I had this predictable exchange with a leftist on Twitter yesterday. Rebecca Jaramillo made a post on the top conservatives group (#tcot) defending Obama’s issuing a Ramadan greeting to Muslims saying:
Pres sends greetings fr all major religious holidays.[abbreviations as in Twitter]
Fair enough, but I wondered: did he issue a greeting to Christians on Easter? Did I miss it? My reply:
Pres sends greetings fr all major religious holidays. | Cud U pls send his Easter msg? I missed it
I got this response:
Um…the White House has a HUGE Easter Egg Hunt every year! It is one of the BIGGEST events if [sic] the WH calendar.
Hmm. Not exactly on point. One could argue with both of the capitalized words but I didn’t. When you can’t answer the question you are asked, politicians answer the question they want to. That’s called “spinning.” I simply replied:
LOL Nice try, though.
It really was a nice try at defending an indefensible position. I thought that was the end of it, but when the left can’t win the argument on its merits, attack the messenger. That’s called an ad hominem attack; my post elicited a torrent of replies:
Really, us Christians (I’m a Catholic) get the entire month of December, the lighting a a National Christmas Tree, the EE Hunt..
and
Also Thanksgiving a day of prayer to give thanks (& 100% Christian Pres’s) & minor religions gt a dinner & a press release…
Obama hasn’t been in the White House long enough for any of those events to happen this year, so we’ll see–but they still don’t answer the original question. Nevertheless, the posts continued:
Bt you Obama HATERS (supposedly “Christians”) act like VICTIMS & whine lke Toddlers. Do you think God cares abt PR stuff? Shame!
“Christians” like you make me sick. BE a Christian, not a fucking religious SCOREKEEPER!
I apologize for the profanity. I guess she goes to Father Pfleger’s church. I don’t read my question as whining or acting like a victim. Does asking for a fact to back up a statement make me an Obama HATER all-caps?
I never wrote that I was a Christian (I am) or that I was somehow insulted by his indorsement of Islam. I certainly never implied that God cares which religions Obama indorses: what he did was clearly a political act. I was simply asking whether that act showed preferential treatment of one religion over others. One might have expected the ACLU to ask a question like that, but it didn’t.
I report this so the reader can see an example of how the left attempts to stifle debate, as I first wrote about in July.
By the way: today is Yom Kippur, a day of atonement and fasting for the Jewish faith.
Comrade Jaramillo: Did I miss Obama’s Yom Kippur statement too?
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