Do Democrats care about integrity, or is it a nuisance?

[The Mad Monk]

Honest question, if they support their platform changes.

A pretty impressive debut on the convention from what I've seen so far.

[Kidlicious]

I noticed that that arab democrat wasn't too happy about the change.

[loinburger]

I guess they're after the Ned vote

[The Mad Monk]

Foreign Policy's take on the platform change:

Before...

Changes between the 2008 Democratic Party platform's language on Israel and the 2012 version were due to a deliberate effort to refocus the platform toward President Barack Obama's policies, two officials directly involved in its drafting process told The Cable.

...and after

Following what Obama campaign officials said was the personal intervention of President Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee reversed itself and altered their platform Wednesday afternoon to include language identifying Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

[Wezil]

It's the god part I snicker at.

Fundies.

:snicker:

[The Mad Monk]

I noticed that that arab democrat wasn't too happy about the change.

I guess it's not change he can believe in.

[regexcellent]

I can see the Sheldon Addelson-bought ads in Florida already...

(concerning the Israel thing obviously)

[The Mad Monk]

So...has this gained the Democrats any Jewish votes? Has it lost them any Muslim votes?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

It's the god part I snicker at.

Fundies.

:snicker:

Booing even the mention of God. What are they a bunch of Philadelphians booing and throwing batteries at Santa?

Hooray for the Demonrats

[giblets]

I was undecided until now. Thanks to this fiasco involving a single word in their platform, I'm totally voting for Romney.

[The Mad Monk]

If your doing it because it demonstrates their incompetance and lack of a backbone in letting a couple of words sidetrack them like this, good show.

[Elok]

So...has this gained the Democrats any Jewish votes? Has it lost them any Muslim votes?

The possibility that they were booing the mention of God could hurt Obama's relationship with Black churches (and churchgoers), I think. Though it's at least as possible the brouhaha was all over Israel.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

The possibility that they were booing the mention of God could hurt Obama's relationship with Black churches (and churchgoers), I think. Though it's at least as possible the brouhaha was all over Israel.

Does it really matter? I seem to recall a figure of about 85% of folk in the USA believe in God and that about 70% favor strong support of Israel. Yay for the extremist party showing their colors.

[MrFun]

Let's talk about the Democratic platform's official inclusion of equal marriage rights.

[rah]

The possibility that they were booing the mention of God could hurt Obama's relationship with Black churches (and churchgoers)

Yeah, right. The percent of blacks that voted for Obama the last time was almost 100. I doubt many of those will vote for a rich white just because of that.