Thursday, December 04, 2008
"Oh Obama – convert to Islam, and you will be saved."
In a sermon broadcast on Egyptian television, Muslim cleric Hassan Abu Al-Ashbal had some things to say to one President-elect B. Hussein Obama:
My message to him is three-fold. First, I invite him to convert to Islam. This is the call of the Prophet and of Allah. Oh Obama – convert to Islam, and you will be saved. I hope that Allah will reward you twice: Once for converting to Islam, and another reward for all those who will convert in your footsteps. If you want glory – you will find it in Islam. If you want honor – you will find it in Islam. In religions other than Islam there is utter humiliation, even if you are the president of the entire world.
It's funny that a pissant "cleric" in Egypt thinks its his place to tell the next President of the United States what to do. What ain't so funny is this:
If Obama took to the airwaves tomorrow and announced that he was converting to Islam, there'd be a great many lemmings, er, Americans who would "convert in his footsteps." Hell, Oprah Winfrey would probably lead the way.
You can see a video of Hassan Abu Al-Ashbal's sermon here.
My message to him is three-fold. First, I invite him to convert to Islam. This is the call of the Prophet and of Allah. Oh Obama – convert to Islam, and you will be saved. I hope that Allah will reward you twice: Once for converting to Islam, and another reward for all those who will convert in your footsteps. If you want glory – you will find it in Islam. If you want honor – you will find it in Islam. In religions other than Islam there is utter humiliation, even if you are the president of the entire world.
It's funny that a pissant "cleric" in Egypt thinks its his place to tell the next President of the United States what to do. What ain't so funny is this:
If Obama took to the airwaves tomorrow and announced that he was converting to Islam, there'd be a great many lemmings, er, Americans who would "convert in his footsteps." Hell, Oprah Winfrey would probably lead the way.
You can see a video of Hassan Abu Al-Ashbal's sermon here.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, December 04, 2008 
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Convincing Obama to "convert" to Islam should not be that difficult. If you read his two over overwrought and overrated bios you will see that his feet are not stuck firmly in the mud of any religion. He joined Trinity United mostly because it is a black church (which a South Side politician mucst join to go places.) Since he has not any firm grounding in Christianity or any desire to mission, joining a United Church of Christ church that is more interested in lobbying for spending more dough on "social justice" than saving souls and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ was right up his alley political.
Obama is trying to portray himself as the next Lincoln. Lincoln was a skeptic of Christianity who used Scripture when it suited him. Obama does the same. Obama has been to the gym each Sunday morning since he got elected. That should tell you something. At least Bill Clinton was smart enough to grab his big Bible and go into a church on Sundays. Even if he did not hear anything said in the church at least he was there. That was enough for him to placate the rubes in North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, and Florida. Obama won those states. How long will it take for him to learn that the voters in those states do not really like agnostics who attend church for pur political reasons
Obama is trying to portray himself as the next Lincoln. Lincoln was a skeptic of Christianity who used Scripture when it suited him. Obama does the same. Obama has been to the gym each Sunday morning since he got elected. That should tell you something. At least Bill Clinton was smart enough to grab his big Bible and go into a church on Sundays. Even if he did not hear anything said in the church at least he was there. That was enough for him to placate the rubes in North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, and Florida. Obama won those states. How long will it take for him to learn that the voters in those states do not really like agnostics who attend church for pur political reasons
# posted by 
: 04 December, 2008 21:07
: 04 December, 2008 21:07
"Watching the Republican Party implosion and subsequent bloody flailing has become my favorite spectator sport. "Wow, the Republican Party is really, really horribly mangled," then, "Cool! Palin's making an ass of herself on TV again!"
Why the excitement? Well, it appears as if she's being christened as the de facto leader of the Republican Party. Wednesday, for example, instead of attributing his victory to the well-known Republican majority in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss credited his expected victory to Sarah Palin's stump speeches:
"...when she walks in a room, folks just explode."
Explode? Smart choice of words, Senator. Sarah Palin makes Republicans explode. Perfect.
If Palin, in fact, becomes the leader of the Republican Party, exploding is precisely what will happen -- and not in the weirdly excited-slash-sexual way Chambliss seemed to imply. Specifically, Sarah Palin is a walking, talking psychobomb, and elevating her to anything beyond a near-term novelty will be disastrous -- in a word, "explosive" -- for the Republican Party.
And it'll be almost too much fun to watch.
As of right now, we have several contenders for this post. There's "Sister Sarah" (a nickname I don't quite understand). There's the twice divorced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. There's Bobby Jindal, the far-right governor of Louisiana. And Tuesday, we learned that Jeb Bush might be running for Senate and thus throwing his gigantic hat into the fight for the future of the party.
How screwed are the Republicans right now? Put it this way: the sanest contender in the above list is named "Bush." Yes, Bush: a name that proved to be even less popular this year than the name "Hussein." Yet there he is front and center.
Now, it's important to clarify the schadenfreude and why the aforementioned Republican contenders are so much fun, and, more importantly, why many fellow liberals are rooting for them to keep talking.
