People I love today

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Barack Obama: A clearly perturbed Obama said he didn't appreciate being lectured about Christianity by Keyes. 'That's why I have a pastor,' he said. 'That's why I have a Bible. That's why I have my own prayer. And I don't think any of you are particularly interested in having Mr. Keyes lecture you about your faith. What you're interested in is solving problems like jobs and health care and education. I'm not running to be the minister of Illinois. I'm running to be its United States senator.'" -- Salon

Yahtzee: "A coworker who writes music on the side has the Upright Citizens Brigade performing a Halloween musical of his, 'Killjoy.' It's supposed to be very gory, very obscene, very politically incorrect. Naturally, I want to go. Coworker keeps saying, quite carefully, 'Now, it's really raw. It's not for everybody.' I keep saying, 'Oh, I bet it would be fun!' This is English. The Fanspeak translation, which I cannot share at the office, is: 'In my spare time I have written sadomasochistic gay vampire porn and distributed it to minors. Your puny attempts to shock me make me laugh.'"

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[longtimegone]

And I don't think any of you are particularly interested in having Mr. Keyes lecture you about your faith. What you're interested in is solving problems like jobs and health care and education. I'm not running to be the minister of Illinois. I'm running to be its United States senator.'"

Dude. Yes. I have always bristled under the insinuation by Republicans that because I am going to vote for Kerry/am registered Democrat/am liberal that I am less of a Christian or that I need "guidance" cause "real Christians" support Bush or whatever. I think it is the most pathetic type of avoidance of the issues that need to be dealt with. It pisses me off to no end.

So, yeah, I like his answer. :D