And where in that do you get she was told “to shut the fuck up”? She never says that.

What she does say is that she prays for him. That could be interpreted to mean she’s concerned for his well being and wishes him well. Hardly the reaction you might expect toward someone who’d told her to “shut the fuck up”.

What she does say is that she’s not talking about it until after the election. It could be that she doesn’t think it necessary or appropriate to add any more irrelevant issues to the public discussion.

Of course, I’m looking at what she actually did say and acknowledging I’m guessing at what it could mean. william, of course, claims she said what she didn’t and presents his interpretation as fact.

What’s the difference between the left and the right again?

Some parts of his extended family he just tells them to STFU until after the election:

“Speaking outside her home in Flaherty Way, South Boston, on Tuesday, Ms Onyango, 56, confirmed she was the “Auntie Zeituni” in Mr Obama’s memoir. She declined to answer most other questions about her relationship with the presidential contender until after the November 4 election. “I can’t talk about it, I just pray for him, that’s all,” she said, adding: “After the 4th, I can talk to anyone.”

Obama went a half hour and never once mentioned McCain, the reverse could never be true.

That phrase from the Biblical story of Cain and Abel is about Cain’s defensiveness when God asks him, “Where is your brother?” and Cain replies, “I don’t know, am I my brother’s keeper?” His reply is significant not because God expects him to paternalistically take care of Abel, who has his own needs and preferences, but because Cain refuses the moral responsibility of acknowledging his brother’s very existence.

It is the same sort of moral irresponsibility that one sees with the “flypaper theory” of Iraq, in which the creation and growth of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia is declared a good thing, because “if they’re busy attacking over there, they won’t attack us here.” In this theory, the lives of innocent Iraqis lost in the battle is irrelevant; hey, we’re not their keeper.

Funny…maybe we should ask Obama’s half brother, who lives in a Kenyan shanty, or his auntie Zeituni how that’s working out.

I had that feeling, too. Even more than that, I’m looking forward to how he listens to us and the way he processes events and the world. he’s just so freaking steady and calm. You know?

Jesus I hope he wins.

Once again, I am so looking forward to listening to this man for the next 8 years.

- an Agnostic born in Canada