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A nation of anxious god-botherers can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Foreign Muslim President has officially chosen a House of Worship where he will use his "secret brain voice" to talk to Annoying Sky Busybody:
For the past five months, White House aides and friends of the Obamas have been quietly visiting local churches and vetting the sermons of prospective first ministers in a search for a new — and uncontroversial — church home. Obama has even sampled a few himself, attending services at 19th Street Baptist on the weekend before his inauguration and celebrating Easter at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Now, in an unexpected move, Obama has told White House aides that instead of joining a congregation in Washington, D.C., he will follow in George W. Bush’s footsteps and make his primary place of worship Evergreen Chapel, the nondenominational church at Camp David.
This is obviously some kind of scam (unlike, say, "religion") claims Newsbuster’s otherwise unemployable Tim Graham:
Obama clearly figured it would be hard for Republicans to attack him for making the same spiritual choice as President Bush. Republicans haven’t made a big deal out of their presidents holding a church membership, although Democrats would snap a bit at Ronald Reagan not going out to church when the Moral Majority was in vogue.
The difference here is the same one the Amy Sullivans have always tried to obscure, regardless of the noxious Wright association: evangelicals and conservative Catholics can easily see that Obama’s social liberalism on sexual issues, everything from abortion to transgender rights, is dramatically at odds with traditional religious values.
So, obviously, Obama is taking advantage of Matthew 6:6 so that he can pray in private to his Muslim Mudgod for the destruction of America. Also for the Redskins to go at least 8-8.
I know. People of faith are soooo adorable…
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Tim Graham – Robin to Doughy Pantload’s Batman. Although I hope I never see either in tights.
OMG! Obama is JUST LIKE BUSH!1!!11!
Gosh, I’m so glad we fought a Revolution to free ourselves from the undemocratic practice of religiously vetting our leaders.
So, my “news” choices for the day: a) michael jackson’s family and their buddy, al sharpton, fighting for custody over his trophy children, or b) my closet-muslim-even-though-he-says-he’s-otherwise president’s choice of cult shrine and the greater implications for america’s tense relationship with the great unicorn in the sky?
As a Pastafarian who really couldn’t give a shit about the whole jackson clan, maybe I should just be content to sit here and watch the rain fall over vermont while sampling some exceptionally fine single malt…
Camp David shares a property line with a … Jewish summer camp for boys! Established in 1924, the camp has kept its Jewishness on its side of the line, and Camp David has kept its Xtianity on its side of the line. Genius!
I think it would have been great if Obama joined a mosque. Then, after the conservatives got the vapors, he’d come out and say, “Just kidding!”
Hell, since it seems he can’t do anything right anyway, he ought to at least have fun with the wingnuts.
Thank you for linking to the King James version.
I sent one of your links to a “religious” friend once without noticing that it linked to the Revised King James version and I will never hear the end of the bitching about how “That’s not what King James said!”
Hmm, I didn’t know Clapton listened to Slayer.
I’m with kama. Since Obama will get shit no matter what he does, he might as well have some fun with the nutters. IsloJewFasciSociAtheist.
“If only Bender had chosen a mainstream religion…like Oprahism, or Voodoo.”
the camp has kept its Jewishness on its side of the line, and Camp David has kept its Xtianity on its side of the line
Ha! Fooled ya! Camp David is actually a secret Jewish enclave which is why it is next to a Jewish camp. I mean, who do you suppose this “David” is that they named it after, except the King of All Israel. And don’t give me any of this crap that Eisenhower named it after his son David.
They’ve got all the money, too.
Oh noes, Obama still a godless heathen mooslum!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..22131.html
That sign is so wrong Wrong WRONG!!1!11!!!!
Everyone knows god listens to Cannibal Corpse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Hv0tsvpyU
Kids nowadaze…
Obama’s social liberalism on sexual issues, everything from abortion to transgender rights, is dramatically at odds with traditional religious values.
*Whose* traditional religious values? Because they’re right in line with *my* traditional religious values, and parts of my religion are older than this twerp’s.
You know why I hate monotheists? Because when you come right down to it, they’re monoreligionists, too. They can’t even imagine a world in which anyone else’s religion is anything other than a set of myths, but their myths are all Divine Truths. At some point, since they can’t even live with your existence, they pretty much have to wipe you out, either by socially marginalizing you or just plain fucking burning you.
And for some reason, I’m never delighted to be around people who wish I’d disappear. Which of course means I’m intolerant of intolerance, and therefore Teh Real Hitlerz!!!11! or a liberal fascist, or whatever.
Gimme that old time religion…
We do? News to me!
Where in Vermont? I’d drop you an email, but I can’t find any contact info on your site. (I’m in Bennington–the banana belt.)
Well, that’s what my father told me, and he was nothing if not a font of wisdom and tolerance. For example, on his good days, he would refer to our darker-skinned brethren as “the coloreds” (and this would be circa 1984).
As for the Jews running the world and having all the money: in addition to that, he once said to me — in his best conspiratorial whisper — “They even have Jews in China!” I never did get to ask him if that meant people like Mao were Jewish or not.
Q.E.D.
Norwich. Yeah, I was kinda worried that I’d start getting hate mail from Pam, Jonah and the rest of the clown car posse, but just for you, I added an email linkie on my about page. Won’t be long now before Michelle Malkin shows up at my front door insisting on seeing my granite countertops…
…And we’re also supposed to own all the media, but I’m still waiting for my cable TV franchise.
Clapton?!!? I’m sure you really meant Lou Reed. Didn’t know he listened to Slayer either. Come to think of it, who does listen to Slayer?
Surely, you meant Lerxt.
Damn. If the manly Mr. Biscuitbarrel and I owned all the media, we could bequeath our oldest son a job like, say, Lachlan Murdoch’s. (Lachlan is not Jewish.) On the other hand, our son is twenty-one and he DID find a job as a newspaper reporter upon graduation from college. It just isn’t the same as world media domination, dagnabbit!
And if Mr. B were a brainless dripping douche nozzle like Steve Doocy, he could get his son hired at Faux, hey presto. (The Doocys are not Jewish either, thank G-d.)
Oh, so that’s what Tim Graham is doing these days. He used to hang out at Romenesko and whine about all the “leftwing media bias.” Must be a tough dollar these days.
Also for the Redskins to go at least 8-8.
Redskins? Redskins?!? Once a Bears fan, always a Bears fan.
(/fellow Bears fan)
“Redskins? Redskins?!? Once a Bears fan, always a Bears fan.”
Well the Senate is always less cranky the week after a Redskins victory. Somebody ought to do a study examining the correlation between the Redskins having a good year and actual productive legislation being passed. It might explain a lot.
Ramen.