{"id":31163,"date":"2012-11-06T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/america-delenda-est.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:30:11","slug":"america-delenda-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/america-delenda-est.html","title":{"rendered":"America delenda est!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While &quot;If we don&#39;t change our course, God will smite this great nation&quot; rhetoric from the zany Right, Glenn Beck (yes, he&#39;s still alive) bumps up the rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;When you watch Barack Obama, you can just see he is angry. When you watch Mitt Romney, you can see he is not. We are not an angry nation. We don\u2019t listen to demagogues like that. It doesn\u2019t work. No matter how much power he has amassed, no matter how many friends in the media he has, Americans know. And if they reject it this time, if they\u2019re so dead inside &#8211; that\u2019s a possibility &#8211; <b>if they\u2019re so dead inside that they can no longer see the difference between good and evil, we have to be destroyed because we will be a remarkable evil on this planet.<\/b>&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Didn&#39;t Beck criticize Jeremiah Wright for that kind of rhetoric?<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/beck-if-americans-are-so-dead-inside-they-re-elected-obama-then-we-have-be-destroyed'>Beck: If Americans are &#8216;So Dead Inside&#8217; That They Re-Elect Obama, Then &#8216;We Have to be Destroyed&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn yesterday&#8217;s radio program, Glenn Beck said that America is on the verge of reaping God&#8217;s wrath and declared that if the American people are &#8220;so dead inside that they can no longer see the\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/HS1VJiErZ1o' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While &quot;If we don&#39;t change our course, God will smite this great nation&quot; rhetoric from the zany Right, Glenn Beck (yes, he&#39;s still alive) bumps up the rhetoric. &quot;When you watch Barack Obama, you can just see he is angry. When you watch Mitt Romney, you can see he is not. We are not an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/america-delenda-est.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America delenda est!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,100,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-dolts","category-elections-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14203,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/15\/the-twelve-values.html","url_meta":{"origin":31163,"position":0},"title":"The Twelve Values","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Mar-09 5:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Continuing a look at the 9-12 Project, pet cause of Glenn Beck. 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