In my other blog, Groundling, I mentioned that I was dismayed to hear Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney mock Barack Obama because the president wants to address rising sea levels and heal the planet, as though these were foolish goals.
I must say that I got a bit queasy Thursday evening as several Democrat speakers bragged about killing Osama Bin Laden to the roar of approval from the audience. Don't get me wrong. Bin Laden lived by the sword and died by the sword. He was a reprehensible and dangerous human being. Still, it all seemed rather bloodthirsty in the land where Jesus is invoked regularly but not always followed. It was Jesus, after all, who stopped his disciples from violence the night of his arrest and was the source of those words about living and dying by the sword.
The idea was to prove to people that the president is a decisive Commander-in-Chief and that he succeeded where others failed. I am not naive about evil in the world and the need to address it at times. It just had more of the feel of gladiators in the Colisseum than disciples at the Sermon on the Mount.
Did anyone else feel this way?
2 comments:
The Dems have to trot that out.
Given the state of the economy, the Romney/Ryan's relentless bashing of Obama with respect to it, the Democrats' simply have to trot out any slam dunk the President's made as a counter-offensive.
And it works. The Republicans won't even go there on foreign policy. They just know they've got nothing by comparison.
Were there any empty chairs on stage at the time?LOL
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