After Republicans spent a day questioning Democrats' commitment to Israel and God because of the omission of both words in the Democratic Party's official platform, Democrats decided to amend the platform Wednesday. A senior White House official said President Obama personally intervened in order to get language in the platform naming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Similar language appeared in the Democrats' 2008 platform, but it was left out of this year's version because many Palestinians also want the city to be the capital of a Palestinian state. The original language in this year's platform professed an "unshakable commitment to Israel's security," but did not name Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The Ed Show's Ed Schultz played down the significance of a party platform to the candidate and said Obama made the right decision. The Rev. Al Sharpton commended the president for "not running away from his platform." MSNBC contributor and senior McCain 2008 campaign advisor Steve Schmidt called it an "unforced error." Chris Hayes, however, had much stronger words, calling it a "craven capitulation" and "substantively terrible decision."
"I just want to get that on the record," he said Wednesday night on a panel with Rachel Maddow and other MSNBC hosts and contributors. He explained:
If you read this platform, there is not a single condition put on Israel ... there's conditions put on the Palestinians ... there's nothing said about the settlements. If the American government policy is actually that Jerusalem is the capital, and the American government wants to move the embassy to Jerusalem, there's been plenty of opportunities for both Republicans and Democrats to do it, and they have not done it, because it's a terrible idea from the perspective of actually getting a lasting peace.
On the subject of the word "God," which was also added back into the platform, Rachel Maddow pointed out that the original draft used the word "faith" many times. She said, "They used faith instead of God, which of course is a scandal, because this is an even-numbered year."
"Don't feed the trolls," Hayes said.
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This will be awkward. Wonder how Sec. Clinton will explain all of this to the Palestinians?
How can they explain it to Maddow?
she doesn't talk to palestinians. she bombs them. shameless pandering to Israel again. Seriously, is this the United States of Israel now?
BUSH'S EPIC FAILURE, DEFICIT,
1/20/01: $236.2 billion surplus
1/20/09: $1.2 trillion DEFICIT
(Congressional Budget Office)
Per CBO -- BUSH LEFT Obama $1.2 Trillion DEFICIT, and 3 Trillion in DEBT projected into Obama's term. Add to this the worst economic crisis in 80 years. 2006 Senate, 49/49/2.
These are FACTS. Learn what they mean or please do not vote because you'll be basing your vote on LIES
THIS IS CALLED A FACT, GOP. - Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey (Source: BLS Rpt. LNU02000000)
Actual job growth in the last two years is around 3.5 million jobs
Not just maddow but matthews as well. I bet they are both banging their heads against the wall.
Obama will be able to support the Palestinians after the election. For now, he needs the American Jew vote in 2012. You all know Mr Obama is a big Christian, ask Rev Wright
Fact is your smokin some killer $hit....there has been 0 jobs created and several hundred thousand less people working now than when obumbo took office. That is the facts!
Yep!OK two trillion in '09,and your president....has...about 14 trillion and climbing you sorry sacks of Communist dung.But of course this idiot is doing it for"us"....I smell treason in the air and it stinks....:o)
...........for a net loss of 300,000 jobs.
Nice try.
Next!
nicely said.
Did Obama finally realize that unless he does this he will lose? The phony. He does whatever he has to do to win. He is being financed by some big unions and George Soro's. Wake up America. Democrats are such sheep. Too emotional and they can't analyze the facts..
me-1121098: !@#$ the Palestinians!
yeah Bush racked up 5 trillion in national debt in 8 years...Obama added 6 trillion of national debt in 4 years. BOTH PARTIES SPEND MONEY LIKE DRUNKEN SAILORS.....vote green!
@Stoptheliesnow. You need to understand what this all means... the surplus was from the yearly budget the countrty itself was already in debt 8 trillion. bush left with it being around 12 trillion after a 8 year period. Obama has already matched what bush had done in 4 years rather than 8. unelpoyment is actally higher unlike what he is telling people that it has decreased. and both his obamacare plan and his new tax the wealthy subjective tax are both so socialist its scary. if you were an AMERICAN you would know this country was not founded on those principles. ALso Obama has increased the federal budget by almost another Trillion we dont have. Obama may have created a few million jobs but that doesnt mean uneployment goes down many more people have lost their jobs than he is creating Unemployment is still up. "AMERICA!!"
keep on drinking the koolaid I do not know where you got your numbers I still know people that have not found jobs.
Another typical Liberal/Progressive embarrassment.
