You HAVE to hear this comment by Gov. Rick Perry (TX-R)

[Bouncy Ball]

Today we had the largest deployment of Texas National Guardsmen in 50 YEARS and when Gov. Rick Perry was addressing them, he said:

"You are heeding the call of your Heavenly Father."

Yep. Saw it for myself. GAG. :puke:

[Fridays Child]

1. WTF? He should be severely rebuked for that comment.

Gotta link?

[Bouncy Ball]

3. Um, SHOULD BE

but this is Texas. Where apparently it is ok to talk about a war as if it were a religious crusade.

I was so sickened by that.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. But what if a soldier is atheist, or doesn't believe in a heavenly father?

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Exactly.

Exactly.

On edit, if a soldier is atheist, he hates America.

/sarcasm off

[demwing]

33. Or is one of the 5 million or so Islamic Americans?

What a STUPID comment.

Santorum should be targeted as a racist theocrat.

[pdxmom]

29. And this is the type of thing that causes

other countries to dislike us so much. Out of one side of their mouth, they say it isn't anything against Muslims, etc. And out of the other comes this kind of crap. Obviously, they don't get it, but for the life of me, I can't understand why they don't get it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Bush is now a Heavenly father?

[driver8]

31. I think he meant Rumsfeld... n/t

[Bouncy Ball]

5. I'll look

but it was shown on the local news here.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. Here's a link to a story

but it doesn't have Perry's quote.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/10544999.htm?1c

[Bouncy Ball]

12. This is sort of related

but was good for a chuckle:

Wife to fill in for Texas lawmaker in National Guard
posted by Jermaine Ferrell on 12-29-2004 5:04


Houston state Representative Rick Noriega will be on active duty in Afghanistan when the legislative session starts in January.
But the Houston Democrat and Texas National Guard major's seat in the Texas House of Representatives won't be empty.
His wife, Melissa Noriega, will fill in for him.
A state constitutional amendment approved last year allows lawmakers called to active military duty to designate their replacement until they return or their term expires.
Noriega won re-election last year while on active duty in Afghanistan, where he's training that country's army to fight terrorists.
When asked why her husband chose her, Melissa Noriega told the
Houston Chronicle -- "For one thing, I'll give it back."

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. And the call was? "Blessed are the peacemakers"? I don't suppose

the Heavenly Father meant this sort of peacemaker...

[Pam-Moby]

10. Gov. Rick Perry is a repuke

What do you expect? What a comment! That sounds like something *ush would say...jerks

[HysteryDiagnosis]

13. Hey man.... they have a lock on God. They don't need any approval from

people who truly follow his lead... hence the confusion over what they are doing and why they are doing it, oh and for whom.

[Moloch]

7. Any Texans here?

When is Gov. Goodhair up for re-election? First off, he is a gay man who works against gay rights and now this.

I'm not too far from the Texas line and would be happy to do some volunteering to get rid of this asshat.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. 2006, I believe.

Though it seems like it should be sooner. God I hate him.

[jobycom]

14. He's not so bad, he just knows how to play to his audience

Not that I like a damn thing he's ever done, but he's too greedy and ambitious to be anywhere near as bad as W is.

Blame Perry's audience. If there were more atheists in the state, Perry would have no trouble pandering to them, too.

As for him being gay, that rumor got started a while back when the press got word that a pretty governor with good hair was having an extramarital gay affair, and was about to be uncovered. A lot of people linked it to Perry, but now it looks as though it may have been the guy from New Jersey. Perry's sexuality is still up in the air.

David Dewhurst, now, the Leutenant Governor... there are a lot of rumors about him.

And he's up for re-election in 2006. He may be defeated, but it will be from within his own party. They are debating running a moderate woman, Carol Keaton Strayhorn, and she would be unbeatable by the Dems unless someone finds a body in her closet.

[Bouncy Ball]

15. Yep. What he said.

You must keep up with Texas doin's.

[jobycom]

16. Unwanted side effect of living in Austin and hanging out with

political-minded folk.

[Bouncy Ball]

17. Oh, sorry

I didn't know you lived in Austin! Hi there! :hi:

You're lucky--at least you live in Austin.

[jobycom]

18. Yes, I quite like it

Sounds like you live someplace worse?

[Bouncy Ball]

19. Think the Dallas suburbs.

[jobycom]

22. Egads

I moved from just south of Plano Parkway to Austin about thirteen years ago. I symapthize.

[Bouncy Ball]

23. Thank you.

Fortunately I am not in the Collin County area. That really would be EGADS. I am in a more blue collar area where we still have unions (OH MY GOD, EVIL UNIONS!) who vote Dem overwhelmingly. And a Dem superintendant of schools and four Dem school board members and two Dem city council members. So it's not as bad as the...ahem....northern burbs.

[Pirate Smile]

20. Unbelievable!

Today on VH-1, they showed a clip of a person telling Bush(at one of the "question the Prez" events) that this is the first time he felt like "God was in the White House".

It was one of their year-end shows where they were picking the winner of the year. They were talking about God, not Bush, but how so many people seemed to think Bush is God.

Things really are going crazy it seems.

This just amplifies what was people described in this thread -http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1462613 People getting preached to while trying to check out at Walmart and, in the responses, little kids running up to stranger's tables at restaurants telling them to pray.

This thread about Dobson's plans to put the screws to Democratic Senator's in red states - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1113217

Someone posted that on November 3rd they said Jesus has been hijacked by the Republicans.

It is so true.

[Bouncy Ball]

21. Jesus is now a spokesman for the repuke party, dontcha know?

[Pirate Smile]

24. I'm just late to the party, I guess.

Things are really starting to get a little scary.

[Pirate Smile]

25. Kick

[AntiCoup2K4]

26. Is there a transcript of this blasphemy anywhere?

I need a direct quote to throw in the Busheep's faces.

[Liberal In Texas]

27. He's embarrassing

Unfortunately at this time, we don't really have a great candidate on the horizon to take the governor post back. Not that I've heard.

A good repuke scandal would help.

[Bridget Burke]

32. I wish we had a decent candidate....

It will be lots of fun watching Carol Keeton Strayhorn Couger Mellencamp (or whatever) duking it out with Kay Bailey Hutchinson--& both of them duking it out with Governor Goodhair. (He & Kay both have cheerleading in their background.)

I'll dutifully vote for whatever Democrat comes forward--hope it's somebody better than the last guy. But I'll be sorely tempted to vote for Kinky Friedman.

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

34. Don't forget McClellan and Rylander in that list

She's the mother of that WH propaganda mouthpiece, Scott McClellan.

[Skittles]

28. Bush must be their Heavenly Father

:puke:

[spanone]

30. Was he speaking of God or bush*?

Or does he deem them one in the same? Fuckem.