Mitt Romney Campaign Scraps $50,000 Per Plate Jerusalem Fundraiser On A Jewish Fasting Day

Oh. Sorry. Right. Wrong.

I guess it is the Native Americans (at least the surviving, bad, brown Lamanites) who are members of the Lost Tribes. Not the Mormons themselves?? Which really gets confusing when the Church calls all non-members (including Jews?) "Gentiles."

Fortunately, when Lamanites convert to Mormonism they become "white and delightsome." It is not known what happens to Jews who convert.

Oh, yes - again, right - latest update: Sometime in the past few decades the revealed word of God changed to say "pure," instead of "white."

I do not know if that was before, or after, the Church decided that Black people (well, Black males, anyhow) could fully participate in the Church.

Terribly confusing.

However what is not confusing and is quite certain is that Mitty will still get massive donations from Israel - after all, he is willing to start a massive nuclear war on their behalf.

What could be more Christian than that?

But this confuses me too, for, when, as a kid, I asked the father of my Mormon friend if they were Christians, he said "No. We are Mormons."

Yet, that was prior to the jaunty new subtitle for The Book of Mormon: "Another Testament of Jesus Christ" - or is it "A Latter Testament of Jesus Christ" - I would swear I have seen both, so perhaps Mormons are now Christians too.

“Just as the arch crumbles if the keystone is removed, so does all the Church stand or fall with the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon”
~ LDS President Ezra Taft Benson

But how can one know the truth when it keeps changing?

Especially when all actual evidence is that Amerindians are part of the Asian Horde, not lost remnants of the Chosen People from the Middle East.

FSM: I humbly beseech You to keep Mitter's finger off of the nuclear trigger.

Prime Time he is ready for not.

...And Jesus came and hung out with his lost homies right after his resurrection.

Only problem is that SEVERAL independent genetic researchers have all concluded that there is NOT ONE DROP of Jewish blood in the Native American gene pool, nor the Polynesian gene pool, whom were also elevated to lost tribe status.

and so is evolution. Oh, and that gays are born that way and can't be changed. Remember the mantra: "The prophet said it, I believe it, and that's that."

Let me preface this by saying what I mean is, everyone's free to believe whatever kooky shit htye want, so long as it doesn't step into my space. I'm not going to share those beliefs, so I just don't worry too much about if people think a dude with a magic hat is king of a new planet or whatever's going on there...

But their "beliefs" about Native Americans HAVE caused real harm to history. One of the favorite pastimes of traveling Mormons was apparently scrubbing over existing petroglyphs and carving the ten commandments in Scholastic Hebrew over what was left, just so they could point and go "Look! Jesus wuz here!" Their bullshit has percolated up into general discourse, leading an asinine number of people to believe variations on the "Indians were invaders who killed all the good white people" story. Even into actual science regarding the possibility of paleolithic immigration from Europe; the "story" usually presented there is of anatomically modern caucasians landing and then getting kileld by the brown savages from Elsewhere™

As for the "lost tribe," fucking everyone's the lost tribe, if you read enough books. From the Irish to the japanese to the Fuegans, every time a European met a new culture, they would gasp and go "Lost tribe!" - it was sort of a fad at the time.

Heck, relatively few people have even heard of it. It's not such a big deal even among Jews that I knew in Jersey. Yeah, they know it's there. But they were ham sandwich Jews.They eat ham sandwiches during Passover, but go to a seder and some fall high day services because it's a family-and-friends thing. Like my brother's family for Xmas--the one day of the year he'd darken a church entrance. He liked the music.


I don't know that anybody I know in Houston would even know what 9 Av is. Every summer, late July or early August, I sort of remember it's in here some place. It wanders around this time of year. Like Rosh hashanah or Yom kippur. In a month or so I'll look up when they are so I can ask for days off for them. I don't do Av 9. I'm not Jewish.

I'd like Sukkoth off, though, but will content myself with just the first and last days and hope I don't get sick during the year.

Mitt Romney also planned to hold some sort of secret meeting while in Tel Aviv. Will that secret get together still take place?

Mmmmm! Pass the barbecue sauce, Yitzak!

Seriously, though...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Romney can be counted on to keep the weapons flowing to Israel.

enough of that Mitt touch to entertain us even from Israel.

