Local Pa. Newspaper Editor to Letter Writer: 'Whole World Is Rejoicing' Over Obama

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Get off. The whole world is rejoicing with the change of leadership in America.
Or haven't you noticed? The whole world ......

That certainly ought to tell you something.

That's the curt reply from Bethlehem [Pa.] Press editor George Taylor to MRC tipster Shawn Loy who had written an e-mail letter to the editor of tnonline.com, the online version of the Lehighton [Pa.] Times News. In his letter, Loy argued that President Obama's pro-abortion policies cut against his campaign promises to work to reduce abortion and improve the economy:

In summary, let me see if I have this correct:  so far, our President's
plan for the economy is for U.S. taxpayers to pay for the aborting of
future customers/consumers all over the world. In other words, the
business case is this: decrease market potential as fast as possible by
decreasing our bank accounts as fast as possible.

I guess I'm still confused.

[...]

Well, at least one thing hasn't changed.  The national press is still
giving him a free pass on everything he does.

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I guess I'm an alien.

Those who believe in nothing will believe anything.

Everybody? Really????

Then why is The Messiah whining about Rush Limbaugh and those pesky Republicans (who also happened 'to win' last November or they wouldn't have been sitting across the table) who aren't just putting on the blindfolds and walking into traffic as a test of faith.

The only ones rejoicing...

Are those in the countries that want the US to shut up and do as we are told while footing the bill for their military protection.

I firmly believe that it's about time that we close all the military bases in Europe and bring those folks home. Europe ought to be able to defend itself. "We're going home guys, just give a yell if you need any assistance..."

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012

"just give a yell"

I'd modify that slightly, c5: "This number is no longer in service."

Give me a break...you can't

Give me a break...you can't help but laugh!

The whole world is rejoicing...oh puhleeeeze....somebody may want to send a memo to AL Qaeda...last I heard they had some rather interesting terms they were using to describe the Candy Man.

The SOCIALIST world loves

The SOCIALIST world loves him.

Eye Opening

The Democratic Party/leftist hubris is growing daily. This is literally insane - 100% against the tenets and ethics of journalism. This is how rebellions are created, and how revolutions are won. I'm telling everyone: the lessons of the 1994 democratic losses in the house and senate are around the corner for this new round of Democratic Party tyranny.

Has he been out of America?

It sounds like this idiot is just like Obambi.  They have not been out of America and lived an adult life with the people that they have to integrate with.  He has no idea of what is going on in the world and has the press with wolf blitzer and poodle smith supporting him.

Typical idiot who has never

Typical idiot who has never met a conservative, nor can imagine knowing one.  Assumes everyone he meets on the street are registered Dems....

I listen to talk/news radio

I listen to talk/news radio from all over the world. It's become a little hobby of mine lately.

Overall, I detect a fairly neutral "let's see what he does" attitude in the news and from callers to radio shows. Haven't heard any "excitement" or the adoration our own Old Media expresses for Obama.They note he is the first black president, and perhaps something he's done, and not much else.

People in other countries have their own issues--high taxes, lousy health care, crooked politicians. That's what callers and news readers talk about there. US politics comes up only occasionally, just as what's happening in the UK or Germany or wherever comes up occasionally here.

But a H U G E  excitement about Obama? Naw. 

For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.

Who cares if the whole

Who cares if the whole world is rejoicing? If the whole world was playing in traffic, would you do it too, Mr. editor? What are you, 12?

"Get off. The whole world is rejoicing with the change of leadership in America. Or haven't you noticed? The whole world ......That certainly ought to tell you something."

It tells me there are a lot of dumb people in the world, and many of the dumbest ones are right here in the U.S.  Some of them even work for newspapers.

Why blame Islam?