Of course the secularists, atheists, agnostics and other pagans don't want God included in their platform. They worship at the holy altar of Government.
Of course Barrack Hussein had to intervene, if for no other reason to continue giving the appearance of being a Christian.
Of course Barrack Hussein wanted to deny that Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel. We all remember that pathetic scene last year at the Whine House where Israeli Prime Minister schooled Barrack Hussein about the Israeli borders and the way negotiations will go with the Palestinians.
Clint Eastwood was right when he addressed the empty chair. Barrack Hussein is an empty suit president.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans
The funny thing about this platform change is if you actually heard the vote at the DNC the NAYS clearly won the vote to not change the party platform. They did a simple say AYE say NAY vote and it required 2/3rds to pass. The politicians just pretended the NAYs were not winning the shouting contest and inserted the language anyway.
Anything for a vote. You gotta be kidding me, the second he's elected he'll personally eliminate any mention of the country of Israel from the platform, and they call Romney the flip-flopper. He's not for gay marriage, no actually he is. he wants to shrink the Israeli's borders, no actually he wants them in the platform. Don't fall for this garbage people.
This is really pathetic at this time,just say anything,anything in order to be re-elected. To a term in office that you could not handle in '08 and you f**king knew it! Mitt Romney isn't going to win in November because he had the most votes. Romney will win because you are a failure Barack Obama.
Stop the lies, I love the Bureau of Labor Statistics...and just how rotten the economy has been under President Obama, in terms of unemployment rate.
As you will notice at the site, Under President Reagan we dropped unemployment 3% in 14 months, from the peak in Dec 1982 thru Feb 1984.
Under Failed Big Govt Policies and President Obama, we've dropped only 1.7% unemployment in the last 36 months, since Oct 2009 when we peaked at 10.0%.
The Reagan recovery: twice as much growth in employment, in half the time. hahahahahha. And he had worse unemployment in his first 2 years.
Wow....can't believe they booed God. Sure makes is it easier for an independent to decide which way to vote.
You should stop telling lies yourself.
Fact 1:For the last 20 years, the US has not had a balanced budget and has had an increasing deficit.
Fact 2: CBO figures you refer to were projected surplus...but not an actual surplus. To give you an idea, for 2011 the CBO projected a deficit of 600B, in fact we had a deficit of over 1T.
Fact 3: 1990-2000; the deficit increased by 2.4 Trillion
2000-2008; the deficit increased by 4.3 Trillion
2009-present; the deficit increased by 6 Trillion.
Its been 4 years now and supporters of President Obama still cant shake Bush. I never heard more whiney people that his supporters. When Clinton was president, we had many problems and his supporters didnt blame Reagan or Bush Sr. nearly as much. Bush Jr got Y2K and the collapse on wall street, plus the trade center catastrophe-I never heard him blame Clinton. Give it a rest - it is 4 years now...either get something going or get out.
And Please remember this: it wasnt Bush who gave Solyndra 500MM dollars only to see it fold less than a year later.
I rarely blame Presidents - its congress that spends, and every single member should look themselves in the mirror and say lets see where we can slow spending going forward...otherwise we may be looking like Greece in a few years.
GOP are, SLOW, SLOW, SLOW... so, here you go.
GOP MISLEAD WITH: "LESS PEOPLE WORKING NOW HAN 2009" - These job losses occured during Obama's first year --- it took time to turn things around from Bush's 750K jobs lost per month ---- and if you read the graph at left you can clearly see that Obama turned the trend around. Just imagine if Bush had remained! Just imagine if Romney is elected. GOP, GO BACK TO SLEEP!
Graph at left: RED = job losses/Adds under BUSH. BLUE= Job losses/Adds under Obama. GOP, how can you not see the truth here? Obama turned the Bush nightmare around and if you can't see this you need help. GOP YOU NEED HELP!!!
john-1934570 -
National Debt is now $16T. It was $10.626T when Bush left office. Per CBO -- BUSH LEFT Obama $1.2 Trillion DEFICIT, and 3 Trillion in DEBT projected into Obama's term. Add to this the worst economic crisis in 80 years.
Spin this all you like..... you can do nothing else.
Ticked off in Ohio - post 1.23 offers you the truth instead of your misrepresentation. Are you man enough, honest enough to say, hey.... STLN is right! You can not argue the the graph at left... not rationally. Not honestly.
Have a nice night.
Obama reportedly intervenes to get pro-Israel language into Democratic platform
This President is now trying to get the Pro- Israeli vote.
