LINCOLN, Del. (AP) — Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is making light of comments she made more than a decade ago about having dabbled in witchcraft.
During an appearance Sunday at a GOP picnic in southern Delaware, O’Donnell said she was in high school when she dabbled in witchcraft. She asked the audience: “How many of you didn’t hang out with questionable folks in high school?”
O’Donnell, a conservative Christian activist, won the GOP Senate primary last week with the help of tea party supporters. Her comments about witchcraft were made during an episode of comedian Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect” show.
A clip hit the Internet as O’Donnell canceled Sunday appearances on two national news shows. Her campaign said she had to back out because the news shows conflicted with her Delaware schedule.
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EL ZORRO
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:39pmChistine O’Donnell have to start attaking Christ Coons with the FACT, he say that he is A BEARDED MARXIST , and is Harry Reid LAP DOG.
EL ZORRO
Report Post »Scorpion
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:57pmAll this talk about the conservative in the race but not a word about the “bearded Marxist” when elected Christine will be a conservative Patriot but the BEADED MARXIST will take his attack on America and our Constitution and vote like the Progressive he is,problem is the LAME STREAM MEDIA DOSNT control the information or the message any more,funny to listen to them squeal and whine as they point fingers to distract,but it doesnt work any more, and its killin em!
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:45pmIt‘s up to O’Donnell to point out that he’s a admitted MARXIST. The media will never do that for her.
Report Post »DianaGL
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:50pmJust like the media sold the people a totally distorted image of Obama, that many people bought, they are likewise trying to destroy O’Donnell with out of context clips and other such info. O’Donnell will do well to start attacking, instead of defending. It is important to attack Coons, his Marxists recent past, his record, and his plans for America. We don‘t even have Obama’s grades from college or any of his writings!!!!! But it is OK to consider what O”Donnell did in high school? This is media distortion at its best. DON’T BUY IT.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:29pmChristine O’Donnell went on a date in high school with a boy who was into witchcraft? Big deal, I cringe to think of some of the things I did in high school and college. When Liberals engage in their character assassination of Christine O’Donnell, all you need to remember is they are trying to take the focus off of Coons, WHO DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS A BEARDED MARXIST.
Christine O’Donnell is obviously embarrassed by her youthful indiscretions, but Chris Coons has never shied away from the fact that HE DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS A BEARDED MARXIST. Every commercial Christine O’Donnell runs from now until election day needs to include the line, “Oh, and don’t forget, my opponent, Chris Coons, DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS A BEARDED MARXIST!!!”
Report Post »dressseller
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:22pmChristine O’Donnell should don a witch costume for halloween ….just for kicks and to be a little in your face back at Maher. …And her opponent should dress up as a Marxist. ….oh wait.. ..that wouldn’t be a costume if he went as himself. My so bad.
Report Post »Mahna Mahna
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:19pmObama hung out with domestic terrorists, did plenty of drugs, practices socialism/Marxism, follows black liberation theology, etc, etc. That ideologue extremist made it to the highest office in the land and the media barely exposed any of it (except for Fox). But God damn O’Donnell for ever acting like a teenager. If I ever find out she wore black nail polish, I’ll be the first one in line to throw stones.
Report Post »bobmontgomery
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:05pmBarack Hussein Obama refused to order Eric Holder to fully investigate and prosecute the Voter Intimidation case stemming from the incident in Philadelphia on November 5, 2008. We don‘t need to go back in history any further than that to find fault with people and we don’t need to find fault with people not in office while people in office are guilty of malfeasance, misfeasance, abuse of power and all the rest. The whole purpose of the media campaign in re Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, you name it, is to do what the Journolisters recommended -accuse somebody, anybody, of something and keep at it so as to take the focus off “our guys”. Clinton was adept at triangulation. Obama is adept at deflection. These are the targets: Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Holder, Frank, Rangel, Waters, Boxer, Waxman, Leahy, Holder, Sebelius, Salazar – did we leave anybody out? Oh, yes. The rest of them.
Report Post »Waiting4George
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:00pmThere once was a lass named Christine
Report Post »Who‘s reputation wasn’t pristine.
The witch of the hour,
Or a Marxist scholar,
Deleware’s choice is quite simple it seems.
jtkell
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:57pmThe answer to this debate is simple. Save our great America with O’Donnell or continue on the socialist path with Coons. Nothing else matters at this time. Cap and Trade will wreck this Nation.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:00pmWell said, Broker!
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:10pmLOL Got to wonder how the reply to broker101 got here! Definitely agree with you, though.
