These are frightening times
Comments from Rev. Arnold Conrad, giving the invocation at a McCain rally in Iowa:
“I would also pray Lord that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their God — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his [McCain’s] opponent wins for a variety of reasons.
And Lord I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you would step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day.”
It’s pretty clear now that the idea of Barack Obama actually winning the U.S. Presidency has driven a fair amount of the populace to the brink, if not over the edge completely. Racists and xenophobes and wingnuts who have been at a low simmer for months are starting to boil as Obama’s poll numbers climb. I’m beginning to get as afraid about an Obama victory as I am an Obama loss. And that’s not a fun place to be.