Leftist Christian

I listen to Air America Radio religiously (via WCPT in Chicago) more religiously than I've attended church recently. Love the lineup quite a bit here. Not appreciating how the occasion of naming Sarah Palin seems to have invited a lot of criticism of people of faith. This isn't coming from the candidates themselves but rather media personalities. It comes in referring to "End-Timers," "Creationists," "Pray Away the Gay" folks and other issue-related labels that pit faith against science. I wouldn't personally attend Palin's church, but I listened to a pastor on Ed Schultz from that denomination express political views almost identical to my own. What happened to Howard Dean's stated goals of bringing in many different groups into the Democratic party? Either a lot of radio and television personalities don't ascribe to those same goals or the goals have been neglected/abandoned. It would seem to me that the major group that th...

Looking closely at the issues and looking closely at the candidates, one wonders how something could happen like Bush's being elected a second term. If you consider that most people don't follow or care about politics, understanding becomes a bit easier. The "Barack Obama is a secret Muslim" e-mails started circulating nearly a year ago, and even after countless debates, speeches and feature stories, maybe something so foolish winds up being all a lot of people needed to know. Then again, how many people really vote? Maybe you have the abortion people (both sides), the money people and maybe the gun people show (that favors Republicans) showing up for elections. Maybe not. How many people watched the Democratic convention last week or the Republican one this week? (Truthfully, I don't want to watch the Republican one this week--maybe just some analysis will do?). At any rate, in my subjective point of view, the Republican convention feels rather different fr...