Enough of the Pastor Stuff on Both Sides...

I've had enough of the "death by association" pastor stuff. McCain obviously doesn't agree with Hagee on everything and Hagee doesn't agree with McCain on everything. I pronounce anyone "dumber than a door knob" who thinks that the gyrations of an obscure pastor hammin' it up for a crowd that wants to see him perform must obviously be exactly what Senator Obama thinks.

This is the height of illogic, it's not even worthy to be called the ad hominem fallacy because it's attacking Obama through the back door. I guess you would call it the circumstantial fallacy, attacking the circumstances of the person to smear the person's ideas? Let's come up with a new name, "Smearing someone by finding anything even loosely associated with them that we don't like" fallacy.

I once had liver. You don't like liver. Ah, logically, then, you must not like me.

Come on--are we really this stupid in America??? Obama wasn't there. Obama didn't say these things. How many people agree with everything their pastor says? How many people go to church because of the preaching?

Good grief. If the American people and the media (especially FOX news) are this stupid and unable to reason like homo sapiens, then there's no hope for our future. We're no better thinkers than your garden variety slug.

We will no doubt be taken over in the next 100 years by some other nation smarter than we are.

McClellan on the Today Show

David Gregory on McClellan's book.

McClellan vindicates everything I've said since 2004

For all who beat their chests at me when I started my other blog in 2004 and argued that Bush needed to be fired as CEO of the country then, for all the illogicians who defended the Bush administration and FOX News while I could see it all as the mounting evidence and voices overwhelmingly have shown it really was, to all those at whom history is already wagging its head, I submit Scott McClellan, along with Colin Powell and so many others.

It's no use. You've not learned anything. Religion and politics rarely have anything to do with rationality or truth.

Hillary Clinton's Demographic

The Saturday Night Live skit this past weekend seemed so true it almost wasn't funny.



In it, Amy Poehler gave three reasons why Hillary should be the Democratic nominee:

1. I am a sore loser.
2. My supporters are racist.
3. I have no ethical standards.

I don't think the first one will be true, and the third I think mainly applies to her election. But...

You have to wonder about a candidate who thinks she should be the candidate because most of her support comes from uneducated whites (54% I think of her supporters in West Virginia don't have a college degree) with a racist bent. My reaction at her demographic is rather to pray for greater education in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

Is it a coincidence that many of these are also some of the states with the worst performing school systems in the nation?

And so Hillary says, vote for me because I'm electable and Obama isn't. Isn't this tantamount to saying America is more likely to vote for her because most Americans are uneducated and prejudiced?

Perhaps Obama is not the perfect candidate--but there's something wrong when American turns ignorance and racists into electable virtues. Yeah, that's the candidate for me.