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Yes, they really are living in a different world
This tends to confirm my worst prejudices about Obama-haters: A new focus-group of Republican base voters by the Democracy Corps (D) , the consulting and polling outfit headed up by James Carville and Stan Greenberg, presents a picture of the GOP base as being motivated by a fundamentally different worldview than folks in the middle or on the Dem side -- and they see the country as being under a dire threat. "They believe Obama is ruthlessly advancing a 'secret agenda' to bankrupt the United States and dramatically expand government control to an extent nothing short of socialism," the analysis said." While these voters are disdainful of a Republican Party they view to have failed in its mission, they overwhelmingly view a successful Obama presidency as the destruction of this country's founding principles and are committed to seeing the president fail." The analysis argues that Obama's unpopularity among conservative Republicans is both quantit
Best signs at gay equality march
The sense of humor evident is awesome. Now Obama and congress need to act. It is past time.
Best Obama Nobel reaction quote so far
"Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum — when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes." - PJ Crawley , U.S. Assistant Secretary of State. Oh, snap!
Christianist revisionist American history watch
This is almost unspoofable (Hat tip: Pablo via email). But someone did manage to do it (via Kos ). I love how someone trying to depict the heritage of our country in a fundamentalist Christian light managed to include 4 Unitarians (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Clara Barton, and Susan B. Anthony) as well as Thomas Paine in his portrait. The latter wrote, in Age of Reason : I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.