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What Hillary said last week:

“Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans is weakening again,” Clinton said, apparently citing an Associated Press article, which also found “how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

(note: Originally written my sophmore year of college in January 2003)
Continued from part I

one of my youth david has made a post on his myspace about shopping for books at the towns new B&N. when they were in the "christian" section a man got on their case for believing in god. if you can't read his blog for one reason or another.

I watch and I consistently enjoy watching HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, whether I agree with the expressed viewpoints or not. About the only time I don't enjoy it is when Maher puts on his soft lifestyle atheism. And this week, with one of his guests Christopher Hitchens (also a soft atheist) he was in that ranting mode once again.

iGoogle quoted Scott Adams thus:

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.

So just what exactly is the point here? Let's consider some other examples:

An interesting profile of the “mother from the heartland” that Barack Obama points to as the dominant influence on him during

By way of Atrios, here's an interesting poll:

Alan Roebuck has a fascinating essay on the American Thinker website where he examines the modern atheist movement. He begins: "Not all atheists are supercilious, of course. Many are content to live and let live, and some even grant that religion (which, in America, basically means Christianity) does some good. But atheism as an organized, evangelizing movement has been on the offensive lately."

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