Posted
5:46 PM
by Gene
When I see stories like
this my first thought is dueling condescensions. "Our religious side is better than your religious side!" the hacks will say, and then treat their sides with the disdain deserved of poor, stupid, easily led people. And both sides have their drawbacks: with the right, it is the certainty of always being right; with the left, it's squooshiness and an eagerness to morally compromise. I'd bet the 2008 torture will be decided less by how people pray than (as always) which candidate is the least worst to a whole bunch of people, including the voters.