{"id":9537,"date":"2012-09-05T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T23:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9537"},"modified":"2012-09-05T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:16:56","slug":"democrats-ignore-no-vote-pass-god-and-jerusalem-platform-amendments-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=9537","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Ignore &#8216;No&#8217; Vote, Adopt &#8216;God and Jerusalem&#8217; Platform Amendments Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9524\">rigged votes at last week&#8217;s Republican National Convention<\/a>, the rigged vote during today&#8217;s Democratic National Convention didn&#8217;t have its results pre-determined by TelePrompter. Instead, it was left to Los Angeles Mayor and Convention Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa to simply ignore the shouts of &#8220;NO!&#8221;, in passing an amendment this afternoon to the party platform &#8220;by a two-thirds vote in the affirmative&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cncbOEoQbOg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The otherwise-unscheduled vote came about after <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_CVN_DEMOCRATS_PLATFORM?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2012-09-05-18-39-05\">President Obama and the Democrats withered<\/a> under several hours of GOP and Fox &#8220;News&#8221; criticism of the fact that the word &#8220;God&#8221; and recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, did not appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/09\/04\/us\/politics\/20120904-DNC-platform.html\">this year&#8217;s party platform<\/a>. That, despite Obama&#8217;s previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/abbas-slams-obama-for-saying-jerusalem-to-stay-israel-s-undivided-capital-1.247201\">stated belief that the Israeli capital should be in an undivided Jerusalem<\/a>, the existing platform reference to an &#8220;unshakable commitment to Israel&#8217;s security&#8221;, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/09\/05\/796891\/gop-suggests-democrats-are-hostile-to-god-ignore-lengthy-passage-on-faith-in-platform\/\">lengthy passage on faith and the importance of religion<\/a> already present in this year&#8217;s Democratic platform.<\/p>\n<p>It took three tries, as seen in the video above, before Villaraigosa got up the nerve to pretend that the &#8220;Ayes&#8221; had it by the two-thirds majority required to adopt the amendment, which included restoring the party&#8217;s 2008 platform language that had included the word &#8220;God&#8221;, without debate. Well, Republicans and Fox &#8220;News&#8221; will be happy now at least. Right? And, after all, responding to fake Republican scandals, with a pretend vote, about an invisible bearded man floating in the sky, is certainly among the most important things that should happen at a Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><b>Please support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\"><b>The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s<\/b><\/a> fiercely independent, award-winning coverage of your electoral system, as available from no other media outlet in the nation, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=Brad@BradBlog.com&#038;item_name=Support+for+The+BRAD+BLOG&#038;item_number=2012\"><b>a donation<\/b><\/a> to help us keep going (<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9422\"><b>Snail mail, more options here<\/b><\/a>). If you like, we&#8217;ll send you some great, award-winning election integrity documentary films in return! <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6662\"><i><b>Details right here&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/b><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the rigged votes at last week&#8217;s Republican National Convention, the rigged vote during today&#8217;s Democratic National Convention didn&#8217;t have its results pre-determined by TelePrompter. Instead, it was left to Los Angeles Mayor and Convention Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa to simply ignore the shouts of &#8220;NO!&#8221;, in passing an amendment this afternoon to the party platform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2012","category-israel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}