My friend, Gene Hewitt alerted me to this story: evidently the GOP did some research and ran some focus groups only to find out that it won’t be OK to make an issue about the eventual Democratic Presidential nominee’s race or her gender.
Which makes me wonder: if they had found out that most Americans are cool with racist or sexist political rhetoric, would they use it in the Fall?
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This ran on UPI’s Religion and Spirituality Forum on February 5, 2008.
As a member of the California Green Party I will not be choosing between casting a vote for an African American candidate or a woman candidate when I participate in the great civic event that will be Super Tuesday. I will be voting for Cynthia McKinney, a former member of congress from Georgia who happens to be both African American and a woman. She is the most experienced and the most inspirational candidate on the Green ballot.
For weeks now I’ve been planning to write a column on the eve of Super Tuesday extolling the virtues of membership in a “third party.” I joined the Green Party when Bill Clinton was president. It seemed to me then—as now—that the Democrats had become too beholden to corporate interests, too much like the Republicans in their willingness to sell their corporate soul for the sake of a positive cash flow. Too often, choosing between Democrats and the Republicans is like choosing between Starbucks and Peet’s Coffee. Between the two coffee chains there are some very real differences in substance and style, but in the end they’re both nameless, faceless corporate behemoths, and I prefer to patronize locally owned coffee shops. In coffee as in politics, I like real choice. Two political parties, like two major coffee chains, is not much of a choice. I want to live in an America and to participate in a political system with more options.
But in the last few weeks Barack Obama has changed my mind. Continue reading ‘Gobama! The Lions’ Den Makes an Endorsement’
At a Wedding Water Still Turns to Wine
This column was published on UPI’s Religion and Spirituality Forum on Monday, February 25, 2008.
This column is dedicated to Tony and Jackie DeRose, whose joyous nuptials provided the setting for the miraculous story that follows.
Last weekend, my foster daughter attended her first American wedding. At the reception she danced until the longsuffering folks in charge of locking up the hall kicked us out. When she wasn’t dancing she was gathering rose petals, fallen from various bouquets and boutonnieres, and throwing them into the air so that they fell like aromatic satin rain around the newlyweds. Continue reading ‘At a Wedding Water Still Turns to Wine’