Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Friday, February 21, 2020

Is It That the Democrats "Lost" White Christians, or That Obama's Elections Re-Energized GOP's "White Christian Strategy"?

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Yesterday's PRRI "Morning Buzz" email newsletter* discusses a recent article by Jack Jenkins' entitled " Democ...
Monday, July 23, 2018

More Reports on Shared Goal of Putin and U.S. White Evangelicals: Deconstructing Democracy

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The story  reported by Peter Montgomery , which I  shared with you  on Friday — that the neo-Confederate League of the South,  cla...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Frank Schaeffer on Why White Evangelicals Love Trump: "The Context Is American Racism" — Implications for White Catholic "Pro-Life" Voters

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This is the kind of testimony that white Catholics who claim to be motivated solely by opposition to abortion as they cast their votes d...
Friday, January 20, 2017

"Christendom Adjusts Itself Far Too Easily to the Worship of Power": Theological Bases for Resistance in the Trump Era

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John Pavlovitz :*  And so right now a large portion of the American Evangelical Church sits pretty, believing itself victorious...

Singing Songs of Resistance: I Will Not Go Back As Trump Presidency Seeks to Pull My Nation Back While Right-Wing White Christians Applaud

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Ruthless exploitative capitalism has decisively unmasked itself now as a deeply anti-human force, as it colludes with white ethnonation...
Monday, November 28, 2016

How Right Robert P. Jones Turns Out to Be: "Obama Presidency Provided a Unique Focal Point for Many White Christian Voters"

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Back in late July, when I began a report for you (in a series of postings) about Robert P. Jones' book The End of White Christian ...
Friday, July 8, 2016

Bloody Summer of 2016 and Coming U.S. Elections: "A Great Sorting on the Trump Question Is Coming" (As Guns Fail [Again] to Save Us)

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America, Put the gun on the ground and step away. Please. — Amanda Kerri (@eternalkerri) July 8, 2016
Friday, March 4, 2016

More on the Conundrum Confounding Beltway Media and GOP Establishment: Explain to Me Again Why White Evangelicals Are Going for Trump?!

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My headline for the posting I just published mentions the continued strong support of white evangelicals for Donald Trump, support t...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

A Week of Amazing Grace, and of No Grace at All: Reading the Testimony of the Mother Emanuel Martyrs Alongside the Dissenting Obergefell v. Hodges Statements of Four Supreme Catholic Men

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What's a church for?, President Barack Obama asked the American people on the day on which the highest court of the land struck down ...
Monday, December 8, 2014

More on Institutionalized Racism in U.S. (and Michael Brown and Eric Garner): Chris Hedges, Geoffrey Stone, Ta-Nehisi Coates

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More commentary hot off the internet presses that strikes me as very important this morning:
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Provocative One-Liners from This Week's News: Pete, SOTU, Women and Their Place, The Gays, Etc.

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One-liners (loosely speaking, in two cases) about what's in the news now: Pete Seeger, reactions to the U.S. State of the Union ...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Abby Zimet on a Tale of Two Men

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Abby Zimet at Common Dreams on how the two presidential candidates spent last Tuesday night and Wednesday morning:
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Winners of U.S. Elections: Women, Gays, Latinos, People of Color, Climate, Young People (Losers: Angry White Males, Catholic Bishops, Knights of Columbus)

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Well, that was quite a night, wasn't it?  I couldn't be happier to have been proven very wrong about my fears that the Republ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Politicians and Pundits Talking (or Not) about Global Warming Following Sandy

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Politicians and pundits talking about climate change and global warming (or not talking, as the case may be) following megastorm Sand...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Gerald T. Slevin: After Elections, Who Will Prosecute More Predatory Priests? Constitutional Lawyer Obama Or The Three R's---Romney, Ryan & Ratzinger? And Why Does It Matter?

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Another hard-hitting and exhaustively researched essay by the Harvard-trained former Wall Street lawyer Jerry Slevin today.  Jerry l...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Talking about Race (and Republicans, Mormons, and Catholics): Important Recent Discussions

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Several very important articles this morning that I recommend readers read side-by-side with each other, since each glosses the other...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Last Night's Debate: Mr. Romney as Soft Kitty

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About last night's debacle show:
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Gene Lyons on Why So Many Republicans Hate Obama: A Report from Arkansas

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At the National Memo site this morning, my fellow Arkansan Gene Lyon has an important insider report about why so many Southern whi...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Big News: Obama and Democrats Enjoying Wide Lead Among Catholics

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The big news now vis-a-vis Catholics and politics in the U.S.: as Daniel Burke reports at Religion News Service, a Pew Research Center...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Pictures, Words: Images Capturing Inconvenient Truth

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Ken and Barbie sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g:  Vancouver photographer Dina Goldstein produces a photographic meditation about what...