<p>There’s more.</p>
<p>“Yellin’ in motion, keep on doin’ the locomotion, yeah, don’t worry, little babe, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, yes! Keep on…dancin’ and a prancin’…keep on…dancin’ and a prancin’…”</p>
<p>I don’t recall that much prancin’ going on back then.</p>
<p>“Time will tell, but if anything, it certainly does show how “tolerant” and “compassionate” our left wing friends are.”</p>
<p>who told you that? we are equally capable of being intolerant and cruel as the other guys - but we can do that. We generally aren’t afraid of hell.</p>
<p>That’s good because I know the left has been living in hell for the last 6 years.</p>
<p>^ That was good.</p>
<p>But see it is the same hell we BOTH are living, and thank you for declaring the last 6 years as hell.</p>
<p>I have a problem with televised religion anyway-Ive known seniors who have watched it and been enticed to give money they couldn’t afford.</p>
<p>I don’t want to paint all televangelists with the same brush, as I don’t know enough about all of them, but the way I understand the teachings of Jesus, you can’t buy your way into the Christian heaven.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.trinityfi.org/trinity/investi.html[/url]”>http://www.trinityfi.org/trinity/investi.html</a></p>
<p>I read this column yesterday which considering the paper it was in, was pretty tame, but I thought it made a really good point.</p>
<p>From Jesus Christ’s blog
[Not only did he say mean things about the gay people ( like my friend Derek)** he hurt black peoples feelings,** and he spent more time dissing labor unions, public schools and the Teletubbies, than talking about ME. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t talking about ME, supposed to be his ** job**?](<a href=“http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=223863”>http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=223863</a>)</p>
<p>“I have a problem with televised religion anyway”</p>
<p>I am allergic to ALL organised religions.</p>
<p>I didn’t say everyone is living in hell…just you guys. </p>
<p>To quote Irving Berlin (Look, it’s Friday and the sun is shining): Heaven…I’m in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak, and I seem to find the happiness I seek, when we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek".</p>
<p>Life is great and I am grateful.</p>
<p>“I didn’t say everyone is living in hell…just you guys.”</p>
<p>Yeah…but we are inclusive bunch. I didn’t want you to be left out on this nice Friday with shinning sun and we all having a dance party. :)</p>
<p>Life is really great.</p>
<p>Vox Dei–a serendipitous screen name that captures the arrogance & self-entitlement the Right in general and is deliciously appropriate for this particular thread–I have no time to waste dancing on Falwell’s…gad, he may have been Fallen but I’m not sure it was Well…grave, it’s non-productive. Even less so than posting on political threads in CC. But he was a vile, execrable man, his statement about 9/11 being pretty much all you had to know if you knew nothing else.</p>
<p>Your political theology is also askew. The past six years haven’t been Hell, but they have been Purgatory from which we’re emerging. As dear departed Brownie used to say, elections are fun. November 2006 was only the first act of redemption and November 2008 will be only the second act of a five act play.</p>
<p>Well, according to Mr. Gallup, the redemption thing sure ain’t going too well.</p>
<p>In less than 6 months the Democrats in Congress have accomplished the impossible, that is, according to Mr. Gallup, an approval rating announced earlier this week of only 29%. 29% - that’s even lower than the President’s.</p>
<p>Not exactly shaping up real well for the “second act”.</p>
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<p>So have our soldiers.</p>
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<p>Great example of innumeracy. Congress’ approval ratings are traditionally low, due to the branch being made of two parties. The rating is still much higher than it was during the last year of Republican control.</p>
<p>Looks like Dobson is gearing up for his try at kingmaker. He just made a statement refusing to endorse Giuilani and McCain, and saying nothing about Romney. My guess is pretty soon he’s going to be lauding child-support deadbeat Gingrich as the hero come to save the day for the religious right.</p>
<p>There’s frustration that Congress has been stymied and blocked. There’s a very healthy majority that believes that the Democratic priorities are preferable to those of Bush and the Republicans. Right now for 2008 I think the Dems get the White House, net +2 in the Senate, and +5 in the House.</p>
<p>Conyat, apparently the Fred Thompson boomlet fizzled after his appearance in Orange County. Watching Gingrich is like watching the Death Star come into range…I hope he goes for it. </p>
<p>Hillary vs. Gingrich…I’d like ringside seats for that one. Come to think of it, I’ll have them.</p>
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<p>Well that’s a shocker!</p>
<p>Keep us posted if you change your mind!!! 
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<p>HH, you can’t count the votes before election day. Remember how sure Karl Rove was that the Republicans would keep Congress in 2006? He already had plans in place to call a special committee after the election to investigate why the polls were wrong and <em>he</em> was right.</p>
<p>Wasn’t that long ago that talk on the right was that all the gerrymandering, Diebolding, and politicizing of career professionals throughout the federal government had guaranteed ya’ll a “Permanent Majority.” </p>
<p>In the long run, the Republicans ended up hurting their own party. They decided they didn’t have to govern ethically OR well since the voters could never hold them accountable. They would have done well to remember that all but the most craven among the voters will tolerate a lapse in one or the other, but not both.</p>
<p>HH, I put my predictions up before the 2006 elections. I underestimated the Senate. I was pretty darned close on the House and made individual picks in every House race. Part of my academic background is in survey research, aka polling. When you can make predictions within 10 percent of my accuracy, then you can start to ■■■■■■■■ Another instance where I know more than you do and I know it. Not surprising when it comes to someone who sneers at intellectuals.</p>
<p>Ten characters.</p>
<p>“You know when I see somebody burning the flag, I’m a Baptist preacher I’m not a Mennonite, I feel it’s my obligation to whip him. In the name of the Lord, of course. I feel it’s my obligation to whip him, and if I can’t do it then I look up some of my athletes to help me. But, as long as at 72 I can handle most of the jobs I do it myself, and I don’t think it’s un-spiritual. When I, when I, when I hear somebody talking about our military and ridiculing and saying terrible things about our President, I’m thinking you know just a little bit of that and I believe the Lord would forgive me if I popped him.”</p>
<p>“God doesn’t listen to Jews.”</p>
<p>“I listen to feminists and all these radical gals – most of them are failures. They’ve blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That’s all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they’re mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They’re sexist. They hate men – that’s their problem.”</p>
<p>and my fave:</p>
<p>“If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.”</p>
<p>what a class act</p>
<p>“I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations.”</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070528/blumenthal[/url]”>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070528/blumenthal</a></p>
<p>ETA: It’s worse than I thought. According to The Nation, he launched a smear campaign against Dr. King, calling him a Communist subversive and worked with J. Edgar Hoover to distribute anti-King propaganda.</p>
<p>Years later, Falwell would lie and claim that he “supported” Dr. King.</p>
<p>I guess I might believe Falwell’s apology if he actually took that to other parts of his life and words</p>
<p>Yet he did not, he found others to hate- women, gays, non Christians</p>
<p>So what if he says, oh, me bad, about views on segregation, while at the same time putting down many other people</p>
<p>That is not a true apology in my opinion, to apologize in one direction, and then turn those same vile words toward other groups</p>
<p>He was not a man of honor is any respect, no matter how much I am sorry he said, once a bully always a bully, and Falwell was a bully, just changed his victims to those that were more politically approipriate to his followers</p>