Checking out Google’s new browser, Google Chrome. I’ve been using it for a couple hours now – not enough to give a decent review or anything – except to say that, so far, I like it. And it’s fast.
Archives for September 2008
Sarah Palin’s Jeremiah Wright
Just two weeks ago, Sarah Palin sat in on this sermon:
Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity.
“Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It’s very real. When [Brickner’s son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can’t miss it.”
Palin was in church that day, Kroon said, though he cautioned against attributing Brickner’s views to her.
Like Andrew Sullivan, I can’t wait to watch Sean Hannity eviscerate the man. Er, never mind.
A Nice Trend
Republicans are becoming more open to marriage equality and civil unions:
A CBS News/New York Times poll released Monday found that 49 percent of the delegates to the Republican convention support allowing same-sex marriages or civil unions. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
A CNN/Opinion Research Poll conducted in May found that nearly half of those surveyed supported either same-sex marriages or civil union. Twenty-four percent supported same-sex marriages, while 27 percent backed civil unions. Forty-three percent backed neither option. The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points
Although, as an Obama supporter, I think that the Log Cabin Republicans should have sat this one out and endorsed no one, it’s clear that the work they and other gay Republicans are doing is having an effect. Half of all Republican delegates is huge considering where we were just a few years ago. That increase didn’t happen because Republicans were routinely called hate-mongers, homophobes, and bigots. It happened because gays have been increasingly coming out of the shadows. It’s happening because people are working with supporters within the Republican party to show them that being against marriage equality is not anathema to being a good Republican.
Mostly, it’s happening because John McCain spent 5 years in a prison camp and didn’t have any homosexuals to hate.
And Finally, Before I Go To Bed
Military service does not qualify you to be president. Good night.
All You Need To Know About Joe Lieberman
He enthusiatically endorsed Sarah Palin – someone he agrees with on, well, nearly zero issues.
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Shorter Joe Lieberman
No candidate in recent history will infuriate his party’s base like John McCain.
Seriously, he hit on every hot button that has pissed off hardline Republicans in the last ten years. It wouldn’t be my first choice to spend valuable convention time emphatically reminding the faithful of McCain’s heterodoxy on global warming, campaign finance and judicial nominations.
***Update***
I forgot to mention free trade and immigration. And oh yeah, Joementum made a major applause line out of praising Bill Clinton. That should play well with the dittoheads.
New Convention Open Thread
Old one was stale.
Deep thought- Has it occurred to the GOP that it is hardly a compliment that after eight years of uninterrupted Republican rule, they need to run as reformers in order to have a shot at getting elected. I guess they plan on reforming themselves.
9:51 pm- I guess they decided to have Laura Bush open for W. to make him appear like a dynamic speaker.
BTW, for some comedy gold, go watch Red State get openly mocked by the Politico.
9:53 pm- Bush should get more credit for the Africa Aids stuff. A legitimately good thing.
9:57 pm- OMG, John McCain was a POW! I did not know this, and it is truly new and exciting information.
10:01 pm- Off topic, but this is funny:
Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced [David] Brickner, [the founder of Jews for Jesus] on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on the church’s website. “He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism,” Kroon said.
Obligatory video.
11:12 pm- Really not sure what they are trying to accomplish, to be completely honest. They seem to be trying to run this as a reform ticket, when this is the party that has been in charge for eight years, and all the people advocating from reform are the same tired faces we have seen since Clinton was President. I mean, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay? Shouldn’t they avoid cameras? Tom DeLay trumpeting reform? Is the public really this stupid?