Spare me the left's non-stop complaining about how conservatives have hijacked Christianity (most recently from Obama) and how we need a separation of church and state now more than ever, since conservatives are trying to establish a theocracy. Forgive me when I laugh about this as Obama pontificates on the issue in, of all places, a church. That's right. And not just any church, but the United Church of Christ, which counts in its membership Pastor Lynn, head of the organization, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. This is a man that has epileptic fits if a conservative even says the word "politics" within 10 feet of a church. And yet he was silent when Obama was campaigning in his church. Oddly enough, though, the webcast of the event went mysteriously dead just as Obama approached the stage.
And don't get me started on Jimmy Carter's latest analysis of United States foreign policy. That this man was ever elected to the highest office in the world is beyond me. The reason du jour for the problems in the Middle East, at least in his mind, is that we refused to recognize a terrrorist organization voted into office in Gaza and the West Bank. This same organization who refuses to recognize the existence of Israel, who refuses to back down from its policy of annihilating Israel, who promotes children's programming training its young that to die in the process of blowing up innocent Jewish women and children is the purest form of love for Allah. And why should we have recognized Hamas? Well, they are so well organized, and they did win that election, which he personally vouches for (also see his praise for Hugo Chavez' commitment to democracy). What is his evidence for their good organization? Well, didn't they knock off Fatah pretty quickly in Gaza? By Carter's logic, the Nazi party should have been recognized for its genius based on the orderly manner by which the SS and SD very efficiently took care of their "political" opposition. All things considered, Reagan's landslide defeat of Carter does not look quite as impressive any more. The real question is, how did Carter win any electoral votes at all?