Who's driving the wedge?
By The Bakersfield Californian
Regarding President Obama making a statement on the shooting of Trayvon Martin: Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have traveled around this nation, and continue to do so, condemning gay marriage, abortion, out-of-wedlock births and access to contraception; wanting to abolish the separation of church and state; letting Rush Limbaugh get away with his misogynist views; and saying the poor don't have good role models and that blacks need to earn a paycheck to know what it's like to earn real money, and now have the gall to espouse that the President is putting a wedge between the American people? These GOP theocrat bullies are hypocrites and, worst of all, false witnesses.
How in the heck can these three candidates even conceive of leading this nation into more civil and ethical behavior with such repulsive political views and/or agendas?
I say these candidates have no idea how to dream of great things because they are totally devoid of compassion, kindness, consideration, sympathy, unselfishness, hospitality, charitableness and, most of all, humility; they are the worst Christians to have invoked Jesus' teachings.
Nora Luttrell
Bakersfield
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