Comments on: Thousands in Turkey Protest Obama

By: The Democratic Touch: Obama’s Influence on Turkey’s Political System « Armenian-American Students & Activists United

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:19:49 +0000

[...] You know your country has trouble with democracy when other countries come into your own parliament to protect the civil and humanitarian rights that are already deprived from your own citizens. [...]

By: Lyn

Lyn — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:48:47 +0000

He is still raising money I got an memail from the Org that has his logo on the top asking for at least 5 bucks to help fight the people that are lieing about the budget.

By: Sonic Ninja Kitty

Sonic Ninja Kitty — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:36:28 +0000

google “historians disagree armenian genocide” There is a whole ‘nuther side to the debate. I don’t think the issue is anywhere near forgotten.

For the USA, though, to what end are our politicians involved in this? Political posturing and lobbyist pandering only. They should get back to work on America’s problems, imo.

By: sarkozy to obama: mind your own business (turkey) : NO QUARTER

sarkozy to obama: mind your own business (turkey) : NO QUARTER — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:47:36 +0000

[...] See also: Another NoQuarter story about the protests. [...]

By: Buzz Latte

Buzz Latte — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:17:48 +0000

This is one of those taken out of context moments re: John Adams.

His quote -if indeed he said it – would have been in direct response to the original reason the pilgrims headed for Plymouth. Religious persecution.

His quotes need to be held in perspective in regards to his time and the American history that had preceded it.

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:11:08 +0000

Or how about this one:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Or what we’re witnessing now:
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:57:49 +0000

Ok, ignore my comment above. It was a good video, thank you for sharing it.

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:48:41 +0000

Neither one of your links work. I even tried copy and past of the second one. Is it Freedom First Society?

By: Hope Change and Unicorns

Hope Change and Unicorns — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:28:43 +0000

Or this one

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
–Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

By: Hope Change and Unicorns

Hope Change and Unicorns — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:24:30 +0000

This
John Adams?

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God … What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.

By: athena

athena — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:38:42 +0000

That’s not the John Adams I knew….

Seriously, Adams was a deeply religious man so those comments don’t seem right.

By: politicalidentitycrisis

politicalidentitycrisis — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:55:23 +0000

What??? Doesn’t Sarkosy know that Obama is President of the World? Amazing!

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:29:08 +0000

Elise said:

“I guess some genocides are more forgettable than others.”

Bitter truth to that statement. Memories get very foggy when there’s a political disadvantage, even with the worst crimes.

By: Buzz Latte

Buzz Latte — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:00:16 +0000

What’s the matter SF – you don’t believe anymore that That One can singlehandedly prevent disasters, sing Kumbyah and bring universal world peace?

My, the bots are cranky these days.

By: FLDemFem

FLDemFem — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:27:33 +0000

We aren’t a Christian country. The Constitution specifically states that Congress may make no law imposing any one religion on the people. We are a mix of just about every religion on the planet, and a few homegrown ones. The only people who claim we are a Christian country are the ones who are either making money from being Christian or making political hay from claiming to be Christian. And if you look at our behavior over the years as a country, it isn’t at all Christian if you use Christ’s teachings as the yardstick for what is and isn’t Christian.

The Founding Fathers were mostly Deists, not Christians. John Adams famously said

“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion”

He also said, and I happen to agree with him..

“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it”