Sen. Bond Warns Palin Crowd That Obama Wants Judges Who Empathize With “The Gay”

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

(CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO.) - Taking the stage as one of the pre-program speakers at a Sarah Palin rally here in Rush Limbaugh’s hometown, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, fired up the crowd by warning them about Barack Obama’s judicial philosophy.

“Just this past week, we saw what Barack Obama said about judges,” Bond said. “He said, ‘I’m tired of these judges who want to follow what the Founding Fathers said and the Constitution. I want judges who have a heart, have an empathy for the teenage mom, the minority, the gay, the disabled. We want them to show empathy. We want them to show compassion.’”

Bond then seized on Obama’s comments to Joe The Plumber, saying the Democrat wants to redistribute wealth.

“He thinks this country should be a government—not a government of laws, but a government of compassion and empathy, not of laws,” Bond said.

Bond was referring to Obama's answer to "Joe the Plumber's" question earlier this month "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?"


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/30/politics/fromtheroad/entry4558204.shtml

[donco6]

1. And the option is . . . kill them! kill them all! . . . ?

And just exactly what did the Founding Fathers say about "the gay" anyway?

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. Yup. They want a solution that is nice and final

As for the Founders, the closest they got to saying anything about "the gay" was in the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness....

[LiberalFighter]

2. I think gays aren't the only ones he has a problem. He is probably racist too.

Just my gut feeling!

[yellowcanine]

3. To be fair, he probably meant to say, "Joe the Gay".

[YOY]

4. "The Gay"???

There's only one of them? Lemme guess...it's Elton John, right? Poor guy, he must really be lonely.

Damn you people. Someone's been lying to me if it's only Elton!!!

[bitchkitty]

13. Nope, here's the only gay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zx1ZX8GW4

[YOY]

14. Oh Daffyn, I should have known!!! What that boy needs is a good todger in the bum!

And Myfanwe? Is she "the lesbian"?

[TrogL]

23. "the gay" is white supremacist talk

They love to clump wide swaths of people into a single group that they can hate, epitomized by a single person. It used to be "the Jew" usually accompanied by a caricture of a Hasidic Jew with a lot of warts.

[YOY]

26. Personally, I find it unintentionally hilarious but the intentional hate diminishes my laughter.

n.t.

[Solly Mack]

5. A man who supports torture wants to talk about following laws?

about the Constitution? When he supports a wanna-be dictator who does nothing but shit on the Constitution?

Course, it does explain why he has an aversion to concepts like empathy and compassion

[Uben]

6. Pubs act they are the party of strength

...yet they are all afraid of gay people! I think the reason they are so afraid is that they cannot hurt gays by lying, and that seems to be their best strategic modus operandi. All they have accomplished is to keep their base (those who believe everything they are told) afraid, and it looks like they are losing ground there too.

[ellacott]

7. The sad thing is that the stupid people at that rally will believe he said this

[ramapo]

8. A hateful bunch

I have a difficult time understanding how people can have such hate in them.

[Raschel]

15. They should just rename the McCain bus the Hate and Fear Express. n/t

[teknomanzer]

19. Its the "Hate Talk Express" n/t

[Lorien]

9. What a "Christian" guy

;eyes:

Repugs never actually READ the Bible, they just use it as a weapon.

[durablend]

12. They just whip out the Sharpie

And cross out whatever they don't agree with

[teknomanzer]

21. They like the Old Testament...

Stone the kids to death for looking at their father cross-eyed, kill all the non-believers down to the last animal passages. Which is funny because they don't adhere to any of the Mosaic dietary laws or ritual purity laws. I wonder how many have chowed down on a double bacon cheeseburger lately?

They completely ignore the New Testament - He who is without sin cast the first stone, judge not lest ye be judged, love thy neighbor as thyself, remove the plank from your own eye before trying to remove the mote in your brothers eye, and my personal favorite - don't make a big display out of your faith for all others to see. The hypocrisy is so blatant I don't see how their heads cannot explode.

[LeftishBrit]

33. Actually, there's plenty in the Old Testament to condemn them too.

E.g. this from 'Proverbs' (6)

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.



If THAT isn't a description of the Bushies, I don't know what is.

[RedLetterRev]

22. As I posted on another thread this very morning:

From where I sit, they're the sort of folks who'd trespass into your back yard to steal the sheets off your line and the wood off the side of your shed to go burn a cross in the yard of someone they don't know and beat them with a Bible they don't read. Look up the word Pharisee and you'll see a group photo, complete with a dead caribou in front.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

28. So much for justice tempered with mercy

You know, like how the Judeo-Christian God didn't wipe out humanity after that whole apple-eating incident. Or like the exile prophets advocated. Or what that Jesus guy said.

