* Of God and Country

I felt like puking as I listened to cable-news replays of the leading Democratic presidential candidates trying to suck up to the electorate with yap about their personal faith, their personal relationship to their God, etc. In these blatant and vacuous appeals to mainstream theism, they come across to me as either hypocrites or sots. (See e.e. cummings' poem "next to of course god america i.")

[Added same night:] Well, now listening to the Republicans fall over each other supporting creationism, the Democrats sound like veritable "freethinkers." Gov. Mike Huckabee: "If they [the voters] want a President who doesn't believe in God, there's probably plenty of choices." Huh?!?! Where?! Again, not even a Democratic candidate (at least one who deemed him/herself electable) would have the nerve to admit as much. Again, harking back to my blog on "freedom," there are only certain limited positions that are deemed "within the truth" of mainstream political discourse.