I am desperately hoping and praying for a Democratic victory in November, not because of specific policy differences I have with McCain and the Republicans, nor because I am particularly enamored of the Dems. In point of fact, I on a fairly significant number of issues, I actually agree with the Republican positions.

The reason is despise the Republican party is because of their unbridled lust for and ruthless pursuit of power for power’s sake. There is no tactic too foul, contradiction too spurious, delusion too tenuous, nor prejudice too despicable for the Republicans to embrace, exploit and justify if it has bears the slightest chance of improving theirs odds of obtaining power. The spectacle of John McCain pimping his honor like a worn out whore has long ceased to be news. Like an addict in search of their next fix, the modern Republican Party will stop at nothing in their soulless quest for power.

What do they do with that power once they have it? They wield it not merely to defeat, but to destroy and silence those who would dare to disagree with them. “Country First” isn’t a moral code to them, it’s a public proclamation of their first intended victim.

The Democrats are often mistaken, sometimes silly and always naïve, but the Republican Party is evil; lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride - all seven of the deadly sins are its underlying principles, encouraging and enflaming them in its followers, corrupting their character to accept any and all offense against the conscience. It starts with small transgressions, but unchecked, it grows and will bring ruin upon us all.

I am a Democrat because I would rather associate with earnest, but honest souls than consort with brownshirts.

Posted at October 10, 2008 1:31 PM in response to Note To News Orgs: McCain And Palin Are Largely Responsible For Unhinged Tone At Their Rallies

On point is a miserable show, even on the best of days. Ashbrook is a dolt who continually interrupts his guests to summarize their points for them in "plain talk" that almost aways misses their point. Jack Beatty is the semi-lierate co-host whose main purpose appears to be to spew historical annecdotes on cue.

The whole thinsg is absolutely ghastly and an embarrassment to BU.

Posted at October 10, 2008 12:54 PM in response to Note To News Orgs: McCain And Palin Are Largely Responsible For Unhinged Tone At Their Rallies

I think it was Rob Riggle on last night's Daily Show that best summed up the attitude of the American public towards our leaders, "We want them to be the same as us - or worse."

Posted at September 5, 2008 4:26 PM in response to Polls Show McCain Starting To Get Convention Bounce

Bush is so unpopular he probably wasn't even mentioned in Laura's speech.

Posted at September 3, 2008 12:18 PM in response to On President's Big Convention Night, Mentions Of "Bush" Are Awfully Hard To Find

I'm honestly dumfounded by the Democrats' collective refusal to use words like "lie" to describe deliberate falsehoods and "liar' to describe those who lie.

Obama’s problem is that his responses to McCain are cerebral, not visceral. The average American voter is ill-informed and apathetic. Because it takes far more than a single election cycle or a 30 second ad to educate a voter it is far more effective to appeal to their raw emotion than to reason. Republicans have recognized and exploited this basic fact of American politics for a generation.

If Obama wants to win this thing, he needs to stop saying McCain is a Bush clone or that he favors tax cuts for the rich and start selling the story that McCain is a borderline-senile, cranky old son-of-a-bitch who thinks he’s better than the rest of us.

It ain't bean bag!

Posted at August 20, 2008 5:33 PM in response to Wake Up, Obama Camp

In all fairess, John McCain's heroics are even older news than his affairs. If you discount the one, you have to discount the other.

Posted at August 15, 2008 3:46 PM in response to McCain On Swift-Boating Book: "Gotta Keep Your Sense Of Humor"

Hah-ha, yeah, that "Obama Nation" was a real knee-slapper!

If McCain liked that one, he'll just love this one...John McCain is a cross-dressing, pedophile cannibal who is secretly the high priest of a Satanic cult and collaborated with North Vietnam in exchange for special privileges during his time as a POW!

Lol! Ain't it funny?

Posted at August 15, 2008 3:00 PM in response to McCain On Swift-Boating Book: "Gotta Keep Your Sense Of Humor"

"Think of it, over 1/2 a million people traveling 40 years in a circle around Sinai and there is absolutely zero archeological evidence."

