Sunday, April 22, 2012

*? 2 ALL: ROMNEY DENIES FAMILY CAME FROM MEXICAN POLYGAMIST COMMUNE - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*

The dogs Obama and Michelle eat all had litters with more than one bitch.
Just likenObama's father.
You are what you eat.

On Saturday, April 21, 2012, THE ANNOINTED ONE wrote:
>
> My comment and Mitts are identical.... yes his great grand father was
> a polygamist... so was Obamas FATHER...
>
> On Apr 21, 5:56 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Willard Milton Liar, Liar, Magic UnderPants on Fire! -T
> >
> > Hi Team! *? 2 ALL:
> > ROMNEY DENIES FAMILY CAME FROM MEXICAN POLYGAMIST COMMUNE -
> >
> > (above): Joseph Smith and wives
> >   Romney's father, the late Michigan governor George Romney, was born
> > in Chihuahua, Mexico,
> >   in 1907 to American citizens living in a Church of Jesus Christ of
> > Latter-day Saints colony.
> >   The Romney family had left the U.S. to avoid being prosecuted for
> > polygamy after laws against
> >   the practice were enforced, and returned to the U.S. after the
> > Mexican Revolution broke out.
> >
> >    Some family members stayed in Mexico and Mitt Romney has about 40
> > relatives still living
> >   south of the border. - Huffington Post
> >
> > Toby Harnden reports:
> >
> > A governor who backed Barack Obama in 2008 and was given a prominent
> > speaking role at the Democratic National Convention has said that Mitt
> > Romney could struggle in the November election because women 'are not
> > great fans of polygamy'.
> >
> > Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana, who was viewed as a possible
> > vice-presidential running mate for Obama four years ago, raised
> > Romney's Mormon faith by repeatedly stating that his father was 'born
> > into a polygamy commune in Mexico'.
> >
> > (above): Schweitzer, Romney
> >
> > The comments were quickly disavowed by an Obama spokeswoman but have
> > raised concerns among Republicans that the Obama campaign and its
> > allies will use Romney's Mormon faith as a means of attacking his
> > character.
> >
> > ...(Schweitzer) said, '86 per cent [of women are] not great fans of
> > polygamy'. He added: 'I am not alleging by any stretch that Romney is
> > a polygamist and approves of [the] polygamy lifestyle, but his father
> > was born into [a] polygamy commune in Mexico'".
> >
> > Romney denies family came from Mexican polygamist commune - what are
> > your comments?
> >
> > Greg Dempseyhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
> > Voice of the People
> > =====
> > 'Romney's father was born into a polygamy commune in Mexico':
> > Montana's Democrat governor launches personal attack on Obama's
> > election rival
> >
> > By Toby Harnden
> >
> > Daily Mail
> >
> > PUBLISHED: 15:22 EST, 20 April 2012 | UPDATED: 16:47 EST, 20 April 2012
> >
> > ...During his 2008 speech at the Democratic convention in Denver,
> > Schweitzer trumpeted his Cathoilc faith, saying: 'Like Senator Obama,
> > my family has roots in the Great Plains.
> >
> > 'My grandparents were immigrants who came to Montana with nothing more
> > than the clothes on their back, high hopes and faith in God.'
> >
> > Romney's father George W. Romney, who went on to become head of the
> > American Motor Company and governor of Michigan, was born in 1907 in a
> > settlement in Mexico that had been founded in the 1880s by Mormons
> > fleeing American anti-polygamy laws.
> >
> > The last polygamist in Romney's direct ancestry was his
> > great-grandfather Miles Park Romney, who had three wives. Romney's
> > paternal grandfather Gaskell was monogamous and the Mormon Church
> > outlawed polygamy in 1890.
> >
> > Five years ago, Romney, who has been married to his wife Ann for 42
> > years, said: 'I have a great-great-grandfather. They were trying to
> > build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional
> > as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't imagine anything more
> > awful than polygamy.' Ann, whose father was a Welsh atheist, converted
> > to Mormonism before she married Mitt.
> >
> > A senior Romney adviser said he expected Democrats to use the
> > presumptive Republican nominee's faith against him. 'They'll take
> > advantage of whatever they can.
> >
> > 'Even if they never have to use the word Mormon, if there's a chance
> > it gives people a little bit of a doubt or erodes part of the
> > Republican base, they'll be happy to take it. But I don't think
> > they'll be caught with their hands in the cookie jar talking about
> > Mormonism.'
> >
> > Already, there are indications that the Obama campaign is prepared to
> > go after Romney's religion in subtle ways. His advisers declared
> > Mormonism 'off limits' after they were panned for portraying Romney as
> > 'weird'. But in recent days the word 'secretive' has been used about
> > him repeatedly - a charge often laid at the door of the Mormon Church.
> >
> > Richard Land, head of public policy for the Southern Baptist
> > Convention and a prominent evangelical figure who has met Romney
> > privately said: 'As far as I'm concerned, Mormonism isn't a Christian
> > faith. It's a different religion. But I and most evangelicals wouldn't
> > have a problem voting for a Mormon against Barack Obama.'
> >
> > He said that he believed personal faith should not be part of the
> > election and doubted the Obama campaign would 'comment on Romney's
> > religion frontally' but expected Obama's media allies to do so
> > eagerly.
> >
> > 'They're going to try to highlight all the more the exotic beliefs of
> > Mormons and hope to scare off enough independents to help Romney win.'
> >
> > Predicting 'the ugliest campaign in my lifetime, and I was born in
> > 1946', he said the press would attempt to get swing voters to ask
> > themselves: 'He believes in that? Wow, do I really want a president
> > who believes something like that?'
> >
> > In the US media, jibes about Mormon polygamy and 'magic underwear'
> > (observant Mormons like Romney wear what are known as temple
> > undergarments beneath their cloths) are commonplace and acceptable
> > whereas that mocking Jews or Muslims is considered beyond the pale.
> >
> > Romney is a former Mormon bishop who hails from one of the most
> > prominent families in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of
> > Latter Day Saints.
> > Mormons believes that early Christian leaders fell away from God's
> > truth and that it took the discovery of the Book of Mormon by Joseph
> > Smith, the self-proclaimed prophet who founded the church, to
> > 'restore' true Christianity.
> >
> > Smith is said to have discovered the sacred text in 1823. It had been
> > engraved on golden plates buried in a hill near his home in New York
> > that he had found after being guided there by an angle called Moroni.
> >
> > Mormons do not smoke tobacco, swear or drink coffee, tea or alcohol.
> > They conduct baptisms of the dead, usually of their ancestors but
> > also, most controversially, Holocau> Read more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132883/Democrats-begin-attac...
> >
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
> >
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
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