does "I agree with x but ..." make me sound like a concern troll?

It sorta depends on what comes after the "but" and what your reasons for it are.

And does this handle make my ass look fat?

P Warning's got that one covered. Else why would he need to warn us he's in proximity? He's always trying to knock people over with his hips. Or lips. Or something.....

No cabbage in with the crawfish boil, Darlin. Cabbage was just thrown in here for the ass jokes.

You forgot potatos! Got to have potatos in the crawfish boil!

and......no damned bibs. Bibs are for wussies.

Pinch the legs and suck da heads! That's where the seasoning is...in those head meats.

Lotsa ice cold beer.

I do believe that this post of Glenn's ranks right up there with his Finest Work!

No, I don't want to have his baby.

Do they actually throw the entire man (with crappy haircut) or just toupees? ;-}

Oh, shoot, I see QS asked first.

Broccoli and cauliflower work well too. :-D

Short, sweet, and to the point. I like this post a lot.

There is no importance at all in the Wright Wright story it is simply an orchestrated attack on by someone with a devious purposes. Obama was forced by the media to discuss his personal religious back ground, which has no place in politics.

Obama made his faith a part of his campaign for whatever reason.

His faith then made itself an issue.

You don't care if someone with their finger on the nuclear trigger might think we are at Armageddon?

Can you imagine a scenario where such a belief could lead someone to use nuclear weapons irrationally?

Am I the only one who saw the speech, saw the Q&A, and came away with the idea that Wright in no way insulted Obama by calling him a 'politician'? Again, going off on his earlier thing about 'different doesn't mean deficient', his example was that Obama has a job. As a politician, he has constituents and people he needs to please and speak to in certain ways. Same so, Wright is a preacher. He has his own constituents he has to speak to in a way. Difference is that with Obama, he has a deadline, and maybe two, for the job he has. The nomination/convention, and the general election if things go right. Everything he says is couched in that frame, good or bad.

Wright is accountable to his god and clergy, and come election time, his role won't change no matter what, where Obama's very well may depending on how things go.

It wasn't a jab at Obama, but more so saying 'Look...I'm a preacher, not a politician. If you want to parse my words like you would a political leader's, you're doing the wrong damn job'.

Again, from what I saw of Wright, I saw some uncomfortable truths, some common sense, and some religious fire that while I may not endorse it, find nothing wrong in it to condemn. I don't see the wild-eyed Wright that everyone in the media has created. I see a hatchet job, a mythical beast based vaguely on reality in order to cast Obama as a villain in the right-wing fantasy the media is so eagerly and obsessively creating.

I couldn't agree more with Glenn (as usual), but isn't it a bit ironic for this to appear just below another one of Joan Walshes ridicuously biased and vacuous pieces. And on what? Jeremiah Wright! Glenn is fantastic at calling out the lazy, vacuous MSM, but his own colleague and editor at Salon is amongst the laziest and most biased (and, if not the most lazy and biased, certainly the most predictable). Glenn, how about directing some of your laser light a little closer to home?

I tutored at Cook County Jail twice a week for years.

Court enforced community service or just killing time while doing time?

I coach Little League.

Have you killed any opponents yet? Beat anyone to death with a bat?

Jeremiah Wright says black people's brains and white people's brains are different.

He's not a scientist or academician. When people with bold faced initials after their names start making claims like that, then I take notice.

He made fun of the way white people clap and sing.

So do I. Often

He said we deserved 9/11 -- among other things.

Did he? I think he just said it was "chickens coming home to roost" or what the CIA calls blowback. White right wing preachers said it was because God hates gays.

t is a racist hatemonger. Period.

Acording to you and Rush Limbaugh.

Obama's Double Life Exposed: His Racist, Hatemonger Pastor!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031308/content/01125106.guest.html

And you don't count. Neither of you are credible sources.

SPLC doesn't agree with you and they are the credible source on hate groups in America.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp#s=IL

Read the transcript of his NAACP speech and his Press Club appearance. It's all there for anyone who wants to see.

If you want to draw that narrow a definition of hatemonger and racism, we are all guilty.

QS brought up the cabbage and that was before we were talkin' gumbo. I said potatos...

They spread some paper out on a table and tipped a steaming barrel full of crawfish, lemons, potatoes, whole onions etc. out on that table...

Did we forget to taper our meds today??

Agree on Glenn's post and on not having his baby. Great genes aside, I'm just too old to go there now and the world has more than enough babies. ;-}

Glenn is fantastic at calling out the lazy, vacuous MSM, but his own colleague and editor at Salon is amongst the laziest and most biased (and, if not the most lazy and biased, certainly the most predictable). Glenn, how about directing some of your laser light a little closer to home?

My own theory on this recurring theme readers here keep bringing up is as follows: if a tick, a mosquito, and a rabid mongoose are all biting you at the same time, you can probably be forgiven for focusing your attention on the mongoose.