Simply put, Palin and the others, will serve to more or less confine the Republican Party to the deep South where there are enough white fundamentalist hoopleheads to provide the GOP with a respectable electoral showing, but not enough support to seriously compete nationally. In other words, the Republicans are inexplicably pushing names that will do much more harm than good. And that's just fine and dandy.
For instance, apart from her unserious pageant walking and clueless turkey geeking, it's practically impossible for Sarah Palin, with her far-right ideology and divisive politics, to expand a Republican electorate that's already suffering from, well, shrinkage. Her appeal is so laser-focused on a rabidly fanboy-ish chunk of the GOP base that many more Americans who would otherwise vote Republican will surely continue to snap to other options. Meanwhile, the Palin base -- the fanboys who are "exploding" over Sarah Palin -- are a mélange of Bush dead-enders, disgruntled former Bush loyalists who haven't yet realized that the only difference between Palin and Bush is, well, lipstick, and, of course, way too many disturbingly pervy older men. Outside of this narrow demographic, everyone else thinks she's more or less an earnest yet embarrassing joke.
Anecdotally speaking, while working the polls on Election Day, I overheard more than one relatively uninformed, uneducated Republican -- I mean, guys who probably think "peeance freeance" is an actual foreign policy term -- turn to their buddy and say (paraphrasing), "Palin's kind of an idiot. And she probably don't know what peeance freeance means neither."
The only possibilities for the resuscitation of the Republican Party are either, 1) a failed Obama presidency or, 2) an as-of-yet unannounced transformative and inspirational Republican figure.
There's nothing to really indicate the former, but there's always the freak possibility that a random cascade of uncontrollable events could swing the White House into turmoil. It happened to President Carter.
As for the latter, I really can't think of a Republican answer to Barack Obama. Once again, however, the Republicans are betting on either Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal to be the knock-off Bizarro Obama. Palin aside, the notion that Jindal is the "Republican Obama" amplifies how truly ridiculous and desperate the Republicans are.
They're making a huge mistake in assuming that just because Jindal is young and of unusual ethnic origins that he's the equivalent of Barack Obama -- in the same way they mistakenly calculated that Sarah Palin would attract female voters just because she's a woman, even though she possessed none of the positive qualities of Senator Clinton. It's totally shallow and vaguely racist. A party which has so often dealt in identity politics and racial divisiveness to suddenly go, "Hey, look over here! We have an ethnic, too!" seems weird and awful to me.
Additionally, Jindal's religious extremism won't manufacture any new Republican voters from the middle -- he's anti-choice without exceptions, he supports teaching creationism as a science in public schools and, yes, he once performed an exorcism on a friend who he believed was possessed by a demon. Yeah, if there's one thing the Republican Party needs more of, it's religious zealotry.
So we have an exorcist, a Bush, a turkey geeker who makes people explode, and Newt, who, by the way, wrote a book imagining if the South had won the Civil War. If these cable reality show misfits represent the future of the Republican Party, it's going to be a seriously entertaining four years."
--from the Huffpo
Why the excitement? Well, it appears as if she's being christened as the de facto leader of the Republican Party. Wednesday, for example, instead of attributing his victory to the well-known Republican majority in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss credited his expected victory to Sarah Palin's stump speeches:
"...when she walks in a room, folks just explode."
Explode? Smart choice of words, Senator. Sarah Palin makes Republicans explode. Perfect.
If Palin, in fact, becomes the leader of the Republican Party, exploding is precisely what will happen -- and not in the weirdly excited-slash-sexual way Chambliss seemed to imply. Specifically, Sarah Palin is a walking, talking psychobomb, and elevating her to anything beyond a near-term novelty will be disastrous -- in a word, "explosive" -- for the Republican Party.
And it'll be almost too much fun to watch.
As of right now, we have several contenders for this post. There's "Sister Sarah" (a nickname I don't quite understand). There's the twice divorced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. There's Bobby Jindal, the far-right governor of Louisiana. And Tuesday, we learned that Jeb Bush might be running for Senate and thus throwing his gigantic hat into the fight for the future of the party.
How screwed are the Republicans right now? Put it this way: the sanest contender in the above list is named "Bush." Yes, Bush: a name that proved to be even less popular this year than the name "Hussein." Yet there he is front and center.
Now, it's important to clarify the schadenfreude and why the aforementioned Republican contenders are so much fun, and, more importantly, why many fellow liberals are rooting for them to keep talking.
Simply put, Palin and the others, will serve to more or less confine the Republican Party to the deep South where there are enough white fundamentalist hoopleheads to provide the GOP with a respectable electoral showing, but not enough support to seriously compete nationally. In other words, the Republicans are inexplicably pushing names that will do much more harm than good. And that's just fine and dandy.
For instance, apart from her unserious pageant walking and clueless turkey geeking, it's practically impossible for Sarah Palin, with her far-right ideology and divisive politics, to expand a Republican electorate that's already suffering from, well, shrinkage. Her appeal is so laser-focused on a rabidly fanboy-ish chunk of the GOP base that many more Americans who would otherwise vote Republican will surely continue to snap to other options. Meanwhile, the Palin base -- the fanboys who are "exploding" over Sarah Palin -- are a mélange of Bush dead-enders, disgruntled former Bush loyalists who haven't yet realized that the only difference between Palin and Bush is, well, lipstick, and, of course, way too many disturbingly pervy older men. Outside of this narrow demographic, everyone else thinks she's more or less an earnest yet embarrassing joke.
