Letters to the Editor
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Kansas is all right
Thanks, Kansas, for giving America Barack Obama.
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MIRACLE IN KANSAS
I just heard that a woman saw Obama's face on an ear of corn. It's now being exhibited at the VFW hall in Topeka.
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if he can make it ...
in kansas, he can make it anywhere. but tell me, did he explain that corn ethanol is not a good idea?
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We're not in Kansa anymore
I just heard on Spanish radio that a cook at a taqueria in East L.A. saw Obama's face on a flour tortilla. The tortilla is now framed and hangs next to the Virgin of Guadalupe on the taqueria wall. There are lines of people waiting to buy burritos de machaca con huevo and to pray to the Obama tortilla since a woman was cured of varicose veins after kneeling in front of La Tortibama Milagrosa.
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this is key
this is so important
Furches, it turns out, is one of those voters whom Obama is allegedly luring across the divide. He changed his political registration from Republican to Democrat just last week in order to caucus for Obama. He's recording Obama's speech to air on his Internet radio show, called "Virtual Pew." A Christian, he became a hardcore Republican during the Clinton years and says that he'll vote for Mike Huckabee if Huckabee secures the Republican nomination. If it's anyone else, he's voting for Obama. His son, 18-year-old Nathan, sitting next to him in a white hoodie, is going to vote for Obama when he casts his first vote ever.
On some things, like the war in Iraq, Furches disagrees with Obama. He says he talks to soldiers in Iraq for his radio show and hears from them firsthand that the surge is working. "That's my main disagreement, but I support Obama with the realization that he can't influence change without the cooperation of the rest of Congress."
On other issues, Furches has found his candidate. "A lot of Christians focus on abortion and prayer," Furches says. "They forget the general need of service to the poor. Obama has been outspoken about helping the poor, and I think he offers a good plan. I think the Republicans have used the religious community as a pawn."
if we have come to the day where many Christians realize they have been had,used over 2 issues(that the right would never really "fix"because it was to thier advantage to have them as wedges),but pulled from the main messgae of thier faith(helping the poor,ect.)the whole political dynamic changes.
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Love Letter to Obama
Obama is a good man. Clinton is a good woman.
So why is Salon so invested in tearing one down and building the other up?
The homepage today was a lesson in contrast. One story on Clinton is mostly negative and talks only about DNC intra party issues while the story on Obama is a fawning love letter.
Can we have a discussion on issues please?!
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When Obama picks Sebelius as his Veep
Which black(ish) man will Clinton pick?
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Kansas
Al-You're confusing us with Iowa. We're mostly wheat here.
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Well I'm pretty scared of Kansas now
Sebelius is funny, engaging, and 10 times more animated than she was on national television the night before delivering the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address. She wastes no time offering her endorsement to Obama.
Did she give him a copy of her son's board game too?
We have a prison crisis in California. If she's going to end up as his VP, then I want to hear her views on incarceration.
For example, does she share her son's view that it's humorous and entertaining to imagine prisoners getting raped?
Is it cool and exciting when one to two prisoners die from treatable illnesses every single week thanks to deliberate medical neglect?
Is he going to put that in his board game too?
That's a real turn off when human rights are that mocked and despised by so-called "progressives."
If this is the country we are now -- where the War on Drugs can't be criticized, no matter how many people get killed, and prison rape is suitable material for a board game -- then we've passed into some circle of hell that we're never getting out of, EVER.
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Mike Furches Reply
Couple of things, the only time I didn't stand that I was opposed to Obama was the war in Iraq, the surge is working. There were other times I didn't stand but that wasn't because I disagreed with what was being said. The other thing, the ministry is The Virtual Pew, www.thevirtualpew.com and there are two radio talk shows, The Virtual Pew Live, www.blogtalkradio.com/thevirtualpew and HJ Live at www.blogtalkradio.com/hollywoodjesus
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Here's a question I'd ask Sebelius if she were to be nominated as VP
What do you think the federal government should do about the racial segregation in California prisons, in light of the fact that this official policy has caused major drug gangs to adopt racially separatist ideologies and engage in ethnic cleansing of civilians on their home turf?
It's not the kind of cute thing you can fit into a board game.
Right now the US Attorney in Los Angeles is prosecuting cases of ethnic cleansing that were ordered from our racially segregated prisons.
So what should the federal government do about this, Governor, other than prosecute the consequences after the fact?
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I'm from Kansas
The Democratic candidate won't break 40% there in the fall--not even Saint Obama.
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Re: "Bridging The Divide" = Capitulating to Republicans
BabyGrumpus: What you're missing is that 2009 won't be like 2001-2008. In 2009, Democrats will have a majority in both houses and the Presidency. Therefore there won't be any need to "suck Republican cock", as you so colorfully put it. Obama and the Democrats will have the political power and popular mandate to set the agenda themselves. If Obama can do that in such a way that moderate Republicans are happy to go along with it, so much the better for all of us.
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Re: Mike Furches Reply
Hey Mike,
Glad to have you in the comments thread. Regarding the surge working: I see it working at the tactical level, in that violence has decreased since the surge began. What I don't see happening are the political changes necessary for the nation of Iraq to become stable in the absence of a large US military presence. Given that "surge" levels of US troops can't last forever (even the US military indicates that we will need to reduce troop levels soon, we simply don't have enough personnel to sustain them at this level), what do you foresee happening when the surge ends? Do you think that Iraqi government will have its house in order before then, or do you think that the surge will have to be extended in order to keep Iraq stable? And if it's the latter, do you think the US has the logistical and political stamina to "surge" for the 8-12 years the Iraqi government thinks would be required?
-Jeremy