Highlight from the Huffingtonpost entry that you can link to from the opening sentence of this blog entry:
Obama also cited Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, “a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application.”
“Folks haven’t been reading their Bibles,” Obama said in the speech.
My friends in various places still really like Dobson and listen to his radio show, but I just cannot do it. And the website mentioned in the end of this article, which was set up as a response to Dobson, does not seem totally lame, either. Lest we not forget, Dobson knows Dubya. This is a photo of them at the National Day of Prayer.
Just for fun, here’s Dobson stating he would never vote for MCain (or Guilani).
(blog note: i’m not showing stories or images directly on my own page because I don’t know the legal issues implicated in such an action).
I consider myself to be a progressive rather than liberal or conservative.
Progressives and third party types often see more similarities between republican and democrat than differences. This may seem myopic, to say the least, on the surface.
During the Clinton era, there were those who supported the president. There were those who did not trust him for lying about his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky. And then there were those who believed that his wife and he were agents of communism bringing adultery and socialist health care to the White House. Some even went so far to link the Clintons to their own unique set of conspiracy theories involving drug rings and murder. Here is a preview of a video made by conservative Christian production comany Jeremiah films called “The Clinton Chronicles.”
While the extreme right wing of the U.S. is not a majority of conservatives, the elemental beliefs have certainly made their way into public consciousness. This led to the dogmatism with which some supported Kenneth Starr and the impeachment proceedings. Granted this may have been a minority (there was impeachment but never removal from office), but there are those who simply hate the Clintons. Hillary herself has made mention of a vast “right-wing conspiracy” in the past.
But is it okay now, to dislike Hillary? How could she be compared to those who have attacked her and her husband?
Based on this article from Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone magazine, the answers are yes. And easily. This also backs up the assertion of progressives, which is rejected by so many democrats, that among the elite of the parties there aren’t really all that many differences.
As posted on Huffington Post, Dunkin Donuts has pulled an ad featuring Rachael Ray wearing a scarf that may look middle eastern.
Just a simple note on this one… wearing a scarf does not endorse terrorism! Nor does wearing Arab-themed clothing! Nor does being an Arab! This is beyond absurd and makes conservatives in the U.S. look like total morons. Period.
It’s very trendy to bash Fox News, which is good news for me. As the channel is the embodiment of Bob Roberts, a 1992 satire about an arch-conservative Senatorial candidate who adopts 60s civil rights rhetoric to reframe himself as a rebel. Republicanism is the new radicalism. With Fox News, puritanism becomes the new subversive culture.
So the following two entries from the Huffington Post are provided here, lest no one miss them.
HOWEVER, I wish to point out that 1) I noticed and avoided Fox News long before the moveon.org people arose and before the Robert Greenwald documentary Outfoxed hit screens. And this is not a mild problem - I know of people who ONLY consume their information through the channel. Of course, many people want to feel affirmed in their beliefs and ideas when they watch TV and “conservatives” should be no different.
2) I also liked Johnny Cash a few years before he finally started getting recognition for the American Recordings albums (right before he died). I owned and loved Grace by Jeff Buckley long before he died. Basically, in terms of cultural and media taste, I am a prophet. (just kidding - or am I????)
Matt Taibbi, writer for Rolling Stone magazine, is one of the most insightful voices I’ve heard discussing the 2008 US Presidential election.
This is his commentary on the Rev. Wright controversy. The article itself takes the nation and the media to task for focusing on the wrong things in this election. Here’s a key quote: Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve completely updated my mp3 player (all freshly put on). BTW - I have an iaudio and i really like it, EXCEPT if you put an album on it, it plays the tracks in alphabetical order rather than the track order on the CD. Oh well….
I’m headed for GBBB11 the first weekend of May, but I’m not sure why.
My primary locus of community, so as I envision my life, should be the Church. This is for spiritual and political reasons. But no one person is ever a part of just one community. Read the rest of this entry »
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