Again today I cringe listening to Bush appoint Bolton to the UN...

From the ether...

The decision to go forward with the Bolton appointment, without Senate approval and despite his demonstrable, monumental lack of qualifications, is the Bush-Cheney way.
It’s macho, in your face, unilateral, we don’t give a damn, we’re doing it our way, and if you don’t like it, tough.
That’s the style that got the United States into Iraq and into the torture scandal.
And that same style will now be on display for 18 months in the detestable person of John Bolton.
This is the America of George Bush.
Let the world, and the citizens of this country, see it for what it is.

Matthew Rothchild - The Progressive

There’s the religion of Pharisees and Inquisitors, and there’s the religion of Prophets and Healers. The two, although rooted in the same heritage, have nothing to do with one another. The leaders of the religious right in this country are too often led by the first group. What we need badly is for leaders to emerge from the second. I’m not at all sure that will happen, but I fear it’s our only hope.

Jack Whelan