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Who Ya Callin' "We," Motherpucker???
Aug. 17th, 2008 10:53 amThe Dayrunner mentality and Christian evangelism are such an inspired fusion that whatever your feelings toward either – I'm suspicious – you can but admire the marketing genius of the guy who came up with it. Props to Reverend Rick Warren!
That said, I'm not sure presenting the Bible as a series of time management exercises is reason enough for both presidential candidates to do one-on-ones with the guy.
I just don't get Obama. If one out of four American voters are born-again Christians, that means three out of four Americans aren't. I don't quite understand Obama's determination to court these people unless his earlier courtship of the left was an equally opportunistic stratagem.
And I think his response to the abortion question was a poor choice of words to say the least. What the hell did he mean by "…answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade.”
How much do you have to get paid to answer that question? Since the president's yearly salary is considerably less than, say, Donald Trump's (or Rick Warren's, for that matter) does that mean once Obama gets elected, he's going to defer all Rove vs. Wade decision making to Donald Trump?
I know, I know – it was a joke.
But see, it's not a joking matter.
More and more I am wondering whether I am actually going to vote for Obama in November or sit this one out. The Obama presidency is being sold exactly the same way the Democratic congress was sold in 2006 – "we" need to control the White House! Only as far as I can tell the Democratic Congress has been a disaster. Despite all the campaign bluster, they signed Dubya a blank check to continue the stupid war in Iraq, a war by the way that makes any military intervention on behalf of Georgia – which might be a war worth fighting – totally impossible.
I just picture all those Move On Democrats sitting by the phone in their frilliest party dresses. He never writes, he never calls, they're thinking. But they luv him anyway.
Not me.
That said, I'm not sure presenting the Bible as a series of time management exercises is reason enough for both presidential candidates to do one-on-ones with the guy.
I just don't get Obama. If one out of four American voters are born-again Christians, that means three out of four Americans aren't. I don't quite understand Obama's determination to court these people unless his earlier courtship of the left was an equally opportunistic stratagem.
And I think his response to the abortion question was a poor choice of words to say the least. What the hell did he mean by "…answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade.”
How much do you have to get paid to answer that question? Since the president's yearly salary is considerably less than, say, Donald Trump's (or Rick Warren's, for that matter) does that mean once Obama gets elected, he's going to defer all Rove vs. Wade decision making to Donald Trump?
I know, I know – it was a joke.
But see, it's not a joking matter.
More and more I am wondering whether I am actually going to vote for Obama in November or sit this one out. The Obama presidency is being sold exactly the same way the Democratic congress was sold in 2006 – "we" need to control the White House! Only as far as I can tell the Democratic Congress has been a disaster. Despite all the campaign bluster, they signed Dubya a blank check to continue the stupid war in Iraq, a war by the way that makes any military intervention on behalf of Georgia – which might be a war worth fighting – totally impossible.
I just picture all those Move On Democrats sitting by the phone in their frilliest party dresses. He never writes, he never calls, they're thinking. But they luv him anyway.
Not me.
