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It seems Pope Francis needs to brush up on his Tertullian!

It has been reported (in The ChristLast Media, I must note) that the current Pope does not like the phrase "lead us not into temptation...

"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture." -- Pope Sixtus III

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

It Takes A Village To Staff A Gestapo Unit Update.

Angry and Proud
"Responding to Republican claims that she may be too angry to win national office, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton[*] told an audience Monday to wear such criticism as 'a badge of honor' and suggested that gender [sic] played a role in the attacks," the Associated Press reports from New York:

Democrats, particularly Democratic woman, who run for public office are "going to draw some unfriendly fire," Clinton said at a breakfast fundraiser hosted by black and Hispanic women supporters. "People will be attacking you instead of your ideas, they may impugn your patriotism, they may even say you're
angry."

"If they do that, wear it as a badge of honor, because you know what? There are lots of things that we should be angry and outraged about these days," she said.


Mrs. Clinton is trying to make a virtue of necessity. It's a bit reminiscent of the fun President Bush has at being "misunderestimated" and caricatured as unintelligent--with this important difference: Bush actually is almost certainly of above-average intelligence, even if he is not a genius. More than half of all Americans are of average intelligence or below, so those who make sport of Bush's purported lack of intellectual gifts are thereby insulting a majority of Americans.

Hillary's pride in being described as angry will doubtless endear her to the Angry Left, but unless the majority of Americans are at least as angry as she is, it will not broaden her appeal.

* New York's junior senator, who speaks in even tones and conveys her displeasure with temperate phrases (except when she's really angry).
(Thanks to Best of the Web Today for the heads up.)

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First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct. "My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up. What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.

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