Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative

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A Wisconsin conservative Christian writes about, well, whatever I feel like

Quick Hits

Emptying out my drafts folder:

Top 9 Good Habits For A Deep Recession – These are good habits when there’s no recession.

From the Pew Research Center, The Religious Makeup of Congress – a nice graphical representation of the religious beliefs of the Congress compared with the American public as a whole.

By the director of new media in Obama’s Minnesota campaign, Developing a New Media Strategy for Campaigns Large and Small. This, of course, would not contradict experienced hands as Wigderson and Fraley who tell me, depending on the campaign, that a candidate needs to go door-to-door, but would be in addition to that.

How Can Facebook Crack its Advertising Problem? One problem with Facebook–it appeals to older folks like me who aren’t enticed to click the ads.

Cory Leibman has resurrected Eye on Wisconsin. Cory is a “progressive,” but he’s also a thinker and I like to read thoughtful folks like myself. :)

Massachusetts has a new marijuana law.

It sounds simple, but David Capeless, president of the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association, said the new policy presented a thicket of questions and complications.

There, now I feel better.

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Linking to lefties for a change

Because, well, I agreed with them.

Fighting Bob – GarveyBlog (via The Provincial Emails)

Bud–get out of Vegas; hire some people who like fans; jump into the 20th century.

Keith R. Schmitz at folkbum’s rambles and rants

In these days of longer commutes and simmering tempers, nothing seems to set off already-testy motorists like the left-lane camper — the guy or gal who drives in the passing lane and bars faster drivers from easily passing.

CAFFEINATED POLITICS – This guy is hard on conservatives, but he has a bunch of posts on
Blagojevich, including one with the front pages of many newspapers!

Snopes.com can’t determine if this is true or not, but Tim at The Other Side of My Mouth posts a darn funny story that I’ve seen before.

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FactChecking Debate No. 1

The good and the bad from the first debate at FactCheck.org.

McCain and Obama contradicted each other repeatedly during their first debate, and each volunteered some factual misstatements as well.

More at the link.

This campaign (like the last few) seems to be summed up in this cartoon:

The Left, the Right and the Truth

Filed under: 2008, Elections, Political cartoons, conservative, liberal, presidential , , , , , ,

Verse of the day

Matthew 15:32,

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”

From my favorite progressive evangelicals, Sojourners.

They forgot to add the rest of the verse,

“So Jesus called on the government to increase aid to the poor and to tax the rich so that the programs for the poor could be funded.”

Right?

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Still classy there on the left

And this load of crap (pardon the language) is promoted by a Wisconsin blog whose banner states,

Religion Politics Culture: “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.” -Jonathan Swift

Thanks for showing the love. I guess progressive religion is not better than the Religious Right.

More commentary at Althouse.

And yet more.

Keep it coming, folks. You’ll give the election to the Republicans yet and won’t know why you lost.

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John Edwards

First off, I am back, finally. Wireless was not as easy to get nor did I have the time I thought I would have to blog all summer. But regular scheduling should resume.

Now to the topic at hand. No doubt my conservative friends will beat up John Edwards over his affair. He deserves it. As he himself says,

If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare it can’t be any worse than he beat up himself.

Is he a hypocrite? Yes. But I believe we all are in some way. The magnitude comes from the public visibility of the hypocrite. I believe John Edwards is still dedicated to what he has professed, just as I believe those conservatives the Left has delighted in beating up are still dedicated to what they believe.

As most politicians (you would think they would learn after a while), he tried to stonewall and deny. It’s natural, but most folks don’t like it a public figure does so.

John Edwards will probably never run for president again. He won’t be Attorney General, nor head a special commission. That’s the penalty for, from all appearances, a slip-up. It’s not the first time it’s happened; it won’t be the last.

Questions still remain about the father of the lady’s baby and money paid to her. I would hope that Edwards finally came clean in his ABC interview. Time will tell.

Finally, I would hope my left leaning friends will show the same compassion toward a right leaning figure who has an affair revealed, as they have rightly shown to John Edwards and his family.

Mankind doesn’t always get it right. May we be more understanding of those who try to make a change (even if we don’t agree with them), especially when they fall.

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