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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 02:34 PM
Original article: Mean girl

@ lulubelle

Palin says she is fighting the 'Old Boys' network. Should the contrast be more to your liking that she be called a 'young girl'?

One can't on the one hand play gender to your advantage as in "She's taking on the 'Old Boys' network" and then balk at being identified as a girl.

There are many instances on sexism in society, but yammering on about any and all references to a woman's gender as an instance of sexism will eventually dilute any reaction to real instances of sexism.

Sunday, November 2, 2008 02:18 PM

Throw everthing at Obama

I want Republicans to thow the worst they can find at Obama. Otherwise, some in that party may think that, when they lose, it will be because they just didn't get mean enough.

Let them throw everything including the kitchen sink at Obama.

Let them call him a Muslim, a socialist, a baby killer.

Play 24/7 Wright and Ayers commersials on every channel, and when they DO lose, they will know that it is singularly because the American peole have rejected THEM; not because they didn't use the RIGHT strategy.

I don't want the far right to have a single excuse or scapegoat for why they will have their asses handed to them on Tuesday.

I the words of their hero, "bring it on!"

Sunday, November 2, 2008 09:13 PM

Which part of America does Wright hate?

Chicago?

New York?

Perhaps what he should have done is borrow a page from Sarah Palin and just speak contempt for the parts of America he doesn't like. Because that is what he would have meant.

Sarah Palin doesn't hate REAL America. She only hates the liberal parts. You know, the parts that were attacked on 9/11.

I suppose that when America is governed by liberals from the 'other' America, she will damn America in general as well. Tell us how the voters betrayed the country. How newspapers deprived her of her 1st Amendment rights.

Do right wingers love ALL of America? Or do they slice and dice America down to the reddest of red states and proclaim those sections, the parts of the nation darkest at night, the truer America.

Wright damned America because he was the product of generations of racism. He and his generation came of age in an America wholy in default of her promise. Every four years newer generations take their place as voters, supplanting the voters of that era. It is no longer the America of Wright and Robertson. America is entering its post civil rights age.

And the politics of fear and division simply doesn't have the same effect with voters as it did even 8 years ago.

Almost 20 million Americans have died since Bush came to office. In that same period, America has grown browner and the electorate a little younger. The tide is against this type of campaign. The Republican party is simply too calcified to understand that.

Friday, November 14, 2008 11:49 AM

Voting isn't a sin

Even voting for a pro-life candidate.

I might believe that abortion is a sin; a mortal sin. But voting for a pro-life politician isn't. We all have free will, including politicians. Am I supposed to know the mind of God and the heart of this man? It is possible that Obama sould have a change of heart once elected. It could be that he would appoint pro-life judges. I hope that he doesn't and I doubt that he will, but God doesn't punish us because we MIGHT sin. Or that those we support MIGHT sin.

The church teaches that we must give to a homless man that asks for money. That he might buy drugs or alcohol is of no consequence to us. He may even take that money, buy a gun and kill someone. We aren't responsible for his actions; he is. He must atone for his actions. Our responsibility is to help where we see a need.

I am a pro-choice Catholic, and I understand the difference between being pro-choice and pro-abortion. But this is the argument I have made to my own priest, based on church docrtine.

It is the doctrinal falacy confronting priests and bishops making support for any politician a mortal sin. Any politician we vote for has free will and can change their beliefs. John McCain could have gotten elected and appointed a pro-choice justice. We have no way to know for sure when we are casting out votes how a politician will govern.

Friday, November 14, 2008 11:50 AM

Sorry, I meant 'pro-choice'

I was too upset

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