All Posts Tagged With: "disconnect"

I saw this headline on MSNBC: “Obama defends his overseas trip.” My simple question is, “Why?” Why should he have to defend it?

Obama’s opponents have, prior to this trip, criticized Obama for not having visited Iraq or Afghanistan recently and for being weak on foreign policy. Obama answer the challenge and his opponents are not criticizing for visiting Iraq and Afghanistan and Europe.

This election season is literally making me sick to my stomach. I’m just plain tired of it.

I’m now actively avoiding news programs and any shows that might cover the candidates. I’ve stopped reading blogs and websites that are consumed by the daily grind of the campaign. I’ve restricted myself to culling my news from online news sources, but find myself having to dig through all the oversaturation of election coverage to find out what else is happening in the world outside of politics.

This is the last post about politics that you’ll read for the foreseeable future — or at least until the VP picks are in and I weigh in on that. Seriously, I am beyond my tolerance of the political coverage, and I have a pretty high tolerance (and appetite) for this type of stuff. This election cycle has been as exhausting and absurdly extreme as I’ve ever experienced. And I’m disconnecting for a while… for my sanity.

“Are we there yet?” is the question that keeps running through my mind. Election Day couldn’t come fast enough.

Josh Marshall, who publishes the popular progressive blog Talking Points Memo, asks:

Do I just have issues, or does this ad (which Google is currently running on some of our pages) contain an element of cognitive dissonance?

I think it’s a fair question.

There’s certainly no preclusion from Christians being (very) attractive. Yet, based on biblical principles, is “sexyness” supposed to be the primary draw for a Christian looking for a companion, especially in light of the very public condemnations in recent years by Christian organizations and leaders about the moral decay of this country with all the sex in advertising, in television shows and in movies?

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.