In case you missed it, former Sec. of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama this morning on Meet the Press. The whole interview if worth watching, but a particular quote caught my attention.
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’s no, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, “He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.” This is not the way we should be doing it in America.
Here’s the video with more context.
Read the entire transcript of the interview here.
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By blake
October 19, 2008
50,000 protesters stage a mass protest in Baghdad against the recently renegotiated mandate to extend US presence.
Prakash Ambegaonkar, the founder of Bridging Nations, wrote this piece on why and how the US must rethink foreign policy in the future.
Christian and Islamic leaders petition together for the establishment of just interest rates and rightly place for the global financial crisis on human greed.
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz writes about how we got in the current financial mess we’re in and offers a comprehensive way forward.
The spark of the Divine is always within us. It is the common thread that unites us in our humanity.
Tony Jones writes about why the US is not an empire, at least in the classical sense. I partly agree. I’m beginning to come around to the idea that the US is simply part of a transnational big “E” Empire of global capitalism.
Noam Chomsky says the US has one-party system. I agree — as I’ve written before — and I like Chomsky though he is fundamentally rooted in the modern approach.
Andrew Sullivan’s piece “Why I Blog,” is very thought provoking. Blogging is the new postmodern format. I wonder how much longer old-school newspapers will last?
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By blake
October 18, 2008
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By blake
October 17, 2008
It turns out that Joe isn’t really a plumber. At least not a licensed one. I’ve got nothing against Joe, I have more in common with him than the candidates, but I do have a problem with a campaign using someone for political gain. It’s just patronizing. “Like Sarah Palin, a great concept. But the McCain campaign needs to be able to vet its hood ornaments.” [Ht. Andrew Sullivan]
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Tagged with 2008 Campaign, Asides, Election, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin.
By blake
October 16, 2008
John McCain will have to manhandle Barack Obama — or in his own words “whip his you-know-what” — if he wants to stand a chance of winning the election. I’m not sure what the chances of that are, but they’re not good that’s for sure.
Check back here for live updates at 9:00 PM EST.
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By blake
October 15, 2008
Hat tip to Hacking Christianity for this video portraying the text of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights set to music.
I thought I’d go ahead and post it today rather than later since today is the so-called “Columbus Day” in which Americans of all political stripes and social studies teachers across the country glorify a mass murderer and credit him with having “discovered a New World” when in fact he systematically exterminated and enslaved native peoples in the name — in American hindsight at least — of a dubious metanarrative of progress and enlightenment. Continued…
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By blake
October 13, 2008
In celebration of it’s 10th birthday Google is allowing people to search their 2001 database. It’s pretty cool. I did a search for Barack Obama and John McCain. Here are some screenshots of the first couple of results.
You can see the results here and here and the archived sites here and here.
Interesting stuff.
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