SOME BITS FROM MITT AS IN A ROMNEY AND A RODMAN MOMENT

Mitt Romney’s recent speech asking for tolerance of his Mormon faith was called by some a JFK moment was, alas, anything but. Where JFK assured the American people his religion would be separate from his presidential policies and that he’d respect all differences, Mr. Romney’s speech was in many ways quite opposite. His contention that all members of organized religions are united as in similar, versus those who are not religions is illogical and anything but inclusive. Guess what, there are
some . . . differences between organized religions, duh, try Old and New Testament and the Koran; they are not quite replicates. And for what it’s worth, there are some pretty decent non-religious people around too Mitt, maybe even the one who took your place in the draft; you remember three Vietnam era deferments, another story.
Again as far as Mitt “the inclusive”, facts are that until 1978, Mormonism was officially a racist religion and while Romney now embraces the Mormonist view of racial equality of today, he never flipped or flopped against their anti-black sentiments of prior years, although to be fair, his parents did. But they’re not running.
Now then our Rodman, as opposed to Romney moment; Dennis Rodman was a basketball player of some note; and maybe as good a pure re-bounder as the NBA has ever had. Off the court, however, he could be off the wall and said so in his biography, “Bad As I Wanna Be”. So when we see people like Mr. Romney who, a relatively short time ago, preached or at least tolerated racial prejudice and divide, but who now claim to embrace inclusionism, part of us says will their biographies read “Fair As I Hadda Be”?
And we have mentioned, but will again, that Mr. Romney kicked off his presidential campaign at the Henry Ford Museum and to all who are not familiar with Mr. Ford’s view on religious tolerance, you need to read.