A confident Barack Obama raised an extraordinary $7.8 million Sunday at three California fundraisers, most of it in large checks to a Democratic Party committee.
“I will win. Don’t worry about that,” he said to the crowd of about 1,300 at his third event of the evening, according to the pool report.
He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time.”
Back in the day we progressives, liberals and Democrats used to vote against people who pulled this kind of crap. Those days are apparently over.
I never thought I’d ever be in a position where I’d actually hate the Democratic nominee for president, but here I am. I actively dislike Obama and want him to lose. It’s kind of strange. I’m used to hating Republicans and cheering for their loss.
I know, I know. A loss for the Democrats in November will cause hellfire to rain down on America. I don’t care. Maybe America needs some hellfire falling on it’s ass to snap it the hell out of this sickening obsession with religiosity on both sides of the political aisle.
{ 5 comments }
I’m not too enthused with Obama either, but in all fairness he isn’t the one who started talking about god, it was Pelosi. You know, the same Pelosi who refuses to try to impeach anyone, and seems to come down on the wrong side of every issue, not just the few that Obama does.
I hope Cindy Sheehan is successful in her bid to win Pelosi’s seat as an Independent. I’m only saddened that I don’t live in that district, so I can’t vote for her.
I’m with you all the way on this one, KC. If Obama loses, the Democrats may, in future, drop their failed strategy of pandering to the religious. If Obama wins, both parties will step up their efforts to get the goddies’ votes. And we can all kiss the First Amendment goodbye.
Now, that doesn’t mean I support McCain. I’d never vote for that thuggish asshole. Instead, I’ll be hunting for an acceptable third party candidate on whom to hang my “protest” vote. Or I may go ahead and write in The Exterminator/Chaplain ticket.
I will never support anyone who threatens the Separation of Church and State. To me, that’s our most important issue right now.
@The Exterminator:
That’s a nice idea, but it’s more likely that, if they lose, the Democrats will conclude that they lost because they didn’t suck up to the right wing sufficiently, and go the Hillary Clinton “Triangulate Away Your Base’s Core Values” route instead.
There’s really no way to guarantee that it won’t happen. Or rather, there is a way, but it’s unlikely: get atheists and agnostics to demonstrate in very public fashion that we exist in large numbers and are very likely to vote. Until we are self-evidently a winning constituency, no politician will care.
So you hope Obama loses because Pelosi is a dumbass? I’m not sure I follow.
vjack:
For a guy like you, who’s always yelling and screaming about how atheists should be a community, to make a stupid comment like the one above is unforgivable. Pelosi represents a huge general trend in Democratic thinking; it’s not just her. We can either shrug our shoulders and keep deluding ourselves into thinking that the Democrats are somehow going to magically revert to champions of Separation when and if they’re elected, or we can take them at their disgusting word. Me, I’m not into faith-based thinking, so I take them at their word. Expect to see more faith-based initiatives in the future, more deferring to religious advisers on both foreign and domestic policy, more banging the drum to overturn Roe v. Wade, more anti-gay political activism, and more diatribes about how atheists have no place in American politics. God will stay on our money and in our pledge. Vouchers will empower the religious nuts to send their children to sectarian schools.
Nope, I take them at their word. And my word(s) in response: Fuck you, Democrats.
Comments on this entry are closed.