Reply #57: OUR candidate made it a religious election; without him, it wouldn't be [View All]

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Get serious: had he not accepted or engineered such a forum, it WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED.

Perhaps people could say he ducked something, but that wouldn't have even been a blip on the national consciousness.

Either Mr. Obama thinks it's necessary to shove more religion into the election or he just sees it as a handy scam to scam the scammers, but the net result is the same: he walks into the lion's den and doesn't even have a pat answer for abortion. Didn't he see that coming?

People HATE complexity and uncertainty, that's why most people have religion: it's a shut-the-fuck-up answer and it's simple, tidy, and shut the fuck up. People like that. Apparently most of them seem to NEED it, so if you're playing on the cricket field, bring the proper bat, not a pool cue or a curling broom.

This is his doing, and he'd better be able to figure out how to turn it around or it'll blow up on all of us.

Then again, even if he DOES turn it around, it is now accepted that religion is NECESSARY in our politics. Win or lose, we lose.

The lesson should have been apparent in South Carolina with the McClurkin flap: religion has unintended consequences. It's DANGEROUS.

Sheesh.