Monday, March 17, 2008

Wright V. Falwell

Great smackdown given to the GOP over their hypocrisy on the Wright issue. One juicy bit:

And let's be clear as to who we're talking about. Falwell was a gross extremist. "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being," he said. I struggle to find Wright's comparably offensive remark. Yet Falwell is a man the Republican Party embraced, while Wright is denounced. Similarly, Wright also gets criticism for saying, "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." Compare that to Falwell's legendary post-9/11 pronouncement, where he said, "the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'" Explain the moral difference to me.

You can't make this stuff up. If there's one thing that Hillary has gotten right, it's been her insistence all along that the right wing attack machine would somehow lay down if Obama captured the nomination. That's not going to happen. I have a sinking feel this election could be one of the dirtiest of all time. On the plus side, the GOP will probably do incalculable damage to their standing in the nation even if they somehow win the White House. The flight from R to D has been going on for several years, if they keep running elections based solely on racial smears, religion, and fear mongering it will only serve to turn off broader and broader swaths of the nation.

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