Democrats change platform to add God, Jerusalem

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120. doubly dishonest hypocrisy

this undemocratic action so enraged me that i felt compelled to register here after years of casually surfing. what really irritates me -- and what hasn't been pointed out as of yet -- is the strategic packaging of the two platform issues into one vote to ensure the pro-god issue would pass muster (even though it obviously did not). had the issues been separated into two voice votes, i imagine that the pro-god vote might have failed, whilst the pro-israel wording might have passed, which would be a win-win for both sides (the "leaders" and the delegates). more importantly, it would show the democratic party of being, um, democratic. god forbid we would have transparent democracy on the world's biggest political stage...

this is such a ridiculously unnecessary finger in the eye of the agnostics and those who believe religion has no place in politics. as tone deaf as romney and his camp is, i couldn't think of a bigger self-inflicted distraction when the headlines should rather be focusing on the amazing speeches by mrs. obama and mr. clinton.

if this had happened at the RNC, we would have been laughing our collective asses off at their utter contempt for transparency, all the way to the re-election. i very much dislike the "much ado about nothing" comments, as if demanding democracy is a trivial matter.

thinking about it, had i been a delegate, neither one of those platform issues would have raised my ire (ok, maybe the god-loving pile of panderspeak). it's the way it was rammed through which is really reprehensible. ugh.