Republican parents

On Wednesday the speakers at the Republican convention proudly and righteously described the humble, difficult beginnings of their parents experience in America. Thinking back to the struggles of my own parents, I wonder which political party those parents had put their trust and belief in during those years toward achievement. Want to bet it wasn't the Republican party for those other than Romney.

Or So It Should Be

"Robertson Reprimands "Right"

"Regent University's founder and chancellor, Dr. M.G. "Pat" Robertson yesterday warned the far Right of the Republican Party that its efforts have brought a dire warning in the form of Tropical Storm Isaac.  In the book of Genesis in the Christian Bible Isaac had been taken to be slaughtered by his father Abraham until saved by Divine intercession.  Robertson, referring to these passages in the Bible, said that it was clear to him that God was watching the Republican Party about to be sacrificed by the Far Right and that only a rejection of those extremes would bring about the Lord's intercession in the coming elections   He went on to point to the fact that "Isaac is transliteration of the Hebrew term Yiṣḥāq which literally means "He laughs/will laugh."  With a voice trembling he warned that the Lord was "laughing at the Party while still casting a dire warning."  Robertson refused to answer when asked if God may simply be laughing at the Party Ticket of Romney/Ryan. "All was not anger", Robertson said as he recalled that Isaac had dug a lot of wells suggesting to Robertson that the Party still had some vitality should it return to a root effort at digging more wells.  "Without question," he tearfully said, "as Isaac had stayed, unlike other Biblical Patriarchs, in Canaan, so should the Republican Party stay within the bounds of rational discourse and compromise for the good of America."  Robertson continued in somewhat disjointed references to the fact of the Qu ran's mentioning of Isaac some fifteen times and the science fiction works of Isaac Asimov as broader warnings by God to America."