Spidey, linky here with Obama quote I think you are referring to:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38906337/ns/nightly_news/
“It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That's been true throughout our history,” he said. But “what I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news, not good even necessarily for the next election, but are good for the next generation.”
Herculosis, I didn't say Beck espoused Mormonism. I said he claimed to be getting his ideas directly from someone higher, GOD perhaps, and that he was told by this "higher voice" to hold this rally to "restore honor" to our country. And what does religion have to do with "restoring honor" to our country anyway? And what are these "traditional values" he's referring to anyway? Does he mean "traditional WHITE values"? His crowd was mostly made up of older white Americans.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100828/ap_ ... s_dc_rally
Here's one exchange between Sharpton's group and the Beck tea baggers from this article:
AP wrote:One woman from the Beck rally shouted to the Sharpton marchers: "Go to church. Restore America with peace." Some civil rights marchers chanted "don't drink the tea" to people leaving Beck's rally.
So what Beck's saying is that if Americans don't turn to a God or church, our country is going down the terrible road to Marxism or Socialism? That's what the coded "liberation theology" remark directly refers to here. And the only person that would be politically aimed at is Obama. Despite what Beck claimed he told people, to not bring signs to his rally, they still appeared. Another quote from the above link:
AP wrote:Beck had appealed to those attending not to bring signs with them. But Mike Cash, a 56-year-old Atlanta businessman, found a way around that. Over his polo shirt, he wore a T-shirt that read "Treat Obama like a used tea bag, toss him out now!"
Now why do Americans think Obama's not a
proper American religious person that would extol "traditional values", other than the fact he's black?
Lothar wrote:I'd definitely agree that Glenn Beck is a religious nutcase. He's also a Mormon, but I repeat myself.
It's funny that Glenn Beck would criticize Obama for having beliefs that are "not Christian beliefs". I guess that means Obama isn't going to get into the Celestial Kingdom or be exalted to godhood where he can take on multiple spirit wives and populate his own planet... HEH
Maybe THIS is why Lothar:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1701/poll-o ... -religious