Carly Fiorina has supplied yet another reason she should not get anywhere near the White House. Forget about her supporting the DREAM Act, although that’s bad enough.
She thinks a Muslim should be president. Responding to Ben Carson’s belief that Muslim should not be president, Fiorina explained where Carson erred to Jimmy Fallon:
Jimmy Fallon: Ben Carson is in a lot of trouble now because he is saying that he would not advocate a Muslim being president.
Carly Fiorina: Well, I think that’s wrong. It says in our Constitution that religion cannot be a test for office. It’s also true that this country was founded on the principle that we judge each individual and that anyone of any faith is welcome here. I actually believe that people of faith make better leaders. Where they are Christians, as I am, my faith has sustained me through some very bad times. I’ve battled cancer, I’ve lost a child, I’ve been tested. But, whether it’s a person of Christian faith, or Jewish faith, or Muslim faith, or other faiths, I think faith gives us humility and empathy and optimism and I think those are important.
Fallon: So you would be fine with that?
Fiorina: Yes, I would be fine with that.
Here, Fiorina not only betrays a stupendous ignorance of Islam and Muslims, but also tells a big fib: i.e., “This country was founded on the principle that we judge each individual and that anyone of any faith is welcome here”
Not according to John Jay, one of the Founding Fathers. “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers,” he wrote in a letter.
As for who should come into the country, Jay wrote thusly in Federalist No. 2: “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs.”
The idea that the founders, including Adams and Jefferson, thought anyone could be an American is flatly ridiculous.
Keep in mind that in the late 18th-century, the mass migration of two bazillion Muslims or Mexicans was not possible.
She is an idiot. She may think she is being clever,
She's not an idiot. What she is doing is playing retail politics and trying to gather enough votes to win.
Do any of you REALLY think somebody like Louis Farrakhan is going to get elected by running as a radical Muslim. Yeah,maybe in Trenton or Detroit,but not in the rest of the country.
" saying Muslim US citizens have the same rights as every other US citizen is hardly being "pro Islam". "
True, they do have the same rights. What I meant by "pro islam" is how I think the average person would take it. I think she just wanted to take a position opposite of Dr Carson, trying to gain publicity.
Regardless, I do not think she made a politically smart statement. You may think different. Fine
