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Re: WorldNetDaily: We Had ‘Journalistic Responsibility’ to Post Forged Document

diogeron — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:58:01 -0000

Using the phrase "journalistic integrity" in the same sentence with World Net Daily is a contradiction in terms.

Re: The religious right feels betrayed by Obama

missime — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:23:24 -0000

Science is from God. Just take a look around you. God created this beautiful world and gave it to us to man it with brains, knowledge, goodwill (well some us have it) and common sense. Limiting science is saying no to the magnificent potential that we have as God's creation. God is bid. He does big thing. He gave us our brains so we can expand and venture into doing good things for the good of humankind. We do need regulations because just like we have nuts in the religious world, we have some nuts in science too. Can you imagine the things we would be deprived of if we were scared of science? By the way God did not create religion, man created religion. As you know, we, man, do tend to screw thing up even when we start with good intentions.

Re: The religious right feels betrayed by Obama

diogeron — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:59:45 -0000

According to Chuck Todd's book, "How Obama Won...", the single greatest predictor of who would vote for McCain was if a voter described himself as a "white evangelical Christian." In fact, Obama won 62% of the vote of EVERY voter who did NOT describe himself as a "white evangelical Christian." Obama and the rest of us who value a secular nation owe nothing to these people. Anybody who believes in the literal interpretation of the Bible is, by definition, incapable of persuasion by evidence. It is no accident that Obama won all ten of the ten states with the highest percentage of educated voters. This trend is unlikely to continue and, unlike Bush, Obama does not owe the evangelical community a thing. If anything, his expansion of the "faith based" initiative is pandering enough to these people. The fact that Obama has promised to let "science" rather than "ideology" (religious fundamentalism?) guide policy is a good step in the right direction.

Re: Eyeing 2012 Battle Against President Obama

diogeron — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:53:17 -0000

"God, show me the open door?" Oh, please, please give us Sarah Palin in 2012 to run against Obama. This woman is ignorance and arrogance personified. She thinks God is going to tell her to run for president and, let me guess, "He" will "speak to her" just in time. As a friend of mine who is a shrink says, "When people think they are talking to God, that's called 'praying.' When they think God is talking to them, that is a mental disorder and they need to talk to people like me and get help." On the other hand, why is anyone surprised? Palin took six years and four different colleges to get a degree in telecommunications but thinks she knows more about climate change than the National Academy of Science. You can't get more arrogant than that.

Re: PPP Poll: Obama Barely Takes Lead in Indiana -- Political Wire

investor1 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:55:38 -0000

we'll see.

Re: PPP Poll: Obama Barely Takes Lead in Indiana -- Political Wire

diogeron — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:50:51 -0000

The first thing Obama supporters in Indiana need to do after he wins this election, is to remember what a demagogue Sec. of State Todd Rokita has been, from the nonsense about the ACORN investigation on. It's too bad that Bloomington's former two term mayor, John Fernandez, didn't beat Rokita when he ran against him. It was a GOP year, unfortunately, but next time around, a lot of us will remember how Rokita behaved as a GOP partisan in this election.

Re: PPP Poll: Obama Barely Takes Lead in Indiana -- Political Wire

diogeron — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:47:33 -0000

McCain will do well with less educated, older white voters, especially rural voters. Having said that, Obama's supporters are far more enthusiastic about him than McCain's supporters are about him. That means that if the lines are long, my guess is that McCain's people will be more likely to say "the hell with it" and go home than Obama's people.

Re: PPP Poll: Obama Barely Takes Lead in Indiana -- Political Wire

diogeron — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:45:06 -0000

I live in Bloomington and we're racking up some huge margins here from all accounts. If Southern Indiana comes through, especially Jeffersonville, New Albany and Evansville and Obama holds his own in Baron Hill's district, Indiana could go blue for the first time since 1964. Now, if the Cubs can win a world series before I croak, I'll go gently into that good night, but I'm not holding my breath on the latter.

Re: Liddy Dole's "'Godless Americans" ad is blowing up in her face"

kareema — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:49:01 -0000

Bingo! Well said. And aside from that, isn't the Godless Americans PAC as much about keeping religion out of government as it is about atheism? I'm all for keeping religion and government separate, specially when you get the likes of Palin and her church actively 'infiltrating' government and business. PLEASE read up on the New Apostolic Reformation if you want to be informed on what she believes. (Oh yeah, and I just read that Katherine Harris is also a member of his Prayer Network) C. Peter Wagner proclaimed, on June 21, 2006, that "God has declared through His prophets that the wealth of the wicked will be released to the Kingdom of God," ie, his Network. Scary stuff.

