Final Rev. Wright Deep Thought
E-mailing with an especially brilliant Article 19 reader (is that redundant?), about why it's somehow ok for Republicans to be associated with hate-mongering religious figures like James Dobson, John Hagee, Pat Robertson and the like, while Obama's minister is not allowed to question the country, I had a thought along these lines:

For a Republican, it's better to love the country and hate many of its people than it is to hate the country for not properly loving all of its people. For them, loving the abstraction releases you (requires you?) to loathe the particular.

But that's the final thought on this subject, because I am giving this whole episode the official Article 19 seal of *The Weathered Storm.* Obama is catching up in PA, surging in NC, and it is only a matter of time before we can get about the business of uniting around the necessary defeat of Iraq-war-loving, economy-misunderstanding, confederate-flag and religious-right-pandering, torture-flip-flopping John McCain.