Comments on: Early Morning Swim

By: RevBev

RevBev — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:47:07 +0000

The piece on W celebrating his accomplishments is another “don’t read.” Proves more of his divorce from reality and illegal practices. Warning: it is still scary.

By: bonkers

bonkers — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:42:26 +0000

So in the video clip, Mike Rogers says the exact same thing, about three times as he takes up all the time, where LGBT activists scored a victory by getting Warren to change language on a Web site. He is aso happy this issue is getting so much attention now as well. Bridges are being built.

Now isn’t it possible that Obama realized that all this would happen by picking someone like Warren? Given Obama’s history, going all the way back to the Harvard Review where he did similar things, I think the odds are good that this was all part of Obama’s calculus in picking Warren.

Seems pretty wise to me.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:21:36 +0000

You are the optimist…thought you were gone, because I was going to say it is your friendly farewell that urges me to get my self right on out the door. Thanks.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:10:04 +0000

It’s the belief that someday she’s going to write or say something that’s not way out in right field, rolling around in the corner.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:06:12 +0000

I surely wish I had taken the warning to avoid the skinny, senseless, rude Ms Ann….should have known, not worth one’s time.

By: hackworth

hackworth — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:04:27 +0000

Coultergeist posits that The First Dude is a member of the Steelworker’s Union. In this case, that makes the Palin’s the salt of the earth.

Coulter uses union membership now to sell her regular folks narrative to her readers. Coulter and the Palins will work to bust the unions later after they are no longer personally beneficial.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:01:30 +0000

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool so I don’t have to resort to shoplifting a jug of single malt. Don’t have any pockets big enough anyhoo.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

By: JPL9

JPL9 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:57:51 +0000

Sorry I missed your post.

By: JPL9

JPL9 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:56:54 +0000

Has anyone read Richard Cohen’s op-ed in the Post today. This might be the first time that I agreed with him.
I can understand Obama’s desire to embrace constituencies that have rejected him. Evangelicals are in that category and Warren is an important evangelical leader with whom, Obama said, “we’re not going to agree on every single issue.” He went on to say, “We can disagree without being disagreeable and then focus on those things that we hold in common as Americans.” Sounds nice.

But what we do not “hold in common” is the dehumanization of homosexuals. What we do not hold in common is the belief that gays are perverts who have chosen their sexual orientation on some sort of whim. What we do not hold in common is the exaltation of ignorance that has led and will lead to discrimination and violence.

Finally, what we do not hold in common is the categorization of a civil rights issue — the rights of gays to be treated equally — as some sort of cranky cultural difference. For that we need moral leadership, which, on this occasion, Obama has failed to provide. For some people, that’s nothing to celebrate.

By: demi

demi — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:56:39 +0000

It’s like the opposite of Rabbi Kushner’s (?) book, When Bad Things Happen To Good People.
When Good Things Happen In A World Gone Mad.