Rick Perry offers a prayer for Obama at 'The Response' rally

What a class act!!

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry prayed for President Obama and asked God to keep the president’s family safe.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-p ... 7920.story

Class act? Wasn't this event funded by the American Family Association, a nutter group that believes that freedom of religion only applies to Christians?

Praying for Obama's family is more than most conservatives would do on here. So he has more class than many here.

WayneH wrote: Praying for Obama's family is more than most conservatives would do on here. So he has more class than many here.

Gotta agree with you there.

Interesting take on the prayer rally.

http://news.yahoo.com/republican-perry- ... 22036.html

The event was named "The Response" and billed as a day of prayer for a nation in crisis. It also gave Perry a national platform to sharpen his appeal to religious conservatives who play a big role in the Republican nominating race and have been unhappy with the current crop of contenders.

"Governor Perry achieved his goal today -- he drove almost every religious right leader and group into his corral," said Reverend Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

"This isn't the first time we have seen Governor Perry use a religious gathering or house of worship as a campaign prop," said Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network, a nonpartisan watchdog on far-right religious groups.

Perry is obviously positioning himself to be the religion candidate and get god on his side. He got smart this time, by not praying for something that can be measured. He previously asked people to pray to end the drought in Texas, something which god evidently ignored. This time, he is just "praying for our nation," which is nice and vague and can't be measured by results.

There's some interesting things about Perry:

a) He chaired the Al Gore campaign for Texas
b) He was originally elected to the House as a Dem.
c) His college transcript lacks any pretense of perfection

I suspect he's electable, and can create some appearance of bi-partisanship.

That said - he's placed a lot of stock in being part of the social-conservative camp.

I'm sure that being a social conservative will win votes (especially in Texas). However, it doesn't solve any of our fundamental problems.

I don't think grand-stand-ish prayer events will slow deficit spending.

I don't really think Perry's signature accomplishments will do much to reverse the tide.

No, but as "Preacher-in-Chief" he shows serious promise...

Kate wrote: Interesting take on the prayer rally.

http://news.yahoo.com/republican-perry- ... 22036.html

The event was named "The Response" and billed as a day of prayer for a nation in crisis. It also gave Perry a national platform to sharpen his appeal to religious conservatives who play a big role in the Republican nominating race and have been unhappy with the current crop of contenders.

"Governor Perry achieved his goal today -- he drove almost every religious right leader and group into his corral," said Reverend Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

"This isn't the first time we have seen Governor Perry use a religious gathering or house of worship as a campaign prop," said Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network, a nonpartisan watchdog on far-right religious groups.

Perry is obviously positioning himself to be the religion candidate and get god on his side. He got smart this time, by not praying for something that can be measured. He previously asked people to pray to end the drought in Texas, something which god evidently ignored. This time, he is just "praying for our nation," which is nice and vague and can't be measured by results.

You make it sound like most praying people haven't at one time or another prayed for things out of their control. Like farmers praying for rain, or families prying for a dying child, or someone praying for cnacer to go away. People pray for miracles every day. Not sure why you mock people who pray for them. But you are by far in the minority.

bailey bud wrote: There's some interesting things about Perry:

a) He chaired the Al Gore campaign for Texas
b) He was originally elected to the House as a Dem.
c) His college transcript lacks any pretense of perfection

I suspect he's electable, and can create some appearance of bi-partisanship.

That said - he's placed a lot of stock in being part of the social-conservative camp.

I'm sure that being a social conservative will win votes (especially in Texas). However, it doesn't solve any of our fundamental problems.

I don't think grand-stand-ish prayer events will slow deficit spending.

I don't really think Perry's signature accomplishments will do much to reverse the tide.

He has already said that he does not plan to run very much at all on social issues. People know where he stands. He wants to run on the economy and jobs. The two things that will determine if this country survives another decade. And when comparing his record with Obama's there really is no comparison. Almost half the jobs that were added since the recession, Obama can thank Rick Perry for. Perry made Obama look better than he really is and Texas helped us not already be in a second recession if not a depression.

I'm sure everyone enjoyed the "Christ-a-Palooza"... Since we know he doesn't have sh*t for an academic record, and we know he's destroyed the Texas education system, and we know up until recently he was (non-)conveniently a Democrat, the "Pray-a-Thon" must surely be a qualification as a Presidential candidate...

Yep, a Perry/Bachmann ticket would be a Democrat's dream come true....