Peter Grier wrote:
In an industry marked by dissembling and spin – and even outright lies – snippets of electronically captured moments often provide rare glimpses into a public figure’s true self, and the atmosphere in the rooms where it happens. Weapons, levers of influence, historical records: Tapes can be all these things. They can be quite useful for the person possessing them....

Omarosa Manigault Newman is just the latest figure to try and use the tale of the tape to support her version of a Washington narrative....

...In 2008, for instance, an unpaid volunteer for a Huffington Post citizen journalist initiative went to a Barack Obama fundraiser in San Francisco and recorded the then-candidate saying of white working-class voters, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Rival Hillary Clinton seized on the remark as a means to try and discredit Mr. Obama. They are still used by Obama’s critics as an example of what they call the former president’s elitism....

Neil wrote:
Sounds like a political bone thrown to the "Religious Right." This is not "putting God back into schools;" it is permission to display a trite theistic slogan, already on all our coins, which is so equivocal, it's meaningless. Given how many Americans behave, I would guess this god would be their bellies (Phil. 3:19).
If public schools *did* teach theology, they'd probably get it wrong anyway. Look at the wasteland of privately-funded theological seminaries. Be careful what you wish for.

Most churches are politically correct these days. Can anyone imagine how PC schools would be?

Dolores wrote:
I have a confession to make about the last post I put on here. I was not only wrong about the forum not being edifying to me because it has been and I have learned from others even when I disagree at times but I have sinned as well and ask forgiveness for allowing my temper to say things I shouldn’t have. I have asked God’s forgiveness and have felt He wants me to ask forgiveness here as well. So I do and thanks for any prayers for my husband who had a good report on the Renal Sonagram. Even talking about going hunting in a few months (always a good sign that he is feeling better).