Why blame Islam? Individuals, not religions, carry out inhuman acts.  Islam is a religion of peace, accepted and practiced by more than 1.25 billion people worldwide. It is the fastest-growing religion in the world, and if it was what some critics claim, why should the people from all walks of life from around the world keep embracing Islam? Where is the sword now? In Islam, a person has the right to defend himself, his family, his country or his neighbor(s), which justifies the resistance being offered by the people of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Kashmir and Palestine, to attacks on their soils by the so-called liberators, who are actually the occupiers. The Holy Qur’an clearly states that if a person saves one life, it’s as if he saved humanity, and if a person kills one human being, it’s as if he killed humanity.  What is happening in the enslaved Muslim countries is a natural reaction to occupation, bombings, killing and terrorizing of innocent civilians (children, old men and women), rapes, in addition to looting of resources, national antiques and artifacts, above all the destruction of their property by the occupiers.  Terror breeds terror.  We assure those who bash Islam that if there was no occupation in this world by foreign invaders, there would be no resistance – the so-called terror. Please explain criminal acts committed by Christians and Jews on Jews, other Christians and Muslims alike, throughout history: - Hundreds of thousands of Muslim men, women and children killed by the crusaders, who were Christians.  - Inquisition of Jews and Muslims from Spain by Queen Isabella, a Christian.  - Millions of people killed by the European and American Christians during the two world wars and the civil wars.  - Atrocities committed on millions of Jews and Christians by Adolph Hitler, a professed Christian.  - Hundreds of thousands of Christians killed every year by the Irish Christians, including the British and the IRA, both Catholics and Protestants, during the past few centuries. Why they are not blamed to be “Christian Terrorists, or Catholic Terrorists, or Protestant Terrorists?” Both of them believe in Jesus Christ, who told them to turn the other cheek, and both of them believe in the same Lord, Who commanded that “Thou shall not kill.” Period.   

-         Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, in the United States of America, was a Catholic. Are all Catholics terrorists?

 For more than sixty (60) years, the Zionists are actively involved in the genocide of a whole nation, killing a number of Muslims in the occupied territories of Palestine on a daily basis with machine guns, missiles from helicopters, tanks, and bombs from F16s, under the watch of the western countries, the so-called champions of the human rights. How do you explain that?  Just by labeling the freedom fighters as terrorists and launching another holocaust on the poor Palestinians as revenge will not wipe out the crimes or the guilt of Hitler! Where are the justice, equality, freedom, and above all the human tights of Palestinians, dead or alive, propagated by these champions of human rights? Last but not least, how do you explain the bombings, killings, lynching, murders and raping of innocent Native American Indians and black slaves (Afro-Americans) committed by the so-called Christians in the United States during the past 200 years of her history. What about them? Will those filled with hate for Islam blame Christianity for the above inhuman acts by Christians in various parts of the world since its inception?  If not, then why are they blaming the religion of Islam for what is a natural reaction to occupation of Muslim countries by foreign invaders?  Most importantly, these folks should know that the three (3) great Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – have one common basis, and that is one God Almighty.  “All men (and women) are created equal, and we all are one nation under Almighty God,” is a clear cut statement according to the Holy Qur’an and is very well elucidated in the Constitution of these United States, one of the champions of the human rights. Lastly, yet importantly, as brothers in humanity, we recommend those Islamophobists filled with prejudice to get life and an education in the history of Islam and Muslims, before they dare to write nasty letters, articles, and news releases, using out of context verses from the Holy Qur’an and distorted statements from the true traditions of our Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him), full of personal, ingrain hate and vendetta against Islam and Muslims. We would be pleased to provide anyone with free copies of the Holy Qur’an and Islamic literature in English or any other language, which would help them to understand the truth about Islam and Muslims and get rid of all hate from their systems, God willing.  May God Almighty show the light to all those, who believe in one mankind, as children of Adam and Eve, hence brothers and sisters, no matter what they believe in, Amen"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
- Samuel P. Huntington (author The Clash Of Civilizations)

 

What a very strange TROLL

A 69 year old who's been a member for almost a year and this is his second post. The first was a bunch of Bible quotes. Fascinating.

If you want anyone to respond to that massive load of complete and utter sh!t, try numbering your specific points and inserting some page breaks.

