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2008-03-18 Home Front: Politix

Mark Steyn: "If he can wriggle out of this tonight, he's some kind of genius."

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Posted by Mike 2008-03-18 08:07|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Never underestimate the power of a Lib to obfuscate forests for trees for toothpicks. You see, it's all about context! /snark-off/

Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-03-18 08:26|| 2008-03-18 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 The libs are looking for cover, not a resolution. All they want is enough cover for indulgences not true repentance. Remember, for party faithful, it's about how you feel, not about truth.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-18 09:36|| 2008-03-18 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 "and the longer he's in the spotlight the more he distances Obama from the electorate."

Saw a comment on another board yesterday that the pastor has been shipped out of the country -- possibly to Africa. This, along with Obama scrubbing his website of any mention of his "uncle" leads me to believe he is hoping...see no evil, hear no evil.

Obama is no genius. He's simply a coward.

Posted by ClemScheck 2008-03-18 09:47|| 2008-03-18 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Well Andrew Sullivan now loves Obama even more than before,

"...(from his Atlantic Monthly blog) this searing, nuanced, gut-wrenching, loyal, and deeply, deeply Christian speech is the most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation. Its ability to embrace both the legitimate fears and resentments of whites and the understandable anger and dashed hopes of many blacks was, in my view, unique in recent American history.

And it was a reflection of faith - deep, hopeful, transcending faith in the promises of the Gospels. And it was about America - its unique promise, its historic purpose, and our duty to take up the burden to perfect this union - today, in our time, in our way.

I have never felt more convinced that this man's candidacy - not this man, his candidacy - and what he can bring us to achieve - is an historic opportunity. This was a testing; and he did not merely pass it by uttering safe bromides. He addressed the intimate, painful love he has for an imperfect and sometimes embittered man. And how that love enables him to see that man's faults and pain as well as his promise. This is what my faith is about. It is what the Gospels are about. This is a candidate who does not merely speak as a Christian. He acts like a Christian..."

Posted by mhw 2008-03-18 14:23|| 2008-03-18 14:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Yup. What the Bama did was to win back those who had a brief insight but would prefer to sway with emotion instead.

Posted by lotp 2008-03-18 19:29|| 2008-03-18 19:29|| Front Page Top

#6 nice job Andrew. A Christianist Bukakke for Race...only too willing

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-18 19:41|| 2008-03-18 19:41|| Front Page Top

#7 What does Sullivan know? He hates Christianists.

Posted by SR-71 2008-03-18 22:31|| 2008-03-18 22:31|| Front Page Top

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