Saturday Open Thread [04.28.12]
Any opinion piece that mentions Estes Kefauver needs to be read especially when it looks at the Right’s politicization of religious beliefs.
They [Republicans] claim their goal is to better our education system, and to give us more freedom of religious thought in the bargain. But it seems to me they’re taking away the individualist liberties we’ve always prized and giving us more government regulation instead.
I fear that these bills, written to give us what they think we want, will have the opposite effect. By legislating our Christianity, what they’re really doing is taking it away from us.
Trivia: Kefauver is the only man to defeat John F. Kennedy in an election, the Democratic nomination for Vice President in 1956.
From MJ: Gloomy skies and a foul stench in the air in Rehoboth today. Must mean that the State GOP is in town for their convention.
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Delaware Dem’s Polling Report
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT (Gallup Tracking): Obama d. Romney (50-43)
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT (Rasmussen Tracking): Obama d. Romney (47-46)
FLORIDA–PRESIDENT (Rasmussen): Romney d. Obama (46-45)
FLORIDA–SENATOR (Rasmussen): Sen. Bill Nelson (D) 47, Connie Mack (R) 36; Nelson 44, George LeMieux (R) 30; Nelson 48, Mike McCallister (R) 29
Tags: Estes Kefauver
If you haven’t checked out the crazy going on with our school board elections hit the usual bloggers Kilroy, John Young and now Mike Matthews —
— if it isn’t the State Chamber of Commerce-supported Rodel Super PAC 501C4 running push polls and flooding homeowners with attack mailers in RCSD and CSD it’s the DEMs vs the GOP in APPO. I have some of the links up at DE Way.
The folks at Change.org are running a petition drive to get Jon Stewart to moderate a Presidential debate.
Sign it and get everyone you know to sign it too. I’d love to see RMoney run away from this one.
I signed. Still cold, gloomy, and smelly in downtown Rehoboth. Wonder how many of them are going to the Blue Moon tonight for the Divas Show.
It’s wet but we didn’t think it was gloomy. Lot of folks out and about and the food was good.
Wow, no Estes Kefauver fans? Can Estes get a wup-wup?
Suspect is trespassing in vacant store in the 100th block of West 9th street. Suspect is male in his twenties. Suspect is now hiding in basement……. Requesting backup……????
Coonskin cap man! Go Kefauver!