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Catholic Vote’s new ad: “We are Americans”
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jmcgee
That’s the final emphatic line of this new ad from CatholicVote.org. It’s not nearly as effective as the ads they produced for the’08 election, and I find a lot of this frankly over-the-top. But it certainly makes its point. Take a look.
“Where the streets have no name…”
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jmcgee
Ahead of the anniversary of 9/11, this remains one of the most powerful tributes. It never fails to move me, no matter how many times I’ve seen it:. the stunning performance by Bono and U2 at the 2002 Super Bowl in New Orleans. Listen closely near the beginning and you’ll hear Bono say, “Lord, open…
Sad but true
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jmcgee
Over at his blog, Andrew Sullivan shakes his head in disbelief at the events of the last 24 hours in Gainesville, and concludes: “We live in an era of religious fundamentalism and fanaticism, exploited, used and manipulated by politicians, for their own purposes, and used by the media for its own. This has always been…
“Reprehensible”
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jmcgee
“I view with great dismay the plan to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by members of the Dove World Outreach Center. Out of respect for those of the Muslim faith, members of our faith community should consider the proposed desecration reprehensible. Now more than ever we must work…
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