Democrat Congressman & Senate hopeful Harold Ford speaks about religion. Watch the following clip where he implies that Democrats "love the Lord" while Republicans do not...
What role should religion play in politics? What role should politics play in religion? At the end of the clip, Mr. Ford says, "you're supposed to act it out" -- meaning that you should act on your faith and love for God. I think he is referring to the general perception of the public that Democratic leaning charities focus more on helping the homeless and ending poverty, while Republican leaning ones typically focus more on abortion. Republicans and Christian conservatives should, I think, be more observant of the need and compassionate toward the poor, especially those belonging to minority groups. Poverty is an issue, and if we as conservatives really care and love our neighbors, we should be trying to devise solutions to help rather than ignoring the problem. However, Mr. Ford crossed the line with his speech. There are many Republicans who have a genuine love for God, and most evangelical Christians have voted for the Republican candidate in the past few presidential elections. Mr. Ford was wrong to compare -- only God knows what is in our hearts. Despite my disagreement with Ford, I do realize that all of us, including myself, sometimes do stick our feet in our mouths.
To be fair, I should also mention the consistency of Mr. Corker's Iraq policy. Prior to the Republican primary, he said the US should "stay the course" in Iraq. Now in the general election, he is backing off that position -- even claiming he has never used that phrase. In my opinion, Corker did not intend to lie but probably forgot saying the phrase previously. I think his position on Iraq is not one of deep interest to him and he does not have a clear policy in his mind. Thus, I believe, it is easy for him, now that it is October, to forget what he said in July. Regardless, he did use the phrase which President Bush has now stopped using in reference to Iraq policy.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Democrats love the Lord!
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Guess what? Reading your blog can actually improve my English a lot;-) There are some new words and phrases that I didn't know and I referred them to the dictionary,which helped me learn something new;-)
I just learnt two idioms from this post:
1. to stick one's feet in one's mouth: this idiom is used to describe when a person says something stupid in front of other people, especially if it is something embarrassing or inappropriate.
At the beginning I couldn't understand why it has such a meaning, so I searched this idiom again on internet. One person offered a better explanation for my understanding,"when someone put his foot in his mouth, everyone would notice and think it weird." So it means someone says something noticeably stupid and inappropriate.
Eg: I just put my feet in my mouth--means"oops, I just said something that may cause hurt or embarrassment."
P.S. I agree that we do offend people with our words even without realizing it. So a good way to avoid it is to keep silent when you are not sure about others' responses to your words;-)
2. stay in the course
it means to endure to the end.
Hehe, just feel interested about why when those politicians give an official speech, they need to play on their wordings and people also pay special attentions to why they say it in one way instead of another;-) Hehe, I just find it hard to understand them, but I guess that's why they are politicians while I am just an ordinary person;-)
Overall,those stuff are very useful and interesting;-)
At least, it helped me;-)
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