Commentary by Jim Spence - Some people were shocked when Democrats, under President Obama’s direction, tried to remove the term “God-given” from their platform language. Some people were incensed when President Obama tried to remove language identifying and condemning Hamas for being a terrorist organization. And some people were surprised at efforts to remove the language asserting that Jerusalem will always be the capital of Israel. Not me. Having interacted with progressives who now dominate the Democratic Party for many years, I already knew more than half of the people at that convention last week lean towards atheism and ignoring the threat of radical Islam. After all, if you are an atheist, why would you care more about the security of Israel?
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Anthony Villaraigosa |
What is telling is the way Democrats continue to get away with disguising what people in charge of their party really want to do. First, the president’s people tried to quietly remove the pro-God and pro-Israel language. They figured nobody except those really paying attention would read their policy positions. Then, when the press caught on and started asking tough questions, Democrats got more than mildly irritated. At first they claimed the language was a "non-issue" even though the president went through the trouble to change it. Once it became clear that the nation might just start to perceive progressive Democrats as the pro-atheism anti-Israel party they are, poor Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa was given the assignment to rig the voice vote on the floor so Obama would be allowed to reverse course. The problem with trying to rig the voice vote is what Obama wanted to do was also supported by more than half the delegates. Not knowing they were part of a crass media manipulation scheme they booed when the party platform language was not allowed to go atheist and give Israel a good slap down.
The voice vote was an atrocity. Villaraigosa was captured on television with the look of a thief. His expression was not unlike a man caught in a burglary by the cops. After three tries Villaraigosa "claimed" that two-thirds of the delegates voice voted to re-insert the language. According to party officials, after the voting scam was done, and an incredible chorus of boos was heard, not a single delegate formally objected.
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Jeremiah Wright |
It is pretty easy to see why Democratic Party delegates are opposed to photo voter ID laws. They don’t even want their own platform language votes to be counted accurately.
Later, when asked how he could justify telling such a bald-faced lie on camera, Villaraigosa said his instructions came directly from the president. The L.A. Times quoted Villaraigosa as saying Obama told him, “You showed why you were speaker of the California Assembly. The president, the vice president, Mrs. Obama, all of them acknowledged the decisive way I handled that.” It is noteworthy that the administration was appreciative of the way the lie was carried out by a man who's work in California has helped drive the state towards bankruptcy.

What is amazing about this story is the president has been successful with every media outlet in the nation except Fox in making it seem that it was only by his efforts that those horrific changes in the Democratic Party platform were thwarted. Don't expect NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, or PBS to accurately report that Obama tried to make those changes and got caught right before he flipped by one hundred-eighty degrees and found a way to take credit in the media for defeating himself.
Just as Obama chose to attend Jeremiah Wright’s church for nearly two decades this president wants to adopt the philosophy that was preached there.
You need a complicit press to ignore what is going on in America and Obama has one. Is it any wonder the progressives absolutely hate Fox News? Fox News is the only media outlet standing between Obama and complete totalitarianism.

Real Voter Suppression: Democratic Party Delegates Didn't Even Want Their Own Votes Counted