Each of the following ten quotes is by either Christine O’Donnell (candidate for the Delaware Senate seat) or Jimmy Carter (39th President of the United States). Can you guess which quote is by which politician?
Write down your guesses (no peeking!), and then check out the answers on page 2.
The Christine O’Donnell/Jimmy Carter Quiz
Who said each of the following quotes: Christine O’Donnell, or Jimmy Carter?
1. “To my amazement, I was besieged with questions about my sex life. At first I thought this was just a passing joke, but I was wrong. It became the dominant news story of my candidacy, and my popularity dropped precipitously. Any attempt to explain the Christian theology behind my answer only served to keep the issue alive.”
2. “I have an absolute, total commitment as a human being, as an American, as a religious person to Israel … Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.”
3. “Feeling a bit presumptuous, I wrote to [an evolutionary scientist] diasagreeing with this premise and asserting that there were factors other than pure happenstance that influenced the course of evolution.”
4. “Because I’m just human and I’m tempted and Christ set some almost impossible standards for us. The Bible says, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery.’ Christ said, ‘I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery.’ I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times…. This is something that God recognizes, that I will do and have done, and God forgives me for it. But that doesn’t mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock. Christ says, don’t consider yourself better than someone else because one guy screws a whole bunch of women while the other guy is loyal to his wife. The guy who’s loyal to his wife ought not to be condescending or proud because of the relative degree of sinfulness.”
5. “This set of principles, rooted in my Christian faith, has both shaped me and been shaped by my personal experiences, and it remains to this day a central element of my identity.”
6. (Quote from someone commenting about the candidate running for office) “It is not presumptuous to say, as there is enough evidence already, that a vast number of [O'Donnell or Carter] supporters consist of aggressive evangelicals whose main goal is to ‘Christianize’ our country; that is to say, to convert Americans to a particular brand of religious obscurantism. Needless to say, most, or many [O'Donnell/Carter]-fundamentalists despise complete intellectual and religious liberty.”
7. “Being born again is a new life, not of perfection but of striving, stretching, and searching — a life of intimacy with God through the Holy Spirit.”
8. “But if we aspire to grow as human beings, we should struggle to close the gap by making our inner selves truer reflections of our own highest values, which, for me, grow from my Christian faith.”
9. “…There are basic principles that, for me, have never changed. For a Christian, the life and teachings of Jesus offer a sound moral foundation that includes all the most basic elements that should guide us.”
10. “Yes, I have my personal beliefs, and these questions come from statements I made over fifteen years ago. I was in my twenties, and very excited and passionate about my new-found faith. But I assure you my faith has matured, and when I go to Washington, D.C., it’ll be the Constitution on which I base all of my decisions, not my personal beliefs.”
Hey! I got 90%.
There were 3 or 4 that I KNEW were Carter. (Yeah, I’m that old!)
And I knew the last one was O’Donnell.
I got fooled on the Israel one. Heh.
For the rest I could have flipped a coin, but I decided to go with Carter.
Great idea, zombie, and well done!!!
Yeah, Carter has sure done a 180 on Israel since that ancient quote.
I was first able to vote for president in 1976, and being brought up a good southern democrat, I voted for Carter. Now, my home is in Arizona, I have found the truth about democrats, Jimmy Carter, and the media. The dims are more corrupt than a Mexican cop, Jimmy Carter is an old anti-Israel fool, and the media has no idea about truth.
Surprising to me, since I survived the Jimmy Cahtah presidency. I knew the one about “I have lusted in my heart” of course.
Well, Carter can rest easy now….now that he’s only the SECOND worst President we’ve ever had.
Okay!!..do Chris Matthews and Jay Leno know about this quiz??? They need to.
I don’t know about Night line..they were the one’s with the poll of if Christine was “fit” to be a senator after her 2002 comments on condoms..they need the quiz too, with the answers, as they will get them all wrong if not.
i wonder how many people 40 and older would like to be judged by something they said and/or did when they were in their 20′s.
Not me. I’m just glad there was no Web or digital cameras when I was in college.
The problem with Carter’s responses is not that he was young when he made them; some of the wackiest were made while he was President.
OK, OK, I admit it, I voted for him. OK, OK, OK, I campaigned for him. But I was in college, I was young, I didn’t know any better. I had missed the whole ’60s hippie thing so other than streaking, there wasn’t much else going on.
But I’ve tried to make up for it. I really have. And I’ve given a lot to Christine’s campaign despite being laid off in Recovery Spring 2009.
So, please, I beg of you, forgive me.
I, too, was young once. But I was NEVER _THAT_ foolish. I voted for Reagan in the primary, and I held my nose as I voted for Ford in the general election.
Alas, I too have a confession to make. Back during the Nixon – Watergate mess, I contributed $10.00 to the ACLU. I have, however, since then repented. Can I be saved?
For your penance you must recite the Enumerated Powers Clause (Section
of Article One of and the first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution ten times.
I have no idea how that emoticon intruded. I mean, “Section Eight.”
Sorry Dan, once a zealot…..
