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Friday June 27, 2008

Meet Barack Dobson

How different are they? Really? James Dobson and Barack Obama? On the face of it there is little, save their shared humanity, that seems to unite the two men. From their skin color to their positions on abortion, gay...

Filed Under: barack obama, casting stones, james dobson, jim wallis, sojourners

Tuesday June 10, 2008

The "ctrl-alt-del" candidate

Even though I'm a Mac guy, here's a Windows take on Barack Obama. He is the 'ctrl-alt-del' candidate. He is the guy people are looking to restart, reboot, Washington DC and all that it has come to symbolize. It...

Filed Under: al gore, barack obama, casting stones, florida recount, george w. bush, john mccain

Tuesday May 20, 2008

Sen. Kennedy's tumor... and mine

This is not a time to get weepy or maudlin about Sen. Kennedy. He really has just begun to fight. I know what I'm talking about. Five years ago, in the earliest hours of Palm Sunday morning, a doctor informed...

Filed Under: brain tumor, casting stones, glioma, kennedy, senator kennedy

Wednesday May 7, 2008

Race

I just watched 90 minutes of election coverage on CNN... 90 minutes that can best be summarized as 90 minutes of evidence that Sen. Obama's brilliant race speech needs to revisited. Because for 90 minutes the entire subtext of...

Filed Under: barack obama, casting stones, cnn, hillary clinton, indiana primary

Tuesday April 22, 2008

The permanent Republican majority lives

Whoever would have guessed it? The permanent Republican majority lives. For a few years now it has been a joke - Rove and Mehlman talking about a Republican movement so strong that the Democrats simply couldn't take it down....

Filed Under: barack obamam, casting stones, hillary clinton, karl rove, ken mehlman, permanent republican majority

Tuesday April 22, 2008

What happens in Pennsylvania...

...gives the election to John McCain. I've taken a short break from election madness to try and see it from a different perspective - I've been talking to friends in Pennsylvania and non-political friends from around the country and...

Filed Under: barack obama, casting stones, hillary clinton, john mccain

Thursday April 17, 2008

"politiks iz hard"

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan...

Filed Under: barack obama, casting stones, hillary clinton

Monday April 14, 2008

Obama, again

My friend Joe Carter, who blogs at Evangelical Outpost, left this comment about Obama that I wanted to highlight because it is the polar opposite of mine... I think... Obama's latests back-pedaling can't be squared with his original comment. Now...

Filed Under: barack obama, casting stones, democratic nomination, hillary clinton, jeremiah wright, jerry falwell, liberals, michael weisskopf, pat robertson, san francisco

Sunday April 13, 2008

Barack meet Michael... and Howard... and Muskie

“[I]t’s not surprising, then, that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” This quote is the equivalent...

Filed Under: barack obama, casting stones, democratic nomination, hillary clinton, jeremiah wright, jerry falwell, liberals, michael weisskopf, pat robertson, san francisco

Wednesday April 2, 2008

"It isn't presidential"

I am moved by Joe Carter's post on America's silent shame of prison rape: We are justifiably outraged by the human rights abuses occurring in foreign lands. So why aren’t we more outraged by the atrocities here in our...

Filed Under: casting stones, president bush, prison rape

Older Politics Posts


Monday March 31, 2008

Steve Waldman, Evangelist



Friday March 28, 2008

The Messiah Government



Wednesday March 26, 2008

Justice for Sudan

Filed Under: darfur, genocide


Monday March 24, 2008

The Speech, pt. 3



Thursday March 20, 2008

Huckabee on Obama and Wright



Wednesday March 19, 2008

The speech, part 2



Tuesday March 18, 2008

Charles Murray on Obama speech


My race problem



Sunday March 16, 2008

Yertle returns


Dreher: I'm whistling past the graveyard



Friday March 14, 2008

Obama's Wright response - Ready on day one


Rev. Wright



Monday March 10, 2008

Obama smacks down Veep insanity



Tuesday March 4, 2008

Enhancing the Clinton legacy by dropping out now


Tonight's winner? John McCain



Tuesday February 12, 2008

Obama...Uganda



Monday February 11, 2008

Poor Hillary



Saturday February 9, 2008

Huckabee's opportunity



Thursday February 7, 2008

Romney dropping out



Wednesday February 6, 2008

"Super Duper Tuesday"



Tuesday February 5, 2008

Dobson whacks McCain


sort-of-interesting Tuesday



Monday February 4, 2008

"Yes We Can"


The Conservative Gamble



Sunday February 3, 2008

Politically conflicted



Saturday February 2, 2008

Ethel Kennedy for Barack Obama



Thursday January 31, 2008

Edwards - another take


Hillary v. Barck, sexism v. racism?



Wednesday January 30, 2008

Sad about Edwards



Tuesday January 29, 2008

"The Faith to Outlast Politics"



Monday January 28, 2008

After the Kennedy glow... reality?


The Kennedy Heir?



Sunday January 27, 2008

Joe Klein on the Clintons and Sen. Obama


BHK as RFK



Saturday January 26, 2008

"Grown up" in South Carolina



Tuesday January 22, 2008

Fred Thompson and the death of the Reagan coalition



Saturday January 19, 2008

McCain - the day's only real winner



Friday January 18, 2008

Young evangelicals moving "left"


New politics and religion survey



Thursday January 17, 2008

A forlorn Republican


Huck losing his way



Tuesday January 15, 2008

Dear Mitt (and John and Mike and Rudy and John)



Monday January 14, 2008

My Hucakbee endorsement?


Obama's fall



Thursday January 10, 2008

Fred guzzling Red Bull


Fox Republican Debate...


"Not a Hucka-was"


Rove on Hillary and Obama, pt. 1


Anne Rice on Hillary and Barack



Tuesday January 8, 2008

She wins


Crushed Obama


McCain speech


Huckabee and Romney


Race, Polls, Obama


McCain!


Obama gap?



Monday January 7, 2008

Getting "vertical" with Jesus and Huck


New Hampshire predictions



Sunday January 6, 2008

Fox debate



Saturday January 5, 2008

Huckabee saying 12 million people leave?


Heartless Mitt


Romney on health care


McCain v. Romney


Charlie's slam


A debate reality check



Friday January 4, 2008

Huckabee, not Robertson



Thursday January 3, 2008

Votes for authenticity


Barack Wow Obama


P____d__t Huckabee


Huckabeed


Hillary's rally


John Edwards Roosevelt


America wins


Iowa - It is all about Barack (and Mike)


Sir Mitt

Filed Under: Mitt Romney, Ted Kennedy

"A Very Un-Republican Race"


Huck on Leno



Wednesday January 2, 2008

Huck and Ed and Mitt and knocking out teeth


Barack



Monday December 31, 2007

Evangelicals, say no to poli-pastors


Best political songs?


Hello again



Wednesday December 26, 2007

"Huckabeatles"?

Filed Under: Iowa, Mike Huckabee


Thursday December 20, 2007

Romney the merciless, pt. 2



Wednesday December 19, 2007

Romney's lack of mercy



Tuesday December 18, 2007

Obama's RFK test



Friday December 14, 2007

Anonymously Hearting Huckabee... returns



Thursday December 13, 2007