They’re Both Right
It seems that both the Barack Obama and the John McCain campaigns have got themselves into a wee spot of bother - oddly enough, for speaking the truth.
First up to bat is Obama with
“Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?”
Is that not the truth? How many different Christian sects are there with how many different interpretations of what their God and/or his son said, did, or meant, when he/they said this, that, or the other thing? For petes sake, they can’t even agree on the abominations.
Then John McCain’s right-hand man said that a terrorist attack on US soil would be a “big advantage” for the campaign - again, is that not the truth?
Does anyone doubt that if that were to happen that the fear and paranoia would kick up a notch and McCain would be elected by a land slide?
Amid all the spin and rhetoric isn’t it strange that two pieces of plain simple truth are worthy of controversy?
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Of course Obama is right. That is the very reason that the US founding fathers built the wall of separation in their constitution and declared - by a unanimous vote - in the Treaty of Tripoli that the US was not a Christian nation.
But in order for people to appreciate that, you have to expect them to have actually read the US Consitution and know some American history. And that kind of knowlege is in shockingly short supply in the US these days.
Pity, they used to be the beacon of freedom and now are just another oppressive regime.
I’ll judge Obama by those who come out whingeing at him. Fox and Dobson? eeeeyah. Obama could tell the complete truth 24/7 and be carrying the latest 15 commandments handed to him personally by the Christian Almighty in a witnessing of thousands and he’d still be raked over the coals by that crew and their homies. Likely for telling the truth at a country club with a martini in one hand.
Whales worth more than Sailors…
That is the only reason I can understand the ruling of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Apparently, they believe they are more apt to run a war than the Admirals themselves, and this decision proves them so vastly wrong…