The biggest problem with your RX for social ills is that not even the people who claim they believe in God can ever seem to agree on what God is or wants. They also don’t quite agree on what a family is either.

Church people can be a very disagreeable bunch and you just can’t be a “hypocrite” without them. Families can be just as disagreeable. And they seem to like it best when they can damn someone else’s God and family. Lebensraum is always a core concern for “families”.

Billy Graham died a few years ago didn’t he? I always thought he was the type who would never have opted for the ass but wanted and got the chariot. And I don’t mean the one that “swings low” but one that has leather bucket seats and AC.

I like a ‘savior” who would ride an ass. He isn’t as grasping as the Perry type.

BTW – I’m on the hunt for Obama’s mole. I never noticed it until minutes before I wrote the last sentence and now that I’m looking for the hairs, it appears or vanishes depending on the photos.

They have the image more or less down cold but the substance is having a hard time keeping up with it.

What happened to baggy, frumpy, disheveled, vulgar, out of sorts, too overweight, too old, but maybe with a genuine sense of humor that they actually write themselves? It looks like all presidents and most of congress before Kennedy would have failed to pass muster today. Lincoln would not have been able to stand the bright lighting and would have scared small children. Grover Cleveland married a woman who could have been his “ward”: fulsome Francis Folsom.

Hillary, Barney Franck, Angela Merkel still look human at least. But only Barney Frank seems to speak off the cuff. Don’t the Republicans have a brilliant troll somewhere who isn’t drunk on national aggrandizement and
closet racism or the new old time religion?

Obama’s got a mole on his nose – but I wont believe it’s the real thing until it’s got hairs growing out of it.

Ummm… Obama has been doing this for his whole term, and he’s the President.

To the ancient world it could have meant the equivalent of riding in on a bicycle wearing a clown suit and honking a horn, but not quite so Peter Sellers.

He and his followers were staging an anti-triumph and the writers were trying to record anti-hypocrisy. But you have a point about publicity making for strange staging.

If you read the Gospels carefully – he doesn’t usually say he is anything but “one with the Father”. What the statement means is always a wide open question. He was the constant object of other people’s projections. All the political characters at that time claimed divine genealogies.

But unlike politicians – he wasn’t out for improved employment prospects, the perks of position, a secret service attachment for himself and his family, and a nice retirement package. That was left to the followers who just couldn’t leave Caesar out of the picture especially in a world that expected a state sponsored religion and the funding that went with it.

Perry comes from a state where the board that overseas capital punishment appeals is so smug and certain of themselves that they seldom even meet as a body in the same room but phone in (maybe it’s twitter now?) their decisions. Texas has the most active death rows in the country.

C’mon, StephanGregor, your flawed analogy evokes yet another capital-H word – Hyperbole.

Gov. Rick Perry and other opportunistic politicians may indeed twist Christianity; but, unlike Islamic extremists, they are not hell-bent on bombing, maiming, and killing the “civil society” of Israel and its allies including the U.S.

American political history suggests nothing new or dangerous about the antics of Rick Perry.