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September 30, 2005

Oh The Joy Of Outreach

Filed under: — Chap @ 11:35 am

Says Jennifer Graham in National Review:

As presidential picks go, Karen Hughes is no John Roberts. But really, who would be? There may be, somewhere, an Ivy-League-and-Oxford-educated Muslim woman who can eloquently and believably say “y’all” and “Allah Akbar” in the same sentence, and who raised vast sums of money for Republicans in the last two election cycles, but she has yet to come forward. Maybe she hasn’t gotten permission yet from her male guardian.

Ow.

4 Responses to “Oh The Joy Of Outreach”

  1. John deVille Says:

    It’s also pretty pitiful when an emmisary of the United States enunciates as howler of this caliber::

    “”Many people around the world do not understand the important role that faith plays in Americans’ lives,” she said. When an Egyptian opposition leader inquired why President Bush mentions God in his speeches, she asked him “whether he was aware that previous American presidents have also cited God, and that our Constitution cites ‘one nation under God.’ He said, ‘Well, never mind.’”

  2. chap Says:

    Huh? Sounds like a pretty good shutdown of the opposition leader’s train of abuse.

    I heard that story differently, though…

  3. John Says:

    Please tell me where the Constitution says, “one nation, under God.”

    The mentioning of God was tossed around the hot room in Philly in 1787, but Ben Franklin led the charge to squash it, as the stifling memories of the Church of England married to the crown reveberated.

    Hughes is as ill-informed on the American relationship between church and state as her adopted son.

  4. Chapomatic » Conversation with Jeff Goldstein, about lunchtime, as he reads my comments section Says:

    [...] Jeff: “Please tell me where the Constitution says, ‘one nation, under God.’ “, he says. What, you want me to Google it for you? And then RITUALISTICALLY HANG MY HEAD IN SHAME when, as you and I know, that exact phrase isn’t in there–even though it is completely irrelevant to the argument you wanted to start– [...]

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