Obama slates speech on race and religion

2 comments March 17th, 2008

The Illinois senator WILL ENDEAVOR tomorrow to put the controversy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to rest.

Are Democrats hostile to religion?

6 comments March 17th, 2008

 

Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly RAISES the question.

My own view is that it’s stupid to think of Democrats as hostile to religion when millions of them clearly are not.  By the same token, millions of Republicans are not particularly religious, no matter their party’s holier-than-thou rhetoric.

I think some people too often think of evangelical Protestantism as the be-all and end-all of religion, which, of course, it’s not.

It’s not uncommon for a person of devout religious faith to express hostility toward the kind of money-grubbing evangelical preachers we see on TV. Such criticism doesn’t make one anti-religion.

Has Nancy checkmated Hillary?

2 comments March 17th, 2008

 

The importance of something House Speaker Nancy Pelosi SAID last week was all but drowned out by other news.

One imagines, however, that Democratic elders caught Pelosi’s drift.

Bush has ‘killed the Republican brand’

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U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, former chair of the National Republican Congressional Commitee, isn’t running for re-election and therefore feels free to SAY that President Bush is “very, very unpopular” and has “killed the Republican brand.”

Wall Street’s bears are stern

5 comments March 17th, 2008

 

Sorry for the lame pun in that headline, but as an Irishman, I refuse to address the financial-market problems on this St. Patrick’s Day with some line about the burnin’ of the green.

Anyway, the SITUATION is such at this pre-dawn hour that investment bank Bear Stearns has lost 99 percent of its stock market value in the past 14 months and is being sold for a pittance.

UPDATE: Fed bailout of Bear Stearns “crosses a line,” it says HERE.