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Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte today booed,
jeered and shook their fists when the chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa, declared that an amendment to the party’s platform that
restored a mention of God had been adopted.
It took him calling for the vote three times before he could make the
declaration that in his opinion, the ayes made up two-thirds of the vote.
After the first vote, which sounded like a dead heat between the yes and no
votes, he said, “In the opinion of the … Let me do that again.”
The second vote sounded the same, and Villaraigosa looked offstage for help
and advice.
A woman came up behind him and said, “Let them do what they’re going to do
.”
On the third vote, Villaraigosa was prepared and stated that in his opinion,
two-thirds of the voters said “aye,” apparently without considering the
volume of the voice vote.
Shaking fists and jeers erupted before he could finish speaking.
The platform of the party drew nationwide astonishment just a day earlier
when it removed a reference to God and a declaration that Jerusalem is
Israel’s capital.
The amendment, proposed by former Gov. Ted Strickland, chief of the platform
committee, restored the notation that Americans were encouraged to reach
their “God-given potential.”
It also recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Strickland didn’t offer an explanation for why God and Jerusalem were
removed, explaining only that “our belief in God is central to our American
story” and “the president recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
and our party’s platform should as well.”
‎However, Obama’s position on Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has
been a point of contention. White House spokesman Jay Carney pointedly
refused to state that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital when confronted by
White House reporters, including WND’s Les Kinsolving.
Radio host Michael Savage said the scenario could be the turning point in
the 2012 presidential campaign.
“This is a big moment,” Savage said. “America is disgusted with this
party of atheists and America haters.”
David Brody reported on the Brody File in CBN: “This has become a disaster
for the Democrats and a boon to the Romney campaign. The DNC has now added
God back into their platform language after originally taking it out. They
have also added language back in that says Jerusalem is the capital of
Israel. When they tried to change the language on the convention floor,
there were boos! Oy-Gevalt.”
He said notwithstanding any corrections the Democrats have tried to make,
the Romney campaign “can now argue that the Democrats don’t know what they
believe on two very important topics. They can also argue that the
Democrats only did this because of the pushback. That’s true.”
Romney told Fox News: “It’s a very sad say when we have our best friend in
the Middle East … for us at a stage like this to take an action of that
nature, to cease calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel, this is a very
troubling development.”
He also said the Democrats’ initial decision to remove “God” from its
2012 platform “suggests a party which is increasingly out of touch with the
mainstream of American people. I think this party is veering further and
further away to an extreme wing that Americans don’t recognize it.”
The AP described the Democrats as “embarrassed” over the issue and
explained that the language resurrected simply said: “We need a government
that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and
gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God
-given potential.”
Several Democrats said the attempt to fix the platform was a mistake. Noor
Ul-Hasan, a Muslim from Salt Lake City, told AP: “There are people who don
’t believe in God and you have to respect that as well.”
Another delegate from Utah, Angela Urrea, told AP: “The majority spoke last
night. We shouldn’t be declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel.”
The Foreign Policy column at The Cable said Obama himself intervened to push
the changes.
CBS New York said of the president before today’s reversal: “Obama handed
the Republicans a new avenue of attack on a silver platter when he supported
a Democratic Party platform change that does not state that Jerusalem is
the capital of Israel.”
The platform previously was adopted with the statement, “We gather to
reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most
prosperous nation on Earth – the simple principle that in America, hard
work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us
should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.”
GOP vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan told Fox News, “I guess I
would just put the onus and the burden on them to explain why they did all
this, the purges of God.”
At U.S. News, Peter Roff accompanied his commentary with a cartoon of a car
carrying a “What Would Jesus do?” bumper sticker. But “Jesus” is crossed
out and “Obama” written in.
“There are no doubt other examples but the message is clear,” he wrote. “
One candidate, Romney, stands for the proposition that religious freedom is
paramount to American liberty. The other, Barack Obama, seems to believe it
is subservient to the desires of the state. For most of us, this would seem
to be the more important issue upon which to base a vote for president.”
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