Saturday, March 08, 2008
"Agents of intolerance" can come in handy...
...around Election Time in a big way. Yeah, time was John McCain lumped the Rev. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell together in one big Fringe Element, "to the left to the left to the left" and then the right, but these days as Bill Moyers discussed on his Journal last night McCain and the Rev. John Hagee are buddy buddy these days. Sure he's a very prominent minister and vocal advocate for the State of Israel, he rails against the threat radical Islam poses to the rest of the world but he also refers to the Catholic Church as the Great Whore of Revelations, he's not Bill Donahue of the Catholic League's cup of tea to put it mildly and McCain fobs it all off as "I can accept somebody's endorsement without agreeing with all of their views." Dunno but this seems way over the line, it's being tolerant of intolerance if you will.
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One more reason to dislike McCain, thanks for the heads up.
ReplyDeleteHow would McCain be different than Obama being friendly with someone who support Farrakahn?
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't be any different, good point Beth.
ReplyDeleteRobertson: "He just called us 'agents of intolerance', part of some weird fringe element."
Hagee: "He's just playing hard to get, he really wants us."
Robertson: "Oh I get it, he wants to see how we handle rejection. Read that in a book somewhere."
Hagee: "Hold on tight brotherman. When he becomes a serious contender for the presidency he'll be sending us roses and practically courting us. He doesn't believe in sex on the first or even the third date, he's from the Old School, he's a professional wooer.
Z's Diagnosis: McCain has a Love/Hate relationship with the Religious Right.
ReplyDeleteThe Only Way He'll Learn: Don't vote for him, pull a Coulter.
YES! EXACTLY!
ReplyDeleteYou know I was really swinging over into his camp for lack of better choices but it's stuff like this, the character area, that bothers me the most even more so than his rinohood. I mean you hate some people one day and your beer buddies with 'em the next, I'd rather he be consistent. Say you agree or disagree with his past statements re the religious right, ok fine you know where he stands. Shouldn't be hard at all for ObamaHill to make mincemeat of this at this point. There is a reason why I have "parliament of 'hos" in my blog subtitle,
ReplyDeletehe's 'ho-ing Beth and big-time, he may as well put on the fishnet stockings and the cone bra.
& we shouldn't have to have liberal Bill Moyers tell us about all this, somebody in his own camp should have took him aside and said you're becoming more transparent than Rudy (and that's hard to do).
ReplyDeleteOh the imagery you conjure up, this is why I love your blog!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised NY Post political cartoonist Sean DeLonas hasn't done this yet but he's a 'ho in my book Beth.
ReplyDeleteThen again, you'd have the 'hos all angry to be compared with politicians and the media, lol.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, it would desecrate their profession.
ReplyDeleteYou know when you stop to think about it, at least imo, the case is stronger for decriminalizing prostitution than it was for abortion, in this case we are really talking about a woman's decision on how to use her own body. I don't endorse it, it is a scourge but if sex involves a monetary transaction I don't really see how this is the business of the law unless it blights neighborhoods and stuff like that. Abortion legal for over 30 years now and prostitution still a cause for a major scandal if you're a bigshot like Eliot Spitzer...just my .02.
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point here really, at least with prostitution you have two consenting adults, whereas abortion you have one adult making all the decisions and the unborn child getting no say in the matter. And prostitution isn't killing anyone, while abortion does. Overall it would seem that our priorities are misplaced when you compare the two.
ReplyDeleteOnce you legalize prostitution and tax the hell out of it it'll disappear overnight, imagine hookers asking the madame "but I didn't get my W-2 form yet."
ReplyDeleteWatch out, they want to legalize drugs so they can tax them too.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if abortions are taxed?
Good point about the abortions although all too often it's the taxpayers who foot the bill. I'm still strongly against drug legalization however. We've plowed this ground before but as bad as alcohol can be there's a reason why that's still legal but not drugs. It's not just pot the legalizers advocate for, it's everything else too, now that's really scary. On the other hand a guy who just saw a 'ho ain't gonna be seeing pink elephants flying through the sky. You gotta minutely analyze and dissect each issue as it comes and this is my main problem with pure libertarianism, they kinda say everything's ok or at least should be legal when that ain't a rational approach.
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