Any person still possessing even an ounce of integrity--or hearing--could not possibly conclude that the "aye" voice votes to insert both items back into the Democrat agenda constituted a two-thirds majority of the people present at the convention. In short, democracy was hijacked by the party elites, who demonstrated the where ultimate destination of such elitism inevitably leads: we don't' give a damn what you want, this is the way it's going to be.
The chief perpetrator of the fraud, Los Angeles Mayor and convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa,
compounded his dishonesty. "It was a lot of ado about nothing," he said last Friday when reporters told him that they did not clearly hear two-thirds support for the agenda. "That's nice to know. I was the chairman and I did, and that was the prerogative of the chair." He then contended that any delegate who objected to the process could have made a formal challenge within 10 minutes of the vote. "Not one person objected. It's more a media concern than a delegate concern. I can tell you this--the president of the United States said, 'Wow.' The president said, 'You showed why you were speaker of the California Assembly,'" Villaraigosa contended. "The president, the vice president, Mrs. Obama, all of them acknowledge decisive way I handled that," he added.
No doubt they did. This is an administration that has demonstrated an historically unprecedented contempt for the democratic process, as well as the Constitutionally-mandated separation of powers, the latest example of which was Obama's executive order legalizing nearly a million illegal aliens. Throw in a media that has gone right along with the program--in this instance, any reporter with an ounce of journalistic integrity could have interviewed some of the conventioneers to find out if they even
knew they could object to Villaraigosa's gambit--and you have the perfect storm of Soviet-style thuggery and media collaboration.
As for the platform itself, unless one is completely willing to suspend one's capacity for common sense, it is impossible to believe the omission of God and Jerusalem was an "accident." Columnist Pat Buchanan rightly
noted that, at least with respect to God, "(T)his process has been under way for a decade. In the 2004 platform, there were seven references to God. In 2008, one." If not for the public relations disaster that was being generated by what little free press remains viable in this nation, God would have undoubtedly "pitched a shutout" at this year's convention.
As for Jerusalem, who's kidding whom? Here's an
exchange between reporters and State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell that took place the day
after Jerusalem as Israel's capitol was ostensibly re-inserted into the Democrat platform:
QUESTION: Which city does the U.S. Government recognize as the capital in the--Israel?
MR. VENTRELL: Well, as you know, longstanding Administration policy, both in this Administration and in previous administrations across both parties, is that the status of Jerusalem is an issue that should be resolved in final status negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. So that's longstanding Administration policy and continues to be so.
QUESTION: I mean, no city is recognized as a capital by the U.S. Government?
MR. VENTRELL: Again, I just stated our position, and it's one we've said here many times before.
The interview deteriorated after that, when reporters asked Ventrell if the State Department acknowledged
any city as the capitol of Israel--or if there were any other countries in the world where the U.S. doesn't know what the capital is, or won't say what the capital of a country is. Ventrell refused "to play the verbal game," as he put it.
The only thing sadder than this obvious sellout is the number of clueless Jewish Americans who will continue to vote for a party with a large faction of members who would not only toss Israel under the bus, but God right along with it. One is left to wonder if there is a threshold of anti-Semitism and/or godlessness that would give such people cause to reconsider. Perhaps the slogan "never again" no longer resonates. In a better world, such cluelessness would be shameful--but shame is another thing that is no longer part of the Democrat party platform.
Once again--for the umpteenth time--a nation with no moral compass is no nation at all. The swamp of moral relativism Democrats have long embraced as a political party is bad enough. That they have inculcated that valueless value system into the public school system is both the greatest and least acknowledged crime of modern times. It is a crime that assures them fixed percentage of votes, courtesy of those with few critical thinking skills, little or no knowledge of American history, an outrageous sense of self-entitlement, and a lemming-like willingness to let the Democrat party elites do their thinking for them.
Villaraigosa
knows he is lying about the vote. Even if one could dismiss the deer-in-the-headlights look on his face and the stammering when it became apparent that the vote wasn't going the way he and his elitist comrades wanted it to go, how does one possibly countenance two extra rounds of voting? One can't--without countenancing the idea that reality is what ever a Democrat party apparatchik says it is.
This speaks to the soul of the Democrat party, from a Nancy Pelosi who told the American people Democrats had to pass a healthcare bill so we could find out what's in it after the fact, to a Harry Reid who refuses to let the Senate vote on a budget in order to obscure the fiscal recklessness embraced by his party; from a Justice Department up to its neck in scandal and race-based dispensations of "justice," to a president for whom Congress, the Constitution and the American public are little more than an impediment along the way to
"fundamentally transforming the United States of America."
Antonio Villaraigosa's dictatorial impulses last Thursday night were not a refutation of the values embraced by today's Democrat party. They were the embodiment of them.
