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And realize how hard it is to govern in the center (or words to that effect :-). I wonder how the lefty bloggers are going to take this:

BTW, I can't see how the Obama administration could fault the lefty bloggers for trying to hold him to his campaign promises.

BTW, add Thomas Friedman to the list of those who didn't agree with the Nobel committees choice.

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Update: Evidently, not everyone in the WH feels this way. And Harwood clarified his point:

In an email to the Huffington Post on Monday, Harwood clarified that the quote was not meant to convey any displeasure on the part of the administration for the gay community's public advocacy.

"My comments quoting an Obama adviser about liberal bloggers/pajamas weren't about the LGBT community or the marchers," he wrote. "They referred more broadly to those grumbling on the left about an array of issues in addition to gay rights, including the war in Afghanistan and health care and Guantanamo -- and whether all that added up to trouble with Obama's liberal base..."

Noooo, I'm not liveblogging it! But this blogger from the NY Times is. Very helpful. We can go live our lives and then check in later for the highlights.

It's not very helpful of Dreher to label the DC Tea Party protesters as "kooks" based on one picture. I know that a picture is worth a thousand words, but come on, you base your opinion of a movement on this one picture? Most of the protesters were average Americans who wanted to make their voices heard. Politicians don't get why we're upset that the government is trying to take over our health care and spending trillions of our dollars (and yeah, we were mad at the Republicans when they spent billions but as I say, we rarely protest -- I changed that to rarely because a commenter mentioned that we did in 2000, my bad) and they wanted to express their outrage in their signs. That's why there were so many home made signs. People wanted to remind the president and the Democrat-controlled Congress that they were the governed as well (the left are not their only constituents). Just because Obama won 52% of the vote doesn't give him the right to take over our health care and bankrupt this nation.

And yeah, there were signs that were over the top but the majority were not. And yeah, you don't want to be associated with nutters but from the pictures I've seen, most of the signs were relatively benign. Do you let the over the top people take over the protests? Are they the only ones who can voice their opinion? I'm sure that during the Iraq war protests, the sane leftes didn't agree with these types of sign or that those who protested for health care reform wouldn't agree with the kill Bush sign this guy carried to a town hall meeting.

I think this sign (that I missed among my daughter's pictures -- she did take over 100 pictures) sums up what the protest was about:

Can you see anything different from what Dreher is saying in print:

Aside from his personal decency, it's hard to find anything to say for Obama. He is a statist liberal who is continuing and expanding the centralizing policies of his predecessor, whose expansion of the national security state and uncritical embrace of Wall Street finds no real enemy in Obama (much to the surprise of some on the left). Unlike the president, I'm a social and religious conservative. Unlike this or the last president, I believe in fiscal responsibility, limits, localism and foreign-policy realism.

And what others are saying in signs? They don't have his voice: his blog and newspaper. This was their chance to let the politicians know what they think of Obama's power grab.

You know what's funny about all this, that the network evening news shows (CBS, NBC) gave a far more accurate report of the protests than our conservative pundits. I guess it's because they were actually there talking to the people and not sitting in Texas pontificating about them.

I don't have enough clout to get it repaired. I don't have a million Twitter followers and a blog with a huge following, so if I have a problem with it and complain, the "manager of the executive office" from Maytag's parent company isn't going to call and make it all better for me. I'm not going to get offered a new appliance because of the hoopla I created. I'd be stuck waiting for the repairman just like everyone else.

Maytag's attempt to fix the problem didn't really help their bigger problem of rebranding. Now they're the company that allows a washing machine to go unrepaired for almost a month instead of the company that makes dependable washing machines, I now have a new narrative associated with them.

Now, I know what happened to a sleep-deprived mom of an infant who needed her brand new $1300 washing machine repaired and how the repairman came to her house three times over a 23 day span and the washer still didn't work. I know now that a sleep-deprived mom who needed her brand new Maytag washing machine was told that she would have to wait 3-5 days for a repairman to fix the machine that wasn't repaired by the last repairman even though she had been waiting close to a month. And she was also told that company policy dictated that they couldn't replace it until there were three attempts at a fix and even though the repairman was there three times, he was only on his first attempt. Yes, 23 days, 3 visits and 1 attempted repair. And they wanted her to repeat this cycle two more times? (Without giving her a loaner!)

What about the commercial where the repairman is bored and has nothing to do because the machines are so dependable? Evidently, that's a crock since you can't get a repairman right away, it takes them three to five days to schedule work on a brand new $1300 washing machine. Must be some kind of backlog, huh?

