A Spork in the Drawer

High Treason

Who is Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell?

If Rev. Caldwell's name sounds familiar, it may be because he is the same Rev. Caldwell who introduced President Bush at the 2000 Republican National Convention and last month officiated at Jenna Bush's wedding ceremony at the presidential ranch in Crawford.

A Loyal Bushie!

Hang on, I accidentally left out the last sentence of that paragraph. Let me fix that:

This election Caldwell is firmly in the Obama camp and doggedly trying to help the campaign bring other pastors and parishioners along.

It turns out that Rev. Caldwell has launched a new website on which he published a statement that begins:

James Dobson doesn't speak for me.

It continues from there; you get the idea.

The WaPo notes that Caldwell "still considers Bush a personal friend." I doubt that George feels the same.

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It Is To Laugh

Supreme Ayatollah James Dobson:

"I think [Obama is] deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology," [Dobson] said.

"... He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."

This from the man who takes delight in brutally beating his dog.

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WTF?

What the hell is George doing meeting with Mullah Dobson et al on the subject of Iran?

“I was invited to go to Washington DC to meet with President Bush in the White House along with 12 or 13 other leaders of the pro-family movement," Dobson disclosed on his radio program Monday. “And the topic of the discussion that day was Iraq, Iran and international terrorism. And we were together for 90 minutes and it was very enlightening and in some ways disturbing too."

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“I heard about this danger [from Iran] not only at the White House but from other pro-family leaders that I met during that week in Washington," he said. “Many people in a position to know are talking about the possibility of losing a city to nuclear or biological or chemical attack. And if we can lose one we can lose ten.

"If we can lose ten we can lose a hundred," he added, “especially if North Korea and Russia and China pile on.”

Dobson goes on the scream, "Hitler! Hitler! Hitler!"

As Steven D says, "This is deeply disturbing on so many levels I don't know what to say [...]"

Two points: 1) Our fundies don't need to be convinced that blowing Iran up is a good idea; they're already down with that. And 2) Dobson and friends have no expertise in the matter so why is George conferring with them?

This is only reinforcing my belief that BushCheney, who have poll numbers in the toilet and investigations closing in from all sides, are willing to "throw the dice" and start another war in order to try and save themselves.

This is, again, disturbing on so many levels.

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Who Owns The GOP?

Mullah Dobson, of course:

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson appeared to throw cold water on a possible presidential bid by former Sen. Fred Thompson while praising former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is also weighing a presidential run, in a phone interview Tuesday. Related News

"Everyone knows he's conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for," Dobson said of Thompson. "[But] I don't think he's a Christian; at least that's my impression," Dobson added, saying that such an impression would make it difficult for Thompson to connect with the Republican Party's conservative Christian base and win the GOP nomination. [Emphasis added.]

Who the hell is Dobson to decide who's a Christian and who's not? Was he elected by some fundie version of the College of Cardinals? And why does the media consider Dobson and his ilk to be the True Voice of Christianity?

But these freaks have their own definitions:

"We use that word—Christian—to refer to people who are evangelical Christians," [Focus on the Family spokesman Gary] Schneeberger added. "Dr. Dobson wasn't expressing a personal opinion about his reaction to a Thompson candidacy; he was trying to 'read the tea leaves' about such a possibility."

This ties in nicely with my earlier post about Zombie Republicans. When someone makes their home in Cloud-Cuckoo Land there's no talking to them - - would the "liberal" media come to understand that.

Finally, here's my favorite part:

Dobson's phone call to U.S. News senior editor Dan Gilgoff Tuesday was unsolicited.

Mullah Dobson wasn't speaking off the cuff during some interview; this was a carefully thought out Pronouncement.

To Hell with Dobson and to Hell with his media enablers and to Hell with all of those who don't speak out against this insane egomaniac.

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Suck Up

St. John McCain:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday that he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who said last week that he would not support the lawmaker's presidential bid "under any circumstances."

In an interview last Thursday with a Christian radio station in Dallas, Dobson argued that McCain did not support traditional marriage values "and I pray that we will not get stuck with him."

"Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances," said Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family.

"I'm obviously disappointed," McCain said during a stop in Columbia.

Without the support of whackjobs like Mullah Dobson St. John has little chance of being the GOP nominee for prez. And he knows it. The question then is how much is McCain willing to pay? I'm guessing quite a lot.

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