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[Dave The Dov]

Christian right marks start of `a good 4 years'


By Robin Abcarian Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times

A couple of hours after President Bush took the oath of office, the indefatigable Rev. Lou Sheldon, founder and chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition was more upbeat than usual.

On Wednesday, Sheldon had tossed a Christian bash for more than 800 people at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. The host committee was virtually a who's who of politically important evangelicals, including Gary Bauer, Ralph Reed and Rev. Jerry Falwell. On Thursday, Sheldon played host to an indoor gathering of about 300 fellow Christians, people who wanted to experience the inauguration events with like-minded people but weren't inclined to brave the weather.


"This is the beginning of a good four years," said Sheldon, who is given to quoting historical figures and this time offered a snippet of George Washington's 1796 farewell address: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."


"Religion and morality," Sheldon repeated. "That's what is happening--that fusion of religion and morality and public policy has now come about."


Sheldon's parties were an opportunity for Bush supporters to enjoy a hard-fought victory. They also were a celebration of Christian political muscle and a reminder of what this important constituency expects from the White House in Bush's second term.


Naturally, issues important to evangelical Christians never were far from their minds: A constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, overturning Roe vs. Wade, bringing religion back to the public square.


The administration took notice. On Thursday, White House political director Matt Schlapp stopped by to chat as the inaugural parade was getting started. On Wednesday night, departing Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft delivered the dinner speech, and during cocktails the architects of the president's campaign--Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman--stopped by to pay their respects.


Although a theme of the inauguration was the sacrifices made by members of the military, there was nary a mention of the war in Iraq at the Sheldon events, nor the price paid by U.S. soldiers and their families.
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[perezoso]

Yes, the fundies are quite the irrational and sorry lot. And it's amusing that Shelton would quote Washington, who was not as pious as the rightwingers would make him to be. Like Franklin and Jefferson, Washington made quite a few disparaging remarks about religion and X-tianity. Of course the idea that religious beliefs and what the fundies take to be "morality" should be rationally proven and defended never seems to occur to these bible-thumping yokels.

Yet the liberals are nearly as bad and refuse to deal with the absurdities of the rightwing in a logical manner. Democrats such as the Clintons and Kerry and Feinstein are all too willing to be the safe moderates and show their support for the troops and the "churchies" and utter their sentimental liberal cliches from about the 1930's. . Moreover, no one on the left, including the minorities and gays, seems to remember that politics has something to with economics and challenging corporate capitalism. The soccer-mommy feel-good liberals, all too common to local demo politics, would not know Keynes from their tubes of KY jelly.

Nader, though with some inconsistencies and character issues ("character" being the typical American yokel political criteria, since yokels never learned the meaning of ad hominem ), made the most reasonable comments regarding American society, but he's not enough of a thug or insider to make it.

[Dave The Dov]

So how do we work out the politics of a rock and a hard place then???? Praise Bob!!!!
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