Am I the only believer left that finds this truly disturbing and evil?

[14thColony]

11. I am horrified! Horrified I tell you!

At the spectre that we might soon have "a government of compassion and empathy." What's next, fairness and equality? It's a slippery slope people!

[tomg]

27. And before you know, we will have

aaaaaaahhhhhh - "liberty and justice for all." I mean,it sounds socialist to me.

God, they are such fucking morans.

[NoodleyAppendage]

16. Empathy for which "gay?" The ones that remain closeted in the Repuke party and bugger DC interns?

I wonder if the "gay" is a Repuke or Democrat?

And, how DARE Obama voice compassion for the disabled!! Doesn't he know that the Founding Fathers used to play cricket with quadrapegics as the bases??

J

[David__77]

17. So he'd rather obliterate them??

What a weird thing to say...

[teknomanzer]

18. Aside from the fact that we know thats NOT what Obama said...

Is it really desirable to have a government, the greatest reflection of society, that does not reflect compassion and empathy? It appears that Republicans want a nation of a-holes who treat everyone else like shit. No aid for the poor. No health care for the sick. Torture for their enemies. Bombs for those who oppose them.

I am so fucking tired of small minded people. Intellectually I know that they suffer from deep seated fears of the unknown. This affliction has to strip almost every bit of joy from their life and I should pity them for that. But emotionally they just sicken me and I just want them to GO AWAY! Please just fucking go away - leave us good people alone. Quit trying to spread your misery to the rest of the world. Lets us live in peace. We are fucking tired of your shit.

[gratefultobelib]

20. I'm planning on working very hard to retire Kit Bond here in MO in 2010!!

[Wabbajack_]

24. I bet Bond gets hard when talking about the gay

[Zambero]

25. He sounds like a wide stance type of guy

In the tradition of Larry Craig

[DBoon]

29. to a republican, compassion is evil

and the weak and poor should be killed and eaten

[Terran]

30. Bond is an embarassment to us Missourians

He's nothing but an old do-nothing drunk at this point.

[LeftishBrit]

31. How vile.

Compassion and empathy are now Bad Things?

I'm not religious, but it seems to me that there are quite a few things in the Bible that condemns such an attitude most strongly. Far more, in fact, than about abortion or homosexuality.

I suppose he would want to appoint Inspector Javert from Les Miserables to the Supreme Court?

[eringer]

32. And now hear is what Obama actually said

During his introductory remarks at a rally for Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) this morning, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) warned that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) would nominate judges who empathize with “the gay.” Misrepresenting Obama’s stated views on judicial nominations, Bond proclaimed:

Just this past week, we saw what Barack Obama said about judges. He said, ‘I’m tired of these judges who want to follow what the Founding Fathers said and the Constitution. I want judges who have a heart, have an empathy for the teenage mom, the minority, the gay, the disabled.’ … He thinks this country should be a government—not a government of laws, but a government of compassion and empathy, not of laws.

In fact, in discussing judicial nominations, Obama’s references to “empathy” only suggest that he would seek individuals who were not tainted by the “culture wars” of the 1990s:

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. … I am absolutely convinced that Culture Wars are just so ’90s. Their days are growing dark.

[freeradicalm]

34. HEY, KIT BOND!!!!

It's a shame your bush-rubber-stamp-asshole isn't up for re-election this year, we could purge YOU out of this corrupt system as well. Kansas City and St Louis WILL carry MO for OBAMA!! You have no choice but to get used to it. And I am so looking forward to 2010
signed,
A MISSOURI UNION VOTER :kick: :kick: :kick:

[bdamomma]

35. can Kit Bond be voted out too.

he is another useless person.

[skiddlybop]

36. That's TEH Gay to you...

...Bitch.

[geomon666]

37. Oh no, it's Teh Gay! n/t

[Fovea]

38. Bond is a walking embarrassment to Missouri.

But then again, Cape Girardeau as a (w)hole is a name I would not give to a flop house bunk.

[brentspeak]

39. Bond should be sued for slander

Bond: “He (Obama) said, ‘I’m tired of these judges who want to follow what the Founding Fathers said and the Constitution."

Obama said this, Bond? Where and when did he say that, jerk?