Mitt Romney’s Unintended Irony
Posted by John on November 27th, 2007 at 10:13 pm · 3 Comments
A Pakistani-American Muslim businessman ran into Mitt Romney on the campaign trail and asked the following:
I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans of the Islamic faith in his cabinet as advisers on national security matters, given his position that “jihadism” is the principal foreign policy threat facing America today. He answered, “…based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration.”
Mormons = less than 2% of the American population.
Of course, my own denomination, which makes up less than .03% of the U.S. population, has produced two presidents (though Richard Nixon is the red-headed stepchild of Quakerism). And I like to think of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln as fellow skeptics.
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