Comments on The Pensive Quill: A Pitbull with Lipstick

Here is a link to a You Tube Video I made on Chris...

2009-01-29T13:42:00.000Z

Here is a link to a You Tube Video I made on Christoher Hitchens.Plus another link to the "Hitchens Watch" web page it is on also.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=E32Q4V40WdI
Hithens Watch web page http://christopherhitchenswatch.blogspot.com/2009/01/stupid-highly-strung-but-dead-loyal.html

aricaiwdjts, a case of things changing so that the...

2008-10-31T17:19:00.000Z

aricaiwdjts, a case of things changing so that they remain the same

Fionnchú, incisive commentary. The biography was v...

2008-10-31T17:18:00.000Z

Fionnchú, incisive commentary. The biography was very superficial. And there was nothing very insightful on the question of churches. I have to feel sorry for Sarah Pailn - who but some deeply unhappy sod would want to go to four churches? Even big Paisley sticks to one. But maybe it is the only one wide enough to let his big head through the doors

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Ultimately, I don’t really care who wins the ...

2008-10-30T18:34:00.000Z

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Ultimately, I don’t really care who wins the US election. I don’t believe it will seriously lessen the threat posed by the country to world peace. McCain/Palin value the supremacy of the free market whereas Obama/Biden would place some cosmetic curbs on it. After the result the poor will stay at the bottom and the rich at the top." Yep that about says it for me..I do feel that Obama being elected will give the perception to the world that America wants to change and as the father of three American children any change ...no matter how small...in the worlds view of Americans is welcome...real change ..not a hope.

I predict Obama will win handily. For all of McCai...

2008-10-29T23:21:00.000Z

I predict Obama will win handily. For all of McCain's failings, at least he tried to campaign for electoral reform regarding funding. Obama did not abide by the voluntary limits, as was his option, but outspending as he is now McC five-to-one, buying up two out of the three (not counting Fox! NBC did not go along with CBS & ABC) networks for a half-hour infomercial before the World Series: this does speak of hubris. The odds look overwhelming for Obama, since the collapse of the economy mid-September; the race was about even then, but now there's no "hope" for the GOP.

"Moral courage" is not the only issue facing educated voters; it's sheer lack of experience on Obama's part-- I predict another one-term Jimmy Carter nice guy in over his head-- vs. utter disgust with the usual rich white guy-- of either party.

Any idealism in McC has long vanished as he kow-towed to the pro-Palin crowd. Yet, the majority of the U.S. media has done its damnedest to both paint any who speak out logically against placing too much confidence in the Dems as sort-of covert racists who cannot stand a (half-)black man in charge. Similarly, the massive hero-worship-- from my vantage-point-- has distorted Obama from the lesser of two evils into the next messiah, although the near-universal jubilation in his First Coming will surely lead to Calvary for millions soon enough. He's beholden to so many powerful people that he will not be able to act on his own. Same as it ever was? I'm tired already of the idolatry.

Ralph Nader commented how both parties shrink from any connotation of socialism even as they support bailing out the rich bankers and corporate powers, not to mention the millions who signed on to loans they often lied about being able to pay back. The rest of us are left, as usual, holding the empty bag. We all will owe about $5000 for the feckless, the affluent, and the apostles of free-market economics-- that is, except when it hits their own wallet. Meanwhile, pensions vanish as we're all told to invest in 401k's for funding our receding retirement.

I find it curious that Sarah Palin, for all her advocacy of what the Pentecostals term "spiritual warfare" in their end-times preaching, has for six years not been a member of the Wasilla Assembly of God church to which she for decades belonged. She still goes, apparently, to four or so different churches, but is not a member of any one. Did your biography delve into this at all? Sorry to blather. Again, thanks for a great post.

Jim, thanks for your comment. We will know next we...

2008-10-27T22:20:00.000Z

Jim, thanks for your comment. We will know next week if you are right or not. If Obama is not elected I hope it will not be as a result of racism. That would be a severe indictment of the American public.

I predicted ( to myself ) several months ago that ...

2008-10-27T15:59:00.000Z

I predicted ( to myself ) several months ago that Obama would not win this election. For the simple reason that I cannot see the American people electing a man of color as President, at least not yet
I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but I have this notion that come Election Day, people will NOT have the moral courage to vote for Obama.
The nefarious John McCain if/when elected will lead the U.S./world into another tragedy in Iran.
And to think that Palin is just a heartbeat away from becoming the most powerful person in the world is mind-boggling.
No this is NOT thinly disguised misogyny on my part. I love women after all my dear departed mother RIP was one.