http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050620/blumenthal

"I'd grown up listening to Bob Grant...one of the most entertaining hosts I'd ever heard," Hannity wrote in his 2002 book, Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism.

And some of Bob Grant's record here:

In March 1995, according to the media watchdog FAIR- http://www.fair.org/extra/9506/grant.html- Grant entertained the call of a promoter for the neo-Nazi group National Alliance who billed his mission as the "support of European males." "I don't have a problem with the National Alliance!" Grant twice declared... He had called Haitian refugees "subhuman infiltrators"; remarked that the United States contained "millions of subhumanoids, savages who really would feel more at home careening along the sands of the Kalahari or the dry deserts of eastern Kenya"; and often promoted "The Bob Grant Mandatory Sterilization Program" for minorities.

The problem is not that they're racist, the problem is that they're mainstream and Obama's pastor is not allowed to be. That's what's known as Rich Man's justice...

My wife reminds me that KC, of the Sunshine Band, has offered to be our boogie man, as he puts it, "that's what I am"

And as far as some of the basic existential declarations which form our culture, I can only refer you to Popeye and his dictum "I yam, what I yam, and that's all that I yam!"

But I fear I am straying into Good Celery's agricultural bailiwick, and will desist. Besides, goddamit, I gotta go work!

In search of an easier opponent, I assume. That's ok, it was fun while it lasted!

John Adams is coming on in a minute, adios everybody.

Seriously though, I expect these rants to be about black deadbeat dads and things like that, not pants worn too low. The former at least has some veneer of legitimacy, the latter is just stupid.

The botched spelling of Iverson is telling. Here is a guy ranting even though he doesn't know the basic facts. I assume he knows that Iverson is black and has tatoos and that's enough.

Setti, do you want there to be proles? then we'll have proles.

And no, if the military was made up of rich elites, I'd expect them to pay for their own wars.

McCain '08

The white vote!

Do you think the military can go on fighting the war if they cannot (even if it's in their own minds) depend on the White House for cover, and to implement their own, and the White House's worst instincts? Won't it fuck them all up? Would you waterboard for Obama

Doesn't this presuppose that the Military has been totally behind the war and the methods by which it has been persecuted? From my prespective as a (GD) civilian, it appears there has been a lot of protest from a group that's supposed to keep quiet and take orders from civilians. I thought waterboarding is forbidden in the unified code of military justice. And a lot of these "questionable activities" have been done by contractors and/or the CIA. I don't deny that I've gotten the impression that some think they are doing god's work, but I question if they are the majority.

In search of an easier opponent, I assume.

As long as I'm here, I'd be proud to run interference for you DCLawl. Hell, I'd be proud to take your shots!

But I'm going, so they're back to dashing themselves against your edifices. They haven't got a chance. I'm not worried.

Trinity is a church that baptizes. Obama's two children were baptized. I find it odd that Obama joined the church because Wright brought him to Christ. Prior to this, Obama claims not to have been a Christian. That may mean he was never baptised. Surely he was baptized at Trinity if he has become a true Christian. I can't claim to be certain of the church's belief here. At the very least Trinity would require a profession of faith.

I have been baptized three times:

1. At 8 in a Baptist church I was saved by a Charlie McCarty dummy handing out candy. I think it is safe to say that my subsequent Baptism was not really heartfelt. I had only wanted the candy. (We later left the Baptist Church so that my father could continue to smoke and I could continue to be a little ballerina.

2. The second time I was baptised at 12 into the First Christian Church. This was semi-heartfelt. My mother wanted to wash the Baptist off.

3. The third time I was baptised was at the age of 19 when I was a newlywed. My new husband wanted to be a Mormon. This was also semi-heartfelt. I became a non-Mormon two days later when I realized I was supposed to give up birth control and go forth and multiply.

Now I realize that semi-heartfelt implies a bit of hypocrisy, but since I was, sequentially under the influence of candy, mother, and sex, I think I may be excused a bit.

However, please note that I did not stay for 20 years in any of these churches. I grew up; I got divorced (in that order) and I moved on. Some 20 years later, after a antidote of healthy agnosticism, I became a Unitarian-Universalist which only requires a commitment to fairly secular principles and does require me to be an idiot or be dunked in water.

(Please note that I am not saying there are no idiots in the UU Church.)

What I am saying is that to join any faith once one is a mature person and not entirely sex crazed requires -- if one is not to be a total phony -- belief and commitment.

On the other hand one can accept as a political candidate in number of endorsements from religious leaders. Obama has renounced an endorsement from Farrakhan, a good move in my estimation and a much better comparison to McCain's acceptance of the endorsement of religious nuts.

There is simply no real parallel between McCain's endorsements and Obama's faith. Obama has decided to remain a member of Trinity. Trinity's present pastor has defended the beliefs of Wright.