Coolhand, I will pray for you and your partner. I will pray to the great purple gummy bear in the sky who created everything in the universe...or the "Gummiverse".
The Great Purple Gummy Bear says you don't believe in him/her/itand that is a serious problem for your soul. You will not be allowed into the presence of the GPGB when you die and that means you will be sent to the hell that was prepared using all of the vegetables that you hated while alive and you will be forced to eat them for all eternity.
BTW, I have just as much evidence to prove the existence of my glorious god, the GPGB, as you do your false god. Now repent, accept the Great Purple Gummy Bear as your savior and as penance you must go to the closest major intersection and give gummy bears to all of the drivers when they stop at the stop light.
Have a nice day and may the Great Purple Gummy Bear smile on you! :)
Religion or lack of it is a personal thing. If one needs religion in his life he should be allowed to have it unencombered by any government or anyone else. If he chooses not to be religious that is his choice too.
The reason Washington read the words of Thomas Paine is that he knew that there were people under his command that were of different religions and even some who were not religious at all. Rather than to cram his beliefs down their throats he chose a more secular word for his pep talk.
Our founding fathers had a variety of beliefs. Many were Anglicans but there were Quakers, Jews, Catholics, Baptists, Anabaptists, Presbyterians agnostics, athiests and others. Thomas Jefferson was a Deist. He recognized the existance of a supreme being but specifics of said supreme being really aren't discussed by Jefferson. Washington refered to Providence rather than specifically naming any supreme being by name. Although he did refer to God on occasion but was very careful when and where he did so. Ben Franklin was supposed to be a Quaker but hardly practiced his family religion but is considered one of the geniuses of his time and made major contributions to the forming of the kind of government we have today.
The holier-than-thou types eventually fall and hard. They find out that not everyone is going to believe exactly as they do and reality hits them that they aren't the only people on this planet that just might spend the afterlife at the feet of their God.