Check out this video clip.<\/a><\/p>\nUsing a popular, non-partisan slogan that means there is a huge issue looming that no one wants to recognize or talk about it, there is still a very large \u201celephant in the room\u201d that Democrats are desperately trying to ignore. Maybe we\u2019ll start calling it the \u201cdonkey in the room.\u201d On second thought, elephant sounds better.<\/p>\n
As I was walking into the convention hall this morning, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz just happened to be entering at the same time (but not through the same entrance press is relegated to).<\/p>\n
I asked if she felt the crowd booing the motion to add God and Jerusalem back into the platform would create problems for the party, she looked up, asked me what media organization I was represented. \u201cThe Christian Post,\u201d I responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have time for that stuff,\u201d she said, quickly walking away, in a tone almost as terse as her conversation with CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper Wednesday night. The only difference is Cooper is a known liberal.<\/p>\n
Democrats still have a rather large \u201celephant in the room\u201d and ignoring the issue will not make it go way. Today I\u2019ll be talking to delegates and asking their opinion on the issue.<\/p>\n
More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You\u2019ve already heard that on Wednesday that after taking severe criticism about removing any reference to God in the party platform, Democrats scurried to reinsert language so they wouldn\u2019t have to defend the issue during the campaign. However, they may have drawn more attention to the issue by the way it was handled. But what about the boo\u2019s that resonated from the delegates? Where they actually booing God or just mad about having to give in to criticism from the right? Check out this video clip. Using a popular, non-partisan slogan that means there is a huge issue looming that no one wants to recognize or talk about it, there is still a very large \u201celephant in the room\u201d that Democrats are desperately trying to ignore. Maybe we\u2019ll start calling it the \u201cdonkey in the room.\u201d On second thought, elephant sounds better. As I was walking into the convention hall this morning, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz just happened to be entering at the same time (but not through the same entrance press is relegated to). I asked if she felt the crowd booing the motion to add God and Jerusalem back into the platform would create problems for the party, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,103,112,132,167,327,418,450],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-paul","tag-author","tag-debbie-wasserman-schultz","tag-dnc-platform","tag-elephant-in-the-room","tag-god","tag-paul-stanley","tag-the-christian-post","tag-writer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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