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From ChristianToday, a note on the release of the Poverty and Justice Bible (from the American Bible Society)
The headline, oddly, is "Americans more likely to credit Obama for verse on justice than Bible," which suggests a kind of conservative-Christian disdain for the supposed popular tendency to lionize Obama as a populist champion. The piece highlights a Harris Interactive survey that presented respondents with the quotation, "You must defend those who are helpless and have no hope. Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless," and asked its source. The answers given were Obama (16%), the Bible (13%), the Dalai Lama (9%), MLK (8%), Oprah (4%) and Bono (3%). (It's Proverbs 31.8f.) I have to wonder about methodology. I assume this was a multiple choice question, and without a list of choices I'm sure 95% of respondents would have answered "I don't know." The choices listed by the article only add up to 53%. Anyhow, it's interesting.
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CaféPress merchandise emblazoned with "Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8"
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Zazzle merchandise emblazoned with "Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8"
Here's the Psalm that the inscription refers to: "May his days be few; may another seize his position. May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow." (Ps. 109.8f., NRSV).
Anglican Mainstream » Blog Archive » “Simply Unprecedented” — President Obama and the Gay Rights Movement
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Add Sticky NoteYou will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.
- Notice that he did NOT say that he would press for legal recognition of same-sex marriage. He seemed to be pretty careful about that. - on 2009-10-12
Working Class Zero - Timothy Egan Blog - NYTimes.com
From the article: "For average Americans, the last 10 years were a lost decade. At the end of President George W. Bush’s eight years in office, American households had less money and less economic security, and fewer of them were covered by health care than 10 years earlier, the Census Bureau reported in its annual survey.... [T]he decline started before the collapse in the housing and financial sectors — and it was calculated, in the eyes of some. Harvard economist Lawrence Katz called it “a plutocratic boom.” If anything comes close to defining the era, that would be my nomination. President Bush cut $1.3 trillion in taxes — and the biggest beneficiaries by far were the top 1 percent of earners. At the same time, Wall Street was inflated by the helium of a regulation-free economy that eventually gave us Bernie Madoff and banks begging for bailouts."
Frank Schaeffer: The GOP's Evangelical Subculture is a Fifth Column of Insanity | Video Cafe
On the poll finding that about a third of New Jerseyites who identify themselves as "conservative" also said either "yes" or "not sure" to the question, "Do you believe Barack Obama is the Anti-christ?"
Maureen Dowd, "Boy, Oh, Boy" (op-ed on Obama and race), NYTimes.com (Sept. 13, 2009)
Jim Clyburn, a Democratic House member from South Carolina, talking about the attacks on Obama: "A lot of these outbursts have to do with delegitimizing him as a president... In South Carolina politics, I learned that the olive branch works very seldom... You have to come at these things from a position of strength. My father used to say, 'Son, always remember that silence gives consent.'"
Rick Perlstein -- Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage - washingtonpost.com
Cf. David Brion Davis and the "paranoid style" in U.S. political culture. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?fsq7a
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