Dean And DNC Say Republicans Are Bigots
Howard Dean, who recently underwent pigment surgery in a display of personal solidarity and inclusiveness
big·ot (bĭg’ət) Pronunciation Key
n. One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
Democrat cheerleading site Politico, masquerading as an impartial political news site, tried to whitewash the real message of what Dean, and then the DNC behind him, said. They titled the story “Dean Says Jews Can Go To Heaven”.
Politico:
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean came out for inclusive team prayers in public schools while speaking Sunday to a gathering of thousands of Jewish leaders, according to a leading Jewish news agency.
In another statement likely to stir debate among the evangelical Christians his party is urgently trying to court, Dean also asserted “there are no bars to heaven for anybody,” according to the report by JTA, a 90-year-old non-profit organization which calls itself “the global news service of the Jewish people.”
The remarks in Nashville, Tenn., come at a time when Democratic candidates in general – and the DNC in particular – have been increasing outreach to voters for whom faith and values is a decisive issue.
A DNC official said the chairman was saying that “Democrats, unlike the Republicans, are an inclusive party, respectful of all people, and he said that prayer in public settings should reflect that.” The official said Dean’s comment about prayer was “not that you can or can’t use Jesus’ name – he was not that specific at all.” The bulk of Dean’s remarks were devoted to “the power that people have to make a change when they work together,” the official said
The news agency said Dean made the remarks to 3,500 Jewish leaders at the opening plenary session of the annual General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities which the group calls “the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world.”
The report said Dean’s comments followed an address by the University of Tennessee’s head basketball coach, Bruce Pearl, who told the crowd that as a Jewish student in public schools, he always felt uncomfortable when he was playing sports and his team’s pre-game prayers would end with an invocation to Jesus.
“This country is not a theocracy,” Dean said, according to JTA. “There are fundamental differences between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party believes that everybody in this room ought to be comfortable being an American Jew, not just an American; that there are no bars to heaven for anybody; that we are not a one-religion nation; and that no child or member of a football team ought to be able to cringe at the last line of a prayer before going onto the field.”
The report was confirmed for Politico by Ami Eden, managing editor of JTA, which was originally the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The report said that in a “decidedly partisan speech,” Dean “painted the Republican Party as religiously and racially exclusive.”
Dean, the former Vermont governor, told a gathering of students earlier this year that he is “a member of the [First Congregational] United Church of Christ in Burlington [Vt.], and I worship in a church that has chosen to be supportive of cultural diversity as an expression of love.”
The DNC’s web site says the party “began a faith outreach initiative over the past two years”: “This past election, the DNC invested resources in communication and organizing efforts in the faith community on the local level. As part of that effort, the DNC advertised on rural and religious radio and held listening sessions across the country talking about the Democratic Party’s values.”
The site displays “Faith in Action” as one of the party’s five top “communities,” along with young people and students, union members and their families, Native Americans, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Dean increasingly discussed religion during his insurgent 2004 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The New York Times reported back then that in an interview, Dean said that “a 2002 trip to Israel deepened his understanding of the connections between Judaism and Christianity.”
“I’m a New Englander, so I’m not used to wearing religion on my sleeve and being as open about it,” Dean told The Times.
“I’m gradually getting more comfortable with talking about religion in ways that I did not talk about it before.”
The United Jewish Communities assembly is being held Sunday through Tuesday at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel Resort and Convention Center.
The group says it represents and serves 155 Jewish federations and 400 independent Jewish communities across North America.
“Some UJC officials and local Jewish federations quietly grumbled that Dean’s comments were too partisan,” JTA reported.
“G.A. organizers had invited President Bush to represent the Republicans and the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to represent the Democrats. Instead, the Democrats ended up sending Dean, and the White House is dispatching Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice … .”
Her schedule shows she is scheduled to address the closing plenary session, at lunchtime Tuesday.
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November 12th, 2007 at 8:13 pmThey have kept him under wraps lately, haven’t they? It’s almost time for Iowa, and it brings out the craziness in him–remember the “Caw, Caw, Caw!!”
