When is Kos going to denounce Obama for saying he does not support gay marriage, like he did Harold Ford Jr.

Right after he loses the election, just like everyone else.

[Edit] Or, if he wins, right after he leaves office. See, e.g., WJ Clinton.

Purpose-driven strife:

RW: People say America is not the policeman of the world. We may not be, but the Bible says, if you have been blessed, then you are to care for people who can't care for themselves, you are to speak up for people who can't speak for themselves, and to defend the defenseless.

JG: Some people argue that we're not so great ourselves.

RW: The difference is that there are no death squads in America. The worst you can get here is that you can get blogged, you can get Lewinskied(!), on the Internet...That's why whether or not they found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is beside the point. Saddam and his sons were raping the country, literally. And we morally had to do something. If you have a Judeo-Christian heritage, you have to believe it when God says that evil cannot be compromised with. It has to be resisted, it has to be overcome.

Ok, then.

Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel

- Thomas Sowell(!)

Huh:

The poll, which shows Obama ahead of McCain 43 percent to 34 percent among likely voters, also finds Obama leading in 18 of 19 different religious faith communities defined by the survey’s strict standards. McCain leads in only one—evangelicals. In that category, however, the Republican has a huge lead, 61 to 17.

Wonder if a Rabbi will get a crack at them on MSNBC or something?

I was shocked to hear McCain tell that dubious story about meeting a Christian Viet Cong while he was in the Hanoi Hilton, and signaling to him with the sign of the cross. The same thing happened to Charlton Heston in the 1950's movie "Ben Hur." Either McCain is a sleazy liar, or unbalanced fantasist.

This hoary old chestnut is also recounted in Solzhenitsyn's 1973 Gulag Archipelago. Boy, that secretly Christian Viet Cong guard sure gets around!

I was surprised to hear that tickets were sold for something like $250-$500. And that they were only available for church members.

Not exactly an Obama audience.

Let's hear them go talk to the Sierra Club next. Or the ACLU.

Edit: Oops, it was $500-$2000 a ticket!

$500-$2000 a ticket!

Bah, 'tis peanuts. As McCain pointed out, the median US income is $5 million.

In A Night to Remember, Walter Lord quoted an Astor as saying at the turn of the twentieth century, "The way things are today, a man with a million dollars could live as though he were rich."

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I really shouldn't joke about these things. Cindy McCain could take me out with one thwack of her credit card statement.

Good point.

Thinking about last night's discussion (it was NOT a debate) a bit more. At one point John McCain said he wanted to make everybody rich. But didn't Jesus say that "the poor will be with you always?"

Why does John McCain hate Jesus? (Ok, that's a joke for those of you who are humor-impaired.)

Cringe-worthy moments:

• When Obama failed to name health care as America's worst moral failing.

• When McCain named Gen. Petraeus as his top-most trusted and influential adviser and confidant (or however the question was phrased.)

Asked at what point a baby gets “human rights,” Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: “whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade.”

If Obama is saying that the answer to that question is unknowable, wouldn't it make sense to err on the side of caution and protect pre-natal life? He seems to be allowing the possiblity that pre-natal children should have human rights, but is completely comfortable with snuffing out their lives, right up to (and beyond) the point of delivery.

Speaking with CBN’s David Brody immediately after the Saddleback forum, Obama gets snitty when asked about the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act.”

Check it out:

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The King Inference from Nobama's people:
"Uh....Uh.... Ahhhh.....Ahhh, McCain..uhhh, he cheated and uhh..he was not in the....Ahhh cone of...uhhhh...silence. That’s why he..uhhhh...beat me last...uhhhh...night.

This says it all Rachel:

"Obama audience.

Sierra Club Or the ACLU."

Chief panderer?
Commander in chief of community organizing?
President...of Harvard?

He needs something nice and quiet. Something without too much responsibility.

This will make a wonderful commercial:
“Being president is above Obama’s pay grade.”

Damn, this guy is an idiot.

the Sierra Club and the ACLU would probably be biased in Obama's favor.

This is what libs don't get.....it's the white guys in hard hats in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Michigan who will decide this election..........for McCain. The Demo's have become the party of the ACLU and Hollywood.

got his ass handed to him and everyone on this list knows it. It was entertaining listening to him try to get digs in on Clarence Thomas, a man who has spent years building up quite an impressive resume while Obama was out being a street hood or whatever the hell he said he was doing in Chicago before he spent less time in the Senate than I did learning the ins and outs of C#.

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There is no rational reason to vote for McCain.

You're wrong Rikki. There is one very rational reason to vote for McCain.....Obama. I admit that I can't think of many other good reasons but that one is enough for me and lots of friends I know.

We'll see who the white hard hats vote for.

after looking over each shoulder carefully

If he plays Cherokee he doesn't even have to look over his shoulder.

Nice analysis, Ax. If the GOP is smart enough to steal two elections in a row, maybe we need to keep electing them.

Ratfuckers with badges and titles like "Secretary of State" got the job done.

BTW, where are the baby rats?