Paul Ryan: Obama ‘Purged’ Mentions Of God In Dem Platform

[ProSense]

Paul Ryan: Obama ‘Purged’ Mentions Of God In Dem Platform

Rep. Paul Ryan on Wednesday said President Obama's administration is responsible for striking all mentions of the word 'God' from the Democratic Party platform, according to Politico:

“It’s not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision," Ryan said on 'Fox and Friends.' "I’d guess you’d have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government. I guess I would just put the onus and the burden on them to explain why they did all this, these purges of god.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/paul-ryan-obama-purged-mentions-of-god-in

This is how pathetic Romney and Ryan have become.

Yes, Reince. It's disgraceful.

by Jed Lewison

WOW. Disgraceful- “Exclusive: Democrats Drop "God" From Party Platform” http://t.co/BIhqBmBc
— @Reince via Twitter for iPhone

Disgraceful? Uh, let's go to Reince's source: David Brody of the Christian Broadcast Network.

Guess what? God’s name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform.

This is the paragraph that was in the 2008 platform:

“We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.”

Now the words “God-given” have been removed. The paragraph has been restructured to say this:

“We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth – the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.”

Okay, so "God-given" is not in the second paragraph and it is in the first. But that's not the only change. In fact, of the 33 words in the first paragraph, a total of 17—more than 50 percent—aren't in the second. Among them: government, people, hopes, and values.

Here's the full list of what "has been removed."

a ... chance ... everyone ... for ... gives ... God-given
government ... hopes ... interests ... make ... need ... people
stands ... their ... up ... values ... willing

So Democrats aren't just against God, government, people, hopes, and values. They are also against simple things, like the letter "a." And directions, like "up." They're clearly against possessions—otherwise they'd keep the word "their." Basically, Democrats are clearly against "everyone." As Reince Priebus said: disgraceful!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/04/1127660/-Yes-Reince-It-s-disgraceful

[marmar]

1. Kind of like Ryan purged facts and truth from his convention speech.

nt

[Patiod]

21. To quote TV's Frank:

GOP slamming Dems for leaving God out of their platform. God slamming GOP for leaving "Love Thy Neighbor" out of theirs.

(from comedian/MST cast member Frank Coniff's twitter feed)

[ananda]

2. Another lie.

I heard God mentioned several times.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I can't think of a single reason why 'god' should appear in a party's platform.

[kestrel91316]

30. Neither can I. And I'm sort of disturbed that it was ever in there in the first place.

And mind you, I'm not some militant atheist. I'm agnostic in the extreme.

[Jennicut]

4. Religion needs to get the hell out of politics.

And God was mentioned many, many times in speeches by the Dems yesterday. But LyinRyan doesn't want to mention that.

[randome]

36. That should be the response to Ryan.

"Government has no business in religion." End of discussion.

[reflection]

5. If God has a problem with it

I'm sure he'll smite Obama off the stage Thursday. Let's just leave it up to God to decide whether or not God is offended.

[surrealAmerican]

6. Ryan actually said that?

"There sure is a lot of mention of government."

A party political platform is not a sermon or a prayer. It's supposed to be about government. It would be alarming if there was no mention of government from people who propose to govern.

[Ezlivin]

7. You can't purge what doesn't exist

The Democratic platform also makes no mention of Zeus, Ra or the other innumerable gods that came before.

Good start, I say.

[lpbk2713]

8. They're getting downright silly now.

The desperation must be overpowering.

[bullwinkle428]

9. Hey, Ryan...what does GOD say about bearing false witness?

[Xyzse]

10. I saw an article about that earlier

Ticked me off since religion should be taken out of politics, and the fact that God was mentioned several times yesterday.

Hell, we even had someone quoting the bible with the book of Matthew in regards to where the heart is in regards to their treasure. Where for Mitt Romney is his money off shore.

Agh, that douchebag!!!

[gkhouston]

11. And if they'd left it in, the Republicans would be saying it's offensive

because religious belief shouldn't be up for a vote.

[liberalhistorian]

12. WTF would HE know about God?

The deity that he worships, Ayn Rand, was a militant atheist who not only hated all religion (how else was she going to promote and elevate her doctrine of extreme selfishness?), but reserved special hatred for Christianity, and had many choice words for Jesus and his doctrine of selflessness, "idiot" being among the more printable.

[Cant trust em]

13. What's really shameful is that we should have to mention it at all or else its a "mistake". nt

[JBoy]

14. Priebus' job is to sit at the outrage generator control panel, turning knobs and stuff.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. You mean Obama didn't mention Ryan's God, Ayn Rand?

[jsr]

16. What is God?

[WI_DEM]

17. Lyin' Ryan is at it again. The best thing coming out of this campaign is that Ryan's...

carefully cultivated reputation enhanced by a fawning media will be in tatters. He's nothing but a two bit liar--just like the guy who put him on the ticket.

[ehrnst]

18. Someone should ask Ryan who he thinks "purged" God from the Constitution.

I'd give money to see that.

[jillan]

19. Well, at least we spoke about our troops and Afghanistan, you stupid fool!!!!!

[MissMillie]

20. in a free-market minded society....

"God" shouldn't need any help from the government getting his message out.

[Whovian]

22. I noticed they didn't use the word assholes as well.

[Generic Other]

23. The speeches invoked god constantly!

even in Spanish!!

They really stoop low.

[progressivebydesign]

33. I know.. Cory Booker said God Bless America several times...

but I guess they wanted us to use God in the Platform, to tell other people how to live.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

24. I'm surprised

that they didn't accuse President Obama of substituting "Allah" in the platform instead.

They do realize that this isn't a theocracy, right?

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

25. Said the party that purged it's own nominee from every convention speech...

[BeyondGeography]

26. More proof they are running on ideological fumes

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Let's see if we can find any mention of God in the Constitution.

Article I .... nope, can't find it. Not there. What about Article II? Nothing? Article III? I'm looking.... Don't see anything. Gonna keep looking.

Wait, here's something in Article VI: "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

Oh. Well, how about the Amendments? Nada.

Darn. How did we wind up with such a godless founding document.

[AzDar]

28. What's it called when "God" is at the head of government, again ? Oh yeah... Theocracy.

When the R/R campaign spouts un-American shit like this, it sure does bring to mind "The White Horse Prophecy".

Just sayin'.

[kestrel91316]

29. Dear Rep. Ryan: THERE. SHALL. BE. NO. RELIGIOUS. TEST.

Learn to read, you ignorant little sh-t.

[Cali_Democrat]

31. I smell desperation

[progressivebydesign]

32. Oh looky! The GOP has a NEW stupid-ass meme to whine about....

Again.. NO ideas, no vision, NO TRUTH. They are like Gladys from Bewitched, watching through the curtains and complaining about everything that Samantha does across the street.

Let's just say this.. there is ONE party that uses God like window decoration, evoking the name to browbeat and cheat and shame other people. there is ONE party that actually lives the principles and values that Jesus had, and they don't need to PANDER.

[FSogol]

34. What a surpirse! Ryan lied again.

[JRLeft]

35. The GOP God is evil, he is full of hate, so if the GOP wants the Democratic party to invoke their

God, I say fuck you!

[IcyPeas]

37. Piers Morgan was jumping all over this last night too

he acted like it was a big deal. He seemed dumbfounded that God wasn't mentioned??????

All the speeches I watched had a God Bless America at the end of them.

What does god have to do with the DNC?

[librechik]

38. If this is true, thank you President Obama.

We don't need God to be great. We need hard work and compromise. The repubs only know about God. (supposedly)