Put a nickle in the drum and you’ll be saved
Judy says Hallelujah!
Witchcraft, Satanists, Sammy Davis, Jr and My Official Government Sanctioned Involvement With Ritual Animal Sacrifice
http://www.practicalstate.com/?p=2533
Cheers
I’m a little unsure, ultimately, of what you’re trying to say here. Yes, voting for someone based purely on religious rhetoric is wrong. Personally I’m firmly agnostic, and rarely form my opinion of a person based on their professed faith. That includes NOT opposing someone just because they are overtly Christian.
What has confused me about the O’Donnell debate in general is that many on the Right seem to genuinely want Coons to defeat her. Is Coons really that much better? Can we rely on him to vote to shrink government? Will he defend the constitution from his own party? Is he a candidate of the people?
I’m not looking for a fight here. It just seems puzzles me that given the options, so many libertarians and conservatives won’t hold their noses and support O’Donnell. In real terms, I don’t see what makes her such a bad candidate. Is Chris Coons superior?
Why support the Democrat over the Republican?
The point of this post is two-fold:
a. To point out that people says things when they’re younger which they later change their minds about and/or regret. Everyone is holding O’Donnell to a higher standard than they are for most other politicians (including and especially Obama) who have said or written any number of completely mortifying and/or extremist things in their younger days.
b. The Democrats and the Left are mocking O’Donnell for her Christian beliefs, and the “extremist” pronouncements based on those beliefs, when one of their heroes, Jimmy Carter, has said, and even continues to say, things just as religiously “extreme.” But he’s now OK because he’s properly leftist. His Christianity is forgiven. Hers is not. Double standard.
When Jimmy Carter said that to merely look at or think about a woman is to commit lust in your heart, which is a sin just as egregious as actually committing adultery, he was saying essentially the same thing that O’Donnell said in the ’90s about chastity and masturbation. The only difference is, Jimmy Carter said it a bit more artfully. But the message is and was exactly the same: Any sexual activity outside of marriage is a sin, according to Carter’s and O’Donnell’s born-again Christian belief system. And yet — Carter was indeed elected president, despite the hubbub over his puritanical statements.
If Carter can win, so can O’Donnell. I think that the majority of Americans find non-promiscuity a refreshing and upright attitude in a politician.
This was a good exercise in double-standards, Zombie (I actually had CO saying 3 JC quotes..) but while I hope and pray for an O’Donnell victory, the circumstances that brought Carter a victory aren’t really comparable to O’Donnell.
Carter’s election was a backlash against Watergate and Ford’s pardoning of Nixon, pure and simple. So much so, that Ford was completely caught offguard by his loss…he never saw it coming.
Sure, you can say the same thing might happen to Coons and the Dems…and the backlash coming against Obama gives it a chance.
I guess the most common aspect of the two you can say for sure is that:
With God, nothing is impossible!
We’ve come a long way in this country when Christianity has to be forgiven. I’m glad to see that you seem to say you would support her even with her beliefs… I wasn’t so sure based on your essay on the TBE and the Christians that are the “problem” in that case.
Wait…if Carter can win and therefore O’Donnell, I think we’ve forgotten about the guy coming to the campaign trail under impossible circumstances…Clinton. A strong Southern Christian running against the President with the highest approval rating ever, and then the small matter of several and one especially hot women with whom he had adultered and mumbled his way thru it. Yes, it took shorty Perot to throw the election to him…but, gee, it really was the economy. And, I can tell you this is a watershed election dependent upon the turnout. So, I think O’Donnell has a great chance…after all, as the PR genius’ once said, I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name right. Chris who???
My dad voted for Carter *because* he had good Christian morals. He regretted this almost immediately when it became apparent that Carter was an economic and foreign policy idiot. But even at height of stagflation, we were still appreciative of the lack of carousing in the White House (if only he would finally figure out the basics of supply and demand).
As to O’Donnell, my thought on reading about the witchcraft, which I assume is the Wicca variety, is that Wicca is a lot closer to Christianity than Marxism or Statism. (Andre Norton novels often have characters that develop a healthy scepticism concerning the limits of science and technology after exposure to weird occult-like phenomenon.) It also seems to me that someone who converts to a religion from something different after consideration, understands it better that those who grew up with it and never thought about it. Those who “walked the aisle” in an older Protestant America typically grew up nominally Christian, but never made a person commitment.
Also, the left had better watch out. Christians who convert from Satanism or Wicca are often Evangelical celebrities!
Is she running against a jihadist sympathizer, Osama’s nephew’s enabler?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/rep_helped_jihad_flier_hSquRbF732a7bJB42XKn5L
While I suspected, I would have guessed a couple more for O’Donnell.
How about, “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t?”
Excellent, Z.
I don’t why the MWSM media pundits make such a big deal over what Christine Odonnell has uttered when they give a total pass to Pelosi who speaks crap with the power and authority of one who sits two breaths away from the presidency! In Pelosi is allowed a dumbspeak pass, Christine should be forgiven youthful foolishness!
