This one is better than the last, I think, because it raises a more holistic picture of what's wrong with what Obama is saying. I maybe don't have room to bitch (in at least some people's eyes) because I turned my back on the abortion issue to back McCain. I thoroughly and categorically *hate* the position moderates are put in by this country, we ( Read more... )

The Truth vs. Barack Obama via SavagePolitics ( Read more... )

Here is a link to a DailyKos article on Hillary's "spiritual advisor", Doug Coe of "The Family". I find this incredibly worrying, and ditto for McCain's connections to Hagee and Parsley. Is it not possible to find a bloody candidate *anywhere* without connections to some dodgy religious group or problematic pastor? When it comes right down to it, ( Read more... )

I'm a meanie, I know. But damn, could someone *please* tell Mr. Obama to shut it? All the shows that vanished due to the strike will be back on the air, it'll be time to file your taxes, and they'll have cured cancer by the time this ever-loving, bloody, bleeping speech is over. Good GRIEF, what a windbag ( Read more... )

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings ( Read more... )

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Ah, the subject I've been stewing quietly about for a long while, now. I'm frustrated and very close to utterly disenchanted with the Republican Party. I've contemplated whether I still belong in it or not. None of this is easy or welcome-- two years ago, and I'd have said that the only two things more certain than death and taxes were that I am a ( Read more... )