Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Walter Brasch
The fanatic right-wing, after taking a few days off to catch their breath, is back again with vengeance.
Name anything that President Obama is doing, and this broken wing will try to slap it down, unmindful that more than two-thirds of Americans support the President, with his popularity rising each week, according to several independent polls.
During [...]
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Filed under: Church & State, Politics, President Barack Obama, Religion, Spirituality
Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Barack Obama, has made his personal religious beliefs one of the central parts of his campaign. This has brought praise from many and condemnation from some. The evangelical Right, in the person of James Dobson, is certainly objecting saying that Senator Obama has ‘distorted’ The New Testament and Christianity.
Here [...]
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Filed under: CNN, Civil Rights, Election '08, In The News, Political News, Presidential Election, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on June 21st, 2008 by Walter Brasch
There should have been absolutely no controversy in a resolution presented in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives this past week.
Speaker Dennis O’Brien, a Republican from Philadelphia, wanted to honor the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which was holding its 60th annual national convention in Harrisburg. These resolutions are routine and almost always noncontroversial. The resolution pointed out [...]
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Filed under: Civil Rights, Conservatives, John McCain '08, Political Parties, Politics, Presidential Election, Presidential Primaries, Republicans, State Politics, Walter Brasch
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Barack Obama climbed out from under the bus, Reverend Jeremiah Wright threw him under yesterday and stood up today and did what he should have done weeks ago… He denounced his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the “substance of his remarks yesterday.”
It was a show of major damage control today as Obama said:
“I have [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, Wingnuts
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Jeremiah Wright has thrown Barack Obama under the bus and he has stepped on the gas. The consensus is in — whatever Wright’s motive, this doesn’t look good for Obama.
Here’s some of the opinions around the news and the sphere:
Joan Walsh on Salon: I was wrong about Wright
I regret that I hedged my observation about [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, In The News, Opinions, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries
Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been back in the news over the past couple of days making headlines and stirring up more controversy:
After addressing the NAACP yesterday in Detroit, Jeremiah Wright travels to the heart of the media beast — the National Press Club in DC — where he has been speaking this morning.
You can watch Wright’s NAACP [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, In The News, JFK, John Kerry, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, Sen. Ted Kennedy
