Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely
After decades of right-wing religious domination, America faces a moment of truth not unlike the Apollo 8 astronauts faced on their first trip around the moon.
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Race, Religion and the Colin Powell Endorsement
Powell and Obama share a perspective, born of an experience, that the rest of us should heed well: the deployment of religion in the cause of race- or other-baiting is an especially dangerous game.
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The Fundamental(ist) Optimist President
The president delivered more bromides this morning as the stock market dipped even further; but who would expect realism from this man?
Read MoreUnmasking the Intention Behind the “Unmasking” of Obama
Religious mudslinging has become a tool to disguise underlying racism—to “de-Americanize” Obama.
Read MoreLong Haired “Value Voters”
Despite an economy tanking under Republican ideology, traditional evangelicals still favor McCain…
Read MoreSpinning the Faith Forum
Liberal media claims that Obama was “sandbagged” at Saddleback, but is this just a knee-jerk reaction to evangelical influence in politics?
Read MoreSwiftboating Obama: The Brown Blob of Black Radicalism
Obama supporters should “chill out” in the face of this swiftboating via the conflation of Obama and Wright into an undifferentiated brown blob of black radicalism broadcast together in a twenty-four hour news cycle.
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