Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
The general of this new policy is Anita Dunn and to get an insight of her mindset, just read this last paragrph of this article:
It is not hard to awaken her fiercer instincts. "Here in the White House, you are reluctant to feel like you have to go to that place," she says. "But we have to be more aggressive rather than just sit back and defend ourselves, because they will say anything. They will take any small thing and distort it." In other words, after eight months at the White House, the days of nonpartisan harmony are long gone — it's Us against Them. And the Obama Administration is playing to win.
Alan Grayson, the Freshman Representive from the 8th District of Florida is in my opinion a new rising star of the Democratic party. Although because of his recent speech on the house floor, Republicans have tried to paint him as some radical nut case, he is up to the battle. He graduated from Havard Law school with honors. As a trial lawyer, I would hate to have him on the opposite side of any case I ever try.
Here is the first of three videos I want to add to this post. This is his original speech that started all the recent attacks against him for which the Republicans demanded an apology:
Following this speech he gave this apology:
Following this speech he walked right into the stuation room and took on Wolf Blizer and the entire panel. Here is a video of this remarkable confrontation:
I love this guy. He is the type of straight talker that the Democratic party needs right now. This is the type of attacks that should have been coming from our Congressional leaders, not a freshman Representative.

My friend capthek posted this picture on his journal. Before I tell my story I want to give a little history by just posting the two post I made on capthek's journal. I posted these two responses:
Post 1: Actually those people in that picture were probably Southern Democrats and not Republicans at the time that picture was taken. I am lucky that my parents belived in and got on board with the new young leaders that emerged in the Democratic Party in the 50's and 60's. LBJ had more problems with the members of his own party then he did with the Republicans in getting the Civil Rights Act passed. The Republican domination in the South was caused because the Republican's welcomed with open arms these people in that picture and although they gained Southern dominance they lost their soul while the Democrat's gained their soul. LBJ said that the Civil Rights
Act would give the South to the Republicans for the next 60 years if the Republicans welcomed those people shown in that picture into their party, but that at the end of that 60 years the Democratic Party would emerge stronger and better, and the Republicans would become weaker and weaker because rejection of any influence by those shown in your picture was the Right side of the issue. He recommended that neither party welcome those type of people into their party. The Republicans didn't listen to LBJ and his prediction is about to come true.
Post 2: The key is education. I don't know if you are aware that when FDR was trying to fully integrate the Military during the 30's and 40's that he commissioned a study to determine the strengths and weakness of doing so and the report came back directly opposite of what he expected. It determined that blacks were inferior to whites and did not have the mental capacity to perform normal military activities such as flying airplanes. This gave credence to these people's arguments against inter-racial marriage and they really did firmly believe that inter-racial marriage was a Communist plot to cause the intelligence of our country to go down and make us inferior to other white nations. As long as any party continues to embrace the people with outdated and totally absurd views, they will continue to lose support from the educated in this country.
My Dad, a totally good and honorable man agreed with the report during my younger years because during his life he was only subjected to uneducated blacks with the vocabulary of 10 yr. olds. He thought it was his duty as a Christen to help this unfortunate race from which God withheld the ability to learn. He didn't think he was a racist, because he didn't "hate blacks" and condemned such things as lynchings. It was only when television gave him the opportunity to see and hear intelligent blacks like Martin Luther King and others that caused him to change his opinion. Education is the key.
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