Clergy for Obama

We are Clergy for Obama.

We believe in Barack Obama’s ability to change this country we love so dearly; more importantly, we believe in our ability to be the change.

We believe in our ability to create a country where:

     all children have nourishing food

     the sick can find affordable healthcare

     our young adults have real opportunities and a future they can trust

     the elderly live securely and in community

     women and men have choices about their private lives

     armed conflict is a last resort, not a substitute for diplomacy

Together we believe in our ability to move this country

     to a politics of hope

     to a deep regard for the life of the planet and care for all creation

     to an investment in programs that work to end poverty

     to equal pay for equal work

We are children of God.

We are citizens of the United States of America.

We believe now is the time for change.

We are Clergy for Obama

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This is Why They Prefer to Scream About Lipstick

Quote of the Day

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

Bruce Grocott
British politician (1940 - )

The Day Before the Election on Broadway

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This Was "Cutting-Edge" at One Time...

In the Seventh Year

Roger Cohen of the New York Times in the style of an Old Testament prophet. Here's an excerpt. Do not miss the entire article. (Emphasis is mine.)

And in the seventh year after the fall, the dust and debris of the towers cleared. And it became plain at last what had been wrought.

For the wreckage begat greed; and it came to pass that while America’s young men and women fought, other Americans enriched themselves. Beguiling the innocent, they did backdate options, and they did package toxic mortgage securities and they did reprice risk on the basis that it no more existed than famine in a fertile land.

Thereby did the masters of the universe prosper, with gold, with silver shekels, with land rich in cattle and fowl, with illegal manservants and maids, with jewels and silk, and with Gulfstream V business jets; yet the whole land did not prosper with them. And it came to pass, when the housing bubble burst, that Main Street had to pay for the Wall Street party.

For Bush ruled over the whole nation and so sure was he of his righteousness that he did neglect husbandry.

And he took his nation into desert wars and mountain wars, but, lo, he thought not to impose taxation, not one heifer nor sheep nor ox did Bush demand of the rich. And it came to pass that the nation fell into debt as boundless as the wickedness of Sodom. For everyone, Lehman not least, was maxed out.

So heavy was the burden of war, and of bailing out Fannie and Freddie, and of financing debt with China, that not one silver shekel remained to build bridges, nor airports, nor high-speed trains, nor even to take care of wounded vets; and the warriors returning unto their homes from distant combat thought a blight had fallen on the land.

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Electing McCain President Will Not Win the Vietnam War

Man of War

Andrew Sullivan points to Jeffrey Goldberg's new article in The Atlantic on John McCain.

Money quotes that make me quake:
Senator Obama, though certainly no pacifist, envisions a world of cooperation and diplomacy; McCain sees a world of organic conflict and zero-sum competition.

I once asked Lindsey Graham to name something unusual about McCain in the context of the debate about Iraq; he said that McCain believes, among other things, that “some political problems have military solutions.” A related McCain belief that’s even more out of sync with America’s current mood: wars are quagmires only until someone figures out a way to win them.

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