Amen to that

Seen on the marquee near the interstate exit where our office is located:

Free Local Calls.
New Renovation.
God Bless America.

That's the beauty of our great nation - there are few countries in the world where the hotel you've chosen to stay in will have new renovations and can still offer you free local calls. Forget the HBO in France, baby - in these United States, you can call the pizza store down the street...for FREE!

If only the Rev. Wright had stayed at the EconoLodge in Irmo. Maybe then he'd be singing a different tune (or screaming a different nonsensical rant - we get the two confused).

God bless American, indeed.

Obama = Messiah?

Excuse me, but this sounds more like a cult than a political campaign. The language used here is the language of evangelical Christianity – the Obama volunteers speak of "coming to Obama" in the same way born-again Christians talk about "coming to Jesus."

But he's not Jesus! He's not going to magically enable us to transcend the bitter partisanship that is tearing this country apart. And even if he is elected, in no way will that show that somehow we have "gotten beyond" race.

Kathleen Geier of the liberal TPMCafe (and an Edwards supporter) commenting on this article.

“I’ve been following politics since I was about 5." “I’ve never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament. This is surprising.”

Chris Matthews in the New York Observer

Perhaps it's my atheism at work but I found myself increasingly wary of and resistant to the salvational fervor of the Obama campaign, the idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria. . . . I don't look to politics for transcendence and self-certification.

James Wolcott, a left leaning contributor to Vanity Fair.

See for yourself.