Editor's note: Occasionally we will ask influential politicos to send us their top three bullet points that are driving the day's conversation in and outside Washington.
The Dewey Square Group Principal Maria T. Cardona:
- A Republican takeover of Congress in November? Really? They have admitted they would go back to the same economic policies in place before 2006. Tax cuts for the rich, tax breaks for corporations who ship jobs overseas, getting rid of safety net programs. That really worked well last time around.
- AZ primary day! John McCain will most likely survive the challenge from JD Hayworth but to what end? Do we even know who John McCain is anymore and can the people of AZ trust his motivations? With his credibility shattered, how will he reinvent himself this time?
- Speaking of AZ, there could be an upset in the making with a very strong Dem candidate for Senate, and only Latino Dem running, in Randy Parraz – with the support of Latinos, many in the Native American community, the GLBT community, and Arizona activists, we could see a Parraz vs McCain main event in November!
RedState.Com Editor Erick-Woods Erickson:
- Back in 2008, Mark Penn advised the Hillary Clinton campaign to question Barack Obama's "American-ness". She didn't. Republicans are. But more troubling for Obama, upper-income voters don’t need the GOP to even push the subject forward.
- The Pew Poll everyone is talking about showing across the board questioning of Barack Obama's faith buried the lead. The GOP has put together a majority demographic coalition to take back the House in November.
- News Flash: there is growing rumbling among conservatives that maybe the GOP shouldn't take back the Senate. And now Eric Cantor's pledge to bring back earmarks in the House GOP caucus is opening some old wounds. The GOP can only run on "we're better than the other guys" for so long.
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I wonder if President Obama's prime time address about Iraq will include a thank you to President Bush for setting the wheels in motion for the withdrawal and for going ahead with the surge in Iraq which Barack Obama opposed? That surge contributed to the ability to bring troops home now. We see this President mentioning George Bush almost daily in a negative way. Will he be big enough to give him kudos where they are now due?
I was a christian until the elections of 2008 when President Barack Obama, then candidate Obama's faith came to question.
Before that, I had changed church 3 times:
I was born into a catholic family, baptized as a child, confirmed, went to catholic schools and sang in church choir with my mother.
Then in college, I was convinced by christian activists to become a presbyterian (it was almost like the catholic, except that they don't take their orders from Rome, they said.)
A work, a friend convinced me that the only baptism that counted was being soaked into the water, and that the rest was just not right. After all, Jesus was submerged for his baptism. I followed her to baptist church and got submerged.
Then I was shopping at winn-dixie one day and a stranger met me and greeted me this way: Sister in Christ, are you saved? I said yes I was saved. He insisted I can only be saved if I pray at the kindom. Then when I agreed, he held my hands, prayed, asked me to accept Jesus christ as my savior and told me I was saved , just like that. He said I should be careful with the fake prophets, and that the only church that would take me to heaven is the Church of christ where I would be born again, witness and minister to others. I fell for that too.
So in the end, I was sitting home one day when two young men barely out of high school came to my home to preach. They said they followed the American prophet because Jesus actually came to the United States to ordain him prophet for the church of mormans.
By then, the naive me was starting to have a headache.
I had a lot of friends inviting me to their church. Each trying to tell me that their church was the true church, while the others were fake.
In the end, I was really starting to question all these churches. Then all of a sudden, people were asking questions about Barack Obama's faith.
That really oppened my eyes to what christianity and religion was all about. Then I started to ask myself: Who ever went to heaven and asked God what he wanted?
It stroke me that God created mankind and therefore had a direct line to each of us. So why does it need some intermediary to tell me where to worship, if at all?
I found that this whole thing was all about power, domination, and exclusion. If you are not of the same faith with me, you are the other , the one we need to hate, vilify , exclude and dominate.
Leave Obama alone. Christians should just chill out before more people like me start to run away from their folly. I am not a muslim, but I took a muslim online name just to distinguish myself from the christian I used to be.