Now he's trying to appeal to christians? Please, we all know that he is muslim. He was raised by a muslim stepfather, went to a muslim school, is seen constantly praying as mosques and to top it all off, his former pastor ( Rev. Jeremiah Wright )was a former muslim who preached racist sermons for years.The only reason Obama decided to switch to christianity is because he thought he would get more votes.
Everyone knows he will jump at the chance to attend a muslim function, but he can't be found anywhere near a church?
The biggest evidence however, is that Obama keeps giving billions of dollars in aid to muslim countries while at the same time cutting Israel's defense aid by two-thirds.
Tell me.... how again is that Pro-Israel?
America isn't falling for it anymore, Mr. President.
Mitt Romny 2012
Does anybody have a copy of the platform from the last democratic national convention?
How well did Obama stick to that?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there has been a net loss of 316,000 jobs since 2009. Income has dropped $4,000.00+ per year since 2009. Overall, median income has dropped 7.3%. Even people finding jobs are getting lower paying jobs, thus the dramatic increase of people on food stamps/welfare.
Gasoline has risen from $1.84 in 2009 to $3.89 in 2012. Food has increased 20%, clothing 35%. Health insurance premiums are up 6%, and projected to rise by 20 to 30% in 2014.
I do not think anyone in Washington has done their job. To save this country, we need to send all incumbants home and start over.
Well it only got em three trys to get it approved. Since they back the arabs how do they figure anybody would believe em. I GET IT. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL REINVENTION. and the liberal sheep follow and bleat along to the new tune. What a joke.
yes, they back the arabs so much they're warring with half the middle east. do you have any other retarded observations?
GOP 1) Don't want us to see Romney's Tax Returns, 2) Don't want us to know who's contribution to their campaigns, 3) Don't' report ANY of this on Faux News. 4) Grover Norquist was NOT elected! 5) Now voMITT won't tell us where he disagrees with Ryan on his budget!!! GOP, why don't you believe in the America people?
The Democrats are anti Israel? Obama tries to change Platform before Jewish supportors wake up.
Those who bless Israel will be blessed, Those who curse Israel will be cursed. The Democratic Party Leaders are cursed of God? That's a brazen step for them to take. God is not mocked. Woe to these idiots. If you live next door to any of them, you would be wise to move.
:o)
Thomas........Obama backs the Muslims and the Muslim brotherhood. He doesn't care about the Christian Arabs!!!!!!!!!!!
how come MSNBC isn't hounding Obama for his tax returns for the last 10 years??? Why isn't Obama offering his tax returns and say "I released my returns Mitt, why haven't you"...think about that...THEY BOTH HAVE STUFF TO HIDE...WAKE UP PEOPLE!
because they kiss his butt!
Why won't Obama unseal all his college records and transcripts. What's in there
that is soo bad he has ordered them sealed and no one can see them. And he is
having Harry Reed yell about tax returns when the have two yrs. There is something
fishy abou those collage transcripts. Maybe he really did go to college as a forein
exchange student and does not want anyone to know it.....
Obahaha will not release college transcripts of any of the three colleges he supposedly attended, why should Romney release tax forms.
For anyone who says they know the truth and vote for Obahaha, they only need to research (ACORN) and Obahaha connection.
If you still vote for Obahaha you are not only a lying socialist but a TRAITOR of the USA..............
Just trying to buy more votes = Obama needs to go away =along with the Clintons & all oother Idiot Democrats .We adverage & retired people always suffer when democtars are in power -sad & stupid!
and the rest of us suffer when you try to exercise your brains. i actualy agree that Dems need to go away. But the fascists--that probably means you--need to go away even faster.
THINKING OF VOTING FOR MITTENS? During his term, Massachusetts fell from 36th to 47th out of 50 states in job creation, while the overall U.S. economy grew. Of the jobs that were created in Massachusetts, state government jobs grew at six times the rate of private sector jobs.
You obviously are not part of the retired, or average people you refer to, or you wold be running from the Ryan/Romney budget and GOP platform as fast as your legs could carry you! Take some time and read just what Mr. Ryan has in store for you, should the GOP actually prevail in November, instead of just listening to Faux News, and Rush Limbaugh.
idiot
Do you never tire of your lying? Pathological are you about it? Lie away, no one believes your sorry self.
Why dont you brainwashed libtards do a little fact checking instead of just spewing the libtard mantra?
