Scariest Quote of the Campaign:

[firedrake_mor]

SAY WHAT?

"I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that's what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family

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[firedrake_mor]

Yeah, I saw the coverage of him sitting in someone's back yard.

ngelinadb makes a good point -- experience can be hired. Gods know Shrub hired it. Survivors of the Nixon White House. I lean toward Sen. Obama more and more because he does inspire hope, and this country needs that desperately. Sen. Clinton may well be better versed in policy issues . . . at the moment, but, to me, she lacks that quality of a leader that makes people want to follow.

I'm painfully aware of the proximity of the primary. With everything else, the various propositions and their claims are boggling. I'm almost to the point of deciding those votes based on who's backing or opposing the proposition.

[thasolumn]

I about pissed myself when I read about his armed coup. This is just standard neocon banter, comparatively.

[harimad]

I'm sorry to have to say this, but anyone who is surprised at this just hasn't been paying attention.

General statement, not intended to mean I support Clinton: she does have more experience than Obama, even if one limits the definition to elected experience.

You want to know what the press expects of Clinton? Read Kathleen Hall Jamison's Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership. Jamison usually focuses on demographic aspects of politics but with this one book she goes into a more sociological view, albeit with a lot of statistical backup. She's also a terrific writer and wrote a readable book that makes her points quite definitively.

[hawkhaven]

Huckabee is not a good candidate. I could have told you that. the man is a Baptist Preacher; no matter what he is doing now, he will always be a Baptist Preacher. Trust me. I know. He is WAY too far to the right for anyone to truly want in the White House

[harimad]

I imagine you're aware that it was a Republican who got us into the wrong war at the wrong time?

[bohemiangypsey]

Umm.. what ever happened to the separation of Church and State? Or have the Republicans managed to do away with that as well?

[neecers]

That is exactly why I am terrified of many of the people who are running our country.... As a pagan, and as a woman, I do not want anyone to tell me how I should believe. I have been saying the same thing since G.B. got into the W.H. It is a scary time for those of us not in mainstream religions, and I want someone in the W.H. that will stand up for religious freedom, and the separation of Church and State. I see way too many signs of "Big Brother".... Orwell was chillingly right....

[firedrake_mor]

When GWB was running for President, I wrote him, ABC, and several other media outlets protesting his open commentary with regard to the authorized wiccan circles at Ft. Hood, Texas. He said "I don't believe witchcraft is a religion, and I feel they should not be authorized."

It is a VERY scary time, and the next few years aren't going to be much better, I fear.