Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
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Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
I was deeply disturbed to read this afternoon that Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston was an official stop on the Hillary Clinton for President campaign today. Every time I see Joel Osteen, with his insincere smile and gospel of divinely sanctioned wealth, I feel dirty. The man is so slick he fairly drips with snake oil, leaving a trail behind him as he leaves his stadium for Jesus.
Hillary Clinton’s political advisors might want to consider: If you win the Democratic nomination through an appeal to the followers of hucksters like Osteen, you’ll do so without the respect of many Democratic voters outside the Bible Belt. Of course, Democratic politicians have been campaigning on a neglect of Democratic voters for a long time, and getting away with it.
Maybe Clinton’s advisors have calculated that the number of Democrats repulsed by the connection with Osteen will be made up for by the number of evangelical Republicans impressed by it. Within Texas, of course, a Democrat is merely a Republican who has trouble pronouncing the “R” sound, so I suppose the Bible thumping will play well there.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
But it’s not as though the Obama campaign hasn’t stooped to Jesusification, too.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I don’t think it was an “official stop” as much as Bill and Chelsea just basically went to church.
If you read the comments, they’re all freaking out about dead babies and why people like the Clintons were ever permitted to enter the church at all. Good. Let them freak out. Having the Clintons there was good for them.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am
[…] did not serving as valuable campaign resources in yesterday’s primary elections. Sending Bill and Chelsea Clinton to Joel Osteen’s church in Houston, or having Reverend Joe King declare the Obama campaign to be “in Jesus’s […]
March 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am
[…] did not serving as valuable campaign resources in yesterday’s primary elections. Sending Bill and Chelsea Clinton to Joel Osteen’s church in Houston, or having Reverend Joe King declare the Obama campaign to be “in Jesus’s […]