joyfulchristian

Except, of course, that people around him keep bringing race into it

WRAPUP 2-Obama says race not an issue in U.S. election | Markets | Markets News | Reuters

"Is race still a factor in our society? Yes. I don't think anybody would deny that," Obama said on "Fox News Sunday."

"Is that going to be the determining factor in a general election? No, because I'm absolutely confident that the American people -- what they're looking for is somebody who can solve their problems," the Illinois senator said in an interview taped on Saturday.

You've got to be kidding me.

I personally find the idea of Obama as President quite disconcerting, but not because I think he's the anti-Christ.

To all you nuts out there who think you're doing some great service by making up scary notions about Obama being a Muslim, please CUT IT OUT. The truth is scare enough. We don't need fiction and you're not helping anything.

This is the guy we're nominating?

Seriously?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina's Republican Party of being "out of touch with reality" over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama.

In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona senator said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Obama as "too extreme" because of controversial remarks made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

To begin with, I honestly don't understand what's supposed to be so wrong bout highlighting some of Wright's most offensive statements and saying that Obama, who calls this man his mentor and set in the pews listening to him for 20 YEARS might be too radical.

The only possible argument I can think of is that it's not fair to judge him for things other people said. In many cases, that's true. But if you've known someone for 20 years and never spoken up (until you decided to run for President) about the bile they're spilling in public on a regular basis you're either hopelessly blind and/or craven or you share their views.

What's so wrong about calling attention to this?

And what is this supposed to mean?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina's Republican Party of being "out of touch with reality" over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama.

In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona senator said he has done all he can to persuade the state party to cancel the television ad that criticizes Obama as "too extreme" because of controversial remarks made by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

"They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable," McCain told NBC's "Today" Show.

There's no real indication here as to what this is supposed to mean. I guess these guys were somehow above using the idea that associates can impugn someone's character. He prefers impugning people for old fashioned reasons, like disagreeing with him.

How did you nominate a guy who's vicious to those on his own side and protects his opponents like they were defenseless babies.

Here's one reason not to spend time worrying about relics and "holy" sites

You don't have to spend time fighting over them and generally bringing Christianity into ill-repute.

Assuming, for the sake of argument, that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre really is the site of the burial of Christ, what difference can that possibly make in your life? It makes none in mine, and despite how vitally important the death, burial, and resurrection is to me, I can't imagine fighting over things like this.

God's not just a back up plan

SarahK's nailed it.

She's also got a better apology for Obama.

No thanks

Instapundit.com

SOME PEOPLE WOULD CERTAINLY LIKE FOR THIS TO BE TRUE: Dan Senor: Condoleezza Rice Is Pursuing the VP Spot. And it's probably good for McCain if a potential running mate has more actual experience than both of his potential opponents put together.

Yes, but what has her experience taught us about her?

I used to be pretty big on Rice, but either her time at the State Department has seduced her into the moral equivalence that reigns there (it's certainly happened before) or that she was never as good as I thought. Take your pick, but I certainly don't want to see any more of her in a position of influence.

Have you ever noticed

... how it's the liberals who think guns are so evil that keep talking about armed uprisings?

I'm back!

Tax season is over. Last night I went out to dinner with my family and was in bed by 8:30.  Regular blogging will resume as soon as I figure out exactly what normal is.