Massachusetts had an unemployment rate of 4% which is considered almost fully employed. At the time EVERYBODY was working and it took only tenths of a percentage point to move up and down in job creation stats.
Romney turned a wide budget deficit into a surplus, held the line on taxes, and left office with fewer unemployed in Massachusetts than today! And that's a fact!
Correct !
Silly Libs can't research past a headline.
AMEN!!!
Silly GOP, Romney made the numbers worse than when he arrived. No way of getting around this. Just more GOP BS.
:)
Fact: when Romney took office as the Governor of Massachusetts, the state was 47th. in employment. When Romney left office, the state was 28th.
Learn to google and fact check, and quit listening to MSM.
looking for that Jewish vote. Obama is truely a pos.
He will be back to his old ways as soon as the convention is over:(
Hmmm, the right brings up the point first, but now obama and company wants to take the credit. I would tell obama that he was a day late and a dollar short.
Why is it that obama always seems to want to follow instead of lead?
The delegates voted no and the chairman overruled recognizing "God and Jerusalem being the capital of Israel". Interesting development.
Anti-Semitic and atheist. DNC has got it's ducks in a row.
President Obama personally intervened in order to get language removed from the platform. The only reason it's back in is because of the heat he got for removing it in the first place.
The Jewish lobby groups are screwing this country every which way. Our foreign policy has no credibility because of the Jewish lobby groups. In the end it is doing little good. a bunch of rich Jews trying to run the world. The party is over. Any thing that stinks you can beat a Jew is involved. if you are dealing with Jews you have to be unbelievably tough or they will run over you. They got this superiority thing until you smack them around.. Not polite but true.
It's called pandering for the Jewish vote...classic Chitown election campaign...promise and say anything to get elected and smear you opponent distracting from the actual issues. Vote Green or Libertarian
But it did not pass.
Too funny
FOX NEWS orders the DNC and Obama to put GOD back in,,,,,,,,
wow
What a joke! The delegates clearly didn't want "God" nor "Jerusalem" back into the platform. All you have to do is listen to the vote at the convention, there were clearly more nays than yeas! Villaraigosa clearly went against what the delegates wanted just because Obama intervened. Wow, this is democracy in the Democratic party! But the fact that they actually removed "God" and "Jerusalem" in the first place shows how the extreme element has infiltrated the party! I don't see myself ever voting for a Democrat again!
true, but you see the same thing with the GOP and the Paulites? You people are such miserable suckers, the lot of you. Both parties playing you for fools.
the only thing politicians are good for is supplying fertilizer for your gargen whenever they open their mouths. Never heard so much b**l sh*t whenever they speak. Write in Ron Paul.
Glad to see the seperation of church and state alive and well! Our founding fathers would be rolling in their graves.
And of course, AIPAC continues to drive out foreign affairs agenda. Fair money that we are involve in a clash with Iran prior to Election day
Please read Washington's farewell address and then get back to me
WHAT DO YOU MEAN Our founding fathers would be rolling in their graves. THEY ALREADY ARE ROLLING OVER IN THERE GRAVES!!!!!!!!
Obama may have wanted it, but the party certainly didn't. I saw the vote and the nays had it way over the yeas. They said the first voice vote wasn't clear so they did it again. Both times it was voted down, yet it was declared to be accepted. You should have heard the boos!
Chevsmark........I'd rather hear the dummycrats booing than sucking
She will blame it on Bush like everything else this administration does.
If elected for another 4 years, will Obama have any responsibility for anything after eight years????????????
Nope, it will still be Bush's and the repubs fault...bet on it!
Wait a minute you know full and well that the Republican God also brought grief on them, you can bet that. This is the Chicago Mafia after all. Socialist in action!!
Now the low-level imbecile appears to be the big O himself - competing against The Twit for Traitor-in-Chief for Israel and against the US. He is about to make us complicit in mass murder and give the zionazis the keys to hell with which to bury us under rubble similar to 9/11. I accuse him of treason!!
Lol! The Extremist Filth in the Democratic Party put Partial-Birth Abortion Back on the Party Platform This Year!
Banned by Clinton and the Repubs in the 90's. So...you can murder babies in the 7th, 8th and 9th month of pregnancy that would immediately be able to live outside the womb.
These vermin try to call everyone else extreme. Baby-killing scum.
well, in their zeal to kill babies (cough), after I read your amazing post, I thought, "oops! they missed one here".
go drown a baby in the kitchen sink, child-killer.
