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Fact checking the speeches
So, you’ve heard the candidates speeches, maybe they inspired you. Maybe they didn’t.
But what about the facts? How accurate were those zingers the candidates threw out at their opponents?
Obama’s speech fact checked.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accepted his party’s nomination Aug. 28, speaking before more than 84,000 people in Denver’s Mile High football stadium. Some [...]
Ron Paul word cloud
Shared word clouds for convention speeches from both John McCain and Barack Obama last week.
Thought I’d do the same for Ron Paul’s speech at the Rally for the Republic.
Election quandry
Votehelp.org “analyzed” my political viewpoints and presented an interesting stat.
Barack Obama agrees with me 87% of the time.
John McCain agrees with me 81% of the time.
I’m sure those statements could be twisted in all sorts of ways - but makes me realize even more so how both of these candidates have gotten to where they [...]
McCain’s acceptance speech
(word cloud of mccain’s speech)
Didn’t watch McCain’s speech last night. Figured there’d be nothing new he’d say — figured it would be more of the same “I was a POW” stories that I keep hearing over and over and over again — especially from other folks at the GOP convention.
Don’t know if he tells it [...]
Lingering Questions
Tripp Fuller shared a great thought today via his blog:
Listening to both parties each night has made me confident that the church really needs to quit outsourcing its vocation.
Makes a world of sense to me. Seems like the less the church does, the more the government feels it needs to step in to care [...]
Question for today
Posted this question on Twitter today and my other social networks.
Figured I’d post it here (without the 140 character limit) and see what response I get.
question :: Two men are running for president of the United States. Both men claim to be strong Christians and/or followers of Chirst. Can you trust that claim, if they [...]
45 years later we’re still fighting for it
Today will be an historic day. Last night the Democratic Party officially nominated Barack Obama as their party’s presidential nominee. Tonight, he will accept the nomination with a speech in Denver — exactly 45 years after Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Today will be a great day in American history - and [...]
The Faith of Barack Obama
I finished reading Stephen Mansfield’s (author of The Faith of George W. Bush) latest book, The Faith of Obama last week. In my opinion, it’s a great, well-balanced look at the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nominee, Barack Obama.
While Mansfield has said himself that he’s not a fan of Obama’s politics, he argues that there’s much more [...]
Focus on the Family prays for a blessing on Obama
Church Marketing Sucks reports that the political arm of Focus on the Family, Focus on the Family Action (a registered 501-C4), is asking folks to pray for rain during Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver.
While rain sounds like a horrible way to kick off a campaign, a co-worker suggests that she’s always heard that rain is [...]
Quote for the day
“Religiously, the majority of America’s young are postmodern, which means they do faith like jazz: informal, eclectic, and often without theme. They have largely rejected organized religion in favor of a religious pastiche that works for them. They think nothing of hammering together a personal faith from widely differing religious traditions, and many acquire their [...]
