Gentlemen
Last night I watched Barack Obama give his acceptance speech in Colorado. Next week I will watch John McCain do the same thing. From an oratory prospective I th...
Tag: Politics
Obama
You may not like his politics but I could not help but get a tear in my eye when Sen. Obama was nominated by the democrat party yesterday. The camera panned aro...
What Is Your Vote Based On?
By Brian McLaren All of us who choose to vote must base our vote on something. For some people, it’s party. They’re Democrats or Republicans and fro...
Clergy and Politics
Recently I priest that I went to seminary with sent out an email blasting Senator Obama and saying we, as Christians, Should vote for Senator John McCain. I dis...
Church and State
Much has been written and spoken about during this campaign season about the role of religion in politics. There is a great line from the West Wing where Martin...
Memorial Day
Today in the US we celebrate Memorial Day so I thought I would do a little post on that theme. Today is not a day for me to rail on about the political side of ...
Suicide
If you have been following me on Twitter then you know I have been watching the West Wing the last few days. I love this show and when there is nothing on the t...
Edwards rules out possibility of vice presidential run with Obama
This must be a blow to Obama. This would have made things a little easier for him at the convention. Oh well it will be good TV if they fight it out on the floo...
Same Gender Marriage
Yesterday we saw the Supreme Court of California rule or actually overturn a decision of a lower court that denying same gender folks to marry is non-constituti...
Edwards Backs Obama
Well it looks like the long election season might be coming to a close. John Edwards is backing Obama, well the Associated Press says so anyway. I had been wait...