Anecdotally speaking, while working the polls on Election Day, I overheard more than one relatively uninformed, uneducated Republican -- I mean, guys who probably think "peeance freeance" is an actual foreign policy term -- turn to their buddy and say (paraphrasing), "Palin's kind of an idiot. And she probably don't know what peeance freeance means neither."
The only possibilities for the resuscitation of the Republican Party are either, 1) a failed Obama presidency or, 2) an as-of-yet unannounced transformative and inspirational Republican figure.
There's nothing to really indicate the former, but there's always the freak possibility that a random cascade of uncontrollable events could swing the White House into turmoil. It happened to President Carter.
As for the latter, I really can't think of a Republican answer to Barack Obama. Once again, however, the Republicans are betting on either Sarah Palin or Bobby Jindal to be the knock-off Bizarro Obama. Palin aside, the notion that Jindal is the "Republican Obama" amplifies how truly ridiculous and desperate the Republicans are.
They're making a huge mistake in assuming that just because Jindal is young and of unusual ethnic origins that he's the equivalent of Barack Obama -- in the same way they mistakenly calculated that Sarah Palin would attract female voters just because she's a woman, even though she possessed none of the positive qualities of Senator Clinton. It's totally shallow and vaguely racist. A party which has so often dealt in identity politics and racial divisiveness to suddenly go, "Hey, look over here! We have an ethnic, too!" seems weird and awful to me.
Additionally, Jindal's religious extremism won't manufacture any new Republican voters from the middle -- he's anti-choice without exceptions, he supports teaching creationism as a science in public schools and, yes, he once performed an exorcism on a friend who he believed was possessed by a demon. Yeah, if there's one thing the Republican Party needs more of, it's religious zealotry.
So we have an exorcist, a Bush, a turkey geeker who makes people explode, and Newt, who, by the way, wrote a book imagining if the South had won the Civil War. If these cable reality show misfits represent the future of the Republican Party, it's going to be a seriously entertaining four years."
--from the Huffpo
# posted by : 05 December, 2008 16:48
: 05 December, 2008 16:48
Way to copy and paste stuff from Huffpo. Curl up on your couch and take a break ... you must be exhausted!
[W]hile working the polls on Election Day, I overheard more than one relatively uninformed, uneducated Republican -- I mean, guys who probably think "peeance freeance" is an actual foreign policy term -- turn to their buddy and say (paraphrasing), "Palin's kind of an idiot. And she probably don't know what peeance freeance means neither."
I know you think you're pretty smart ("I'm a DailyKos Kid, dammit!); but I would put the sum total of my savings account up against a dollar from your wallet - if you actually have a dollar in your wallet - that Sarah Palin would dust your dumb ass in a debate that featured questions 'bout municipal bonds, the Alaska Permanent Fund, or ethics reform in the Alaska State Legislature.
That ain't no shit, neither (apologies to Gunnery Sergeant Hartman).
[W]hile working the polls on Election Day, I overheard more than one relatively uninformed, uneducated Republican -- I mean, guys who probably think "peeance freeance" is an actual foreign policy term -- turn to their buddy and say (paraphrasing), "Palin's kind of an idiot. And she probably don't know what peeance freeance means neither."
I know you think you're pretty smart ("I'm a DailyKos Kid, dammit!); but I would put the sum total of my savings account up against a dollar from your wallet - if you actually have a dollar in your wallet - that Sarah Palin would dust your dumb ass in a debate that featured questions 'bout municipal bonds, the Alaska Permanent Fund, or ethics reform in the Alaska State Legislature.
That ain't no shit, neither (apologies to Gunnery Sergeant Hartman).
Here's a hint, GOP: stop pandering to christianists. They are going to vote for you NO MATTER WHAT. You have their vote. Done. No matter what you say, no matter what you do, they will vote for you. If the answer is less than ten words, it doesn't count.
Instead, appeal to social conservatives. Convince them why, for example, gay marriage and marijuana use should be illegal. Give specific, real world, practical and financial reasons... not "It would make Jesus angry".
Hardcore Christianists vote Republican. Always have. Always will. They ALL voted GOP in 2004... and you won. They ALL voted GOP in 2008... and you lost. BY A LANDSLIDE.
Figure it out.
Instead, appeal to social conservatives. Convince them why, for example, gay marriage and marijuana use should be illegal. Give specific, real world, practical and financial reasons... not "It would make Jesus angry".
Hardcore Christianists vote Republican. Always have. Always will. They ALL voted GOP in 2004... and you won. They ALL voted GOP in 2008... and you lost. BY A LANDSLIDE.
Figure it out.
# posted by : 06 December, 2008 06:05
: 06 December, 2008 06:05
Brevity is the soul of wit, folks. No one in their right mind is gonna read a rant as long as the name of a Welsh town nobody knows how to pronounce. By the time the conductor calls it off, the train's already in Scotland. And we along with it. Just sayin'.
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