>>This is nothing compared to what happened when Kennedy ran...
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>I'm reading something unusual (at least for me).
A magnificent Catastrophe is about "The Ttumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign" Jefferson's religion (or lack of same) was a major rallying point for the Federalists.
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Good book. Fast forward to 1884 ( with a nod along the way to the Know-Nothing party of the 1850s) and we see Dr. Samual Burchard at the Republican National convention labelling the Democrats the part of "Rum, Romanism and rebellion"
(Grover Cleveland - despite the rumors he had fathered a child out of wedlock - still defeated James G. Blaine)
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>>>I've never heard the general discussion of religion as it relates to politicians. I could be wrong, but as far as i know, it didn't really become a hot topic until someone in bush's camp decided that they were going to win the election by courting the evangelicals.
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
