If you haven’t read his article go read it. It will be amusing to both the left and the right. It’s about his reaction to protesters who passed by a fancy restaurant that overlooked the beach they were marching on and he felt they were harshing his mellow and spoiling the laid back mood of the beach with their protest.
I think the article demonstrates how quick we are to bring our presuppositions with us when we evaluate what the other side is doing or saying. I see that a lot when I read your comments. You think just because I support certain conservative positions that I support them all. I don’t. Or that my reasons for supporting conservative positions align exactly with the religious right or Republicans but they don’t.
Right now, I’m a bereft of a political home. I could never support the Democrats because of their abortion position and their socialistic tendencies (big government intrusiveness into our lives with the biggest one coming — health care rationing). I’d support the Republicans if they would stick to their original principles of smaller, less intrusive government and less spending but I don’t see that happening. I’m not a libertarian, mainly because of their abortion and drug positions. I also believe that the states are obligated to take care of the least of these (the elderly, children, the homeless, the mentally ill and those who have fallen on hard times) and provide for well run public schools or give the parents a chance, by providing vouchers, to find a private school when they fail to do so and I’m not sure libertarians support those positions.
I find that as I think through these issues through the grid of my theology (Reformed theology which is biblical theology by another name :-), my position softens in some areas and hardens in others. I think that taking prophets last semester helped soften some of my issues on poverty (I still think that it should be state run but I’m less inclined to fault the federal governments involvement by providing money even though it’s not part of their constitutional duties which makes me even less of a libertarian and conservative, I know) but my position on taxes and spending has strengthened. I believe that excessive taxes to pay off your cronies is a misuse of the taxpayers money and poor stewardship of the wealth that God has given to America. Lawmakers will one day be held accountable for that waste (I learned that from prophets as well).
And one thing I’d like to make perfectly clear since this is an issue that keeps coming up (as it did yesterday on Twitter when a WTS alum accused me of it), I don’t hate the president or vice president at all. I have no reason to do so. I don’t invest that much of my life in what they’re doing right now because I have bigger fish to fry (like cancer, preparing to graduate from seminary and now preparing to write a Bible study). I’ll eventually pay higher prices at the pump because they refuse to allow for more drilling, I’ll have my health care rationed if they pass their nationalized health care program, eventually we will be paying higher price when inflation kicks in (which it always does when a government prints money and spends massively more than they receive), I’ll have to pay $1300 more for a new car that will probably be less safe than the one I have now and even though I feel anger over their irresponsibility, it never raises to the point of hatred, especially since Obama and (I think) Biden have said they are Christians:

1 John 4:13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

And even if they weren’t I’m still obligated to love them:

Matthew 5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

I suggest that you guys who hated Bush because you didn’t agree with him not project your hatred onto me. I can disagree with people and poke fun at them and not hate them. It’s just the way I roll as a Reformed Christian.