CVille Dem,
Barrak Obama had a Muslim father. Islamic dogma dictates children born of Muslim fathers are Muslims. No exceptions to this. Obama attended a madrasa in Indonesia. As you know, a madrasa is a school attached to a mosque where young men study Islamic theology. I’m sure Obama had little choice in this matter, he was a minor, and there’s really nothing in this to hold against him for it in any event. It appears that as soon as Obama obtained his majority rights, or maybe before, he converted to Christianity. But still, these are the facts of which Rep King was concerned.

CVille Dem, all this may seem irrelevant to the liberal mind. But you’ve got to understand, sweetheart, we’re not talking about American Idol here. We’re looking at a much more consequential role and have every obligation to vet those auditioning for it in any way we suspect might affect the way they play it.

It appears you have an agnostic bent. That’s fine. Lots of people don’t believe in God. But as a reasonable person, CVille Dem, you are forced to believe in religion. One is not prerequisite for the other. Religion was one of the milestone developments of our species, immediately subsequent to language, which made social order possible. You can spend forever blaming religion for all manner of calamity, but in the end, you’ll find religion has not only been beneficial in balance, but absolutely crucial to the existence of that which separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom.

I’m not carrying this water far, but in the end CVille Dem, when the atoms quinn esq was going on about are reduced to states undreamed of, when all evidence of our brief existence and the religions of Father Abraham have disappeared to the nonexistence from which they sprang, when even time morphs into something we from which we don’t even have a platform to understand, you’ve got to believe in God. Ultimately CVille Dem you have to believe in God. Brother quinn esq, would you lead us in prayer please?

I agree on all of it Debbie. Heard frustration from more than one Hillary IA operative about the bullheaded ignorance and obstinance up the chain of command.

As for the bowler he may have been a 5 the week before but drifted back to a 3. When presented with the choice between making a decision they're not certain about (in public no less) and doing nothing a lot of people opt to take a pass. Or maybe his team was vying for first place in his league, who knows?

Everybody knew the rules going in, your votes had to come from people who could and would show up on caucus night. More outreach to those voters might have helped but I doubt it. Obama, Axelrod, Plouffe and Carson ran a campaign operatives will be studying for years, and not just in IA. I think Super Tuesday was their masterpiece.

I hate winter campaigns. I volunteered for Foster in IL-14 in Feb. and Mar. last year. Brutally cold on the prairie, jamming yard signs in snow drifts because the ground was too frozen to plant them. Banging on doors people don't want to open and let the heat out. Nasty stuff. For all my hard work last year I was elected Dem precinct committeeman of the year in my township. And as a reward I'm now not only our candidate for township supervisor I'm the field director for the whole slate. Election day is 4/07, which means another winter campaign for the next two months. No good deed goes unpunished.