Yep.
If the American Jewish community wants to stick with AIPAC over JStreet, that is their business. Why does AIPAC get to hijack the party platform though?
If I don’t get my rural Anglo Bishop included in the telecast of the inauguration, you don’t get Zionism in the platform. Don’t like it? Too bad. This is the Obama years and nobody gets what they want.
Ugh. OK, fine…. Bill Clinton told me…
Sure, he told me to my face. Last night in my office as I watched him on my laptop. He’s one of my TV friends. He’s also my favorite solo dinner date but my predilection for reading “My Life” whenever I dine alone in some self-indulgent effort to reassure myself that Democrats can get things done is a totally different topic. I digress.
Bill Clinton told me that this election is about the cause of forming a more perfect union.
A more perfect union…. I have always envisioned the foundation of this country as one of those times when people just get things right. At another time those same people might have failed miserably, but for whatever reason things just clicked into place and they got it right.
The Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence aren’t meant to spell out the protocol for every single instance that will come up in governing the country. They are meant to spell out how we go about it. The Founding Fathers may have written that an African-American was not to be counted as a full person and neglected to give equal status to women but the ideal that they wrote about was liberty and justice for all. I like to think that each successive generation of Americans comes a few steps closer to realizing that goal.
I like the idea of working towards a more perfect union. The Big Dog’s words resonated with me.
Romney and Ryan are all about going backwards. We can’t have that.
Does the stupid planks matter all that much? They’re not binding. Sigh…
OK, as much as the Episcopalian in me hates all of this unseemly praying out loud stuff, I’m in.Throw in the God. Splash all o-v-e-r the place if it makes middle America happy. I guess it’s an easy compromise to make to shore up votes. (Just gotta keep telling myself the Big Dog says it’s all about the cause of a more perfect union, a more perfect union, a more perfect union…)
Why did we have to publicly yank our merely tepid support from Palestinians though? It was so insulting. Hard not to see the possibility of bigotry. Apparently the only sanctioned story on the subject is how some people might object because of the tension between the “somehow it makes me more Christian to be overt about it” Christians and secular factions among the Dems. Oh, that’s it. People were booing that loudly because saying God makes some people uncomfortable. That’s why the guy took the vote three times too. Nobody was offended by the fact that it was a specific policy endorsement that was being added at the last minute, before the delegates had the chance to file in. Nobody disagreed with the policy it implied either. Riiiiiiight. That explanation has as much to stand on as the FoxGOP story that the Democrats booed God.
(Man, the media’s lack of interest in journalism is so annoying. The Daily Show does have the F*cking News Team out there. They are awesome but that is pathetic!!!)
I want to want to watch you tonight. I want to like you. I want to be fired up to help and support you but g’damn it Barack, you don’t make it easy.
Just got to keep telling myself the Big Dog says it’s all about the cause of a more perfect union, a more perfect union, a more perfect union….
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