Ryan: "First prayer I say every morning is the serenity prayer."

[hfojvt]

Hmm.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and wisdom, to know the difference."

The things Ryan wants to change, which he apparently thinks he can (if the voters allow him to)

1. The progressive Federal income tax
2. Social security
3. Medicare
4. Medicaid
5. slash funding for SNAP, LIHEAP, SCHIP, TANF, Unemployment compensation, EITC, etc. Any program that helps those in need.

I hope the voters give him a big "hell no" to those changes, and he accepts that.

I also found this to be quite absurd. Or ridiculously self indulgent.


Ryan "... and also it's the prayers that are offered to me from perfect strangers that I know are out there praying, for Mitt and myself, and our families, and our families are doing great." http://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-says-obama-compromise-judeo-christian-western-045635969--abc-news-politics.html


Well lah, dee, dah. Their families are doing great. Apparently "the Lord helps those who help themselves."

It certainly must be a great comfort to those who are living in poverty, those who have no health care, those who don't have jobs, to know that Mitt's family (income $21,000,000) and Ryan's family (income $323,000) are doing great.

Here's another guy that was doing great

[font color=red] "There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day." [/font]

He is sometimes called Dives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_and_Dives In the parable, Jesus says that Dives died and went to hell, perhaps because he ignored the beggar Lazarus at his gate. "For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat ..."

"Our families are doing great"

Sheesh, maybe those people could consider praying for families that actually need some help.

We all should be praying that the country is spared the horrors of a Romney/Ryan administration.

[hobbit709]

1. Evidently it isn't working for him.

[yellowcanine]

3. I take it to mean he has accepted the Romney loss already.

[CTyankee]

13. That's my thought, too. When I saw this I thought it was odd he would say the serenity prayer

and not some other, more upbeat, prayer such as "this is a day the lord hath made, rejoice and be glad in it."

You say the serenity prayer when you're bummed out...

[Flashmann]

2. Wow

He even lies about praying.....

[lunasun]

6. +1

and I hope he can accept that he can't change anything after Tues when he loses his Rep. seat too

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

4. Transparent pandering prevarication

Neither republickcon candidate has an ounce of believability.

[JanetLovesObama]

5. Obviously

God has granted him "the wisdom to know the difference" and he now realizes his ass is grass.

[Anthony McCarthy]

7. He's a Mammonist

Always thought the "Serenity Prayer" was a very limited request. Notice it doesn't ask that he should change the things that should be changed but to accept that some things couldn't be changed. And that what should be changed would be known.

[CoffeeCat]

8. These people are so fake. They are used-car salesmen peddling hot air

I don't, for one minute, believe that most of these psychopathic Republicans give one whit about religion.

They detest the poor and want them to suffer. They lack any sort of empathy and compassion. Their policies would inflict untold misery to the most vulnerable in our world--children with disabilities, senior citizens who have limited income, and the poor, hungry and homeless.

These Republicans are happy to go to war--and kill hundreds of thousands of innocents, all for oil and world domination. Gee, sounds like Jesus to me!

They can take their fake, God-based bullshit and shove it. They know nothing about being decent people, or doing the right thing. These Republicans, who use religion--only do so to cull votes. It's schtick for them--theater that snags the Church-going demographic.

How in the hell does tax breaks for millionaires and bank deregulation translate into God's work???

When will religious people wake up and realize that these scurrilous Republicans don't care about them or share their religious values?

[KurtNYC]

9. He is Ayn Rand's Judas

[codjh9]

10. He's an arrogant, lying sack of shit

[imanamerican63]

11. I am Catholic and know.....

I will get thru each day, by things I do and say! I won't say if he prays or not, but I feel that he says it, for prosperity and to pull more Catholic his way. It is appalling to me that they use religion to make their point. My point is he wants to take from the middle class and give to the rich! One of the big sins of the church is to be greedy and a liar to get ahead. Everyday, I say a pray for those who are less fortunate and for this country to come together as one amongst a lot of other things.

[HopeHoops]

12. I'm sure Satan hears his prayers.

[Generic Other]

14. He prays that Irish prayer...

May you be in heaven 30 minutes before the Devil knows your dead.

[frylock]

15. SERENITY NOW!

[beac]

16. Good. One less thing to learn when he starts attending AA meetings...

ASHHOLES Anonymous, that is.