Lol, this is "Progress" to Liberal Fanatics...regressing to partial-birth abortion, which we resolved 15 years ago.
Obama voted to kill babies after being born. If the obortion failed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a plan: the Dems want same sex marriage. Let them have it. The Dems want abortion on demand. Let them have it. In 4 generations, there won't be any Dems left.
oBozos' days are numbered...then he can go BACK to the jungle...that's right...Chicago!
I love it! Debbie washerwoman schultz said Romney is responsible for every word in the Republican platform. Today she said obama has nothing to do with the democrat platform. THey've hurt themselves severely, much more than they realize. Good job left-wing HYPOCRITES! LMAO!
Seems to me it is up to Israel to determine what city is its Capitol. What the Democrats or GOP put in either of their political platforms is immaterial. and no more than pandering for votes..
he will side with what ever is necessary to get the vote. he told Russia's official to tell Puten to wait until he is elected again and then he will have more flexability to get what they want done. type in "obama and russia" and you will read it for yourself. He has a very big hidden agenda and it won't come out til after the election. He doesn't want anyone to know what he is really about. If he is elected again, the real objectives will come out. Did you see Michelle and the kids in their african towels. they should have been praising the USA not africa. Look that one up. Look up the interview with military about putting his hate for America away since he is running for president! That's a good one! Wake up people. To all the women out there, he is like a cheating, lieing husband. Tells you what you want to hear to pacify so he can keep on cheating. Wake up!
I think that they should go with the roll call vote. Put God in a seperate roll call vote, also. The Nays may have lost but it sounded really close to me. I want America to see just how out of touch these people are. I want them to know that they believe it is a woman's right to chose all the way to the point of birth and paid for by tax dollars.
Doug........I highly doubt God wants to have anything to do with Obama and the democrats!!!!!!!!!!
They had this planned weeks ago, from the top on down. They told Obama about it last week. The same with that football stadium crap. Please, they are really throwing out all kinds of redicules information just to keep everybody off balance it seems. And they have total control of the news media, so sad!! What a party of losers!! Unions, Gays, Blacks, Hispanics that see a check in their mailbox, do i want to be a mother is there a check in it for me groups, wow what a bunch of pander's!!
Sadly, I don't think God cares about politics at all...unless it is to defend the freedom to choose him. Even sadder Lincoln said it right. It is not if God is on my side it is whether I am on his side. Not a direct quote but get the real idea. He does care about each person up until the time he returns. That should make us mindful of how we play with others even when we disagree. In God's eyes we are all children of the King until we choose otherwise.
Right Wing/ Left Wing, their both Zionist whores. Shalom !!!
um, no. i'm a left winger. that's not a synonym for Democrat. Try repeating that a hundred times until you memorize it.
Hate to throw him a bread crumb, but is Chris Hayes a troll?
It is even more funny that they could not get the votes on the floor to pass it. Reminds me of the healthcare votes-guess we deem it passed
As a NY Jew and was a solid Democrat, I am appalled that suddenly under pressure, Obama who I supported in 2008, has now changed his tune on Israel. His beliefs "du jour" are insulting to educated people. You've lost my vote!
that was a clear post. not.
are you one of those "progressive" jews that believes all brown people should be exterminated and their lands stolen? or are yu upset that Obama once more lurched to the right?
Rich-we are in the days of Ezekiel 38 and 39. Israel will be just fine even with Obama walking away from them
This whole thing just shows how the Democrats always play word games to be less than upfront and honest. Obama must have seen the polls and decided it was time to side with Israel. lol
The heat came on like blow torch. They thought that it would go undetected. They are totally out of touch with mainstream America. I am sure that half of the people there like the platform as it was. They believe that it's a womans right to chose all the way to the point of birth and it should be paid for by tax dollars.
How much of our tax dollars did he spend to have the NFL move to another night so he wouldn't have horrible ratings?
Great job Obama, you've the Democrats in a party of fags!
Notice how the puffs will now attack me with their hatred and violent language. They claim to be tolerant, but they won't tolerate my opinion, my religion or my choice. Hypocrites!
Snoop........Homos would be correct and fags is derogatory. If you believe in religion and practice religion,you need to be more understanding.
This is truely pathetic party.. pander pander pander.. no real
substance... slander and promote big government.. no where
is there any sort of liberty and freedom.. the promoting of real
personal achievement.. instead demonize everyone and everything
.. Truely the Demo's want a dictatorship..
King Obama is coming soon after the election!