Report Post »vonryansexpress
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:57pmBubble, bubble toil & trouble, Christine O‘Donnell ’conjures’.
Sputter, sputter, fail & mutter, Al Franken devolves.
http://twitter.com/vonryansexpress
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:07pmI think the devolution ritual is a little more involved than that, but I must say, I really like your style!
Report Post »SB_Smith
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:53pmFirst, I have no problem with Witchcraft.
Report Post »But generally speaking, how many can say they have the same mindset now that they had in high school ?
Please…….thank God I don’t.
I was liberal in high school…thought the Republican party was just a club for old rich white guys to keep their money. …..That was Reeaaallly stupid….grossly uninformed.
How embarrassing.
Is it Churchill’s quote that goes: “If you‘re not a liberal by the time you’re 20, you have no heart. But if you‘re not a conservative by the time you’re 30, you have no brain.”
wingedwolf
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:05pmLOL, me too. Funny, the older I got. the smarter my father became! By the time I was 29, he was smarter than Einstein!
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:22pmYou got it essentially correct, but for the ages: Liberal before 30, Conservative by 40, and it was Winston Churchill.
Report Post »lebdog
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:37pmLove that quote and it makes perfect sense.
Report Post »ADMIRAL747
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:52pmI bet witchcraft would be considered cool if Obama confessed to it.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:01pmHeh!
Report Post »Tattie
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:51pmGo to Mitchelle Maklin’s web site, you‘ll see the full content of the video on O’Donnell . The panel was discussing Halloween. It was taken out of context
Report Post »AChristian
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:49pmPinochioBamas omisssion of words in the Constitution, in his swearing in as POTUS oath, and other documents is a far more grevious offense.
O‘Donnell should use PinochioBama’s Ayers excuse. “I was in school at the time, I didn’t know him when he was a terrorist”
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:48pmI suggest she go on the offensive and relentlessly attack the Wiccanophobe Haters of the Left.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:12pmWiccanophobe….I like the attack sound of that. Good one broker!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:49pmLol
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:04pmlol- thats good =)
Report Post »Navyveteran
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:34pmlmbo love it. Beat them at their own game. I find ironic how progressives hate religion and the constitution, but sure is sticking to the mosque and their constitutional rights. The very next day they condemn the pastor who wants to burn the quran. Talk about being double minded
Report Post »tketterer
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:44pmI want more human people representing me than the entreched idiots we have now. This coming from a constituent of John McCain. Let me just completely apologize for that. We tried, but McCain couldn’t keep “money” out of politics.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:52pmjmo, but u were ill-served by J.D. — u folks need to be able to find someone better to serve along Kyl — and I am confident u will …
Report Post »ADMIRAL747
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:41pmNot long before her high school years the global elites that some called ‘scientists’ were raising hell about global cooling.
Report Post »PostProgressiveAmerican
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:42pmLOL! I remember that. The issue was related to the changing Earth’s orbit or tilt which was going to send us into another ice age or some such. When ‘green house gas’ increases were discussed, they were a good thing since it would offset the cooling and, if rapid enough, would enlarge the growing regions in the US (and globally), resulting in more food worldwide. My how things have changed.
So yes, give everyone some slack on their past. What they are doing now and what they plan on doing is what matters.
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:44pmRememebr that Glenn counseled to give people slack IF thgeir current behavior and future professions showed that they had essentially changed.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:39pmIf it was indeed high school, and she graduated high school at 17 like many folks, she was indeed a minor when the “witch” silliness went down [a fine point perhaps, but worth noting whilst coons belched out commie phrases a recently as a few years ago!]
Report Post »Redd
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:39pmProfessional MARXIST Coons vs Rookie politician O’Donnell.
Report Post »RestoreCapitalism
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 7:00pmYeah Redd. It’s kind of like, would you rather board a bus with an experienced driver deliberately headed toward the ‘bridge out’ sign, or a bus with a new driver headed toward someplace safe?
Report Post »bigbud
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:43pmI can’t belive that people are still taking Bill Maharr seriously, He was the one that said that the people were to stupid to understand The health care bill and Obama should “make them do it” I’m not sure of the exat quote. But apparently he thinks verry highly of himself. I don’t !
Report Post »Clarion Caller
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:39pmAt least she didn’t take marijuana and cocaine as BO admitted doing in “Dreams of My Father”.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:41pmactually, has anyone bothered to ask her about substance ingestion?
