That the McCain campaign thought it would be wise to bring in high-priced Washington lobbyists to run the entire operation is bizarre. It’s considerably worse, however, that neither McCain nor anyone around him thought about checking to see who these lobbyists worked for before they took over the campaign operation. For a candidate running as […]
I’d assumed, if Barack Obama was the Democratic nominee for president, that even unhinged, far-right writers would be cautious about how they’d go about smearing him. Unbridled racism would be considered a political liability, and therefore shunned. Transparent nativism might work for conservatives in certain communities, but might also annoy moderate suburbanites, and would probably […]
When evidence surfaced yesterday that John McCain advocated at least some kind of diplomatic relationship between the United States and Hamas, I assumed the McCain campaign would just say the senator has since changed his mind. After all, the Presidential Candidate McCain frequently bears no resemblance to Senator McCain, and the two routinely take the […]
Let’s hope for the best. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts was hospitalized Saturday after suffering stroke-like symptoms, according to a knowledgeable official. There was no immediate word on his condition. The official who provided the information declined to be identified by name, citing the sensitivity of the events. Hyannis Fire Lt. Bill Rex told […]
John McCain, still hoping to shore up the Republican Party’s far-right base, spoke to the National Rifle Association of America’s annual meeting in Kentucky yesterday, and sought to prove that Barack Obama doesn’t understand guns. After Mr. Obama made his remarks last month that small-town voters cling to guns and religion because they are “bitter” […]
I mentioned this briefly yesterday, but Mike Huckabee’s comments at the National Rifle Association conference were pretty striking. If you haven’t seen it, here’s the clip: After hearing a noise backstage, Huckabee strayed from his prepared remarks and said, “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak. Somebody […]
Hans von Spakovsky, as a top political appointee in Bush’s Justice Department, was a leading player in what McClatchy straightforwardly calls the administration’s “vote-suppression agenda.” When it came to voter disenfranchisement, von Spakovsky was a reliable member of Team Bush. As a reward, Bush has tried to promote von Spakovsky to a six-year term on […]
First up from the God machine this week is an unexpected story about Albert Einstein and a previously unknown letter in which the scientist detailed his theological perspective. A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as “pretty childish” and scoffed at the notion that […]
Guest Post by Morbo An official at the Vatican got some ink this week by announcing that it’s OK to believe in space aliens. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a Jesuit priest who directs the Vatican Observatory, told the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that life on other planets could be part of God’s plan. Funes […]
Guest Post by Morbo The Carpetbagger’s post on the California Supreme Court’s gay-marriage ruling is pretty comprehensive. There is one aspect of the decision, however, that is important and should not be overlooked: Religious Right groups have argued that if same-sex marriage becomes legal, conservative churches will be forced to perform the ceremonies. This is […]