That narrative will stick with me when I go to the store to purchase a new washing machine. They should have listened to the very famous blogger when she said she had a million followers on Twitter, now the story's out and I could care less that they fixed her machine since I know it's only because it made a big enough noise.

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This is a wake-up call to all bloggers who think they can remain anonymous:

A Vogue cover girl has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a "skank" on the internet.

In a case with potentially far-reaching repercussions, Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger who maligned her on the Skanks in NYC blog so that she could sue him or her for defamation.

That's it, no more freedom to voice your opinion. Commenters, you'll probably be next.

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The Atlantic Wire has posted a roundup of the reactions to the boycott of Whole Foods by lefty bloggers over the WSJ opinion piece written by Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey. Mackey angered the bloggers by suggesting a free-market solution...

That's what Ryan Chittum of The Columbia Law Review found out:"We want to stop wholesale misappropriation of our content which does occur right now--people who are copying and pasting or taking by RSS feeds dozens or hundreds of our stories."...

I'm going to be hanging out with my family today, so no blogging (or even tweeting or facebook). Real conversation, not electronic :-) I'll leave you with this. The real reason famous people die in threes :-)...

As Instapundit would say, "HEH" (via)...

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I'm finally getting around to reading all the comments that you guys were posting when Sarah took over the blog. Sarah told me about this comment: Sarah, you absolutely must not lock your mother in the basement, no matter how...

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And for the light posting this weekend. I was studying for my Prophets final which was today. I think I did OK. It was a lot of work but I read everything I was supposed to read, listened to all...

Oh.My.Heck! Some of the commenters on this blog have it bad, real bad. You guys have lost it and gone over the deep end. Political discourse has hit a new low on this blog (I can't say on the Internet...

I just got back last night from Montreal and was too exhausted to blog and now I'm getting ready for church but I saw something from Friday that I plan to comment on. Full blogging will resume later today...

Everyone will be focused on the Olympics, Obama is taking a vacation and who really cares what McCain is doing (unless it's a snarky ad about Obama :-) and I'm not interested in the love life of a potential VP...

Please be aware that there are comment policies for Beliefnet. Could you please do me a favor and read them and make sure that you refrain from violating them. I will delete comments that do....

When I was harassed into proving that my Reformed theology is the source for my worldview and not the Republican party, I provided you guys with a nice little primer that explains Reformed theology so that I can then provide...

I found this article by the EFF very helpful in explaining why the AP is clearly going outside the bounds of fair use. Those of you who are accusing me of plagiarism for using parts of news stories might want...

Using their own standard, Michelle Malkin determines that the AP owes her $132,125 for quoting her blog above the 5 word limit. I like Ace of Spade's new policy:I will limit the the words actually quoted from AP stories, limiting...

Since the AP is going after bloggers for quoting snippets from their articles, I've decided to just stop using them. Here's a breakdown of their charges currently which is way more restrictive than the current law allows. Did you know...

I fear that the commenters are confused and need a little help with how Reformed theology is reflected in my posts. Or more specifically how I view the particular news item from a Reformed perspective. So, here's what I'll do....

But I've been very busy. That's why posting has been so light. I've been busy with errands for my daughters, doctor's appointments (I'm going to need another operation), working out, shopping and movies :-) I'll try to slog through the...

Since the commenters insist on repeatedly making the same charges against me I've decided to started saving my responses in Microsoft OneNote as a way to save me time and aggregation and to demonstrate the lack of imagination in the...

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They'll be blogging it out over the problem of suffering. If you struggle with this issue, you might want to check it out.Is our pain God’s problem? If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow so much suffering?...

So, I guess I'm off the hook to respond anymore tonight :-) Here's the evidence in case you don't believe me:Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Too many comments have been submitted from you in a short period...

But I'm bummed that it wasn't for a more interesting post. Thanks to RJohnson and meh for the bulk of the comments :-)...

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It's a chat room type liveblogging. Pretty neat and informational....

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Or it will junk your comment and it won't publish. Feel free to put in a fake email address but it probably should be in the form of an email address. And if you put in an embedded link, your...

I've decided not to delete anonymous comments, I'm going to give you a name. Yes, that's right, I have the power to edit comments and I will change your name from anonymous to whatever I feel like, so you may...

I never remove comments from this blog unless they are anonymous. I could care less if you disagree with me and I fell no need to suppress your views. If you think I'm afraid of your soaring rhetoric and the...

Use an initial, name, pen name, nick name, name of your dog, whatever but if it's anonymous it will be deleted....

So, I was googling "reformed chicks" to see if anyone had linked to us because I no longer have access to a stat counter :-( and I came across this post and was surprised to discover that it was...