<p>The circulation of the Gore quote on founding the interent was based at a website called Wired News which has no political affilation or content. It was picked up by the national media, comedians and the rest is history.</p>
<p>“I agree. I think Romney would be a terrible president, but I don’t believe he is or has ever been a racist. I grew up in Michigan and I believe his father was committed to civil rights.”</p>
<p>I give the father a pass. As for the son, he STILL hasn’t said whether he rejects his Church’s teaching regarding the “curse of Cain”, and whether he enforced racist doctrine as stake president, and whether he taught it to his children.</p>
<p>His personal religious beliefs and what he teaches his children are none of your business.</p>
<p>They sure are! Would you vote for a Klan leader who said he wouldn’t let his personal beliefs, and what he teaches his children, affect the way he governs?</p>
<p>He has already said he believes there is no freedom without religion. Well, I want to know precisely what freedom he is talking about it.</p>
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<p>Post 43…“His personal religious beliefs and what he teaches his children are none of your business.”</p>
<p>what someone teaches his children is a very good insight into the type of person he is…insight in the what type a person a person is is very importin in picking leaders…</p>
<p>I’d like to know if any of the major candidates has an invisible friend and what that friend might be saying.</p>
<p>Somehow, I suspect that for Tommybill, Romney’s only real deficit is that of being a Republican. I mean seriously, If he were a Democrat, she would very likely defend him against some of the more outrageous examples of religious bigotry exhibited in this thread. Certainly, she wouldn’t have posted #46.:p</p>
<p>I thought tommybill was a he. He / she posted a long time ago about holding hands with Hillary under a Christmas tree. I don’t usually stalk or remember his / her posts, but I do remember that one because it was rather bizarre…:o</p>
<p>If he is a she, that puts a whole new light on his / her adoration of Hillary as a candidate. Oh, the fun with anonymous chat rooms…:D:</p>
<p>but poetsheart, isn’t it true for other republican posters as well. If Bill, Hillary or Gore were republicans they will adore them.</p>
<p>At least Hillary has conservative republican genes. She saw the light and was transformed to the right side in her adulthood.</p>
<p>1sokkermom: Don’t let your imagination run wild. tommybill is a he.</p>
<p>But the odds are overwhelming that a Presdient will use his/her faith, or lack thereof, to influence key decisions. The job is too important to leave questions of faith unasked.</p>
<p>Good for you sokkermom, a twofer, you get to say something about both me and Sen. Clinton that sounds “rather bizarre” all in the same post.</p>
<p>Your self-confessed stalking of me has really paid off for you today. </p>
<p>Just to help you along in the New Year I kept bees when I was a kid, which is somewhat weird. I don’t know just how you will be able to turn this fact into a nasty thing to say about me, but I am sure with your invidious mind and the pleasure you receive by making vituperative comments about others you will find a way. </p>
<p>Look forward to reading your future comments. Keep up the stalking.</p>
<p>New Year’s Resolution: Find the good in everyone. </p>
<p>Ok. tommybill has a very well developed vocabulary. ;)</p>
<p>Needs work on reading and comprehension, but that may come too.</p>
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<p>I agree with this completely, as well as questions about all aspects of a candidate’s life. I find it odd that there are people who believe that inquiring about a candidate’s personal beliefs is “none of our business” or somehow amounts to religious bigotry. What is the purpose of religion if not to help serve as a guide when making decisions in all aspects of our lives.</p>
<p>“Needs work on reading and comprehension”</p>
<p>I m doing my best with what you give me to work with.</p>
<p>Virtually all the candidates for higher office have a siginificant track record of where they stand on issues related to public government. Did it matter that Kennedy was a serial womanizer heavily addicted to painkillers and possibly other drugs? Or that Nixon was a fairly straight arrow?</p>
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<p>I’ve read that, had Kennedy lived, his womanizing would have come out in a subsequent presidential campaign. Don’t know about Nixon being comprehensively a “straight arrow.” Certainly a different kind of arrow than JFK.</p>
<p>I am a writer and value the precise use of words. To blur and distort their meaning is to corrupt our language and thus our thoughts. I think politicians should be held to high standards, and should be on notice that they can’t get by with dishonest claims. That said, I think a candidate’s one-time response to a question thrown at him or her, perhaps under pressure and not anticipated, should be treated a bit more leniently than statements made in a prepared speech. A misleading answer given more than once, however, should be jumped on and picked apart.</p>