Tag Archive 'religion'

Four more years of Bushisms?

Posted by Moonage on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Media

Barack Obama’s campaign has been all about “change“.  However, one thing seems bound not to change if Obama is elected.  Whereas we’ve had to deal with nucular, internets, and global warmings, now we’ll get muddled facts instead of words:

Marking the anniversary of the March 1965 “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala., Obama, speaking at a church, [...]

Obama on small town America

Posted by Moonage on 12 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Racism

“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives,” he said. “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. [...]

Huckabee screws up, joins all the other candidates

Posted by Moonage on 12 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race

I read this first thing this morning:
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”
I have real issues with this for several reasons.
First of all, what does this have to do with being President of the United States of [...]

Kevin Rudd’s big night out

Posted by Moonage on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Opinions

Kevin Rudd is a very popular politician in Australia.  He has run on conervative Christian values and has done quite well using that platform.  That platform has been quite used in the US for about 25 years or so, but is still fairly unusual in Australia.  So, people in Australia are having quite a time [...]