Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was caught in what the LAist website called an "oops" moment at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night.
The mayor, who served as chairman of the DNC, called for three votes on whether to invoke God in the party platform and reaffirm the role of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It was not his finest hour in front of the camera, according to some observers.
Villaraigosa's handling of the vote was called "awkward" by the Los Angeles Times. Jon Stewart, host of the The Daily Show on Comedy Central, had fun pointing out that Villaraigosa's awkwardness might have been due to the fact that an affirmative vote had been scripted on his teleprompter. Villaraigosa approved the vote, saying that two-thirds of the delegates had voted in the affirmative, although many objected.
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The best part was watching him with his phony, pasted on smile the morning after on the news shows, that challenged him about how he handled that vote..He lied/misrepresented the event....just as he has pasted on that same phony smile here and lied and misrepresented so many things here..Especially The Hollywood Community Plan.. Now the rest of the country, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, know what we have had the misfortune of knowing for years.THIS is NOT a LEADER..This is just an egotistical OPPORTUNIST.. Hopefully it is finally over for him now..and he will just disappear to his bevy of girlfriends and his retirement home, where he will never have to live anywhere near all that he has inflicted on Hollywood..and L.A....his 'legacy'..a higher density, clogged up Hollywood while he basks in his quite retirement home where no skyscrapers are allowed and there so gridlock at all.
Either way F the GOP racist. Obama & Biden 2012!!!
Fool us once shame on you, fool us twice.... Well u know how it goes.
God is a psychotic fictional character invented by seriously mentally ill people, whereas one can travel to Jerusalem and see that it is in fact the capital of Israel.
So again, don't kid yourself and believe we cannot mention our creator, we were created, no arguing that. Seperation of church from state does not and will never amount to a subtraction of religion from human life, it is to protect individual belief, if you don't believe in God, more power to you, but again my beliefs ARE PROTECTED. By the seperation of church from state.
FAITH requires that people accept as true something that has no basis in reality. People who act on the basis of FAITH cause wars because God told them and in the USA, we have fools across the nation that fervently belief that GOD wants their high school football team to win. FAITH also leads to irresponsibility -- people filled with FAITH gleefully kill others because God told them. People, who do not believe in God, know that they are responsible for their behavior and the "Buck stops with Them." Thus, they have to take responsibility for their own actions, and they have to take care of not only themselves, but also help fellow human beings to improve the world.
"God is a psychotic fictional character invented by seriously mentally ill people" You do realize u are a descendent of those people, the same people who gave birth to civilization thousands of years ago. Mentally ill, I would believe is someone who has NOT ONE ANSWER, only theory's to fall back on, claiming others are ignorant. That's just me tho. You do your thing genius.
Also I would like to pray for you, a man with no faith is like a faucet with no water, there's no reason for existence. But I do believe you have faith, you do believe there is NO god, that's faith, you have no proof but it's what YOU believe.
And, there is no proof with what you believe either, and no proof in the other million religions that claim to be true too. The Spanish from spain told the Indians their religion was wrong and converted them to the Catholic religion. Whose religion is the right one? I would vote for the bell but the Catholic church already has first choice on that option. So, the only choice left are people that do the right thing and live the right away, and that has nothing to do with relligion, they have a piece of God in them, not religion or religous people or people that worship bells.
U guess wrong, I'm no Christian, nor catholic, nor agnostic... I'm a believer in wonder, I do not and will not claim to kno anything to be true or false... But I can recognize the battle between good & evil, right & wrong and so on today we worship actors and politicians and the like, who we find more and more to be compelled by faults inside every man, because they are no different than every man, and we find mayb they are not the best role models for our kids... back then they believed in gods who were compelled by decisions made by men, fictious or not the IDEA behind these gods were "real" and we're used as a moral compass to actively pursue good and to stray from evil Which belief is better?... THAT IS NO ONE MANS DESICION TO MAKE Belief is n the eye of the beholder, I ask you not to believe like me, just asking those who don't think as I, to not try and force upon me beliefs I find just as irrelevant as the ideas I have that u oppose... Again a MAN who believes he knows it all, for a fact knows absolutely nothing
Divine Saviour Catholic Church should not force their amplified sound system into my home 6 times a day every day starting at 7:55AM. That is their way of brainwashing. It is their way of forcing their religion down your throat whether you like it or not. I am not too clear on what your last 2 sentences mean.