If you have any sort of political aspirations, it’s very important to never say anything stupid. Ever. Christine O’Donnell’s shocking unawareness of this very basic tenet, which to be fair virtually every politician breaks at one point or another, is really starting to bite her in the ass.
Okay, Christine O’Donnell, you think masturbation is a sin. You think that homosexuals have no place in the military. You are even on record as stating that women will weaken military institutions. That’s stupid.
Dissent is a part of human nature, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with debate and discourse, even when it becomes heated. There are people that I have tremendous respect for that I disagree with …
… politically, and I think the same is true for most people.
Christine O’Donnell, who makes not just Sarah Palin but even Kathryn Jean Lopez look a little bit intelligent, is a freaking madwoman. I’m serious.
In a 2006 debate for the Republican Senate nomination, O’Donnell made it very clear that she had serious concerns about China. I can understand this; it’s an opinion that’s shared by many, and they offer logical and intelligent reasons for their concerns. That’s cool.
What shocks me beyond words is that O’Donnell stated publicly in a formal political debate with national repercussions that China was not only “plotting to take over America” but that she, the great and powerful Christine O’Donnell, possessed secret classified information that proved it.
O’Donnell’s comments came as she and two other Republican candidates debated U.S. policy on China during Delaware’s 2006 Senate primary, which O’Donnell ultimately lost.
She said China had a “carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America” and accused one opponent of appeasement for suggesting that the two countries were economically dependent and should find a way to be allies.
“That doesn’t work,” she said. “There’s much I want to say. I wish I wasn’t privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to.”
Um … don’t you think that the United States government would be privy to some of this top-secret chatter?
If so, I hope that some action has been taken—and the leader of the United States in 2006 was Republican George W. Bush, just to make that perfectly clear, so it’s not like O’Donnell can argue that Barack Obama is part of some conspiracy for China to take over America.
And if not, what the hell kind of United States citizen is Christine O’Donnell for keeping said dangerous information to herself?
At the (2006) debate, opponent Jan Ting countered that China has the potential to become a more Democratic country and an important ally.
“I think our China policy has to be handled very carefully,” Ting said. “We have the capability of making an enemy or a friend out of China.”
When Ting challenged O’Donnell’s claim about having secret information, O’Donnell didn’t answer specifically but suggested she had received it through nonprofit groups she worked with that frequently sent missionaries there.
Is there no end to the freaking comedy that is Christine O’Donnell’s political life? Honestly, this would make a great television show … because it’s so crazy that nobody could possibly believe it to be true.
Or is it just me?
China has a huge hand in the US economy since the US buys pretty much anything China will produce. I seriously doubt they would want to take over their cash cow.
I have a few concerns about China . . . but not that they are going to conquer us. Their human rights record and their absurd censorship (Facebook, Twitter, the forced editing of many video games) are disturbing and should not be tolerated.
Honestly, even if Christine O’Donnell were not out-of-her-mind crazy, I would be disinclined to vote for her. I cannot stand missionary organizations.
God, me neither. Missionary organizations seem more about making more judgmental religious-zombies than actually helping people. I knew a guy who went on one to China to smuggle Bibles in. I’m not entirely sure why that was necessary.
Lacking details, I can only assume, but if it’s anything like China in history, and many other places, it was necessary.
It was necessary because China does not allow freedom of religion. And freedom of religion, which I would assume that most Americans favour, includes those religions you think are silly, with acceptable caveats for actually hurting people.
There has been a good-sized Christian community in China of people who want bibles, but have no way to get them. They aren’t permitted by the government, public meeting for a religious purpose is illegal, and they certainly aren’t selling bibles to any interested party on the street.
I don’t know when the guy went, or to what part, but chances are he wasn’t plastering the bible unwantedly wherever he went.
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Have you ever looked into a missionary organisation? Much like any other, you’ll find good and bad. Some have the express purpose of converting people – which makes sense when you look at it from the believer’s side. Some have the express purpose of humanitarian aid, and just happen to be religion-based. Some go to do practical good as well as tell people about their religion.
Any group just seeking to ‘convert’ people against their will and do nothing else would be few and far between.
The idea that she received “classified information” from a missionary organization is ridiculous. The whole concept of something considered classified material is determined by Dept of Defense. Unless Save the Children is running psyop’s missions in Beijing, she’s talking out of her ass.
I am fascinated with Christine O’Donnell and Sarah Palin. Im not a journalist, but I’d love to do an actual sit-down interview with O’Donnell and ask her what her opinions and plans for office should she win. Im so sick of hearing “I’ll shake up Washington” or some other drivel. Since she’s so hell-bent against taxes, I’d like to ask her what programs she plans on cutting in order to achieve that. I’d also like to ask her why she feels women should be allowed in politics. She clearly doesn’t feel like we are effective or should be allowed in the military – why does she think she should be allowed in politics?
I’m still trying to figure out who Christine O’Donnell is. Who in their right mind would sign a petition allowing her to run for office. Politics is not her forte. Stand up comic is more like it. But, then again, she would probably be booed off the stage. Her opinions are so far-fetched and so ‘out there’ that whatever she has been smoking for the past ? years has probably fried her brain. When she looks back at all the stupidity in her comments she can use that as her excuse. Maybe she is actually using these comments as an audition for her own reality show. Makes much more sense than having Christine daydream any further about continuing in politics. The jig is up!
exactly