Dec 11 2008
They Gotta Pay for Sarah’s Clothes Somehow …
In a case of truth over parody, it seems the McCain campaign is having a fire sale. Thanks to The Sleuth, Mary Ann Akers, at the Washington Post.
Archive for the tag 'John McCain'
Sep 14 2008
Where Are You, Dan Quayle?
Back in 1988 when George Bush chose his running mate, I remember someone saying to me, “You know, of all the people of our generation that could could rise to be the cream of the crop, who’d have thought it would be Dan Quayle?” Oh, how quaint. And now, twenty years later, as John McCain makes [...]
Sep 01 2008
Sarah’s Family Values
The news is now filtering out that Sarah Palin’s 17 year-old daughter is pregnant. At the outset, let me say that I have a great deal of empathy for Bristol Palin, the father of the unborn child and his family. It is by anyone’s measure a less than ideal situation and my prayers go out to those involved. Having said [...]
May 23 2008
McCain’s “God Problem” Grows
Just when he thought he had solved his “God Problem” with his repudiation of John Hagee, John McCain has had to repudiate another one: Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio. As ABC News put it, “Despite his call for the U.S. to win the ‘hearts and minds of the Islamic [...]
May 14 2008
Pastor Hagee Gets Religion
There are media reports that televangelist John Hagee has apologized for his comments on the Catholic Church. After meeting with a number of prominent religious activists — almost all of them Catholic — Hagee wrote a letter to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, stating in part: “In my zeal to oppose [...]
May 07 2008
Picking and Choosing
Glen Greenwald has a powerful post today concerning the presidential election and the Catholic vote. Prompted by some on the right who, commenting on the Indiana precinct where a group of 80- and 90-yearold nuns were not able to vote for lack of sufficient identification, asked what the nuns were doing voting for Obama or Clinton in [...]
May 03 2008
Elephants in the Room
This coming week a group of influential American evangelical leaders will be releasing An Evangelical Manifesto that is critical of some current attempts to blend evangelical faith with politics. Notably, James Dobson and some other prominent evangelical leaders are not signatories, and this reflects a debate within the movement as to how far and for [...]
