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You know there would be talk about the coming election over a Bettina Network breakfast table with the media talking Romney and Obama 24\/7.<\/p>\n
You have something to say? \u00a0Come to breakfast after a stay in one of the homes in the Bettina Network, inc. \u00a0We don’t put your name in the blog when we take the ideas you discussed over breakfast so you can feel free to say whatever. \u00a0Not every conversation winds up in a Bettina Network Blog, only those we feel are ‘hot’ or ‘interesting’ or ‘unusual’ or bring another fact to life which we feel you should know about.<\/p>\n
The question asked over this breakfast table was WHY the media is missing the real story in this election and not printing what the public should know! \u00a0And what did they think the public should know?<\/p>\n
In the interest of full disclosure, only one person at the table was a Romney supporter and he came to pick up his friend to show him around the area. \u00a0He was invited to stay for breakfast and he stayed until almost noon! \u00a0It was quite a conversation.<\/p>\n
First discussed was the major reason for voting for Obama – what was that? \u00a0RYAN! \u00a0What happens, if God forbid, something happens to a President Romney. \u00a0RYAN BECOMES PRESIDENT RYAN! \u00a0Isn’t that the major role the Vice President plays? – President in waiting?<\/strong> He or she does other things in the process of waiting, — in case, — but that is the Vice President’s major role – and several have played that role over their tenure in the White House!<\/p>\n Second thing discussed was religion! \u00a0It was not an anti-Mormon discussion, but one the discussers felt was rooted in fact and their considerable concern about electing Romney president. \u00a0He is, apparently, a high official in the Mormon Church, at least equivalent to the Bishops in the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n No one around the table would have had a problem in the 1960’s voting for John F. Kennedy – a Catholic – for president. \u00a0They would not have voted for and would have actively worked against the election of Cardinal Cushing for President. \u00a0 Kennedy, according to the person speaking, was an ordinary citizen who happened to be a Catholic and was not beholden to the Pope. \u00a0His views were his views and he had not taken any kind of oath to defer to the wishes of the Pope on any issue. Before making any decision Kennedy was not beholden nor would anyone expect him to call to consult the Pope, if the issue were one which collided with the beliefs of the Catholic Church. \u00a0Cardinal Cushing, on the other hand, had taken such an oath and his first fealty was to his Pope because of his position as Cardinal. \u00a0He would not have been confirmed or ordained a Cardinal if he had refused to take such an oath.<\/p>\n Romney is a Mormon. \u00a0He is not a Mormon the way John F. Kennedy was a Catholic. \u00a0He is a Mormon the way Cardinal Cushing was a Catholic<\/strong> – his first fealty is to his Mormon religion, which means the people at the top of the Mormon Church are the ones he listens to and the ones whose decisions and beliefs he could not violate or go against. \u00a0The United States comes second. \u00a0He is not free to make decisions contrary to his Church’s religious beliefs and tenets because he is the equivalent to a Bishop or above in the Mormon Church and he has taken such an oath to abide by all the beliefs and issues of faith which his religion dictates.<\/p>\n We have all danced around this issue. \u00a0We have all been trying to exercise this country’s promise of religious freedom. \u00a0It is not practicing religious freedom to elect someone as President or to any other office in this country who does not practice the religious freedom this country preaches.<\/strong> \u00a0He cannot claim religious freedom when he is in a Church which does not carry that belief as one of its tenets, but believes that Mormonism is the true religion and everyone else is going to hell 0r is amongst the damned.<\/p>\n If Romney is in the pew, maybe he believes that and maybe he doesn’t, maybe he follows his church’s teachings and maybe he doesn’t. \u00a0Romney is not in the pew as an ordinary member of his Church. \u00a0He is an official of the Church at the level of Bishop – he has pledged an oath to his Church and its leaders that he does indeed believe that Mormonism is the true religion and it is his duty to proselytize and do whatever he can to bring others out of ‘darkness’ into the ‘light’. \u00a0It is his calling to move to help save John and Jane Q Public from eternal damnation. \u00a0Who are John and Jane Q. Public? \u00a0Those who are not current practicing members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints.<\/strong><\/p>\n Third discussion was about Romney’s claimed business experience and how he will use it to bring all of us into a fantastic, beautifully functioning economy. \u00a0The discussion was basically along the lines of – if he can’t do that for his own campaign, which is small compared to the United States of America, how can he do that for this country? \u00a0According to one person around the table, Romney’s campaign was a mess and has been for weeks with Romney not able to pull off or manage a well functioning campaign.<\/p>\n Others commented that his money is not what he is earning through his management skills, but what his money is earning on investments. One person claimed Romney earned the money and that gives him credibility as a manager. \u00a0Others claimed Romney has not been engaged in management for at least six years – and probably longer. \u00a0And – to our shock – what came out was that his family money – on which he is now earning money – did not come from Romney’s earnings nor his father’s earnings, but from the Mexican Government. \u00a0Without that start the Romney’s would not have made it as high as they did financially. \u00a0Apparently, the Romney family sued the Mexican Government and received a substantial settlement before moving back to the United States with their multiple wives.<\/p>\n What an amazing bit of learning! \u00a0I would like to know more about that because I thought the Romney fortune came from the Father’s work in Detroit with the automobile industry and I assumed his father had worked hard to pull himself up by his bootstraps, as had most immigrants coming to this country. \u00a0Apparently, Romney – the father, \u00a0had a head start, which some claimed was how he rose to the top. – He was not a destitute person coming from Mexico with no money and turning that into another Horatio Alger story. \u00a0He and his family came well heeled from their encounter with the Mexican Government.<\/p>\n Wow! \u00a0I must refill my organic coffee cup and ponder these things!<\/p>\n ________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n