Politics

What a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal. Here is Home Depot cofounder and former CEO, Bernice Marcus has to say:

But in the class war, as in the real deal, there are always ways of motivating the yellow. "If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and these other guys," Mr. Marcus said, apparently referring to Republican senators facing tough re-election fights, then those retailers "should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs."

Ohhhhhh – shake in the boots time. I wonder what Costco thinks of that?

Maybe we can be saved as a nation. A new Pew Research poll finds more Americans now believe churches should be kept out of politics.

I wonder how much the Bush reign had to do with this? His eight years has really muddled the divider between church and state that our founding fathers felt imperative to the survival of our nation.Still it is troubling that the poll is this close. It shows that so many Americans do not understand our nation's history or what our founding fathers were trying to protect us from.

I almost forgot about Freedom Watch. It shows how effective they have been.

When a group of former White House aides formed a political advocacy group called Freedom's Watch last summer, its initial wave of ads featured battered Iraq war veterans pleading for support for President Bush's "surge" of troops. Last month, the theme changed dramatically as the same group splashed dark, grainy images of illegal immigrants across television screens in northern Ohio, attacking a Democratic candidate's position on the divisive domestic issue. Freedom's Watch has loudly announced that there will be no limits to what it might do. From its $15 million summer ad campaign defending the Iraq strategy to its six-figure effort in the House special election in Ohio, the group has put Democrats on notice that its agenda will go far beyond the conservative principles of its largest financial backers.

I wonder if they will face the same scrutiny from the media that MoveOn gets? I highly doubt it.There's More»»