“Pelosi is allowed a dumbspeak pass”
Heh..Pelosi would need a brain transplant and years of intensive tutoring to rise to the level of “moron”.
Put simply…she comes across as mentally deranged. You don’t even have to listen to her, just watch a video of her and pay attention to her weird strange little “hand jives”.
Seriously. I first noticed when she was making the pitch from the well of the House for passing Socialist Utopia ObamaCare, and then did some video homework.
Her mannerisms appear consistent with someone who suffers from autism or who is trying to hide the onset of Parkinson’s disease.
Pelosi will go down as one of, if not the worst, Speaker of the House in American History.
In four short years, she will have utterly blown her party’s majority by flogging policies that are patently unpopular with the public, and then believing her own lies about the reactions to her initiatives.
Please… just, don’t mention “Pelosi” and “flogging” in the same post.
Sorry for the typos in above comment— I was typing one-handed while eating homemade pepperoni pizza— totally delish– but my typing suffered!
Mea Culpa!
Typos I can forgive.
I’m mad because you didn’t invite me over some homemade pizza.
2. “I have an absolute, total commitment as a human being, as an American, as a religious person to Israel … Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.”
FAIL
Had I read the tenth entry, I would have aced the quiz, but after number three, I assumed they were ALL Carter, so stopped reading.
I don’t know why so many people thik that O’Donnel will lose to Coons in the general. My brief investigation of them both (I don’t know beans about them otherwise) convinced me that Coons is an insincere, run o’ the mill politician whom nobody should believe; while O’Donnel is a straight from the heart, sincere, poised and professional speaker to whom character is more important than winning. Who would you vote for?
I got every one right. 100%. Woot!
I was 15 when Carter was elected and had no TV, radio, et al. I was 18 in ’79. Then, just as now, there were no jobs for teens. I left home and began paying attention to the President. I came to know exactly what he represented and how he spoke. I looked at the quotes and knew his words when I saw them within the context of this article. I just knew.
Really excellent display of the hypocrisy of the left. Well done, Zombie!
Congrats.
I remember listening to Carter give a press conference. He was well spoken. He didn’t him and haw and uhh like the current President. I didn’t support him because, aside from policy, he wasn’t warm and charismatic, and he hugged Brezhnev, and he let Iran kick us around. The Brezhnev hug was a lot like the Obama bow to the King of Arabia.
Bill Maher has video of Christine O’Donnell saying she dabbled in witchcraft.
Well, as paynim cults go, the witch crowd is probably the most harmless. The Dallas city council let them lead a prayer at one of its meetings. They adopted a highway to clean up in New Mexico. I believe O’Donnell came to the logical conclusion that it was so much silliness.
The Muslim cult of the moon devil, Allah, that’s another species of paganism altogether. And look at the people dabbling in that box of rats. There’s Mayor Bloomberg, President Obama, AIG, Europe, and more.
Unusual religious beliefs was a deal-breaker for at least one candidate for election in our Canadian parliament a few years back.
A guy named Sam Wagar was running for the NDP (New Democratic Party, a moderate democratic socialist party) in a provincial election in BC (British Columbia). Then someone, presumably from one of his opponents’ camps, discovered that he had rather exotic religious beliefs. Before long, Wagar had announced that he was an adherent of The Great Horned God. I believe he also assured people that he was absolutely tolerant of other views and had no religious agenda. Given that the NDP has very little connection with any religion – frankly, I think most of their members are agnostics or atheists or at least don’t actively practice any religion – and was perhaps the single most popular party in BC in those days (BC is generally liberal, much the way California is seen to be in the US), I had assumed Wagar would shrug off this little bump in the road. Instead, party members in that riding got together and dumped him as a candidate and got someone more orthodox to take his place. (We don’t do primaries here. A local riding association can take the nomination away from a candidate even if he has duly won the nomination already. They do so at their peril but it can be done.)
Thinking about it now, I rather suspect that the NDP dumped Wagar because they were embarassed that any of their candidates would proclaim ANY religious affiliation, let alone one with “The Great Horned God”…. So, despite our generally liberal orientation in this country, the NDP proved to be less than tolerant of one of their candidate’s religious beliefs. Of course, I think the key thing was that it was about to become a national story; if the national media hadn’t started to mention the story, Wagar might have been allowed to continue his candidacy. I suspect the NDP didn’t want to become a national laughingstock over his candidacy….
Interesting! I just tried Googling him to see what had become of him. It turns out that he’s something of a poster boy for the Wiccans now. See http://www.thewicca.ca/people/bc/sam-wagar.php if you’re curious.
Here’s how I know why O’Donnell can’t win. I foresee several media interviews going like this:
Interviewer: So, do you like Coons?
O’Donnell: No, I hate Coons.
Interviewer: Do you think Coons should be allowed into the Senate?
O’Donnell: No! I don’t think America should allow Coons in the Senate.
Interviewer: So, you’re saying you have a problem with Coons?
O’Donnell: I certainly do! Whenever I think about Coons, I get mad! I CAN’T STAND COONS!
Interviewer: HA-ha! Lower-case “c”! Gotcha!
