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OK, well I guess this takes some of the sting out of that.

Jim Geraghty gives voice to my doubts:

And if the solid, experienced national security expert who's been in Congress forever is what you're looking for in a vice president... why do you not want it as president on the other side of the aisle?

RTWT.

I've ordered his book after hearing him on Steve Brown's podcast (which is really good, btw). This talk is about 35 minutes + some questions and is terrific.

Finally, once W comes to his senses and wants to finally press the case for exploiting domestic oil reserves. What is the Democrats' response? Nationalize the refineries!

Yeah, that'll work. Good call.

So says John H Armstrong:

The biblical criteria are simple: (1) Confess faith in Christ the Lord who is risen (2) Be a baptized follower of the Savior in the fellowship of his Church. Since none of us lives the life of Christ with even the remotest perfection then all such standards should be jettisoned by people of real charity. Wright, by these and many other standards, is my brother. I do not agree with him at times, as I have noted, but then I don't agree with a lot of my brothers and sisters about a lot of things.

This all comes down to charity, true Christian charity. You can dislike the man's statements, you can accuse him as you wish, but don't be surprised when you meet him in the presence of Christ someday.

Is it possible that we could agree on this much? In conservative white America I doubt it. The well is so poisoned by hate, and by vicious hate speech, that we do not care who might actually be our brothers and sisters. And yet we wonder why the younger generation is leaving the church in droves.

He later links to this article, that in turn links to this one. The two articles are whitewashes of Wright and Trinity UCC that conveniently fail to mention Hamas in the church bulletin, Wright's ties to the Nation of Islam and the trading in blood libel conspiracy theories.

In addition, the author makes the utterly false equivalence of Wright-is-to-Obama-as-Hagee-is-to-McCain (besides, Hagee apologized).

I've said lots of terrible things and believed and argued for things I now know were lies. I'm willing to stipulate that we're all bozos on this bus and I'm not going to sit in judgement over the state of Jeremiah Wright's (or anyone else's) soul. However, none of that changes the fact that Wright is a race-baiting, anti-American crackpot. He may well by my brother, but he's also a nut.

I just got to call 'em like I see 'em.

1. The Democrats oppose energy production of all kinds, anywhere, anyway, anyhow, using currently available technology. They only support the use of tech we haven't got yet. Don't worry, they'll find a reason to be against that too, when the time comes. In the meantime, they cry about energy prices after they've spent years telling us high energy prices are a good thing.

   Go read this from Victor Davis Hansen, now:

   There is something pathetic about Americans begging the House of Saud to produce another 300,000-500,000 barrels of oil per day, while in mindless fashion repeating the mantra, “We can’t drill our way out of this problem” — as if anyone suggested absolute oil independence was the goal rather than more supply to deflate tight conditions that encourage speculation. Americans, who invented the oil industry, are beginning to resemble H.G. Wells’ Eloi in our refined paralysis.

   Exploration and oil production are an issue that is absolutely explosive for Democrats, given their perennial resistance to ANWR, coastal and deep ocean drilling, tar sands, shale, liquid coal, and nuclear. And the irony is that their opposition to drilling — dismissing each potential find or field with the reductionist “it would be only 500,000 barrels,” “a mere million barrels,” or “just a few cents off a gallon of gas” — is classically illiberal to the point of either callousness or abject madness

2. They call themselves the "reality-based community," but continue to advocate negotiating and appeasing insane dictators, calling for unilateral disarmament and pretending that treating international terrorism as if it were a law enforcement problem are new, interesting ideas that are full of potential for good. Whatever "reality" they are based on is apparently missing much of the previous century of history.
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4. Their chosen "messiah" shows himself to be in the possession of about half the clue that Jimmy Carter had, but the worship continues unabated. My goodness, I was appalled at the naivete of Mike Huckabee and his imaginary foreign policy advisor friends, but now I'd rather have someone that thinks he talked to John Bolton that someone that actually listens to Brzezinski, Albright and Danzig.

If the GOP continues to fall behind these nimrods, then they are the Stupid Party.

But please, just take AppleScript out back and shoot it:

Apple should make JavaScript its default scripting language.

While huddled in your shelter waiting for the looming theocracy, John Mark Reynolds has a few things you should know about those Bible-thumpers you just can't stand:

Lots of Americans don’t like Evangelicals, especially in the academy. That is sad, since much of the dislike is based on falsehoods and irrational prejudice.

Here's some good advice. It won't be heeded. History never really repeats, but then again nothing completely new ever happens. There's at least this much:

• The GOP nominee is uninspiring to the activists in the party (McCain == Ford).
• The Senate and House GOP are in complete disarray, with little or no hope for reversal.
• A charismatic but inexperienced Democratic candidate is offering high-sounding platitudes ("Change we can believe in" == "A government as good as its people.") but only the vaguest of policy prescriptions.
• There is an (deserved) anti-GOP sentiment among voters.

The current "generation that knew not Jemmah" may well have to suffer the consequences of its folly in order to learn by experience that "government isn't the solution, it's the problem" and that appeasement in the desire for peace is the surest way to war. But then, suffering produces wisdom, right?

Stand by for the suffering.

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