The Obama I’m FOR vs the Obama I’m against

I will vote for Barak Obama,  but I have trouble these days calling myself a “supporter”.  I explicitly deny that designation when it is suggested that I am.  But I find it hard now because of the way he handled the banks,  the way he has extended and built upon the “security” measures undertaken in the Patriot Act,  and the Continue Reading

THEY are captive to purely political distortions (HT to @reseudaimon, @christianpiatt @dianabutlerbass)

A post by Derek Penwell today has me going.  I read it just minutes  after comment replying in a series of push backs that Christian Piatt received about his series of posts on the God’s Politics blog about certain Chriatian Cliches he says should be abandoned.  Of course,  the users  of these cliches came  crashing in to question his Christianity,  and one Continue Reading