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Feminists telling women (well one woman in particular) to stay in the kitchen. Leftists all of a sudden talking about Jesus (because they think they can use him to endorse Barry). I think it's safe to say, no matter who wins this election, one week of Sarah Palin brings more change than 4 years of Barack Obama ever could.

I saw some black faces at the Republican Convention. How many? Maybe not as many as you would like WIP. Perhaps some of us are more color-blind than to count out how many individuals we see of each race in a crowd. Maybe the Republicans should impose racial quotas on attendance at their conventions.

I didn't know you held such esteem for the opinions of the evangelical movement. I am learning alot this week. Kind of like the feminists you see on TV of late citing Dr. Laura as one more reason Sarah Palin should stay home with the kids. Looks like Sarah Palin is already shaking things up!

This is a really funny comment. It shows how when you can't win one argument you simply take another position and try to win it from the opposite side. A week ago, it was your camp complaining Palin has no "executive" experience. So it certainly mattered to you then. Now when she points out she has just as much (and more) as Obama, you are saying well executive experience doesnt matter, Jesus didnt have any. One week you might say Sarah Palin needs a haircut, and if she cuts it next week, you will say she should grow her hair out. And might I add that Jesus also said that there is no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends. One could easily make the argument that John McCain (the guy at the top of the ticket) has come closer to that ideal. So for your sake and mine, why don't we just leave the Messiah comparisons out of it, huh.

Oh, well then, I would say that you and "many people" and the evangelical movement are pigeonholing Jesus. Palin was simply responding to the charge that being mayor of a small town means absolutely nothing. She was not overly mean about it, she simply said well if a mayor and governor does not have executive political experience, what about the guy at the top of your ticket? You can dish it out but you cant take it. Her criticism was infinitely more light-hearted than the ones aimed at her over the past week. It seems to me that the Obama camp has serious problems with anyone who takes a few notches out of your messiah and makes us laugh about him a little. If it's fair game to say that because Jesus did try to help people out that he is in some ways like a community organizer, then it is also fair to say that he is like other people who try to help. I think Sarah Palin definitely tried to help out her small town in Alaska. If it is fair to call Jesus a "community organizer" because he tried to help people (when such a term did not exist), then it is fair to say that Palin is one as well. So it seems now that the left thinks it has established some feeble link between Jesus and Obama, Jesus is now worthy of being mentioned by a group of people who generally abhore any mention of him in the public forum. "If Jesus could somehow, by some strange twist of imagination, be a community organizer," so the logic of the left says, "perhaps he is not a bad guy, maybe almost as great as Obama."

Then you are pigeonholing Jesus! I would not call him a Republican either. You "thinking" he was "the very definition" of is a pretty lame argument Dobbin. That's not to say that Community Organizing is not a good thing, or not an honorable thing.

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One can be a martyr and turn the other cheek when one himself is in danger, but should one visit that on others? If a criminal breaks into your house and begins to assault your family will you peacefully continue surfing the net, whilst this goes on?

Jesus was not a "community organizer". He did not run for any political office. And he advocated voluntary charity, not forced redistribution. In short, he wasnt a politician of any stripe.

In his defense though, I don't think Barack Obama is a bad man. He just doesn't get it.

Thats a pretty good point, Canadien!

"Organic" perfectly describes it. Just watching the convention I felt as if I was in the company of regular people, even friends. Actually, this convention, so far, seems to me like a gathering of friends rather than a gathering of politicians. I am really enjoying it so far.

Agreed Kimmy! She did an amazing job. I've gone from wondering who this woman was and why she was picked, to a fan, in the matter of a few days. She delivered her speech very well, and, might I add, in the face of the barrage of media smears she's taken in over the last few days. I especially relished the part where she addressed the media and political commentators, saying she is not going to Washington to try to gain their approval, but to represent the American people. Also, I think Giuliani did an amazing job with his speech. WOW.

I don't think Ann actually believes that. You can't take her too seriously.

So the republicans chose a republican? Whats your point?

No, in other words, he did not want to shoot off his mouth. He had his cases of suspected communists listed by number. The Democracts demanded that he furnish the names, which he said he did not want to do, as not enough evidence had been collected. But they insisted so McCarthy said: "The Senator from Illinois demanded, loudly, that I furnish all the names. I told him at that time that so far as I was concerned, I thought that would be improper; that I did not have all the information about these individuals. . . .I have enough to convince me that either they are members of the Communist Party or they have given great aid to the Communists: I may be wrong. That is why I said that unless the Senate demanded that I do so, I would not submit this publicly, but I would submit it to any committee - and would let the committee go over these in executive session. It is possible that some of these persons will get a clean bill of health. . . . ”

Um, the leading men of that period were pretty quick to denounce Joe. And he didnt gain much power or popularity from his campaign of trying to expose communists in government. From the moment he "named names", which was something he did not want to do in the first place, the Democrats and others quickly pounced on him--even though it was they who demanded Joe name names, which he wanted to keep confidential, for lack of evidence.

The Red Scare was not just paranoia. You should read about Whitaker Chambers and Algar Hiss. And Joe was right on the mark with many of those accusations, despite the popular assertion that he never found a single communist. De-classfied FBI papers (Venona Papers), and documents from the old USSR have confirmed that many of the people Joe and others were suspicious of at the time were indeed acting as Soviet agents.

What exactly do you know about McCarthy?

You did not quote the entire article though. What interested me when I read your snippet were the words "HE SAYS he was stopped.......". Later on in the same article... The NYPD told CBS 2 a different version of the story, however, saying in a statement: "The officers observed a male standing on his seat, cursing, using inappropriate language and acting in a disorderly manner while reeking of alcohol, and decided to eject him rather than subject others to his offensive behavior. http://wcbstv.com/local/yankees.bathroom.e...n.2.804859.html

Well "culture" is a pretty broad term isn't it. Within the funding that goes into "culture" there are multiple programs, some more efficient than others. Billions are spent in funding this broad-ranged "culture industry", the tories want to slash close to 50 million I think.

Did it state what "culture" encompasses?

Well, if that's the case they should not need tax funding.

So you didn't support Kerry, I take it?

No not exactly, but from the reverse side, it can promote those who aren't over those who are, in order to create an engineered false equality. Isn't it reasonable to assume that there are cases where because of affirmative action, that merit takes a back seat.