He will find new and better ways to offend even the most conservative among them. I mean, he pissed off the English, and he's supposed to be Just Like Them.

one could agree with.

tisha b av is the most solemn day on the Jewish calendar It marks the destruction on the Temple in Jerusalem. Observant Jews not only fast for 25 hours, but there are overnight readings from the book of lamentations and a 9 day period leading into the dast when there is a semi-mourningperiod with restrictions on diet & pleasurable activities. He has zero cultural awareness &.sensitivy. And needs to hire smarter people to book stuff dor him.

Sorry. Some Jews put their nation ahead of their religion.

They're not just "observant." It's a bit more than that.

Still, for a meeting in Israel, he certainly should have hired somebody with a clue. It's like booking an event in Sa'udi Arabia: You want to check your local calendar.

The most somber day.

I can only imagine his cabinet.

This is planning/scheduling 101 stuff.... check the calendar. However I feel about Romney in general, I can't believe that they are having mistakes like this at this level, they're supposed to be professionals, right? It's one thing to have silly conflicts at the PTA level, but this is a presidential campaign, and it's going into a very tightly wound country in a tightly wound region, everything matters. It is truly shocking how out of touch they are on so many levels.

COULDN'T be stupider, imho.

when you've not actually got any Jewish friends.

to the Jewish people as it clearly was to them. One more example of their complete lack of diplomatic skills.

From the article in the OP:

"Jonny Daniels, a leading Republican political strategist in Israel, told The Huffington Post that the campaign had been aware of the date of the holiday when it scheduled the fundraiser. The campaign thought it could hold the event in a way that would not offend, he said, but was taken by surprise at the ferocity of the public outcry over the timing."

Was I wrong about that?

Obama raised a chunk of change in Europe when he did his European tour.

Romney's doing the same.

There are a lot of Americans overseas. That's all that's required: Have US citizenship, donate $500 dollars, it's not a foreign donation.

Now, that $500 donation, if your the Federal elections folk, how do you *prove* that it's a foreign donation. Good luck.

... BLT and a glass of milk?

I love this!

"It wasn't really a gaffe," Daniels said. "They knew what the day was, but they were looking for the correct time and circumstance to do it. Instead it ended up seeming like a big dinner, but that's not really what it is."

On a different note, could someone explain how this: "Immediately after the fund-raising meeting, Romney will host a conference in Jerusalem, where he will lay out his Middle East policy" works with his previous statement that he doesn't want to discuss foreign policy issues while on foreign soil? (http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=277050)

"...a Jewish day of fasting in SOME traditions of the religion..." Wasn't the Romney camp told of the holiday when they picked the date for meeting? More to the point, if so many people were unable to attend due to the holiday, why did they go ahead and set up the fundraiser in the first place?

I think what really happened is that in the light of Romney's showing in London, most, if not all, of the invitees bailed out -- why invest in a racehorse that can't even stand up?


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And more proof that he really doesn't give a damn about them or anyone else. His only love is money. And ironically, they informed the press that their event was "closed" to media, breaking a supposed transparency policy.

His staff is so breath-takingly lazy to not even care that Saturday IS the Sabbath (and is strictly observed by non-secular Jews), let alone to at least try to take time to touch base with contacts there regarding whether any holy days or other commemorations were scheduled. It shows that the whole trip was knee-jerk scheduled to try to get away from the tax-evasion story.

I can't even imagine what is bound to happen in Poland.

Aside from the fact that he's embarrassing our whole country, this is hilarious. This is comedy you couldn't make up!

To Democrats.

And another major gaffe at that. One would think that Romney staffers would check out whether dates were sensitive in Israel before putting together the plans only to have them blow up in their faces. If there preparations are this shallow on small matters I dred to think of how bad things could be with significant issues. This is another hint that Mr. Romney is not ready for prime time.

The sheer incompetence is mind-blowing.

Show us your tax returns!!

his given name isn't Runt.

just put a camera on mitt- the comedy just keeps coming.

Was that Israel gaffe #1?

And wtf do they mean he's raising foreign money????????????????????

. . . but Mitt might actually be deposed as Republican nominee at the Convention.

He's no longer in danger of becoming defined, he's in danger of becoming a stereotype, of the bungling, out-of-touch politician. If this keeps up, he might as well go to Hollywood to play that role in comedies for the rest of his life.

What DU-er is incognito on Mitt's staff?


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