well it’s about freakin’ time
Monday 20 October 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar
I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say, and it is permitted to be said. Such things as ‘Well you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.’ Well the correct answer is ‘He is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian, he’s always been a Christian.’ But the really right answer is ‘What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?’ The answer is ‘No. That’s not America.’ Is there something wrong with some 7-year old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she can be president? Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion he’s a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America. (Washington Post)
All this and Chris Buckley getting the boot from National Review too? Talk about your post-partisan free-for-all. What next—the public noticing that an ambitious young half-Kenyan attorney had no political choice but to identify as black?
Nah, probably not that.
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Yay!! Maybe 9 or 10 years ago, I found the link for that quiz/chart (or maybe just one like it). I have since tried to find it again, but couldn’t. I love this… thanks!
More to the point, it’s interesting to see how many are in the blue quadrant. No wonder I never really like any of “them.”
I’m really not psyched to see Obama and Biden so far to the upper right corner of this graphic. Have I, too, fallen prey to the moral relativism that has been pissing me off for years?
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Deadpan narrator: Yes.
I have been rethinking your “everyone needs an alethiometer” post, or at least I have decided I need a map like this, preferably something that tells me where I am on the grid when I wake up in the morning.
“Hmmm, it’s going to be a liberal authoritarian day….good to know.”
Of course it doesn’t change a damn thing about how my day is going to go, but it would be comforting, having the map in mind, as I begin the hostile take over of an NPO.
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Disoriented narrator: Isn’t every day an authoritarian day? ;o)
Oh, and on that note, are there no good leftist authoritarians left in the world….FDRish perhaps??
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Left-of-Stalin narrator: I think in Ireland? Where they can’t actually DO anything, of course; which must be hell on an authoritarian.