liberaldemdave

...and the poly/cotton blend wearers! not only offensive to biblical literalists but inherently offensive to fashion forward gays! (snark) posted 07/08/2008 at 11:36:54

rent a clue, batguano. sodom was destroyed because the people were inhospitable. NOT, i repeat, NOT because they were gay. sheesh. you fundies are so confused (and I consider myself a Christian...so don't go on the attack). posted 07/08/2008 at 11:30:46

i have a feeling that "unit cohesion" wouldn't be a top priority if you were rescued by a glbt service member. posted 07/07/2008 at 17:57:46

You mean the anti-gay, anti-choice N u n n, right? ...just checkin'. posted 07/04/2008 at 18:58:13

Senator Obama,

Please come to Texas soon. We miss ya'! posted 07/03/2008 at 14:52:15

hey, as long as he's pro-life and anti-gay, that's all that matters to those folks. talk about a narrow view of their faith! posted 07/03/2008 at 12:34:04

But S t r a n g was not persuaded. He is a strong supporter of M c C a i n. "I support him 99 percent. How I vote is based on whether the candidate is for or against life, period," S t r a n g said.

With all due respect, MR. S t r a n g, does that extend to the DEATH penalty?

/crickets... posted 07/03/2008 at 12:31:32

I've never seen a candidate with a bigger target on him than this election. Anything can, will, has and is being said about him because there's no "there" there.

The MSM's complicit role in the character assassination is also appalling. posted 07/02/2008 at 14:04:57

Some of the least "accepting" people I've ever known have been secularists in the Democratic Party.

Jim Wallis is a good man and stands solidly on more progressive than conservative issues. Just because Christians want to REDUCE the number of abortions doesn't mean that they want to make it illegal to have an abortion. posted 06/26/2008 at 12:02:42

i can see it now... let the "he's-cummin'-after-all-our-white-wemmin" meme start spinning. posted 06/25/2008 at 12:20:00

"C l i n t o n wants a private meeting with O b a m a to sort these things out; he has reconciled himself to the reality of O b a m a"s nomination and does not want to sit on the sidelines."

Pretty well sums things up for me, especially "does not want to sit on the sidelines". Isn't that why he and Gore are estranged? The poor man can't stand to not be the center of the Democratic universe. posted 06/25/2008 at 19:55:40

Pray tell, which 2%? From where I sit, it's more like .0000000000000000000002% . posted 06/24/2008 at 11:16:27

sadly, a large number of those 90%'ers aren't being honest. just look to appalachia and the primary voting numbers for the answer. posted 06/22/2008 at 10:55:29

Ironically, I'm experiencing more intolerance from the secular wing of our party. They seem hellbent (no pun intended) in sweeping Christian Democrats, like myself, outside the tent. That, IMHO, is diametrically opposed to what our party stands for... posted 06/23/2008 at 12:19:26

Very good point! I've been a Wallis fan for a long time and I'm thrilled he's advising our candidate!

Let's just hope there aren't any more concerts with McClurkin (or those who espouse his views). posted 06/23/2008 at 12:17:07

how typical...when refuted, change the goalpost. come on pickens, cough up the million. posted 06/20/2008 at 12:37:51

good idea, scotty... beam this racist up. posted 06/20/2008 at 11:45:01

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/cindy-mccain-pr.html

sounds like the repoob's wife is dancing closer to the fire than she should... posted 06/18/2008 at 19:21:44

that's an attack? the man, OBVIOUSLY, isn't the bread winner in that home. her tax records, like Mrs. K's, are fair game. that's not an "attack"...unless you have something to hide. posted 06/18/2008 at 19:11:21

stealing the drugs wasn't spin! she was STEALING them from one of the foundations she created! that's what caused the investigation to begin with! she also spoke "publicly" about her "problem" as a part of her plea agreement (along with a "brief" stint in rehab) to prevent prosecution.

the lady was taking as many as FIFTEEN VICODIN A DAY. that kinda habit doesn't happen over night, nor is it able to be supported without illegal activity (THEFT). posted 06/18/2008 at 18:59:41

...and the talking heads have the cojones to call our candidate an "elitist"...last i heard, there was only one candidate with a corporate jet in the family. posted 06/19/2008 at 11:48:40

it really concerns me that he could even be considered for the veep slot, considering that he's getting MONTHS of free time as a commentator for fauxnews.

yes, he's a good and decent human being (except for his archaic views because of his fundamentalism). posted 06/18/2008 at 14:54:48

it's used to circumvent the "comment moderation police". any use of the candidate's names throws comments into moderation limbo. posted 06/18/2008 at 11:19:06

i'm glad i kept reading downthread because you've said what i was thinking. rock is an "equal opportunity" offender (if you choose to take offense). i choose to be amused. now, if he stops making fun of all types of people and situations and just becomes a one-joke comedian (um, andrew dice clay comes to mind), that'll be different.

my favorite of his bits is about the medical industry and the hiv/aids crisis (and i'm a member of the latter community)...his point is well-made. if we wanted to cure aids (and almost any other life-threatening disease), we could. he says we haven't "cured" anything since polio. there's no money in the cure...the money's in the treatment.

true dat. posted 06/14/2008 at 17:59:30

...you left out drug abuser and thief regarding "cindypills"... my 2 favorite first-lady qualifications. posted 06/12/2008 at 13:13:47

update: "our guy" is now up by 6%... that's outside the margin of error.

