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Romney posed for a picture or two with some star-struck South Carolina voters—then made a beeline for the AP reporter. "Listen to my words, alright? Listen to my words." Seconds later, Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's traveling press secretary, took the AP reporter aside and scolded him for being "argumentative with the candidate" and asked him to "act professionally." Fehrnstrom also said, "Save your opinions," prompting the reporter to say, "It's not an opinion. It's a documentable fact."  A feisty South Carolina voter joined the fray, telling the reporter, "I think you're rude."

Minutes later, aboard a chartered plane set to take the candidate, his staff and a suddenly invigorated press corps on to Nevada, Romney again approached the reporter, vowing to "explain to you the campaign structure, how it works." Afterward, a Romney spokesman sought to clarify the situation. "Rick Davis is a lobbyist. He's running John McCain's campaign," said Fehrnstrom. "Ron Kaufman is the longtime national committeeman from Massachusetts. He is a friend of the candidate. He is not paid, and he does not run Mitt Romney's campaign, and he does not participate in senior strategy meetings." There was much to think about on the way to Vegas, like how many news stories about Romney and lobbyists lie ahead, how many clicks the viral video would get—and whether anyone watching would care as voters render crucial decisions in Nevada and South Carolina this Saturday.

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  • Posted By: Doodle Yankee @ 02/12/2008 8:44:03 PM

    Let us recap your ???facts- as you state them: So dear Joe, who was in Utah attempting to -throw down capitalist principles,- was conclusively condemned to death in the land of the Latter Day Saints for being ???involved- in a shooting, despite the lack of conclusive evidence. He may or may not have been guilty, you say. He not only chose to be shot to death but refused to submit to a new, -fair trial- so that he could become a martyr for workers, so you say.

    This latter factoid implies the real truth, that the first trial that condemned him to death in Utah was not a fair trial. Even so, his mortal body was riddled with bullets in the land of the Latter Day Saints. Nevertheless, despite the certainty that, then as now, the State of Utah, its government, police, courts and penitentiaries are operated exclusively by Mormons, you seem to deny that Mormons had anything at all to do with the judicial murder of poor Joe Hill.

    Also, you seem to strongly imply that because of his disreputable association with labor unions attempting to ???throw down capitalist principles,??? because he was constantly ???in trouble with the law,??? and because he was not preacher but only an unsavory union organizer acting like a preacher, he probably deserved to be executed.

    So, where did you get your facts, wise guy? Das wut I wanna no! Is it a secret only available to cult members?

    Also, your misleading comments only cover a footnote to my posting and, as all the other Mormon ditto heads have done, you ignored the main text of the posting. For instance, even Muslims can enter their mosques without getting permissions from their, er, superiors.

    May love and forgiveness be your companions.

  • Posted By: Doodle Yankee @ 02/10/2008 6:03:27 PM

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    Hail!

    Huckabee the southernish Baptist, with his Holy Roller absolutists, hath vanquished Mitt the wearying Robot, with his Mormonish Holier than Thouers!

    Ain???t America???s separatist religious sects wonderful in their righteous SPITEFULNESS, and in their insistence on OBEDIENCE to the interpretations of their own power-worshiping clerics?

    May the living Christ save us from them all.

    Amour! - and Glory Hallelujah!

    @ 01/21/2008 2:14:01 AM
    @ 01/19/2008 4:41:20 PM & 01/19/2008 4:38:54 PM
    @ 01/18/2008 8:12:26 PM

    Shall you kneel in deep submission
    from your cradle to your grave?
    Is the height of your ambition
    to be a good and willing slave?
    Joe Hill, martyr for the liberty of the Son of Man.

    xxx

  • Posted By: flapjack @ 01/30/2008 3:43:19 AM

    Re: "Their theology is from the lie in the garden "Thou shall not surely die, Thou shall be as gods."

    Adam and Eve DIDN'T die, and they DID become as gods, knowing good and evil (Gen. 3:4-5). Satan wasn't lying to them, he was tempting them to disobey God. C'mon, people: read the Bible.

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