<p>I love when people have to defend Pat Robertson by bringing in the fringe left…that the best you got?</p>
<p>Don’t talk about Robertson…typical diversion…I would expect nothing less then that…</p>
<p>This is about Robertson, but can’t talk about him, so we gonna talk about other people that are connected, how?</p>
<p>DOes the Right ever do anything wrong? My goodness, the perfection of the right is unbelievable</p>
<p>Really. I’m willing to list Clinton’s faults all day, but the minute you question any, any at all, action by Bush, you get “But clinton…”</p>
<p>Can’t ever stick to the topic.</p>
<p>Haha, gotta love the Cafe. So much open-minded discussion, everyone goes home knowing that theirs is the right opinion.</p>
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<p>The Venezuelan President, not the Argentinian one. ;)… Last I checked, Kirchner hasn’t done anything wrong. </p>
<p>Pat Robertson either needs to stay just in the pulpit or get off national television.</p>
<p>Actually, I think publicly advocating for the assassination of another world leader is a terrorist act, as currently defined by law.</p>
<p>I am not sure, but I think that those who support such scoflaws may be guilty of conspiracy under the Patriot Act. ;)</p>
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Since when are calls for assassination the only definition of “fringe”? Look at Howard Dean’s, Ted Kennedy’s or Al Gore’s speeches and you will see lunacy in action. The one I get the biggest kick out of is Al Gore. He is a parody of himself - no comedian could be funnier.</p>
<p>Still waiting…</p>
<p>And exactly what action of Gore’s “more than offsets” a call for assassination?</p>
<p>Which sure does sound terroristic to me.</p>
<p>“Mullah in America
Yea we are fighting a war to get rid of religious zealots but we put them on TV here…go figure.”</p>
<p>Let’s be fair now: I don’t know of any Ayatollah in any country of the world who has gone on national tv in his home country and called for the assassination of the leader of another. Not one.</p>
<p>Still waiting…</p>
<p>The first order of protecting the family is to have a safe environment. In order to provide a safe environment in the US we have fought several wars and a cold war. PR may see this as another form of the cold war. I don’t agree but it’s not without precedent.</p>
<p>I think Fundingfather thinks that showing a tape of the Pres. reading “My Pet Goat” is far more heinous than merely calling for the assassination of a foreign dignitary.</p>
<p>Fundingfather only answers questions by bad mouthing liberals and democrats. He won’t answer. Surpise</p>
<p>This is the trick…when one comments on a right wing, or republican person, the tactic is to then insult a liberal or democrat while not addressing the original person</p>
<p>For example, we criticize Robertson, and voila…out comes Gore!! Like magic. So we end up defending Gore or Kennedy, while Robertson isn’t addressed This is a tactic used all the time by those that have no defense. Deflection. Evasion. Avoidance.</p>
<p>Christian Jyhad…do these terms sound like reason we are currently fighting a war???</p>
<p>I’ll address Robertson: He’s an idiot and an affront to Christians everywhere. I live a mere 40 mins. from his Va. Beach home base, and I have been very successful in ignoring the fact of his existence. It’s really quite easy. You should all try it.</p>
<p>So this idiot runs off at the mouth, and says something entirely inappropriate for someone claiming to be a Man of God. He has NO POWER to bring his outrageous suggestion to pass. Certainly, he doesn’t have the power of a “Mullah”. That’s just hysteria driven hyperbole. He couldn’t be elected to Congress from the state of Virginia, much less President of the United States. Heck, most Virginians, I’d wager to say, wouldn’t elect him Canine Constable. You guys give him much to much power. </p>
<p>What I find rather interesting about many posters here is the way they push the panic button over the words of the likes of Pat Robertson (a political joke with not a fraction of the influence of a Osama Bin Ladin), but will actually DEFEND as logical the incendiary rhetoric of Muslim extremists calling for “Death to America”. Why do you feel more threatened by Robertson or Falwell than you do the terrorists who have DEMONSTRATED both the power AND willingness to destroy thousands of innocent Americans in indiscriminant attacks?.</p>
<p>Because we are supposed to be better than that, thats why…and for a man who claims to be Christian, with a National TV Station, who has met with the President, who has millions of people wathing him and his every word, who has millions and millions of dollars, who funds politicians, ran for president, funds religious groups, he can’t be ignored as much as we would like</p>
<p>And who says we can’t talk about both? As for the people that want to kill us, they are wrong. I don’t like death to Americans.</p>
<p>But does their behavious negate Robertson. </p>
<p>Janet Jackson showed a nipple and the world almost collapsed, Robertson talks about assasinating a world leader, and we are to say, ah well?</p>
<p>I think not. Another diversion. This is about Mr. Robertson. Who has met with the President. SO others have done worse things? Sure. Doesn.t make him any less disgusting</p>
<p>And many many Christians follow him watch him admire him…and give him money…</p>
<p>As a Christian, I find Robertson’s words totally abhorrent and totally unChristian. This is NOT what the Jesus who asked us to turn the other cheek and love our enemies would ever advocate. I am hoping that other Christian leaders will denounce his words, because they just misrepresent Christianity to the world.</p>
<p>If we just ignored it and let it go, then we are no better then the people we are fighting. We do have free speech in this country. It was his right to say it. But it is our responsiblity to say how wrong it was. and how hypocritical.</p>
<p>If it was another person who didn’t make millions from CBN, or the 700 club, and didn’t purport to be an Evangelical Christian to the world, it would still be abhorrent.</p>
<p>Why do we care? Because we must/</p>
<p>“It was his right to say it.”</p>
<p>I am not sure, if under the terms of the Patriot Act, it was his “right” to say it, promoting, as it were, acts of international terrorism…</p>
<p>“Certainly, he doesn’t have the power of a “Mullah”. That’s just hysteria driven hyperbole.”</p>
<p>So, Poetsheart - I ask you exactly the same question. Name one, just ONE, Ayatollah who went on national television of his home country and called for the assassination of the leader of another. Date. Place, and Statement, please. If it is so common as you suggest, that shouldn’t be so very hard to come up with.</p>
<p>So…he has the right to say it and when the next election comes around the the “organization” gives funds…will folks remember this? Are we just spitting into the wind here on CC:?</p>