O’Donnell: %@^##&$^#!#*#&#&!
o’donnell should recount the time she was in a canoe, and a killer rabbit approached her.
now she’s trying to kill harry reid’s pet coons.
Now that’s funny stuff…LOL
I am actually hoping the Leftist attacks help O’Donnell. We have all seen the extreme double standard from the Left. We also no that America is tired of it! the left has done more for the right wing campaigns than anyone could have ever imagined!
If you don’t want a Mosque built at ground zero the left will scream about freedom of religion just before attacking someone for having religious belief.
I hope O’Donnell wins. If Delaware has any sense at all she will. I have no problem voting for someone whose religious belief differ from my own but I do have a problem voting for someone whose POLITICAL beliefs are MARXIST!
Notice how the MSM and the Dems are gong crazy over O’Donnell’s academic record or lack thereof. Does anybody remember VP Biden lied about his class standing in law school ( Finished near the bottom and not in the top third as claimed.) and his plagarism which almost got him expelled? Another example of the left’s hypocracy and double standard.
Or how about Obama himself, whose academic records seem to have been sealed? If we can’t see them, we can’t have any idea what courses he took or how well he did in them. He may well have done far worse than O’Donnell, academically speaking.
I would hope O’Donnell sticks to her talking points, uses the material trashing Coons, and finds somebody to run interference on the other stuff. When the Main Stream Idiots try to beat her down, attack them for not focusing on the issues. Coons has plenty of bad stuff in his closet. And we can see that he will vote the Pelosi way. Tie him to Pelosi so hard, the people of Delaware think the choice is between O’Donnell and Pelosi.
Is Karl Rove such a pompous ass that he would rather O’Donnell lose, so he can claim to be an excellent prognosticator, than have her win and have to admit to making a mistake? Perhaps Karl is a kloset Kombine member. One on the inside who profits from the game? Karl: Does Madame LaFarge know you spell your “Carl” with a “K”?
I, like Lord Whorfin, assumed they were all Carter, and missed the last one. I too, once made errors of youthful indiscretion, and supported Carter. Heck, I even campaigned for Gary Hart when he first ran for Congress. But that was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Hopefully, I will never make those mistakes again.
mmmm, #4 was kind of a gimme.
90% and some of those I actually remember Carter saying, Playboy interview included. It’s pitiful how fast time has gone, but I do remember casting a vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980. At least I’ve been on the “right” side all of my adult life. And as the years pass, I realize the wisdom of those first two Presidential votes. What a great decade..
I went straight Carter for the answers, as I hadn’t even heard of Christine O’Donnell until last week.
Sixty years ago the then liberal would have chased our current liberals out of America with pitchforks. Since Carter, the entire world has been getting evolutionary dogma as truth stuffed down their throats with increasing intensity. Public schools are factory-like in churning out morally confused, atheistic, and rebellious successors; to say nothing of the over-sexed culture. Really, it may be valid to compare anti-Christian hypocrisy then-and-now, but it may not matter because it’s just not pertinent.
Some people believe the real battle is spiritual, and the last two years have been a wake up call to the actual score. You know when people start to leave a game when it’s a wash? Keep an eye out for them.
Let me just say also – as explanatory to my dig at Darwinism – If Darwinism is true, then the liberals are right! We are products of our environments. The ramifications are far, but suffice it to say, if Darwinism is called true, that it is more intuitive for humans to reason for collective wealth, health, and ambition of all doing then to argue for individual property rights, choices, or beliefs. Darwinism absolves Belief. And in a limited Darwinist world the Constitutionalists will lose to the Changlings. There must be an absolute reference point for laws to be just, otherwise humanity is destined to succumb to the corruption of men, where the watchers (and their watchers) will all be in the pocket eventually.
Two things: Evil comes from the hearts of men, and The anti-Christ will destroy many through peace.
“in a limited Darwinist world”… that is, in a Darwinist world with limited resources.
We are products of our environments
Actually, that’s not Darwinian at all. That is evolution according to Lamarcks/Lysenko – and it’s good Marxism, which explains why those two guys were so popular in the communist world.
All Darwin said was that organisms with the characteristics best suited to their environment will tend to propagate themselves. The characteristics came first, and the organism survives because its characteristics are suited to the environment in which it finds itself.
Not saying I agree with Darwin (or Lamarcks), but, let’s not put words in anyone’s mouth.
Agreed, but let me explain something. The reason I even say “Darwinism” is not to specifically refer to Charles Darwin, but to emphasize a certain separation of terms. Because, if I say only Evolution I have to also explain how I do not equivocate Natural Selection with Evolution with common descent. Seeing how most of the population does this (including conservatives, including Zombie), and most of the population is aware and sure that Natural Selection is fact (however, equivocating with Evolution with common descent) I am predisposed to make sure I explain the terms as separate in order to be understood. Writing “Darwinism” was my attempt to do this separation without an explanation, as it usually follows that if I go the route of explanation any responses tend to deal with only that. My point is really the philosophies (all derivatives) of a Naturalistic Evolutionary theory, and that is what I would want addressed in a response.