November 12th, 2007 at 8:23 pmDean is a member of the UCC, so is obama. they are affiliated with the Christian church (disciples of Christ)a formerly bible based church that has become so rridiculously liberal that i was forced to leave it. they have merged with other “mainline” churches to form a council of church unity that has maintained desire to focus on social issues rather than bringing people to the saving knowledge of christ. They are the PC churchs on steroids and their numbers are quite small and getting smaller. they regularly have politicians come to speak at their church and ignore the law that states they must have an opposing politician speak and the same event or risk losing their 501 (c)3 tax status, yet they are the first to complain when a conservative church does the same.
If jewish people are dumb enough to buy his BS then they can support the democrats up until the fall of israel, before they realize that in the name of Inclusivity, liberals would like to see a day that christianity and judaism share one more thing other than a common ancestry: dhimmitude.
Take it from me ,the ones leading these “churches” are atheist, social action junkies, playing the roll of Christian minister. When a politician says he doesnt normally wear his faith on his sleeve it usually means he is ashamed of the gospel. It usually means he can seem to understand that jesus came to fulfill the prophecy of the old testament and that those who are excluded from heaven are those which focus on works of the law WITHOUT faith to back it up. This summarizes the democrat party as a whole: do what is good WITHOUT recognizing the source of goodness. Include everyone in the plan of salvation even if there are those who opt out of its requirements.
Inclusiveness should stop at opportunity, just as Jesus invites us, so we decide whether to live the gospel by faith or not. No person or institution has ever excluded anyone from the gift of eternal life, individuals and institutions like the UCC and or the Democrat party have chosen to exclude themselves.
November 12th, 2007 at 8:24 pmI question the timing of his rants. I believe he is trying to draw attention away fom Hillary’s latest woes.
November 12th, 2007 at 8:24 pmI call bullshit!
November 12th, 2007 at 8:43 pmAnd then we’re gonna take back the white house! BYAAAAAAAH!!!
Forget Howard Dean and his bullshit lies
November 12th, 2007 at 8:46 pmSame Party that kicked Liberman out?
November 12th, 2007 at 9:25 pmHoward Dean runnin’ the DNC and tryin’ to court people of faith….
November 12th, 2007 at 9:35 pmI want him right where he is for about another year.
I’m sorry, did you say something, Howie?
It’s like this, faith without acts is dead. You can tell me all you want about how Jesus loved everyone, and he did hence accepting his fate at Gethseminie and Golgotha, but He also said, “Go forth and sin no more.” Your faith and concepts about Christ are incomplete, when you try and get “rights” for the deviant du jure and tell everyone that it’s just okey-dokey with God for you to do whatever, you mock Him. Enjoy your blasphemy while you can.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:35 pmLet’s see, I’m hispanic or mexican-american if you will. I’m not a bigot, I’m a proud republican. I have the interests of my country in mind, not me. I’d rather protect our borders and not just because I have relatives in Mexico do I want to open them. No, we can’t handle many more illegals, well I guess we can, but there is no need to. Just like Michael Savage said, the mexicans treat the Guatemalan illegals worst than we treat them when they are the illegals. I love my party, I respect my President. The democratic party has basically become the constant “I’m gonna take the opposition” party, and that’s just chickenshit stuff. No reason for slander from white democrats. I especially don’t think the Black Republicans would favor this. But you don’t see Al Sharpton trying to get an apology for them.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:31 amYou northeast dhimmocraps who keep electing this POS should get a DNA check, obviously a product of multi-generational inbreeding.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:18 amThis jerk from a piss ant state the size of a backwater city must make you PROUD!
Good post, Augustine. Like Lieberman said, the Dems are paranoid & hyper-partisan. It is their disdain of Republicans that shapes their policy, even when it repudiates some of the traditional Democratic principles from when the party was at “it’s best”. It seems that they are the purveyors of ignorance and misinformation. They like to throw around labels like “bigot” or “racist”, whenever their views are being challenged by conservatives. And nothing riles them more than when people of different ethnicities join the GOP, because it blows holes in their argument that the GOP is for white men who hate minorities.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:01 pm