"Inequality is not natural. Poverty is created in systems that permit the one or the few to exploit the many. People learn to want to live in a big house. Nobody chooses to live in squalor. These are self-evident truths. There's no debating self-evident truths."
-Andrew Austin,
Freedom and Reason "Many of these can be part of faith-based initiatives I want to keep the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives open, but I want to make sure that its mission is clear. Faith-based initiatives should be targeted specifically at the issue of poverty and how to lift people up."
-Obama,
On The Issues My Take on this BS The Office of Faith-Based Initiatives is not only unconstitutional by violating the 1st Amendment, but also by violating the statute against litmus tests. We're all tired of hearing about Obama's Christianity. It's very apparent to those of us who don't play in identity politics that he is the trying to make his religion his practical image, an almost Messiah-like figure in the eyes of the American Public. This is disgusting and he's making a bad image for real liberals like myself who wanted Hillary to be the nominee. Now McCain has a much stronger chance of winning in November, and we all know that's, in all practical sense, a 3rd Bush term for the country, and more endless war.
*sigh* We really could have secured the White House for years to come, a new golden age for Democrats, but even the super delegates were screwed into this one...
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