Nick Coleman: In God, er, the GOP We Trust

(for anyone not familiar with Nick Coleman he is NOT related to the weasel)

You have to read this entire column, it was very long and I had to cut out a lot:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/357/4763544.html

I went to a prayer breakfast on the National Day of Prayer so I could fall on my knees. Instead, I almost fell off my chair.
Mary Kiffmeyer, the Minnesota secretary of state, was the keynote speaker Thursday at Vision of Glory Lutheran Church in Plymouth, kicking off Minnesota's observance of the Day of Prayer with testimony about her faith journey and her belief in a loving God. So far, so good. But my chair got wobbly when Republican Kiffmeyer let fly that the "five words" that are "probably most destructive" are these: "Separation of church and state."...

As far as I could tell, there were no Jews at the breakfast. No Muslims or Hindus, either. The only member of a minority sect on hand was a lonely DFLer: Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar, who limped into the breakfast on crutches (she recently underwent surgery to repair some cartilage). Klobuchar said she thought she had been invited to a nonpartisan, nonsectarian prayer breakfast. But she was the only DFLer on display and the prayers seemed tailored for a very Republican God.

Poor Klobuchar. When breakfast ended, a man named Richard Johnson came over and asked her to call him up and pray with him sometime.
"I didn't know any Democrats are Christian," Johnson said. He makes his living selling Noni Juice, a bitter potion that cured his back pain and rejuvenated his skin and can cure any disease, unless maybe you are an infidel or a chronic Democrat. "I assumed that Christians have been driven out of the Democratic Party," Johnson told Klobuchar, "but I pray to the Lord Jesus, and I'd like to pray with you."

As my sainted Irish grandmother used to say in a sort of explosive prayer that she uttered whenever she was exasperated: "Lord, save us."

oh, wait a minute, I guess it's totally believable; the religious right types have shown that they're every bit as bad as I thought they were! I just wish Klobuchar and others had gone public about what happened.

Those candy-ass bible-thumpers should have been GLAD to have her there.

She spoke at the 5th CD convention. She thanked all the presidential campaigns, except one: Dennis Kucinich. However, she realized her mistake and wanted to get on stage to correct it. Unfortunately, she had to run right after the speech, and since she was on crutches, she couldn't easily get back on the stage.

One of our delegates emailed her office after the convention, expressing her disappointment that DK was left out. It was then that Amy showed some true class.

She PHONED back the person who emailed her, and apologized for the oversight, and told her why she couldn't go back and correct it.

WOW! She went out of her way to contact a convention delegate and make an apology. Would Norm Coleman or any of his elitist buddies do this? I doubt it!

Amy Klobuchar is a state TREASURE, the complete opposite of the Big Teeth from Brooklyn.