Thanks for responding. I guess I just got excited when I saw someone else who was familiar with DCCC. So excited I misspelled Disciple.

My experience with the church dates back to the late 1950's in Great Bend, KS. Not exactly a bastion of liberalism, but not the grotesquely conservative place it is today.

Indeed, it has vacillated over the years, depending who was in the pulpit, and right now we have a former Texan who spends all of his spare time putting up water stations in the desert. We're in southern Arizona near the Mexican border and I'm totally fine with this activity. I don't want to go to a church that is indifferent to people dying in the desert simply because they broke the law to find a job in this country. Illegal immigration may piss a lot of people off, but I'll argue with anyone that it doesn't warrant a death sentence.

I lean in the direction of Liberation theology but would be deeply suspicious of any politician who would openly embrace it. I think Lenny Bruce was more divinly inspired than Billy Graham and the Pope, that you can't reconcile a Christian nation with a fast food nation (most those laws are about animals), and I don't wear diamonds because of all of the kids in Sierra Leone with no hands.

In other words, I'm certifiable. And it's very nice to meet you.

I've been a member of the Deciples of Christ (First Christian) Church my entire life. (My sister's boyfriend referred to it as the "lefty church") Like it or not, Jesus is a lefty. No way around it.

When the Rev. Wright story broke, I watched two or three videos of his sermons and, surprise, I failed to find it controversial.

My own church is considered controversial for a number of reasons. I wouldn't be comfortable in a church that put more emphasis on hating gays than helping people. That just isn't a church to me.

I don't agree with my preacher all the time. Obama doesn't agree with his all the time. No surprises there...

If only he hadn't checked the box "Do Not Volunteer for Overseas".

What a weasle. I'm so glad I'll be able to tell generations to follow that I didn't vote for that clown in either election.

Hmmmm. I was watching a video of Serge Gainsbourg the other night and began to picture him with a mouthful of perfectly veneered teeth. For some reason, I let him keep his nose, but it didn't matter; that change alone turned him into someone with whom Bardot and Birkin would have performed a singing only duet.

American eroticism, arthouse cinema, and Obama aren't as disparate as they seem at a glance. I've been longing for a resurgence of intellectual curiosity, satire, vaudeville - not nostalgia, not museum pieces - but here and now. I want optimism and an adventure. I hope that if Obama is elected, can a Fellini or Antonioni be far behind? Would anyone watch?

I've watched my husband get very quiet when he's watching Ava Gardner, Sandra Milo, Claudia Cardinale and Anita Ekberg. He's never that quiet with contemporary actresses, with the possible exception of Charlotte Rampling and Salma Hyak. He even remarked recently about what a great movie "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" is and how that movie would never be made today. (The movie that was the inspiration for Alice Cooper, by the way.)

Hillary? Feminism? I don't see it. She's citing her years as first lady as "experience". By that definition, I think she may have had sex with Monica Lewinsky.

A growing number of us are wanting to know the extent to which the Feds and Wall Street played a role in targeting Spitzer. Were the phone companies involved? Were elements of "fighting terrorism" employed? What EXACTLY happened here?

I'm not defending Spitzer, what he did was stupid - and illegal in the part of the country he did it in - but I want to know the degree to which our government is cherry picking targets.

When one of every hundred people in this country is incarcerated, we have failed as a nation and this is part of the problem - prosecuters engaging in activities they prosecute and our government gunning for certain people.

What a country!

The bank was gunning for him and he gave them what they wanted. Maybe it wasn't exactly the flavor of illegal activity they were looking for - I mean, Larry Craig and David Vitters still have their jobs - but it may be enough.

Sad. I really admired Spitzer.

Go team!

Ken Starr? Really? I'm donating $100 to Obama now...

The DNC and RNC need to support the request from the governors and allow everyone the opportunity to participate in a party-sanctioned primary.

The Democratic primary is going to be very close whether these two states vote or not, and anything less than a complete do-over will be a fissure that becomes a canyon in the general election - I don't care which side you're on - Clinton or Obama.

I don't think this represents much of an impact on the Republican primary one way or the other.

In 2004, Ralph Nader embraced the support of Citizens for a Sound Economy to get on the ballot in several states. If you don't know who these folks are, do please drop what you're doing and enter the innoxious sounding phrase into the nearest search engine.

The generous support of CSE by the Koch's should have told everyone what they needed to know about Nader's "volunteers", especially since Dubya's little sister Dorothy is married to a Koch. (Pronounced coke, btw.)

Knowing this, could one honestly believe for a second that CSE wanted Nader on the ballot as anything other than a spoiler? If so, find an adult to explain it to you.

Sad thing about Ralph is that when he finally decided to get in bed with someone, it was the devil.