По итогам прошедшей ночи

[puffinus]

Не то чтобы я имел какие-то основания для симпатий к мистеру Обаме. Но сейчас у него есть одно громадное достоинство, которое затмевает все его недостатки. Достоинство это состоит в том, что он не Ромни.

Ведь что мы имеем на данный момент? Реакция наступает по всем фронтам, зима близко. И тут в президенты США ВНЕЗАПНО баллотируется такой гнидогадоид, на фоне которого даже Рейган и оба Буша выглядят левыми.

Он ведь мог победить, вполне мог. И это была бы не просто перемена хозяина в Белом доме - это был бы качественный рывок в том направлении, которое задали в своё время Тэтчер и вышеупомянутый Рейган. И одновременно крах любого протеста против этой линии - тех же оккупаев, например.

Но американцы - нация в целом консервативная - сказали: "Спасибо, нет". Слабенький повод для оптимизма, но по нынешним временам нужно радоваться и такому.

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[rsokolov.livejournal.com]

>>Суровых делюзий

Это не Ромни, а другой кандидат в президенты из мормонов, но всё же:

"I believe in God. I'm a good Christian. I'm very proud of my Mormon heritage. I am Mormon.

Although still Mormon, Huntsman has said that he and his wife draw from an array of sources for inspiration, stating: "Today, there are 13 million Mormons. It's a very diverse and heterogeneous cross-section of people. And you're going to find a lot of different attitudes and a lot of different opinions in that 13 million. I was raised a Mormon, Mary Kaye was raised Episcopalian, our kids have gone to Catholic school, I went to a Lutheran school growing up in Los Angeles. So you kind of bind all this together." [128]

Huntsman rejects the notion that faith and evolution are mutually exclusive. In 2011, in response to a statement by Rick Perry that global warming was unproven and that evolution remains only a theory, Huntsman tweeted, "To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy."[129] He said, "The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Jr.#Religious_views

[rsokolov.livejournal.com]

Mr. Romney, a devout Mormon, surprised some observers when he was not among those Republican candidates who raised their hands last week when asked at the Republican presidential debate if they did not believe in evolution. (Senator Sam Brownback, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Representative Tom Tancredo said they did not.)

“I believe that God designed the universe and created the universe,” Mr. Romney said in an interview this week. “And I believe evolution is most likely the process he used to create the human body.”


While governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Romney opposed the teaching of intelligent design in science classes.

“In my opinion, the science class is where to teach evolution, or if there are other scientific thoughts that need to be discussed,” he said. “If we’re going to talk about more philosophical matters, like why it was created, and was there an intelligent designer behind it, that’s for the religion class or philosophy class or social studies class.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/romney-elaborates-on-evolution/


Mitt Romney:

I am not a scientist myself, but my best assessment of the data is that the world is getting warmer, that human activity contributes to that warming, and that policymakers should therefore consider the risk of negative consequences.

http://www.sciencedebate.org/debate12/

[rsokolov.livejournal.com]

По-видимому это как-то связано с отсутствием партийной дисциплины.