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Except a pounding headache, that is. If I was going to write something substantive, I’d write about Obama’s wailing wall prayer (which is not unlike my prayer on a regular basis – the despair part, at least), the fact that some people have fisked it, which really annoyed me, UNTIL I read that the newspaper that published it may have been given permission by Obama to do so:
Obama’s note was published in Ma’ariv and other international publications following Obama’s authorization to make the content of the note public. Obama submitted a copy of the note to media outlets when he left his hotel in Jerusalem.
Which means – as far as I’m concerned – that all bets are off and people can criticize with impunity. I don’t find anything in the prayer itself to criticize, though. I have long lists of things I don’t like about Obama, and if I were simply to restrict myself to his faith as an area of criticism, a couple of decades of steeping himself and then his children in black liberation theology is ample material. This prayer is a non-issue, UNLESS he made it public himself in which case he’s an even bigger weasel or perhaps even more clueless/ more of an egomaniac than I gave him credit for. Whatever.
Everybody’s talking about Jon Voight’s editorial. Well, it’s worth a read, but he’s still just an actor. Granted, an actor I agree with on almost every point, but I don’t give his opinion any more credence than I do my own or my neighbor’s or any blogger’s. I do give him big, huge, massive points for going against the Hollywood theocracy in such a public fashion, though. I assume/hope he’s made his pile and is not dependent on future work to finance his retirement, because if he keeps going like he’s going, there may not be any and Angelina still isn’t speaking to him so he can’t
Robert Novak has a brain tumor, and the Huffington Post forestalled the death wish brigades by closing comments. They knew, I’m sure, that the response would not be as gracious as the right’s was to the news of Ted Kennedy’s brain tumor. My post was quite mild, but still negative enough to get me a link from Slate. If I’m the best they could come up with on negative reactions from the right, that’s a pretty clear indicator that nobody was saying anything bad.
Jammie Wearing Fool also covers the Derrick Shepherd scandal so even though I’d normally cover a big Louisiana political story like this, I’ve got nothing to add except a couple more pain pills and an icepack for my head. My headache is not caused by La. politics, but it’s certainly exacerbated by them.
