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Originally Posted by Bucco
DJPLONG says...
"Mitt Romney - here's the bigger Tale of Two Cities. On the one hand, he's the guy who successfully ran *Massachusetts* as a popular Republican governor *and* rescued the Salt Lake City Olympics. Strong credentials. However, the press and others will take his Mormonism and dissect him with it - one comedian frequently bringing up the "magic underwear" stuff and reminding people of the tenet where Mormons believed that blacks could get into Heaven as the aides or servants of whites. Romney will have to distance himself from the more radical ideas of Mormonism (strage and that sounds to say it) much in the way that JFK had to defend himself against accusations that he would take orders from the Pope because he was Catholic."
Interesting comments. How could this be...we now have a President who sat in the church for TWENTY years with a pastor who he himself referred to as a friend and his mentor. This pastor, of course, is Jeremiah Wright the infamous black liberation philosophy and infamous remarks condemning this country and asking God to damn it.
Now, all this President had to do was say...oh, I never heard that in my TWENTY years with my friend and mentor...and I just dont agree with him.
Hey....all was forgiven and the press coverage stopped and all was well.
Seems Romney has less difficulties than that dont you think ?
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The difference here is that the controversial and long-standing Mormon beliefs are what Romney has chosen to embrace. He has complete control about what he believes and has exercised this choice for many years, if not for life. For the period when the President attended Wright's church, it was mainstream and uncontroversial, until Wright realized he had a national audience. It's all well documented that his change to extreme, off-the-wall statements was a sudden and strictly personal choice about which the President had no control. So the President exercised his choice by quitting the church.
Especially because Romney has made his religious choices deliberately, if he is a candidiate the media will roast him unmercifully for that. I frankly consider this a miniscule issue, but it seems there isn't any such thing for presidential candidates these days.