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Showing posts with label Louisiana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louisiana. Show all posts
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Pastor Hagee Asked About Hurricane Gustav
Hurricane Gustav is suspected to land in New Orleans on Monday of next week (ironically enough on the day that Bush is scheduled to speak at the Republican Convention).
Pastor Hagee, the right-wing nutjob minister who blamed New Orleans and the Gays for Katrina's horrific devastation, was contacted about the current storm. His silence is rich:
Earlier today, ThinkProgress contacted John Hagee Ministries to see if erstwhile John McCain endorser Rev. Hagee saw the Lord’s hand in reports that President Bush might not speak at the Republican National Convention on Monday because of Tropical Storm Gustav.
Back in 2006, Hagee declared that “Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.” Hagee said that “New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God,” because “there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came.”
ThinkProgress asked Rev. Hagee’s spokesperson, Kara Silverman, whether Gustav’s possible impact on the Republican National Convention might be seen as punishment against Republicans for their not having done enough to combat the “homosexual agenda,” or whether this storm could be attributed to some other target of divine wrath.
Ms. Silverman said Hagee had “no comment.”
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Super Saturday for Obama
11:03 - Obama also wins the Virgin Islands. A clean sweep! I just finished watching Obama's speech and it, as usual brought a few tears to my eyes. I so want to hope. I so want to dream. I so want to think that we are better than the last 8+ years.
10:09 - Obama wins Louisiana, keeping him on a 100% winning streak for the night. Each contest tonight have him winning by HUGE margins.
8:58 - Watching CNN again. Look at the map of states that Clinton and Obama have won. Obama has swept the center of the country in contests where tons of new voters and independents turned out. You want the same red state/blue state divide we got in the Bush elections? You want the same "Well, we won the coasts so we squeaked by"? Then vote for Hillary. If you want a truly new dynamic that will have these calcified pundits blown apart in an entirely new Democratic election calculus? Then vote for Obama!
8:42 - More primaries and caucuses for today. Obama has already won a couple of big prizes: Nebraska, and Washington. Washington was the big state with the most delegates today.
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