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Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:36 am
by Gil Dobie
Just think if Bush had used the pulpit to push anything
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President Obama held a conference call Wednesday with more than 1,000 rabbis--from all the major movements-- to pitch his health care plans in order to shore up flagging Congressional support, hoping to influence their High Holiday sermons. Later in the day, at about 5:30 p.m., Obama and Domestic Policy Chief Melody Barnes hosted a mega conference call sponsored by Faith in Public Life, Christian-oriented group, Faith in Public Life (I say this based on looking at the clergy affiliations on the board) with 140,000 people on the line.
It's part of a coordinated outreach effort to faith based groups as make passing the Democratic health plan a moral imperative.
Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:46 am
by Ivytalk
OY! WHAT A BUNCH OF MESCHUGGENEH CHOZZERS!

Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:58 am
by Cleets Part 2
Gil Dobie wrote:Just think if Bush had used the pulpit to push anything
It's all the rage now...
using religion to forward political agenda
which convinces me more and more that all politicians are simply douche bags
Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:19 pm
by dbackjon
Thanks Bush for setting up the faith based network so Obama can exploit it...
Rule #1: Don't set up anything, makes rules etc that you wouldn't want the other party to use...
Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:52 pm
by AZGrizFan
Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:07 pm
by dbackjon
Rinse lather repeat
Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:20 pm
by Eric
I don't think anything Bush did here is really relevant. Politicians have used religion and "family values" for years now (that includes Mark Sanford
and John Edwards). What do you think the war on drugs is all about? Or banning gambling, prostitution, gay marriage, etc.?
Obama is doing whatever is politically expedient. "Bearing false witness"? OMG, you've got to be kidding me

You know for a guy who doesn't want religion to interfere with politics, he's doing a damn good job of looking like a hypocrite.
So much for being above politics

Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:03 pm
by native
dbackjon wrote:Thanks Bush for setting up the faith based network so Obama can exploit it...
Rule #1: Don't set up anything, makes rules etc that you wouldn't want the other party to use...
"...God's partners on issues of life and death." -Barry Soetoro
What a jackass!
http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.as ... leID=11291
Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:11 pm
by Grizalltheway
native wrote:dbackjon wrote:Thanks Bush for setting up the faith based network so Obama can exploit it...
Rule #1: Don't set up anything, makes rules etc that you wouldn't want the other party to use...
"...God's partners on issues of life and death." -Barry Soetoro
What a jackass!
http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.as ... leID=11291
Of course, you conveniently left out his tidbit:
What stood out about the call is that Obama "is a master communicator," Moline, the rabbi of the Conservative Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, said in an interview after the call ended.
"This was clearly a message that was tailored to us," and not merely a generic stump speech, he added
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Yep, sounds like they were all pretty upset with him.

Re: Obamacare hoping to influence High Holiday sermons
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:59 pm
by Gil Dobie
Grizalltheway wrote:
Of course, you conveniently left out his tidbit:
What stood out about the call is that Obama "is a master communicator," Moline, the rabbi of the Conservative Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, said in an interview after the call ended.
"This was clearly a message that was tailored to us," and not merely a generic stump speech, he added
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Yep, sounds like they were all pretty upset with him.

Why should they be upset? Figure the seperation of church and state groups might be upset though. They spazzed out anytime Bush said God Bless America.