Re: PPP Poll: Photo Finish Expected in North Carolina -- Political Wire

diogeron — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:46:45 -0000

Yes, Kay Hagan's comment was a good retort to the moronic and insulting ad run by Liddy Dole (if her last name would have been "Smith" and she weren't married to Bob Dole does anyone seriously think she would be a senator?) Having said that, I hope after Hagan wins, she will remind people that atheists are Americans just like Christians and that there is a reason why the Constitution prohibits a religious test for holding public office. For starters, they anticipated the kind of small minded bigotry by "Christians" like Elizabeth Dole.

Re: Liddy Dole's "'Godless Americans" ad is blowing up in her face"

diogeron — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:28:27 -0000

There is no religious test for public office as stated in the United States Constitution. Did either of these candidates for office bother to point that out in responding to this nonsense? I think Ms. Hagan's comment about the fact that many so called "Christians" conveniently forget the commandment about not bearing false witness is a good retort. Having said that, I am still waiting for a candidate who has the intellectual integrity and knowledge of history to say, "Atheists are Americans too, just like Christians, Jews, Muslims, or Mormons, so what's the point?"

Re: McCain-Palin Rift Grows -- Political Wire

diogeron — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:28:53 -0000

As someone who did media training for several years, I have to defend Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt. The sina qua non of a good spokesperson or candidate that he or she has a basic mastery or is at least CONVERSANT WITH major issues about which she might get asked. Assuming that, it is not that hard to help people refine their message, learn to parry unfair questions, get to the point right away, pivot to your talking points, use examples that connect with your audience(s) and avoid lapsing into jargon which would muddy the message etc. With Palin, they got somebody who was not qualified for the position for which she was chosen. Unfortunately, Palin's ambition trumped her judgment, as did McCain's. See the new article called, "The Insiders" in the latest issue of The New Yorker for a fascinating insight into how Palin marketed herself and how McCain came to chose her.

Re: Kentucky Poll: McCain Holds Comfortable Lead -- Political Wire

diogeron — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:11:09 -0000

This means all the people who live in Louisville, where I was born, need to get across the river to New Albany and Jeffersonville and volunteer for Obama in IN where it is going to be close. Also, people across the river from Evansville need to do the same. Forget KY. It's about Indiana.

Re: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/22/wpabc_poll_obama_widens_national_lead.html

diogeron — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:37:34 -0000

That cannot be correct. Do you have a citation for that stat?

Re: Susquehanna Poll: Obama Leads in Pennsylvania -- Political Wire

diogeron — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:24:58 -0000

The McCain camp's admission that they cannot win without PA explains the focus on the Ayers/socialist/anti-American themes of their campaign. They know that all that nonsense alienates voters in a lot of places but they don't care. When they picked Palin, they were willing to sacrifice the center to gin up the base and they thought women were too uninformed to notice that she wasn't qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Now, they are betting that people in the rural parts of PA are racist simpletons who will buy the argument that Obama is really a closet socialist with ties to terrorists. That's how low that this campaign has sunk and, day by day, they demonstrate that they will say and do anything to win.

Re: How Indiana Became a Battleground -- Political Wire

diogeron — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:44:41 -0000

That's true, but don't underestimate the machine that Obama had in the primary that he left intact in the state of Indiana for the general. We have had an Obama paid staffer living with us since JUNE. She was sent here after the primaries and they hit the ground running. Obama has 40 plus offices (stand alone) and many paid staffers. McCain has not been to the state once and as far as I can tell, his "ground game" consists of paid telemarketers reading a script about Bill Ayers, who did bad things when Obama was eight years old.

Re: Palin Critical of Robocalls -- Political Wire

diogeron — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:33:25 -0000

Just like she didn't want the campaign to pull out of Michigan, she now says she opposes the very methods that the campaign is increasingly relying on is swing states. Maybe Palin should have a word with her campaign or do they even talk to her? No, of course, they don't.

I got a call (on Ayers) from a real person, but the "script" was the same as the robocall. I live in Indiana. Obama has a real ground game here with 40 offices and hundreds of staffers. McCain hires a telemarketer to spread rumors about things an Obama acquaintance did when Obama was only eight years old. Is there any doubt why McCain is in trouble even here in Indiana?

Re: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/10/12/palin_booed_at_hockey_game.html

diogeron — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:21:29 -0000

We lived in Philly for a short time, so my son had the best take on Palin dropping the puck at the Flyers game: "Did she then go on to successfully complete an abuse of power play?" Ha.