dead heat? not any more. and the gap will only get wider for our guy! posted 06/13/2008 at 14:08:03

stretching logic beyond the breaking point. nice. posted 06/13/2008 at 14:05:23

the reality is that obama's NOT "just as prone" to mistakes... not by a long-shot. not to mention that his gaffes are just that...GAFFES. not outright stupidity/senility.

when is the repooob candidate going to learn the difference between sunni and shiite? putin's GERMAN? who knew (besides the senile wonder)? posted 06/13/2008 at 14:03:24

have you mastered the senile old coot's snicker (a la deputy dawg) when you spout that meme?

i'll take a second carter administration over a 3rd BOOOOOSH administration ANY DAY. posted 06/10/2008 at 11:42:55

welcome to the big tent of diversity! posted 06/10/2008 at 11:41:50

d@mn skippy you hit a nerve! engage your brain and see why we democrats are so pissed off! the repooblican party has run this country into the ground: both fiscally and morally.

i want my country back!!! posted 06/10/2008 at 11:28:27

"I am better off now than I was in 2005 because I am three years closer to January 2009."

requesting permission to, er, "borrow" (steal?) this line. posted 06/10/2008 at 11:26:16

thanks for doing your part to ensure that roe v. wade is overturned. posted 06/07/2008 at 13:09:53

congratulations on doing your part to overturn roe v. wade. posted 06/07/2008 at 13:08:07

...Ickes IS icky, but penn is infintely more nauseating, IMHO... and then there's always terry mcauliffe. ew, just ew. posted 06/06/2008 at 23:17:27

a snap and a twist for scire! ...couldn't have said it better if i had tried! posted 06/06/2008 at 23:04:42

people were having abortions LONG before they became legal. fortunately, your mother didn't go into a back alley, have an unsafe/mutilating abortion because then it would be possible that you would have BOTH died... posted 06/06/2008 at 22:57:10

hey, ann1, your bigotry and superstition are showing...that is, unless you also agree that eating shellfish is an abomination, sleeping with a woman during her menstrual cycle is an abomination, touching the skin of a pig is an abomination (OMG! the WHOLE NFL IS GOING TO HELL!), and that unruly children should be stoned to death. etc. (my but leviticus is a hateful little chapter of the OLD testament).

your "selective morality" makes you sound like a "winger" in lamb's clothing.

oh, btw i'm also both GAYGAYGAY and a Christian (but not in that order as a matter of priority).

final question, quote me the scripture where JESUS said anything about gays and lesbians....

waiting...

still waiting....

/crickets posted 06/06/2008 at 22:55:03

how about exhibiting a little tolerance, scire?

there are a great number of christian democrats whose voices are always drowned out by the secularist wing of the democratic party. we have as much right to talk about our faith as those without a faith-based POV, especially in OPEN political forums like huffpost!

as long as democrats lump all people of faith in the same category, we'll never reach out to those that would find our party's core values very alluring.

last i heard, there wasn't a mandate for separation of church and internet, just church and state (which i adamantly support). posted 06/06/2008 at 22:46:20

i wouldn't say "only".

the right has made much more political hay out of their blind hatred for the GLBT community and protecting the "sanctity" of marriage (while remaining ostensibly deaf on the issue of heterosexual divorce and adultery) than reproductive rights.case in point: how many abortion-abolishment amendments have we seen as ballot referendums? yup, ZERO. however, state after state gets an anti-gay partnership amendment on the ballot to whip up conservative voters...just sayin'...

...sadly, we now have a bunch of Shillary supporters willing to sacrifice Roe v. Wade to spite our Party's nominee. I just came from the Dem. State Convention in Austin, TX. today and you could feel the resentment from the Shillary supporters. posted 06/06/2008 at 22:40:14

I hope Hale lost his delegate status prior to the convention. In Texas, we take a pledge to support the Party unconditionally. That extends to our candidates, as well. By saying that he would never vote for Obama (even if Hillary's on the ticket), he's violated that oath.

I suppose a 63-year old self-described "redneck" just isn't that concerned about the implications of a McSame misadministration...primarily the loss of reproductive choice. Congratulations, Mr. Hale, I hope you and your like-minded, blinded-by-hatred Hillary supporters are happy with the potential chaos you're trying to create. posted 06/08/2008 at 10:35:37

i saw far more rabid wild-eyed grannies for $hillary than obama supporters at my county convention. posted 03/31/2008 at 14:40:39

"Please move a bit faster," urged delegate Whitney Larkins, who attended the largest senatorial district in Fort Worth gathered at the Will Rogers Coliseum. "Have some consideration. Think about those of us who took time out of our lives to participate in this."

Note to Mr. Larkins:

With all due respect, sir, who the hell do you think put on your County Convention?

Those of us who volunteered our time spent HOURS in training sessions (learning the process that both the HRC and BHO camps did their best to usurp) prior to the conventions, arrived HOURS before the delegates and stayed long after you were gone to ensure that all the paperwork was handled properly. In some of the smaller counties (like mine), we were there at least 4 hours before the convention to set up chairs and tables and after all the paperwork was done, the same bunch of volunteers stayed to put away those tables and chairs and made sure the hall was left as we found it, so as to insure that the County Party got its deposit back.

Those of us who did the "grunt work" didn't leave and have a party while you were impatiently waiting at your convention. We were doing the same thing as you...Just with a little more appreciation for the amount of work that goes into such an event.

Hopefully, in 2 years, more people like yourself will volunteer to do the backbreaking work of putting on a convention. posted 03/31/2008 at 14:37:40