My book says, "Beware a politican, any politican, quoting scripture."

Applying to any politician after 1900, all I can say is "Amen".

Posted at March 4, 2008 7:49 PM in response to Experience of the Soul

Tell you what...

I turn fifty in two weeks. Get back to me when I'm not the youngest election inspector in town, or when I'm not the second-youngest member of the town Democratic committee. (The youngest is in her early 40s.)

Turning out for a charismatic Presidential candidate is all well and good, but we need people to do the scutwork in off-year elections, to get involved at the local level and to become candidates for town, county, and state races as well.

Posted at March 4, 2008 7:14 AM in response to Millennials Rising

That was my first thought, too.

Posted at February 21, 2008 2:22 PM in response to What Does it All Mean?

I think I'm going into the booth tomorrow and vote for Obama, but I'm not going to like it.

I mean, he's OK. He's not calling for doubling Guantanamo or saying that we'll be in Iraq for another hundred years. But for someone who's supposed to be The Great Non-White Hope, he's just not far enough in front of anything that I care about to inspire me. If, for instance, he had stood up with Chris Dodd in the early innings to say that telecom immunity is just plain wrong, I'd love to vote for him. Instead he's at the back of the hall with everyone else, tut-tutting at those naughty telephone companies now that it has been established that it's not an automatic career-killer.

The main reason I'll probably vote for him tomorrow is that, now that Edwards is out of the race, he's more likely to beat McCain than Clinton. It's very simple: the MSM love McCain, they loathe the Clintons, and they like Obama. I don't want to spend every day between now and Election Day watching CNN, MSNBC, the big three networks, along with the major newspapers and newsweeklies, rehash every Scaife-funded talking point while McCain gets a free pass.

It totally sucks, but I have to vote the way I do because of what an ass like Chris Matthews thinks.

Posted at February 4, 2008 7:50 PM in response to Jumping the Fence to Obama

Heck, let's not forget that Bill's dalliance with Monica was due to a vastrigntwing conspiracy according to Hillary.

This is a lie.

Posted at January 9, 2008 4:07 AM in response to Results Open Thread

Obama is also quite happy to throw secularists under the bus, along with gays. From a speech he gave to the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference:

Democrats, for the most part, have taken the bait. At best, we may try to avoid the conversation about religious values altogether, fearful of offending anyone and claiming that - regardless of our personal beliefs - constitutional principles tie our hands. At worst, there are some liberals who dismiss religion in the public square as inherently irrational or intolerant, insisting on a caricature of religious Americans that paints them as fanatical, or thinking that the very word "Christian" describes one's political opponents, not people of faith.

Again, he uses the Republican frame that Democrats/liberals are meanies about religion. And he's lying. There are no Democratic elected officials or major Democratic public figures portraying religion or religious belief in this way.

Posted at November 15, 2007 5:08 PM in response to The Left's Obama Problem

The word "extremist" here is extremely important to Mr. Sunstein's thesis, which can be boiled down to "Beltway intelligentsia* good, DFH's bad".

*His oxymoron, not mine.

Posted at November 12, 2007 4:47 PM in response to Colorado Springs and the Politics of Conformity

Why is Anthony Weiner opposing the deal? Does he feel that the Arab countries are getting too much and Israel too little?

Posted at September 10, 2007 4:41 PM in response to The Arms Deals No One Is Talking About

All the holier than thou types who inhabit the left blogosphere while driving their SUV's and living in McMansions need to look in the mirror.

Names, please, or are you just recycling Rushbo talking points?

Posted at June 20, 2007 4:36 PM in response to Take Back America, Please

I wonder if Congress is going to pass a resolution condemning Israel on the 40th anniversary of their deliberate attempt to sink the U.S.S. Liberty, an American ship operating as a listening post in international waters. They failed to sink the ship, but they did manage to kill 34 Americans.

Posted at May 25, 2007 2:34 PM in response to Congress Celebrates The '67 Arab-Israeli War!