Letters to the Editor
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OK, which is funnier?
Ron Paul visiting BJU (Not his natural environment, I would think)
BJU endorsing Romney (Seems like the least likely candidate next 911 man)
The acronym for this institution being B.J. University
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@ bignose
I know, I know. BJU. I keep thinking "really bad porn."
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I would have thought Huck was a lock...
...for that "endorsement." Maybe Mitt has a better record on miscegenation. And, note to Ron Paul: the company you keep says volumes.
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This fits perfectly
Bob Jones University also hates gays, blacks, and Jews!
A match made in heaven, I'd say.
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Another awesome thing about Ron Paul
He does not dismiss anything just because others have.
You would think that he would walk past BJU. But he is probably courting the University because he knows its symbolic value to some potential voting constituents.
He knows, if he makes an impression, there may be waves made at the University that they may have been rash in endorsing Romney.
Maybe there is a good story in it for the media to latch onto, make fun of.
Then RP shows the media up for not only trying to trash him, but for assuming he agrees or is in cahoots with BJU.
There is nothing wrong with RP or anyone going to places like BJU, even if he does not agree with everything they do or think.
Should none of the candiates go to an NAACP meeting because they are not black and they do not do stereotypically 'black' things, be it watching BET or eating chitlins, or subscribe to Jesse Jackson or whatever hoary cliches you want to roll out?
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Off topic, but not much...has to do with er....race, womens' rights er....maybe
Don't blame this blurb on the MSM -- it's lifted, intact, from DEMOCRACYNOW! (democracynow.org) under today's "headlines"
Obama Appears to Laud Reagan for Confronting 1960-70s “Excesses”
In campaign news, Senator Barack Obama is coming under criticism for appearing to slight the civil rights and feminist movements while expressing admiration for former President Ronald Reagan. In an interview with the editorial board of the Reno Gazette, Obama lauded Reagan’s challenge to what Obama called the “excesses” of the 1960s and 1970s.
Senator Barack Obama: “I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path, because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown, but there wasn’t much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people—he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."
Obama did not specify what he believes those “excesses” were. But Reagan is widely credited with leading a rightwing backlash against the gains of the civil rights and feminist movements that preceded his 1980 election. (my emphasis)
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WTF? Yes, please explain yourself!
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Chitlins?
Does anybody really eat those? I smelled them cooking one time, and it was like taking a dump, and sticking your nose over the bowl and taking a big whif.
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You are judged by the company you keep ...
... and if you choose to associate with racist, homophobic, young earth creationist idiots who are stuck in a religious timewarp, you should expect the rational population to view you in a similar light.
brightstar65: "Ron Paul ... does not dismiss anything just because others have."
That is not necessarily a virtue. Consorting with religious whackos is not going to win Paul any votes from the growing ranks who are fed up with the god botherers. We'll have had 8 years of it - we don't need any more.
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RE Another awesome thing about Ron Paul
Yeah, gotta pander to that cracker vote.
And, equivocation of BJU and the NAACP is intellectually dishonest.
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I do not pretend to know what BJU is or stands for
nor do I care.
My point is, people see thru the pandering of the other clowndidates.
It is relatively easy to embarass the media. If RP went to BJU, he also went to NOW or (fill in some other fringe movement) too. DONE. That is all he has to tell the media to go stick it.
RP is teflon pretty. Everyone already expects the media to dismiss him. More power to him unless he gets caught on his own primal DeanScream.
As for claims that people are sick of religious types. Sure, but the religious freakos have also been divided and neutered as a group lately.
Does not mean people have given up on all morals and values. People still prefer to err on the side of religion, as extreme as its fringe may be, over siding with amoral San Fran lizard nihilists.
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No Offense to NAACP
not intended to compare it to BJU, just a random top of mind group I had picked, one I knew had been snubbed by the right recently, (or maybe they snubbed the right, whatever).
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BS
Your quote:
"Does not mean people have given up on all morals and values. People still prefer to err on the side of religion"
It is clear to me that religion and morals do not walk hand in hand.
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As it is to me
Morality and religion hardly glance at each other.
But you teach that to 300million other rubes who do tie the two together.
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He's not there to persuade the BJU administrators...
...he's there to persuade the students.
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And not just the students
Bob Jones (and how can anybody not know "what it stands for"?) has an enormous alumni and donor base in the Upstate of South Carolina. Many of the movers and shakers in the Fourth Congressional District either went there or know better than to piss off everybody who did.
(What makes the Fourth important? How about that it's where Lee Atwater learned to politick--as in, It's where modern American politics got its start.)
Bob Jones is an evil fucking place, but it signifies.
South Carolinians do not call it "BJU," by the way.
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Ron Paul's religious affiliation
Ron Paul is a Baptist. He has been a Christian of one sort or another all his life. Info here:
http://christianity.about.com/od/religionpolitics/p/ronpaulfaithss.htm
Everyone is a Texan, has grown up in Texas, or has lived in Texas any sort of time knows what a Baptist is. Ron Paul should feel pretty much at home at Bob Jones University.