Chicago Daily Observer

It will have been said of us one day that we elected the president we richly deserve. The reason Barack Obama won was that his followers resent absolutes…hierarchical and authoritative. That goes particularly for authoritative religion which the Enlightened-mostly the media—despise. This is a secular state. The other day when Justice Scalia spoke and invoked God the media looked at themselves questioningly. Violation of church and state? Only the primitives go to authoritative churches like the benighted evangelicals or the one in four Catholics who attend weekly mass.

Oh, you CAN go to church (actually it’s good to hear about love-love-love and civil rights, as per the Rotary Club). But what the majority of Americans now hate…with a fury…is definite moral strictures on things. That smacks of primitive superstition. Where once this country was founded on bedrock Christianity with few exceptions…from the pilgrims to the abolitionist moralists… (Jefferson being ... Read More...

Here’s the best part about the Sarah Palin VP pick, and one fundamental difference between the Republicans and the Democrats: In presenting Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential pick, John McCain never referred to her as being a woman.

Oh, he used the pronoun “she.” But in no way he reference her gender as in any way giving her some sort of special right to our votes. Compare this with many Obama backers who have made the case that we do not elect Obama we are by definition a racist country, and the world will rightly paint us as such.
Is there any possibility the Democrats would have put a woman on the ticket without presenting her as “I am woman, hear me roar?” Not a chance.

As a woman, I couldn’t care less whether the President of the United States, or the folks serving in Washington are men ... Read More...

Things change.

Since I last discussed vice presidential prospects for Sen. Barack Obama, of the three most significant candidates, two pulled themselves out of contention and one may have disqualified himself for telling too much truth too soon.

I thought Ohio Governor Ted Strickland was just about a perfect choice: 66, a Christian minister with 12 years of congressional experience and immensely popular in his crucial home state. He gave a Shermanesque “will not serve” statement weeks ago.

Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia was almost as close to perfection: tough, widespread military and administrative experience, popular in another crucial state but with some temperament issues—also said he wasn’t interested, rather definitively.

Gen. Wesley Clark is still available, but stirred up a premature hornets nest on the right by noting that McCain’s prisoner-of-war experience alone did not exactly qualify him for the presidency. A truthful blasphemy, but the last thing Obama ... Read More...