Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says John Kerry has been gaining in the polls every day since Oct. 21, and George Bush has been going down every day.
"That's how God wants it to be," Harkin told a group of about 25 people at the Benton County Headquarters in Vinton on Thursday afternoon.
While not quite an October surprise, dems claiming God wants Kerry to win is a surprise, nonetheless. I mean, what a crock. Talk about hypocracy. Most people on the left look at Bush who essentially claims that God chose him to lead America "during these troubled times" and cringe. Suddenly, it's no big deal when the dems make the same claim.
It's the left-right-middle falacy again--the idea that the left and the right have portions of the truth and somewhere in the middle is accurate. The thing is, neither side has the truth but both desperately want us to believe that they do. In between two lies is not the truth. Then, there's the God Factor.
I'm sorry, but any time someone claims something is happenning because God wants it I don't believe them. Putting my Atheism aside for a moment, I feel like if you arbitrarily decide that God wants something to happen and it just so happens to be something good for you, it seems like you're using God to justify your actions. It also suggests that God wanted Bush to win in 2000--now, if He did, wouldn't He have made it a little easier for George to ascend to his throne without all that recount crap? If God wanted Bush to be president for the last four years, doesn't that mean that He also wanted Bush to illegally invade Iraq? It also would follow that God wanted tens of thousands of Iraqis to die. Surely, there would be an easier way to do that then have America invade. What about earthquakes, diseases and other natural disasters?
Bringing God into this just complicates things. If He does exist, he's way more mysterious than anyone is willing to admit and anyone who claims to know what the Great Architect of the Universe wants is either lying or selling something... or both.
From CedarValleyDailyTimes.Com:
Friday, October 29, 2004Harkin campaigns for Kerry, Pettengill, says Kerry's rise in polls is what God wants
By Dean Close - Times Correspondent
VINTON - Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says John Kerry has been gaining in the polls every day since Oct. 21, and George Bush has been going down every day.
"That's how God wants it to be," Harkin told a group of about 25 people at the Benton County Headquarters in Vinton on Thursday afternoon.
Harkin was touring the state to stump for Kerry and Democratic legislative candidates. He appeared in Benton County on behalf of Mt. Auburn Mayor Dawn Pettengill, who is running against incumbent Republican Dell Hanson for the Iowa House District 39 seat.
Harkin spent the first part of his speech echoing many of the campaign themes of the economy and Iraq sounded by Kerry in his presidential campaign.
Harkin predicted victory for Kerry on Tuesday, saying that the polls that show Bush and Kerry in a tight race do not include the many new Democrats who have recently registered to vote.
(Most polls only use input from likely voters, which mean those who have voted in previous elections.)
Harkin said that in Iowa, 50,000 new voters registered as Democrats recently, but only 20,000 registered as Independents and even fewer - 9,400 - registered as Republicans.
After encouraging the party faithful to get out the vote for Kerry, Harkin turned his attention to the Iowa Legislature, which he called an "albatross around the neck" of Gov. Tom Vilsack, whom he referred to as the "best governor in the United States."
"This is the worst legislature I've seen since the 1950s," Harkin said.
Harkin didn't remember the name of Pettengill's opponent, but told the group, "he has to go."
Harkin introduced Pettengill, who used her speech to respond to Republican mailings and television ads blaming her for a tax increase in Mt. Auburn by saying the city council was forced to increase taxes because of budget decisions made by Hanson and other Republicans in the legislature.
Copyright © 2004 Cedar Valley Daily Times
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