Posted by
Randal Lee Manning Jr. on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:46:10 PM
I wanted to put up this quick midweek post to shed light on two democrats that are trying their best to make my points for me, and they were kind enough to do it on a national stage. Harold Ford Jr. recently opened his mouth and orated one of the best and most repeated logical fallacies I have heard. Ford said that Democrats don't "use the Bible to judge people" and that is a primary difference between democratic Christians and Republican Christians. With this one statement Ford has opened up a whole world of criticism on rational grounds. Now I could go into why the democratic platform holds to some principles that are incompatible with Judeo/Christian ethics but I will save that for a later blog. I want to shed light on some problems with Ford's statement. First Ford employs a sweeping generalization which is certainly not true of all people who claim to be both Christians and Republicans. Also his generalization is conveniently unverifiable by any good measure of verification that could be used to analyze the truth of such a statement. Secondly he fails to uphold his own stated principle. When claiming that Republican Christians "judge" people he is using the word in a pejorative sense to characterize the actions of "Republican Christians." In effect he is stating that Republicans are engaging in an activity that they ought not be engaging in. Does this sound a little bit like judgment to anyone else? What it boils down to is that Ford made a statement that is both factually unverifiable, incoherent and self-contradicting, so without further adieu I must call Harold Ford Jr. to RETURN TO REASON, but thank him for making my point.
The second politician who offers a perfect example of my previous blogs is John Kerry, one of the left's new patriots. In my post I couldn't put my finger on exactly how contemporary soldiers are viewed by the democratic party. Thankfully Mr. Kerry quickly spoke up and shed some light on the matter saying, "if you make an effort to get smart you will do well, if not you will get stuck in Iraq." To Kerry it is no longer the brave, the intelligent, the dutiful nor the brightest young men and women who serve in our military (which it most undoubtedly is) but we send the leftovers of our society who are incapable of "getting smart." The democratic party would be wise to put a muzzle on their 2004 presidential candidate or release a press statement stating that a blood test on Kerry came back and found that he had high levels of PCP pumping through his veins when he made the statement. All in all this gives Americans great insight and finally some truth as to how our soldiers and veterans are viewed by the democratic party.