Nazism, Marxism, Progressivism, socialism, communism, etc are heads attached the same beast: Naturalistic Evolution.
Peanut Carter’s problems with Israel ‘stem’ from two primary sources, possibly – the frustration with the 10 Commandments and their prohibition on his oft-noted lust, and the Saudi and Libyan money that rescued him and Billy. In some ways a philanderer like WJ Clinton is good in politics, though it implies he ‘may be’ immoral. Carter’s unguided morality was probably more dangerous. Or maybe Roslyn was simply terrifying.
Is Ms. O’Donnell done with witchcraft, and what is it about New England that sweeps up broom-riders?
Good GOD Larry,
Delaware part of NEW ENGLAND? Oh no no no no my friend. No. EEEKKKK!
Delaware is SOUTH of that awful (but recovering with Christie) cesspool of New Jersey, for heavens sake!
Their small size allows them to be dominated by the mere CITY of Philadelphia.
Delaware only THINKS there part of the Stuffy Proper Blue In Crowd of New England Political Elite.
Would, that could even BE a Rhode Island!
HA!
They are in fact, practically a BORDER State, rather close to that creppy “Mason Dixon Line”.
The Southern sympathies, coupled with nearby Democrat Strongholds of Camden, Philly and Trenton, create quite a twisted sense of self among them, I fear.
Best illustrated in the way that utter bafoon Mr. Biden thinks of himself a Kennedyesque Statesman, rather than the complete MORON he actually is.
Delaware part of NEW England!?
Phuuuleeeeeeeasssse!!!!!!
If people are going to vote based on a candidates beliefs, then build a shelter or move to another country for all is truly lost in America.
Zombie:
I must disagree with your interpretation of Mr. Carter’s statement from the Playboy interview.
He is certainly not saying that looking at a woman with lust is “egregious”; he is saying that such impulses are very common. He is saying that he is not going to judge others for “screwing a whole bunch of women.”
Have we heard Ms. O’Donnell say she’s not going to judge others? I haven’t heard her say that; it seems to me that she was judging the gays, the masturbators, the adulterers, and so forth. Maybe she could issue a statement of clarification.
Hate to tell you, but all you’ve done is exhibit a lack of understanding about biological evolution. It has nothing to do with beliefs, just interpreting data. Most evolutionary biologists are Christian in this country. Not incompatible.
You’re probably right but try posting that comment on Little Green Assholes and see how fast you get banned.
Darn! I missed one. I was pretty sure that these were ALL Carterisms.
Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat I supported. I was still in the Army, stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC and a Southern Democrat. I remember the ad for him running that said, “are you going to let the North beat us again?”
I fell for it, as did many. As a Viet Nam Veteran, his first official act of office, amnesty to Viet Nam era Draft Dodgers, was like another kick in the gut. My eyes were opened to the Democrats and I have never looked back.
The GOP would do well to listen to people like Christine O’Donnell and her supporters and move back to the right. Don’t redefine conservatism, embrace it.
Clever. I figured it out after 3 questions. You threw that last one in there just to irk us quick ones.
Darn! I am good, 9 out of 10, the #10 I think thay belong to peanut Carter, but I am human. I will vote for Christine any time of the day, the Marxist Coon have no chance.Churchill qoute:”If you’re not a liberal by the time you’re 20,you have no heart. But if you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 30, you have no brain”.
EL ZORRO
I had pegged it as all JC, with some doubt about 10.
Do you recall that Carter was considered to be the CONSERVATIVE Democratic candidate in 1976? He was supposed to be in the Scoop Jackson tradition.
And, by the way, Darwinism IS true. But the liberals are NOT right.
I voted for Gerald Ford but when Carter won I was not in the least upset. “His heart seems to be in the right place.” I said to my family.
I should have been wondering where his head was.
I believe this is the first on line quiz I have ever aced.
I knew #4 was Carter and #10 was O’Donnell. Other than that, it was sheer guesswork, and I guessed wrong on a few of them.
I describe myself variously as an atheist or an agnostic, but I like O’Donnell, and I hope she wins. Yeah, she’s a bit flaky, but you’ll have that sometimes when you get true outsiders who are not ‘vetted’ by the political establishment. And I’ll take flaky over an admitted Marxist any day.
I’ve been enjoying watching political insiders’ heads exploding over this. More popcorn!
Questions only show that O’Donnell is a fake. shows that Carter was much more of a Christian than she is.
O’Donnell has said some crazy things. Hopefully the Citizens of Delaware will be able to see through her phonyiness Just as the Voters in Nevada will recognize what a danger Angle is to Nevada.
Which quote was NOT said by Ms O’Donnell:
1. “Dorm life has evolved into a blending of the sexes, from coed buildings to coed floors, coed bathrooms and now even coed rooms. What’s next? Orgy rooms? Menage a trois rooms?”
2. “Yes.” (In answer to the question “You’re going to stop the whole country from having sex?”)
3. “The Bible says the Sun goes round the Earth, and as a Christian, I have to believe that, because it’s only common sense.”
4. “American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.”
