A loaded headline to be sure but not too bad of an article.

I would argue that Obama is probably more of a Christian than any president we’ve had since Carter. You could argue with me, but you’d probably be wrong. He hasn’t cheated on his wife at any time we know of. Can’t say that for Reagan, Clinton, and probably Bush the Lesser. He actually hasn’t started a war. Sending bombing runs into Libya might count I suppose but it wasn’t “our” war in the traditional sense of the word.

Bush did what he could to stop profiling of Muslims after 9/11, but given the mob that elected him, that wasn’t much at all. Obama turned over DADT, belatedly, but he did.

So where is he “anti-Christian” except in expanding the rights of more Americans than others before him?

Face it, he wasn’t elected to be a secular pope. He was elected to lead ALL Americans to be more free and prosperous. No, not to let bigots reign or to let one hard-lined version of Christianity oppress people.

No, he’s a family man who acts like one probably would given the same job. Take care of the neighborhood, let the psychos down the street yell about secret Muslims, birth certificates, and whatever other BS bangs around in their tin foil hats, and just do what is right for the most people.

I wouldn’t want the job. Or, rather, you wouldn’t like me much either if I had it.

Simply put, well said.

Two things.

One, this article nails it. All this Republican bleating about almost non-existent voter fraud is all about disenfranchising folks who predominantly vote Democratic. Hell, I’d almost respect them more if they were honest about that.

Also, I like the comparison between the *fear* of voter contamination versus the actual small number of incidents as opposed to the large percentage of homicides committed with weapons. We have 14 states trying to solve a problem you need to be Sherlock Holmes to find in improper voting, yet almost anyone can legally own a weapon that can kill a person.

Strange, no?

Secondly, give the article a read. This is what I know Minnesota to be. Not Michelle Bachmann or Tim Pawlenty or Norm Coleman or folks who demand gays cannot marry while they sully their “traditional marriage” like former State Senator leader Amy Koch.

Folks like the author. Or the governor, Mark Dayton. Or Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, our senators. Or Tim Walz, our rep around these parts. Rational people, hell, even funny people despite – or maybe because of – all the challenges that face us.

Given the non-stop screeching of the GOP these days, it is good to remember that one of the reasons I moved here was to be around folks who want to make this nation better, and not just a Southern Baptist copy of Iran.