/I don‘t doubt she’d answer honestly, and I’d put it at a coin toss whether or not she actually did ingest — not that I particularly care presuming it was the same no. of years ago anyway …
Report Post »tintiger78
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 11:07pmThank you, ClarionCaller!! You are the one to say what I thought when I read this. O’Donnell admitted it was a bad idea as it is now being used to try to shut her down. Obama just brushed off his drug use as a non-issue. Let’s play a little game of “Which one of these things is ILLEGAL??”
Report Post »DreadMatt
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:37pmwow oh wow
Report Post »DreadMatt
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:37pmwow
Report Post »ADMIRAL747
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:35pmHIGH SCHOOL, are you kidding me? Whoever was the perfect teen? Two words; Jeremiah Wright!!
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:17pm…and for 20 nyears! Christine grew out of her childishness, oblahblah did not!
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:33pmChristine, yer gonna have to come up with a slightly more vigorous defense than that …
luckily, John Nolte over on the Breitbart sites has already done that for you —
“Does anyone find a young naive girl (or woman) under the influence of a guy she digs temporarily taking a wrong turn into witchcraft even a tenth as creepy as a grown man taking his children into Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church? **How about Ms. O’Donnell’s opponent dabbling, as an adult, in Marxism?**”
/focus on the 2nd sentence there — as that is what the voters of DE are being asked to choose — pretty clear cut imo …
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:59pmWOW, LOL Buckaroo! You hit that one square on the head. I got a chill, and it wasn’t up my leg, it was down my spine. I have to wonder how many children were and are being exposed to the kind of militant “hate America” rhetoric in that church and others like it? Makes one wonder how they call it a Christian church, doesn’t it?
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:13pmThx. — but please note I didn’t originally write that — I’m quoting John Nolte at big Hollywood from this post —
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/18/obamas-palace-guards-maher-colbert-jon-stewart-go-all-in-to-save-the-democrats/
Report Post »Rev. WC
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:47pmThanks Buckaroo! Well stated! Plus the whole witch thing makes me think of the hottie on Bewitched!
Report Post »inblack
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 4:30pmNot impressed with O’Donnell, but glad to have an entrenched rino out of office.
Report Post »firedragon
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:01pmI think whenpeople are in high school they do a lot of things they shouldn’t. that’s no big deal as long as she grew up and left it alone.
Report Post »‘t’
USAMama
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 5:58pmDid they mention that her opponent admitted to being a MARXIST?? If anyone is “unelectable” I hope its the MARXIST!! I would vote for Elmer Fudd before I put another marxist in the White House!
Report Post »bookhound63
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:01pmI much prefer someone who admits her faults to someone who tries to hide every fact about his formative years as he possibly can and pretends to be so naive that he would have us believe he sat in a church for 20 years and never heard a word that Wright was saying. Oh and, he had NO IDEA that Bill Aires was a terrorist, or that Van Jones was a communist, or that Ezekiel Emanuel favors killing grandma. Oh wait, he’s still there. Scratch that. He STILL has no idea who Zeke is. Yeah right!
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:13pmAgreed Bookhound…. if by some slim chance you even gave him the benefit of the doubt, it still doesn‘t say much for him that he sat in Church for 20 yrs and didn’t pay attention to what was being preached. I sure hope he pays better attention than that during his homeland security briefs!!
Report Post »RestoreCapitalism
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 6:42pmI see that Bill Maher is incorrectly accused of being a comedian… there is absolutely no evidence of that. And let’s not forget that at least Elmer Fudd is a capitalist. I don’t care much about political experience, we need candidates with principles and backbone to stand against the political machine.
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 9:40pmPlease unserstand that most liberaqls and MSM people have no conception of the atonement of Jesus Christ. They don’t recognize when Christ is accepted as your PERSONAL SAVIOR and you repent, you’re born again. Watch how a person acts after a born again expeience to see IF it’s true.
IF she is born again, anything she said or did in the past is forgotten by God. As Paul said, spiritual things can only be understood by the spirit. Libersals in general don’t have that type of spirit. Man is carnal and senous until born again.
Report Post »Mousey
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 11:34pmDid they mention that her opponent admitted to being a MARXIST?? <——- lol
Report Post »LasVegas Lady
Posted on September 20, 2010 at 10:01pmGo Christine! If the opposition can get the folks to consentrate on your wacky past, they will have done their job. Hope you make it in Delaware. Just don’t let them down in Washington when you get there.
Report Post »AnnMarie
Posted on September 21, 2010 at 10:49amI say to give her a chance.. This could be the “Hope” and “Change” that is needed. Afterall, Obama was elected with the Rev. Wrights incidents and with very little exposure in the Senate, etc. It has to be better than her opponent..
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