5. “…the world began as the Bible in Genesis says, that God created the Earth in six days, six 24-hour periods. And there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting that.”
6. “There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil.”
7. “In the guise of so-called freedom of separation of church and state, they’re trying to institute a communist country and that sounds radical but that’s the truth.”
8. “They knock on the door at all hours of the night. They’re hiding in the bushes when I’m at candidate forums. In 2008 they broke into my home. They vandalized my home. They wrote nasty notes on my front door, on my front porch. They jeopardized my safety.”
9. “I’ll tell you, I just came back from the Middle East, and it was refreshing. With all that is going on, it was refreshing not to be constantly bombarded with smut all the time.”
10. “The thing that attracts people to “The Sopranos” is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.”
Yes, one of those quotes is totally bogus. The rest are genuine.
Lemme guess #10
No, it was number 3. She still stands by her words about the mice with fully functioning human brains.
It was when people like Ward Churchill and Michael Moore (to give two recent examples) stated similarly reality-challenged things, things that they knew their constituency would lap up, that I realised just exactly how cynical and intellectually bankrupt the modern Left is.
But that was them. I was never a leftist, not since I saw the Trots and Neo-Healeyites fight pitched battles (with clubs and tyre-irons) over obscure points of Marxist Doctrine back in my student days. I was ‘agin em then, and I’m ‘agin ‘em now.
But now I see my side of politics going the same way. Have those on the Right LOST THEIR FREAKING MINDS? This Gal is as genuine as Ward Churchill. All she has to say is “it’s more of a Shellbyville idea” and the rubes fall for it.
“All she has to say is “it’s more of a Shellbyville idea” and the rubes fall for it.” I love an obscure Simpson reference. Zoe Brain wins the debate.
You forgot about her dabbling in witch craft.
Since I see that as a positive — no, I didn’t forget.
She must still be dabbling, because she’s cast a spell over the entire national media.
Are you implying that you do not see the 10 quotes you listed as positive? Why not list some of her other fun quotes that are running around the air waves? You people are now forced to circle the wagons around this nut job. Good luck with that.
I didn’t forget, I just considered it irrelevant.
She’s a professional con-artist.
And the bit about the masturbators and the adulterers…and then the witchy poo stuff with the “satanic altars” and whatever…
This woman comes off as a nut. Sorry, but there you have it. Worse yet, she comes off as a possibly unprincipled nut — kind of a “Thoroughly Oral Bill” (for those of you who remember Bloom Co. comics) in real, female form.
Fortunately she’s running against another nut who happens to be a commie and has an atrocious voting record.
I think there are better “true conservatives” to be defending to the hilt (of which I have my doubts about her, just like I have my doubts about the sincerity of her religious belief).
Fortunately? It means that whoever gets in will, shall we say, be less than wonderful.
How come the Dems could only run a self-confessed “Bearded Marxist” instead of someone relatively sane? Then how come the GOP is doing the same?
My prediction? If she gets in, she’ll show in legislation the same degree of financial creativity and imaginative approach to taxation she’s shown in her personal finances. As the Dems have shown, paying Taxes is for the little people, and palms have to be greased. Should she be elected, she will become a very, very wealthy lady, and the few hundreds of millions of additional government spending she’ll cause, and the billions she’ll assent to (as will most of the GOP), well, that will be in the name of cutting costs in the longer term.
With candidates like her, and her Democrat opponent, and looking at the congressional record, it’s difficult not to be realistic in our appraisal.
“My prediction? If she gets in, she’ll show in legislation the same degree of financial creativity and imaginative approach to taxation she’s shown in her personal finances.”
I suspect that you’re probably correct about that.
In addition to having a highly flexible set of principles, in regard to her personal life, she also brings an industrial strength level of stupidity and ignorance to the table.
IMO, all these qualities will serve her well in her career as a United States Senator, that is if she wins the election, which I think is highly unlikely.
you are joking, right? you made those up, right?
I made up #3, that’s all. And it’s not even original, it’s a quote from a thread in the Catholic Online Forum, arguing that the 1616 dogma on anathematising Heliocentricism has never been formally repudiated, merely lapsed into disuse.
You need to provide cites and links.
A quick google on — “The Bible says the Sun goes round the Earth” O’donnell — turns up only one link. A link to your post here.
That considered, without cites and links I consider your assertions to be at best unsubstantiated rumor or hearsay.
Well spotted – the “Sun goes round the Earth” pseudo-quote is completely bogus.
As for the rest…
1. Washington Times, 9/18/03
2. MSNBC Scarborough Country, 11/13/03
3. ====> BOGUS – the one “quote” that’s entirely fictional <=======
4. Fox News O'Reilly Factor, 10/16/07
5. New York Magazine, 9/15/10
6. Wilmington News-Journal, 11/12/06
7. Savage Nation, 5/24/03
8. Weekly Standard, 9/2/10
9. MSNBC, 3/23/04
10. Hardball, 6/20/03
Always ask for sources. I'm glad you did.
Sounds reasonable to me. What is your point?
I cannot believe that Jimmy Carter said #2.
