The Democrats Have a Prayer Room, Too

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If the Prayer Room DID have satanic anal beads, I'd consider voting Obama.

redemma on September 3, 2012 at 8:53 AM

Can't you pray anywhere? Do you really need a room?

Simply Me on September 3, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Little horns on each bead=Ouch!

Large Hardon Colluder on September 3, 2012 at 11:21 AM

@2,
Of course, the "prayer room'' isn't for praying, it's for influencing people's social images.

Urgutha Forka on September 3, 2012 at 11:29 AM

Paul, you wouldn't know what a Satanic anal bead looked like if it bit you in the eyeball. Now get back to class.

dnt trust me on September 3, 2012 at 11:40 AM

Do most houses have Prayer Rooms? Living room, bed room, kitchen, prayer room? Have I been missing out on something my entire life?

Westlake, son! on September 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM

@5 Sorry, all I see is "Satanic anal bead". exactly my summation of you.

Pope Peabrain on September 3, 2012 at 11:58 AM

This is good. Next time I see someone praying, I can rightfully say, "Get a room". It always grosses me out when people french Jesus in public.

stating the obvious on September 3, 2012 at 12:28 PM

@7
Keep delivering your zingers. Me and you can make the comment threads as shitty as the posts. You with me?

dnt trust me on September 3, 2012 at 12:31 PM

@ 9 Can't take as good as you give? I demure in the interest of Slog.

Pope Peabrain on September 3, 2012 at 12:51 PM

Which troll is dnt trust me? Bailo? Seattle Blues? Something child (I honestly can't remember her handle anymore...)? I know we only have a few that recycle their handles every once in a while and it's hard to keep track...

Cracker Jack on September 3, 2012 at 1:57 PM

So much for keeping religion out of politics. You can bet 50 years ago neither party had the need of a "prayer room".

Cato the Younger Younger on September 3, 2012 at 2:21 PM

An ostentatious prayer room is the sociopolitical equivalent of butt implants.

balderdash on September 3, 2012 at 2:30 PM

That's clearly a front. There's no way Obama can fit his atheist Muslim army in there for midday prayers.

Where's the DNC Commie Mosque? I know it's there somewhere.

madcap on September 3, 2012 at 2:31 PM

I mean, for real, though, having a clearly-labeled prayer room makes you That Guy who buys, but definitely never reads, copies of Proust and Derrida and leaves them strewn around his apartment in hopes of impressing the drunk, fifteen-years-his-junior college girls he aspires to bring home.

balderdash on September 3, 2012 at 2:42 PM

The Prayer Room is Gene Simmons' tongue: made much of in public, but you know it's never been used for anything but photo ops and a couple of half-hearted, regrettable private moments.

balderdash on September 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM

@12, I'm pretty sure it's dbk on _slightly_ better meds.

rob! on September 3, 2012 at 2:51 PM

A Prayer Room is like a cat leash, and if you don't understand why that's a joke please call Seattle Animal Control to your home immediately.

A Prayer Room at the DNC is like Steam on a Mac, which exists but nobody is sure why.

The Democratic Prayer Room is the zebra-stripe snap bracelet you begged your parents to buy you in 1991 so you could fit in with the cool kids, until you overheard the most popular girl in class making fun of you for it at lunch, and then you wanted to get rid of it but you were too embarrassed so you wore it to school every day for the next year even though you wanted to cry every time you put it on in the morning.

balderdash on September 3, 2012 at 2:56 PM

Actually, at a noisy place like a convention, it would be nice to have a quiet room for contemplation, or just getting "recentered" and catching your mental breath now and again.

In that respect, both the Republican and Democratic versions are failures. The GOP one was made out of a few widely-spaced panels of curtain. This one is an improvement, with walls and a door, but seems to have no ceiling.

As far as what to call it, I don't think that politically speaking they could call it much else in North Carolina but a Prayer Room. "Meditation Room" would just be trolling for loony Teabagger (i.e. Fox News) condemnations.

Brooklyn Reader on September 3, 2012 at 3:02 PM

@12, Is it Mr. Poe?

Cato the Younger Younger on September 3, 2012 at 3:17 PM

@20: "Quiet Room"?

digitalwitch on September 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM

Kal Penn is "Hosting" the Dem convention? Think someone wants to kiss and make up with the stoner vote.

Obama and the White Castle duo in the link...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/03…

Large Hardon Colluder on September 3, 2012 at 4:51 PM

Matthew 6:5-6:6

"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

doceb on September 3, 2012 at 4:59 PM

@24: In my small town, thanks to a newly revised policy, a recent city council meeting opened with an invocation by a Hindu leader. It's apparently a fairly common occurrence this summer. And the local evangelical Christian ministers are losing their shit, stumbling around trying like hell to avoid saying they think they deserve a monopoly, though that's the very message they want to convey.

I hope the next step is this.

rob! on September 3, 2012 at 5:52 PM

@23

Kal Penn got a job with the Obama administration back in 2009. While I think he has since moved on, this isn't that big of a shocker.

LEE. on September 3, 2012 at 5:55 PM

@26 Penn has been taking a fairly active role, including being a co-chair for re-election. But, I don't recall a 'Host' for either/any convention recently/at all. Judging from the video released, Obama is embracing the Harold and Kumar connection. There's also what appears to be a trial balloon in last month's GQ, about Obama wanting to 'pivot' on the drug war during his second term. Pretty mild pandering, but with Penn hosting, it makes me think that they may try and motivate this group of voters during the convention.

At least it will be funnier than an empty chair.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/de…

Large Hardon Colluder on September 3, 2012 at 9:44 PM

@27

Maybe? I have trouble imagining that would really resound with moderates and undecideds. A DNC pockmarked with bong jokes just seems like the laziest right wing attempt at satire imaginable. If it happened in real life...well, as shown by the link provided, I guess stranger things have happened lately.

LEE. on September 3, 2012 at 11:51 PM

Apparently you don't know how the prayer room came to be at the RNC. 2 ladies petitioned repeatedly to have space in order to pray. They were eventually allowed this small space. It came out to be the same size of the Holies of Holies in ancient Israel.

on September 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM

@29 Yes, but as @24 rightly points out, it's all sacrilege to be praying in public and making a show of it. Not that Christians like to follow the instructions of Jesus or anything, but it's worth noting.

dirac on September 4, 2012 at 12:21 PM

How many medical marijuana clinics have the feds busted in the last three years? A lot.

clashfan on September 5, 2012 at 1:20 PM

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