Amen to that. It gets better:
"It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance feel oppressed or brainwashed as a consequence of muttering the phrase `under God.' Having voluntary student prayer groups using school property to meet should not be a threat, any more than its use by the High School Republicans should threaten Democrats."
Oh man, is common sense breaking out in the Democratic Party, or what? And even more truthfully:
"Nothing is more transparent than inauthentic expressions of faith: the politician who shows up at a black church around election time and claps off rhythm to the gospel choir."
Take that, Howard Dean! Readers who read my liveblogging from the Pew conference a few weeks back know that there's real evidence emerging showing that the coming generation of Evangelicals is more open to a Democratic message. Obama's onto something. But will the Democratic base listen?
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Silicon Valley Steve is right as usual.
But let me ask this about Osama, err...Obama (Ted Kennedy reference there--if you listen to Rush you may have heard the audio) is he saying that white people have no rhythm?
I though the Dems were above this type of racial stereotype?
*begins tapping foot in perfect 4/4 time*>
I do not support public employee unions, but I do support trade unions. This will probably keep me from considering any democrat for election to state positions. I haven't quite reconciled abortion in my head, but I'm not going to make my vote on a largely academic question. The Republicans aren't serious about doing anything on abortion, and as long as the democrats don't make the problem worse, I'm willing to ignore the rhetoric.>
Watsy,
Automatic weapons/machine guns are illegal.
The "assault weapons" ban covers semi-automatic weapons.
I agree some background checks are in order. We do have to defer to the constitutional guarantee of the "right to bear arms," however.>
Again, we suddenly see detail and relative minutiae when it comes to excuses for supporting union-busters... when the big picture the union-busters present is more style than substance.
Frankly, I'd rather see a few workers get 'too much' (Where'd the 'free market' go, all of a sudden?) ...than see anyone subjected to nonsensical injustice due to religious ideology...
Or to see *no* one allowed to really unionize cause someone thought they saw an excess somewhere.
We're supposed to trust you with guns, crippling deficit spending on foreign wars, and a demonstrably-racist death penalty... as well as the huge and real injustice of denying gay marriage....
So you can avoid the horrible, horrible abstractions of appearing to tolerate one kind of 'sin' while the warmongers rob us all blind?
Yay. *Real* conservative. Virtuous, even.
Or, is it that your type cleaves to symbols and fears of 'sin' so reflexively that you actually believe it's more important to be self-righteous than right or fair?>
"Obama and the rest of the democratic party are 100% pro-abortion and brave new world genetic engineering."
What nonsense. When you dismiss "the other" in such absolute, black-and-white terms, you're playing into the divide-distract-and-control agenda of so many "leaders" today in the government, the press, churches, and every other player that benefits from having the people in this country waste time and energy pointing fingers at each other. It keeps us from realizing how much we have in common: we all want peace, we all want prosperity, we all want to live in harmony with our world and with each other.>
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