Hither and thither: 11/14/08

Notables from the week:

• Breaking years of precedent, even Billy Graham won't act as Obama's advisor, given Obama's radical enthusiasm for making babykilling easy and unrestricted. Does that leave The One without advice? Not at all. Obama's reportedly been chatting up New Hampshire homosexual activist bishop Vicki Gene Robinson.
• Meanwhile, Brian Maclaren, Tony Campolo, and Jim Wallis all said, "If he'll just love me, I'll do anything for that man. Anything!"
• Okay, I totally made that last one up. But you weren't sure for a second, there, were you? Be honest.
• In a survey titled Who are the Obamagelicals?, unsettling formal similarities and significant differences surfaced. Both pray (though I'd point to Proverbs 28:9 on that one). Both (formally) take the Bible as God's word. But asked to rank priorities, Obamagelicals give the top three as economy, Iraq war, reducing poverty; and McCain voters said abortion, character, and cleaning up government. Differences are starker on the Bible. Well more than half of the Obamagelicals say "the Bible is divinely inspired but not everything in it is the literal word of God," while 74.7% of McCain evangelicals affirmed the Bible as the word of God. (See also Different worldview.)
• Somewhat more reassuring is the news from Barna, who found that"88% [of evangelicals] voted for Sen. McCain, compared to just 11% for Sen. Obama. The 88% is statistically identical to the 85% of evangelicals who backed George W. Bush in 2004." So The One's campaign of deceptive Christianward outreach was not as effective as hoped.
  
• Read what happened with an 8th-grader put the tolerance of Obamabots to the test in her government reeducation institution.
• You'll all be shocked! shocked! to learn that MSM coverage of California's Proposition 8 has been biased in favor of homosexuals. No, really! I know, I know, I'm just as gobsmacked as you! And, in a similar vein....
  
• Remember that I said, "I wonder how many Obama revelations will start seeing the light now?" Well well, lo and behold! Suddenly the MSM has found themselves capable of communicating with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers! And lo and behold, it turns out that he and The One actually did "pal around," just as Palin was vilified (by the MSM wing of The One's campaign) for observing! Yes, Obama was not entirely truthful in dismissing Ayers airily as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” No, terrorist Ayers writes, “We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.” Now that their candidate has won, "it's okay for Ayers to surface now." In fact, look for the suddenly-miraculously-visible terrorist/Obama pal on Good Morning America. But wait. There's more.
• I'll Retire to Bedlam Alert #479. And yet, in spite of all this (and so much more), al-Reuters (Worst News Service Ever{TM}) has the industrial-strength gall to clear its throat, somberly look the world in the eye, and announce its Unimpeachable Scientific Finding that there was really no bias in election reporting. I am not making this up. So, who are you going to believe? Reuters, or your lying eyes and brain?
• In related news, a survey of skunks found that 9 out of 10 not only do not think they smell bad, but in fact describe their odor as "delightfully minty."
  
• At the same time, now that it doesn't matter (because they got their candidate elected, woo-hoo), and in the hopes that we'll forget before the next election, the Washington Post (!) admits that, well, maybe, maybe yes, there was just a tad, just an eensy-beensy bit, just a skosh of Obamaward "tilt." Really? Do tell! As for me? I'm not forgetting. You?
• My son Matthew points me to a grim but likely forecast of our coming Obama-nation.
• BTW, my unnamed and highly-placed source says that unnamed but highly-placed sources in the McCain campaign who try to tear down Sarah Palin are gutless, whiney, childish, spineless weiner dogs. (No offense meant to the hardworking weiner dogs of America.)