Yup he said it — but back in 1976, before he was president. He changed his views since then, obviously.
Carter actually became MORE liberal once he became president — one of the few candidates to ever do that. Usually, it’s the other way around — once any new President gets his first honest-to-goodness security briefing, he usually takes a hard right turn, at least in regards to foreign policy. Even Obama went from 100% anti-American as a candidate to merely 90% anti-American as a President. But Carter slowly transmogrified from centrist to leftist during his presidency, and then from leftist to flaming leftist in the years since.
During my research I came across Carter’s explanation for why he adopted the Arab Muslim narrative. He said it started with Anwar Sadat, who very cleverly “converted” Carter to the Arab point of view during their time together.
BTW, article makes a nice point. Good job.
I can’t believe the intensity of the scrutiny the MSM are giving O’Donnell. It’s worse than they gave Obama!
In what way was Obama “scrutinized” during the 2008 election campaign? It seemed to me, watching from here in Canada, that he was basically anointed as The Second Coming with little if any scrutiny at all.
Various aspects of his past WERE mentioned even in the MSM but I’m having trouble thinking of that as scrutiny since no one in the MSM seemed to think his lack of experience in ANYTHING and his associations with Ayers, Wright and the rest was actually a problem. They were just enraptured by the man and he was presented as perfect. That’s not scrutiny, in my opinion.
Hah! I got them all right. Of course, the memory of Howdy Doody’s time in office is seared-seared- into my memory. Would that it were not.
Jimmy Carter in reality, proved to be not as smart as Billy Carter.
Guess I’m just weird this way but someone having religious beliefs that inform their behavior doesn’t really scare me the way it seems to scare others (nor do I find their religious beliefs scorn-worthy as some haughty folks seem to). Didn’t like Carter…REALLY didn’t like Carter as I was a US Marine NCO during his tenure, which was kind of scary, but his religious beliefs, oddly, didn’t scare me at all. And as to the obvious question, I am almost perfectly areligious, I am not really Christian, Buddhist, Atheist or any other religion.
Oh Bother… I missed the last one… must admit I got bored reading our 2nd worst President’s quotes and didn’t realize the last one was O’Donnell. Good quiz but a bit too long for us ADD kids
I’m not quite sure whether it’s agood thing or not…I got an A on the quiz. Having said that, the Delaware thing…It’s frightening that those poor misguided folks must choose between a Witch or a communist.There is a saying about, ‘telling God you have plans and he laughs’ he must be doubled over on this one.
Did everyone enjoy former President Carter on ’60 Minutes’, I did some laughing while watching it although the memory brought me to tears. Why? Because we repeated history when President Obama was elected. Watching the interview brought an odd mix of memory and fear as to just how similar these men really are; With 2 plus years left, I find little comfort in election choices such as the Delaware voters find themselves.
The Constitution was written by citizens who wanted a citizen government.Age restrictions combined with the amount of time a person has been a citizen seem to be the guidlines we follow.I could find no restriction on those people who show a tendency toward saying things for which most sane people would find…odd,….O.K.!Crazy.And we have seen proof time and time again which also explains an unwillingness for people like nancy Pelosi to overlook the occassional crimes of said elected citizens once they turn their elected position into a cash cow,crime tainted seat!!!
Wow, I’m kind of young, so I wasn’t around for the Carter years. One would think someone who mentioned God so much would have been more concerned about ending up in hell.
i got them all I voted for Carter and it was the last dem.I ever voted for
That was easy, anything that contained multiple syllables and a nuanced viewpoint was obviously Carter.
ok, carter was an ediot, i was to young at the time to vote for himm,, but i think i would have,young and stupid,,,
there are 2 standards for politicians,,
if your a dem,, it wasnt your fault
if your a conservative your evil,,.. sorry that how the media sees us,,
were is Ronald Reagan when we REALLY need him??
“were is Ronald Reagan?”
He’s up there in heaven with Jesus and Elvis, walking around in purple robes and eating creamy nugget filled peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and forming a secret religion to circumvent the 11 Commandments to trade harps for hostages held in purgatory by that whore, the Catholic church. I hear they violoated teh biggie, C #1, “You shall have no other gods before Me.” (Doesn’t bode well for satanists and witches and occultists.) Oh, by the way, that 11th Commandment? Thou shalt not believe Fox News. Sorry, yeah, he’s on our side.
By the way, I think some people here are being a little unfair to Obama calling him worse than Jimmy Carter. Obama hasn’t had a chance yet to accomplish a twofer by also being nominated as worst Ex-President too.
Not that I don’t think Barack perfectly capable of becoming more insufferable than Jimmy after one term and Ex Pres, but he’ll have to prove it to me first.
Speaking of Carter, Mondale is interviewed – where else? — in the NEW YORKER. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/09/27/100927ta_talk_mayer
Some choice quotes:
“In 1984, Mondale mounted an unsuccessful challenge against Ronald Reagan.”
>>>> He lost 49 states. I might as well mount an “unsuccessful challenge” to go to the moon by standing on a ladder.