Suffice it to say, you are completely insane.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

I gave up a few lines in. 

I gave up a few lines in.  It's got that unhinged, manifesto-written-beneath-a-bare-bulb feel, doesn't it?

JasonC

ROFLMAO!!

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

I figured it was just that

I figured it was just that wacko who thinks the FBI is using microwave radiation on him to interupt is sleep.

→ Qazi

That's funny. I don't care who y'are

Ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran

...help them to understand

...help them to understand the truth about Islam and Muslims and get rid of all hate from their systems, God willing.

I'm willing to learn.

Start with Sharia law please.

You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

Babies are NOT "customers"

The pathetically biased statement at the beginning of this blog makes it fairly clear that any defense of Obama will only be met with a harsh counterattack. This lust for polarization and partisan logic makes the blog pretty much a waste of the alphabet. But, since I'm here, I will offer one opposing thought. Obama didn't decide to fund abortions around the world because, as you're suggesting, he's a baby-killer. He did it because there are parts of the world that are in dire need of responsible family planning support, of which abortion is just a small part. Because of his ideology, George W. Bush withdrew that support. Nobody, especially Obama wallows in the joy of terminating a pregnancy, despite the implication of your statement. But, for once, a progressive leader is acknowledging the fact that some countries cannot provide sufficient medical care and food to their exploding, poverty-stricken populations. Family planning would appear to be a more humane alternative to allowing disease and war to rectify the problem. Or do you think we should just turn our back and let them kill each other and starve to death?

 The national press is giving Obama a "free pass" because most of them understand something that has yet to dawn upon you. You appear to prefer the status quo, even though most of the world would agree that it has been a sensational failure.  

→ JRJ08

Haven't seen you in a while.

Those babies that have been aborted since 1973 have been replaced on a 1:1 ratio with Aliens, both legal and otherwise.

Nature abhors a vacuum.  Might want to safeguard that space between your ears a little better.

Ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran

I always like it when people

I always like it when people here prove my point without even realizing it.

How so?

How so?

So.........

According to JRJ08, third world countries are composed solely of people who copulate like rabbits, kill each other, and wallow in filth and disease. So they're better off dead.
Quite a solution there, buddy. Why don't we just nuke them and be done with it?

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

The pathetically biased

The pathetically biased statement at the beginning of this blog makes it fairly clear that any defense of Obama will only be met with a harsh counterattack.

Evil should be confronted.

This lust for polarization and partisan logic makes the blog pretty much a waste of the alphabet.

Polarization between good an devil is necessary, and partisanship between the same is essential.  You just don't like being told you are wrong or evil.  Get used to it.

Obama didn't decide to fund abortions around the world because, as you're suggesting, he's a baby-killer.

Well, his stance on the born alive infant protection act proves otherwise.

He did it because there are parts of the world that are in dire need of responsible family planning support, of which abortion is just a small part.

If other parts of the world wish to participate in such evil, they should pay for it themselves, not with my tax contributions.

Nobody, especially Obama wallows in the joy of terminating a pregnancy, despite the implication of your statement.

Once again, his stance on the born alive infant protection act proves otherwise.

But, for once, a progressive leader is acknowledging the fact that some countries cannot provide sufficient medical care and food to their exploding, poverty-stricken populations.

So I am responsible?

Family planning would appear to be a more humane alternative to allowing disease and war to rectify the problem.

Unless your perspective is that of a child receiving a pair of scissors to the cranium....

Or do you think we should just turn our back and let them kill each other and starve to death?

It does allow for free will, which your preferred option does not.

The national press is giving Obama a "free pass" because most of them understand something that has yet to dawn upon you.

Or, like you they prefer to live a life without consequense.  Having been trained with them in the 80's I find that much more likely.

You appear to prefer the status quo, even though most of the world would agree that it has been a sensational failure.

Please prove this assertion.

This makes sense...

Isn't Bethlehem Pres. Obama's birthplace?

www.ScottOnCapeCod.com

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!

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