Election 08
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Hagee and the Messiah
Posted by gls on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Ameryka, Election 08, Fringe Christianity, Politics, Religion
This race has been odd for the religious right. First, there was the issue of whether or not to support a Mormon — a non-Christian in the eyes of many Evangelicals. Now comes the troubling Hagee endorsement of McCain.
Yet it’s not only those on the left side of the spectrum that are troubled by this — or at least, it shouldn’t be. Those same Evangelical Christians who hesitated to support McCain should also be leery of Hagee and his less-than-orthodox theology, as seen below:
Odd Support
Posted by gls on 27 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Election 08
In France’s 2002 election, socialists and other left-wing party members backed Jacques Chirac (who is, despite what many Americans think, on the right side of France’s political spectrum) in order to avoid the far right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen from winning. That’s like communists voting for Bush.
Many in America seem unwilling to do something similar.
Two things:
First, many conservatives are upset with the McCain nomination:
“I’m really depressed today because this is the first time that I find myself in a position that I will not work for the nominee (McCain),” said a caller to host Rush Limbaugh’s conservative talk-radio show on the verge of tears. (Reuter’s)
Second, Michelle Obama, on the possibility of Hillary winning, said:
GMA: Could you see yourself working to support Hillary Clinton should she win the nomination?
MICHELLE OBAMA: I’d have to think about that. I’d have to think about that, her policies, her approach, her tone.
GMA: That’s not a given?
MICHELLE OBAMA: You know, everyone in this party is going to work hard for whoever the nominee is. I think that we’re all working for the same thing. And, you know, I think our goal is to make sure that the person in the White House is going to take this country in a different direction. I happen to believe that Barack is the only person who can really do that. (Source)
It seems odd to me that people — Democrat or Republican — would risk someone they vehemently oppose (i.e., the opposing party’s candidate) winning because they didn’t like their own party’s candidate.
Out Before the Count
Posted by gls on 29 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Election 08, Politics
If Giuliani is a prize fighter and the primary season is a title bout, Giuliani just bonked his head on the way out to the ring, knocking himself unconscious to the cheers of virtually no one.
Mike’s Personal Beliefs
Posted by gls on 21 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Current Affairs, Election 08, Politics
On his “Issues” page regarding marriage, Huckabee writes,
I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life. (Mike Huckabee for President - Issues)
If it’s a personal belief, why literally make a Federal issue out of it?
Don’t call him Brother Romney just yet » GetReligion
Posted by gls on 16 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Ameryka, Christianity, Current Affairs, Election 08, Religion
Interesting article on Romney’s Mormonism at “Get Religion”:
If you’ve not followed the decades-long theological debate between apologists for evangelical Protestantism and apologists for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, brace yourself. You’re probably in for an extended mass media discourse on those differences, at least until the primaries settle who will be the Republican nominee for president. Don’t call him Brother Romney just yet » GetReligion
