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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.” |
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7 comments July 8th, 2008
 
Retired Maj. Gen. John Borling of Rockford (above), a McCain delegate to the Republican National Convention and a former GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, has ENDORSED Democrat Bob Abboud for Congress over incumbent Republican Don Manzullo.
In a statement released by the Abboud campaign, Borling said “it’s time for a change in Illinois.”
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Thomas Jefferson was not a very religious man, at least not in the orthodox sense of the term.
Indeed, in the presidential campaign of 1800, Jefferson’s critics labeled him “virtually an atheist” and  ”a manifest enemy to the religion of Christ” whose election would be “a rebellion against God.”
Actually, Jefferson was a great admirer of Jesus and once wrote a book in which he adapted from the Bible the ethical teachings of Jesus without the references to miracles and divinity.
On his death bed, just days before the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson penned a letter in which he implied scorn for dogmatic religion as “monkish ignorance and superstition…”
President Bush quoted from that letter in a speech last week at Monticello, Jefferson’s home. He even included the sentence in which Jefferson had originally made the reference to “monkish ignorance” — but he skipped right over the 12 words regarding religion.
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Is there no limit to the idiocy of the Obama-bashers?
Jonah Goldberg (above), the conservative pundit who last week moronically impugned Barack Obama’s patriotism and lumped him with Marxist revolutionaries (see HERE), is now suggesting that the putative Democratic nominee wants to violate the constitutional amendment barring slavery.
Hilzoy over at Obsidian Wings handles the SMACKDOWN for us.
UPDATE: HERE’s another invocation of slavery by Obamaphobes.
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It’s all about whether the reporters get free pizza or donuts or something:
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