The Best Defense is A Good Offense

During tonight's Democratic Debate, Hillary Clinton was asked, if elected to two terms as president, how she would feel about a Clinton or Bush serving 28 straight years in the White House, Sen. Clinton replied, “I think it is a problem that Bush was elected in 2000. I actually thought somebody else was elected in that election,” in an obvious reference to Al Gore who won the popular vote in 2000, but lost in the electoral college to George W. Bush. The answer was interrupted by a flurry of applause from the audience.

She then added, “I am running on my own merits, but I am very proud of my husband’s record as president of the United States,” which was also a good applause line.

The only way to turn a defensive position into offense is to keep advancing.

Is There No End to The Wickedness of This Administration

From the NYTimes:

Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations

Sounds more like communist USSR, doesn't it?
Lies, deceit, equivocation, incompetence, denial of basic human rights? And they believe themselves to be Christian? They might want to read the prophet Amos....

An Abomination....Absolutely

Three people were arrested for interrupting the guest chaplain's prayer to open the Senate. They found it to be an abomination that a Hindu Chaplain offered the beginning invocation.

The only abomination is that these fundamentalists were allowed to ruin Rajan Zed's day. Can anyone say American Taliban? (watch the debacle here).

Honestly, how many times do we have to explain to these zealots that we are a nation founded not on "christian" principles but on the premise that we have freedom from a state Church; we have freedom to worship the God of our choosing; and that choice of which God to worship is between no one but us and our God? Chaplain Zed's prayer is exactly the kind of tolerance our Founding Fathers had in mind.

Oh and while I'm at it, I really think Jesus is embarrassed by you jerkballs. Have a bit of common courtesy--for Christ's sake.