Your Sunday Sermon

The Republican presidential candidates might have snubbed the Gay Debate, but some of them - with the major exception of the (media) top four: Giuliani, Romney, McCain, and Thompson* - attended a "Values Voters Debate" which opened with a revised version of "God Bless America".

Steve Bennen comments:

I'm trying to imagine the response if, say, Yearly Kos hosted a Democratic presidential candidate forum, which started with a rewritten version of "God Bless America" that disparaged the United States.

It's the kind of thing Fox News would jump all over -- and every Democratic candidate on hand would be asked whether they agreed with the song's lyrical condemnation of the country. Bill O'Reilly would tell us that "God Bless America" is fine the way it is, and it doesn't need to be rewritten by liberals to serve a radical political agenda.

And I want to add: the choir is virtually all black. If black voters think the Republican party is going to serve their interests, they are being led down the proverbial garden path.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

*Ron Paul is actually doing very well in polls and in viewer response to debates, but the media don't seem to want to include him, so it's hard to know who really is favored by the public. Of course the public is fickle, so the favorite can change in a heartbeat.

And, oddly enough, the Values Voters had a straw poll on their debate (self-proclaimed "most important straw poll yet"), and even the four no-shows got votes. Go figger. Okay, Romney didn't get any. Mike Huckabee won by a large margin. Ron Paul second.