The figures of 1/2 million and 40 years are most likely literary expressions of "a whole lotta people" and "a long time" rather than actual hard data. Also, even a mass migration, if completed over the course of a single generation would leave very little physical evidence. Given that it is reported to have taken place thousands of years ago, across a pretty wide expanse of territory, following an unknown course in an area long populated by nomadic peoples, the lack of archaeological record is hardly surprising. We know that the America’s were populated by migrants from Asia over a fairly significant chunk of time, but are having a very difficult time establishing where and when they first arrived.

“Another fact my friend, Nazareth didn't even exist until the beginning of the 4th century CE.”

"Oxford Dictionary of the Bible

by W.R.F. Browning (NY: Oxford University Press, 1996)

Nazareth. A town in S. Galilee approximately half-way between the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean not mentioned in OT but described as the residence of Joseph and Mary (Luke 1:26 f.) and so of Jesus (Luke 2:4; 4:16). Excavations in 1955 revealed that the town was inhabited before the Christian era, and in 1961 an inscription found in Caesarea mentions Nazareth. It was a satellite town of Sepphoris, 6.5 km. (4 miles) away, and had a population when Jesus lived there of about 500. It was assumed in Judaea that 'nothing good' (John 1:46) could possibly come out of the Graeco-Jewish area of Galilee."

“Now, mix a mystery religion with politics? a recipe for disaster which can only end with tears.”

Aside from the fact that Christianity is not a “mystery” religion, I couldn’t’ agree with this point more.

Posted at August 14, 2008 12:49 PM in response to GOP Rep. To Environmentalists: Jesus Already Saved The Planet

Since the general discussion has died down, it won’t be too disruptive if I take the opportunity to reply to Brain User’s rant at some length…

“Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't Jebus [sic] the same as his father”

No, in Christian theology, the Son is not the same as the Father, they are one in being and are coequal, but are not the same.

“It follows then, that when father/Jebus commits mass murder and genocide on a near daily basis throughout the 'Old Testament,' Jebus' actions are slightly less than 'loving' towards "all people?"”

There are several problems with your question, the first is with your inappropriate use of “murder.”

When a man hunts and kills an animal, has he committed murder? If, instead, the man is killed by a wild animal, has he been murdered? When he falls off a ladder and dies, has he been murdered? Of course not, murder is the wrongful taking of human life by another human being. It is wrong for the same reason that slavery is wrong, it is a violent denial of the rights of an equal it is the taking of something that belongs to another.

According to Christian belief, God is infinitely superior to man, He created us and gave us life. Therefore, when a person’s life ends, whether through illness, injury, age or even through direct divine intervention, he is neither denying the right of a peer, nor does he deny us something that is our own. God gives us life for a limited period of time. If that constitutes murder, then my local librarian must be a thief.

Second, your accusation only makes sense if you presume that death is inherently bad – an assertion which Christianity explicitly rejects. Christians believe in the immortality of the soul, in which case bodily death is not an ending, but a fulfillment of one part of our nature as human beings. A particular death (like any particular) or 184,000 deaths may be peaceful or harrowing, but it is would be wrong for a Christian to conclude that death is inherently bad.

Third, a Christian would argue that God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – does love all mankind, and wants only what is best for us, but that only God knows all ends. As any advocate of euthanasia would argue, there are times when dying is better than prolonged life. A Christian would point out that the moment any particular person’s life ends in itself offers no evidence of either divine love or hostility; Christ’s teachings and sacrifice of Himself, on the other hand do offer the Christian evidence of a loving God, willing to suffer for our sake.

Finally, God’s actions as recounted in the Hebrew Testament took place in a profoundly different context from those recorded in the New Testament. The Incarnation represents a revolution in the relationship of God and Man, so why would we expect a record of that relationship not to reflect that revolution?

Now, every bit of this, you are absolutely free to reject as a load of delusional rubbish, and I fully respect that viewpoint, however, to assert, as you have, that it is self-contradictory is quite simply and demonstrably wrong.

Posted at August 14, 2008 12:29 PM in response to GOP Rep. To Environmentalists: Jesus Already Saved The Planet

"At the risk of sounding rude..."

No, I don't think it's just a "risk" of "sounding" rude.

Posted at August 13, 2008 1:39 PM in response to GOP Rep. To Environmentalists: Jesus Already Saved The Planet