Caribou Barbie thinks that US law should be Bible-based

[MrScorpio]

Our political Quote of the Day comes from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin who now says U.S. law should be Bible based.

Sarah Palin was on the O’Reilly Factor last night talking about the National Day of Prayer, but she went a bit further than her usual party line of calling America a Christian nation. “I think we should keep this clean, keep it simple, go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant,” she said. “They’re quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 commandments, it’s pretty simple.”

Thank you Sarah Palin. You have just taught me something they never taught me when I went to Davis Street Elementary School in New Haven, CT, Amity, Jr Highs in Orange and Bethany, CT, Amity High School in Woodbridge, CT, Colgate University in Hamilton New York, and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill.

According to Palin, America is really a Christian nation. Too bad she wasn’t alive to tell that to my grandfather Abraham Ravinsky who used to tell me how wonderful the United States was since it had many religions and did not really “belong” to any one of them and was not defined as being under one religion.

Also, too bad you weren’t around when I was in Madrid, Spain and my conversations with some priests there who also talked about how the United States was a melting pot and really not considered under one religion. Or when my late Muslim friend, Dacca businessman Muni Zaman had the same discussion with me when I stayed with him and his family at his home in Bangaldesh. Or even with a co-blogger on this site who I met when I was a young journalist interning on the Hindustan Times in 1972 in New Delhi and he (a Hindu) was an up and coming Indian journalist– Swaraaj Chauhan.

The fact is more people in the United States are Christians. But the United States is not a Christian nation. And the founding fathers most assuredly did not define it as such.

But facts don’t matter when politicos — trying to rope in certain voters — try to actually redefine a concept that has been taught to literally generations of school kids.

These school kids had names such as Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan, and Joe Lieberman.

In any event, Congress better get cracking. It looks like they’ve messed things up because they need to make sure that laws reflect the Bible.

I mean, politicians in both parties can’t even follow the Ten Commandments.

So can we expect them to follow the Bible to make our laws?

And — this is NOT snark — wasn’t there a case of a country called Afghanistan where some members of a religion insisted that laws be based on a religion’s key political book?

What do Palin’s comments about this suggest in political terms and what does it say about her potential to be a leader?

It’s yet another manifestation of the fact that unlike many politicians she is truly is unable to move beyond her immediate constituency. There is no effort on her part to present herself as a more broadbrush candidate and expand her voter appeal. If anything, many of her comments seem to narrow the part of her constituency and she seems in a perpetual campaign to consolidate voters who already like her.

Perhaps if someone sent her a box of bagels and invited her to a bar mitzvah when she could dance the hora she might start thinking beyond One Nation Under Who My Religion Says Is God.

Or send her a history book.

But I bet that would go unread — like the other history books she held in her hands when she was in school.

OF RELATED INTEREST: Be sure to Marc Ambinder’s take on Palin endorsing Carly Fiorina in the contested Republican Senate primary in California rather than Tea Party conservative Chuck DeVore. He is more charitable in his take on Palin than Andrew Sullivan, or yours truly. And he makes SENSE in his analysis (as usual).

http://themoderatevoice.com/71512/quote-of-the-day-sarah-palin-says-u-s-law-should-be-bible-based/

I wonder if she's as up to snuff on her Biblizing as it interacts with American law as this fictional prez:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHaVUjjH3EI

Edited for link

[havocmom]

1. The idiots who want theocratic rule have any number of countries they can live in

I'll help them pack

[fishwax]

22. I'll help too

drive them to the airport, whatever it takes :)

[rustydog]

27. The ONLY time you hear: "Jesus Christ" in the Palin home

is if a dish is broken or Sarah stubs her toe.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. And therefore, so do her followers.

I think we are in real danger from the theocrats.

[Golden Raisin]

13. It's a short jump with these people

to internment camps for all the "others" who they do not consider "real Americans" or who happen not to be "christian". And there's a long, fear-based list of "others": Blacks, Browns, Moslems, Jews, Gays, Catholics, Asians, Atheists, etc etc etc.

[Shallah Kali]

33. Look at the way her religious sect, the new apostolic reformation, has egged on Uganda anti-gay

law to see what they would do here if given the chance. they might not have enough to win a legit national election but look at what happens when not enough people pay attention in state elections - VA gets mcdonnell & cuccinelli, texas got their right wing religious board of education, Alaska had Palin, Arkensas had Huckabee pardoning 'christian' convicts, etc.

[Chulanowa]

3. So she'd be all for stoning her own daughter to death?

[BreweryYardRat]

28. It's Palin the Wanna-Be Powermonger.

If she thought it would improve her status among the millions of mindless morons, she'd cast the first fucking stone HERSELF.

[malaise]

4. So the ignorant Lady Blah Blah

is against the Constitution.

STFU Sarah Palin - just shut the fuck up!!

[Speck Tater]

5. So if someone is caught lying they have to take a white dove to the temple and sacrifice it? nt

[Dappleganger]

6. Just because you are a tool in a garage doesn't make you a car.

Just because America has Christians in it doesn't make it a Christian nation.

Their logic completely eludes me.

