Ready to Attack Obama, if Some Money Arrives - NYTimes.com: "A Bible verse taped to a whiteboard in Floyd Brown’s office that he uses to track his efforts to attack Senator Barack Obama reads, “That is why for Christ’s sake I delight in weakness, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.”"This, from a self-proclaimed evangelical Christian who is proud of his "Willie Horton" ads
"who says it is his calling to tread where the campaign is unwilling to tread in finding malicious gossip on a Democratic nominee."And then this:
Mr. Brown, a gregarious evangelical churchgoer, said that he merely enjoyed the interchange of ideas and that there was nothing personal about his attacks.
Well, as long as there is nothing "personal" about the "malicious gossip."
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I can sort of see what he means; there's a difference between working in a professional capacity to destroy someone's career, and making a personal hobby out of it. Prosecutors and investigative agents make that distinction all the time, which is how they are able to stay on such good terms with defense attorneys on the opposite side of the aisle.
It's a bit of a stretch to claim Paul's explicit blessing for this kind of vicious adversarial practice, though.
Well, that is kind of what I thought too. That he somehow has found a biblical justification for vicious political attacks is beyond me.
I think there is a difference. The prosecutors that I have known, for the most part, are genuinely concerned about getting bad people off the streets. This guy doesn't seem to have such great motives. Obama certainly merits a closer look in regards to many of his positions, but many of these attacks on him are baseless and just plain nasty.
Steve, I think you're probably right. The prosecutors (and defense attorneys) I've talked to believe that the system whose agents they are can dispense a reasonable approximation of justice most of the time. This guy just seems to want to destroy things.
But he wants to destroy things in a biblical kind of way. You know.
Heh. Biblical destruction....
Just like Saddam and Gomorrah...wait...
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