“In their second debate, Reagan told a long, meandering anecdote about driving down the Pacific Coast in California, losing the thread of the story and bewildering the audience. At the time, the Mondale campaign chose to keep quiet about the gaffe. But Mondale said last week that he had found Reagan so shaky during the debate that “I was scared he’d fall down.” He said, “When you look at that performance, there’s some question of whether he wasn’t beginning to lose it already.”
>>>>>Ah, classy as always, Mr. Mondale! So THAT’S why you lost 49 states — you were just TOO GENEROUS to your opponent. Because we all know there was no criticism of Reagan as a senile nabob during that campaign in the media…
“As for Obama, Mondale said, “He’s doing a good job”.
>>>>>Mondale, Carter’s ex-VP, thinks Obama is doing well. Make of that what you will.
“When the public sours on you, he said last week, the Presidency seems ‘like a unique four-year marriage contract, in which divorce is not an option.’”
>>>>>Yes, because the public is just like a nagging, ingrate wife one really would like to divorce. Would they stop whining! (And eat cake, I presume).
Statement #10 is a complete evasion of responsibility.
The Constitution is a set of procedural rules for deciding government policy – it is not a set of policies. (Many liberals insist nonetheless that the policy choices they want are implied by the Constitution.) Those who are elected President or to Congress have the duty of deciding which policies, out of the vast range of permitted policies are the best.
Thus a candidate for President or Congress has to have some basis for deciding what policies would be best – some set of personal beliefs.
Ms. O’Donnell’s pledge reminds me of the Constitutional Union Party of 1860. The CUP was organized by elderly ex-Whigs who were terrified by the growing danger of secession and civil war. That threat arose from a disagreement between the slaveholding South and the rest of the country about policy. The Republicans demanded prohibition of slavery in all territories; the Douglas Democrats called for “popular sovereignty” (the settlers in each territory should decide); the Breckinridge Democrats insisted that slavery must be allowed in all territories. All three of these parties put their positions in their platforms. The CUP platform stated that they would “recognize no political principle other than THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS” (all caps in original). That was, even in all caps, an evasion of the key issue of the day.
The Constitution authorizes an income tax (the Sixteenth Amendment); it does not state what income tax rates should be. As a Senator, Ms. O’Donnell would have to decide that for herself – and many other things, based on her “personal beliefs”.
Her response was specifically directed at those Democrats and leftists who were (and are) howling that she wants to institute a theocracy based on the Bible. She was reassuring everybody that the supreme law in her framework is indeed the Constitution, not the Bible.
In other forums and in other statements and on her Web site she directly addresses the specifics of the policies who wants to enact. She’s not evading responsibility — she just didn’t happen to spell it out thoroughly in the one particular sentence to your liking. In general, she is in favor of balancing the budget, lowering tax rates as a way to stimulate economic growth, making whatever belt-tightening cuts are necessary to reduce the deficit, etc. She purposely doesn’t focus on social hot-button issues, and I guess we are to assume that she won’t press on those during her time in office, should she somehow manage to win in a liberal state like Delaware.
Too easy, too obvious. More to the point, what’s your point? And, good Lord, why would you want to make it? Hell, the very first presidential election for which I was legally eligible (that is, the first one after I was legally old enough), I *didn’t* vote for Jimmy Carter, for God’s sake. Even at 19, I knew better.
Yep I nailed it got em all right.
This is all starting to feel queasily familiar. Flash back to about 1975 or so. Jimmy Carter makes nice with Trujillo and apologizes for US control of the Panama Canal before cutting it loose. Jimmy Carter praises Ceaucescu in Romania as a stable leader “we can do business with”. Jimmy Carter believes we can work with the Russian leaders, as we start unilaterally disarming our nuke arsenal. And Jimmy Carter snuggles up to the Chinese, giving them tours of our auto factories. With a Greek chorus of fate (and a few advisors stage right, chanting, “No, Jimmy, don’t do it! No Jimmy don’t do it.”
Well he did it. It only took him two years of his dangerous liberal foreign policy to create a following two years of hell in 79 and 80. Whether you were 7 or 47, who could forget it? Gasoline lines. Hostages in Iran. Burning American flags. Russian divisions swarming into Afghanistan, “screw you USA!” 25% prime rates (do they teach this history in college?) We abandon the Shah, a friend, and get 30 years nonstop instability in the Middle East and suicidal terrorism still dogging us today. Was it really all that bad? Yes it was. Analogy to Obama? He’s 1000% worse! Why? Crazy Jimmy was confused about history. Barry Hussen Obuma is not only confused about protecting America but about his religion. God help us (not Allah), GOD. Why else would Barry going running over to the home of Billy Graham to “pray” with Billy and Franklin after the Pentagon Chaplain’s Office (at the Army’s request), contacted Graham to withdraw the invitation extended to him to be the main speaker at the Pentagon’s observance of the National Day of Prayer?
Get to know the real Christine O’Donnell:
http://www.MeetChristineODonnell.com
See videos of her speeches and TV appearances. Hear her speak on the issues in her own words — beyond the media noise.
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