[dems_rightnow]

7. Let the smiting begin!

[IndianaJoe]

8. Lady Blah Blah strikes again! n/t

[RagAss]

9. The pinhead speaks once again.

[bobbolink]

10. That's a very good idea, Barbie. Then USURY would be outlawed, and the banksters would die.

:bounce:

[lunatica]

11. She'd be the first to get convicted for using the Lord's Name In Vain

Then there's the lying thingy, and the bearing false witness thingy which she violated in her very first speech as VP pick. Loving others as she loves herself? Not hardly.

Slander and lies and hate filled words aren't Christian values. Sarah loves herself above all others, including her God.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Does that mean that her daughter gets stoned to death

for sex out of wedlock?

[donco6]

18. Even in Bible times, only the poor were in danger of stoning.

The rich had . . . ways . . . to avoid it. So Barbie'd be A-OK!

[Walk away]

14. I advise all christians to take a good, hard look at.....

what they believe and why they believe it, who started the faith and why they perpetuate it.

Believe me, I feel the same way about muslims and jews but MY country is being run off a cliff by a group that is almost all christian. Are you so invested in this fairy tale told by scoundrels that you want to ruin your children's lives as well? Sarah Palin is just one in a long line of popes and kings and politicians that have wrought poverty and pain by ginning up a belief in magic and mythology that is nothing but a way to control the masses and frighten them into acting against their own best interests.


The less people feeding the irrational beast of religious faith, the more in control of our own destinies we are as a nation. There is a very good reason that this country was founded by Atheists and humanists. They were and are the critical thinkers.

[jaxx]

15. She is like Huckabee on this....

“I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards.”
–Huckabee

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/15/huckabee-base-constitution-on-bible/

They want to take over, the religious nuts are out for the end game.

[Angry Dragon]

20. That quote is a crock of shit

If they would just stop and read they would see that there are people changing the word of god everyday. Ask them how many different bibles are out there?? There are groups rewriting the bible as we speak to make it into their image.

[rrneck]

16. The first rule of American politics:

Find a group of people who are headed somewhere and get out in front of them.

[azurnoir]

17. OOh what about that Jubilee thingy

you know once every 7 years when all debts are forgiven, and it's thought the mortgage industry is in a mess now, just wait not to mention there would be no need to worry about the shell fishing industry off the Gulf coast but I guess pork farmers are just SOL

[Nikki Stone1]

19. She's not singular in this regard. There's an entire movement afoot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onHkywYc_1M

http://christianblogs.christianet.com/1169925473.htm

[David Zephyr]

21. Biblical Justice? Stonings? Slavery? Child sex? Incest? Circumcised skins as war trophies?

That would be biblical justice and I, for one, thought our nation was better than all of that shit.

[Dr Morbius]

23. Well, she's wrong.

Completely wrong, and she'll never see it happen in MY country.

I won't allow it. And I am not alone in this.

[fishwax]

24. she's clueless, but alas she's not alone

:nuke:

[Cleita]

25. You mean like Christ preached?

Loving your neighbor.

Looking after the least of those among us.

The rich selling their possessions and giving to the poor. The camel through the eye of the needle sermon.

Rendering to Caesar what is Caesar's or separation of church and state as he saw it.

Those without sin being the first to cast a stone when the woman caught in adultery was about to be stoned.

There are many ways to do what's in the Bible and following the example of Christ would be one of them. But I don't see any of those phony Christians including La Palin who do.

[political_Dem]

26. This is yet another event Caribou Barbie must have been asleep in U.S. History Class.

I don't usually give Katie Couric compliments because I truly have disliked her since the Today Show days. However, Ms. Couric should be lauded for showing that the "Caribou Empress" has no clothes in the intelligence department. Couric didn't have to say anything during that interview.

Instead, Palin took the rope and hung herself in front of national television when she stated that she read "all of the" newspapers and magazines without revealing any particular one.

Ever since then, every interview she has given reveals a new kernel of her stupidity--especially when it comes to the most basic of facts and history.

Since this woman touts that she is the embodiment of "Americanism", she ought to know what every school child knows about their country, right? But no, she doesn't even know even what is taught in elementary school.

I wonder if she knows that people think of her as a laughing stock here and abroad.

But the real joke is on the American public, because the Tea Queen continues to get paid for shooting her mouth off like this every so often. That's how far the "American Dream" has fallen. :(

[Nay]

29. Of course she does. She's a DOMINIONIST. Funny thing is, if the

men in Dominionism had their way, she wouldn't be able to speak in public, and would be relegated to serving food to and cleaning up after the men.

[Blue_In_AK]

30. The Whore of Babble On. n/t

[HughMoran]

31. I'll whip ten or twenty bibles at her

Fucking ignoramus - I'm sick of this 12 year old making news.

[dsn]

32. Good point, Sarah. Start with Matthew 22:21

"Then saith he unto them, render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."

In other words, PAY YOUR DAMN TAXES!

[howard112211]

34. So she is like the Taliban. Maybe we should call a drone strike on her worthless ass.

[opihimoimoi]

35. Oh GOODY, we get to see televised STONING for fucking anyone but your wife...

There will be people betting on how many Stones it takes to do the dude in

If there are many violators of the Stoning Code....there just be "Stoneathons" to handle the case load....

Breaking the Sabbeth will get many many peeps elegible to be STONED

In this Bible Realm: our present load of Politicians.....many qualify to be STONED

Mark Sanford
larry craig
foley
haggard
ensin
newt
edwards
etc