[LibLieSlayer]

Besides his bowel movements... what has barry ever commanded? NOTHING... His wife is their family's CiC... that is evident.

LLS

[Tax-chick]

All this can only work to Barack Obama's disadvantage, given his cool, aloof manner, and his patronizing comment on the bitter and religious. And it has brought an unintended benefit to the McCain-Palin ticket -- a populist, religious appeal that McCain alone did not possess.

Bingo!

[Fiji Hill]

There are reasons to question the choice of the commander of the Alaska National Guard as a prospective commander in chief (though there were equally serious reasons to doubt the military qualifications of another backwoods candidate, Abraham Lincoln, who served for a few months as private and captain in the Black Hawk War).

Of course, no one questioned Bill Clinton's qualifications to be commander in chief, given his stellar military record.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

There is no major issue of national importance or urgency that has anything to do with prehistoric monkey bones. Unless they want the Department of the Interior to launch a search for Bigfoot. So why the liberal hysteria about this? They make it sound like unless school children spend hours upon hours brooding over imaginary graphs and charts of homo erectus and homo habilis that the sky will fall in. Primitive monkey men from Land of the Lost have nothing to do with the important issues facing this country.

[padre35]

Mixed views in Pentacostalism, however the idea that the media of all people can somehow thrash a Brother or Sister in Christ merely for showing enough love for departing soldiers to pray for them publicly is some sort of shameful act is to me, truly offensive and ignorant.

The old saw proves true, what you hate, you become, in this case the media’s hatred of Christianity causes them to become what they despise, jaundiced eyed bigots who judge without even knowing any facts.

[GonzoGOP]

Oh please go after her preacher. Just like going after her experience allowed us to bash Obama’s “community organizer” past attacking her church bring the Reverend Wright and stumbling Joe's battles with the bishop back front and center. Well since we are bashing religion let me say this one prayer. I thank God every day for granting me foolish enemies.

[nhwingut]

This line of attack tells me one thing: Obambi’s internals are bleeding and he has lost all hope of winning over ANY evangelical/religous right votes.

So now comes the attacks.

It also tells me that they are stuck on stupid. This clearly opens up the debate for Pentacostalism vs Black Liberationism.

Bring it on.

[Theophilus]

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

[Red Boots]

The media treatment of Pentecostalism (Palin's main religious background) and Bible church evangelicalism (her current affiliation) has had the quality of a National Geographic special on a newly discovered Amazon tribe. You might not suspect that Pentecostalism -- grown from the admirable, racially integrated roots of the Los Angeles Azusa Street Revival of 1906 -- is one of the fastest-growing and most influential forms of mainstream Christianity. There are now between 250 million and 500 million Pentecostals in places from Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa to rural Alaska. It is often described as the faith of the dispossessed -- many adherents come from poorer backgrounds. But it is also the faith of the socially mobile -- promoting virtues of hard work, savings and self-denial that would make Max Weber proud.

Kudos the Gerson for actually doing his homework on the beginnings of the modern pentacostism. I've never seen a national writer ever do more than take a sidewise swipe at Amie Simple MacPherson.

[redgolum]

For later read.