Friday, November 05, 2004

Stereotypes of Bush voters absurd

Whole article is good. read it.

Stereotypes of Bush voters absurd
Millions of Americans just may have had it up to their eyebrows with those who disdain their intelligence and mock their religion.
By Jay Ambrose

I take particular umbrage at the caricature some paint of the religious. When you listen to someone like the TV comedian Bill Maher ridicule Christianity, for instance, you wonder whether he has any notion at all of tenets residing at the heart of the faith: that we can experience forgiveness if we ourselves first forgive, that we can find redemption even when our lives are in tatters, that nothing less is demanded of us in our dealings with others than sacrificial love. This is the stuff of satire?

Another proposition of the faith is that confession is good for the soul, and I have to confess that I am not in a very forgiving mood. It delights me to suppose that Bush-despising Hollywood lefties may actually have aided his cause in their excessive rhetoric (check out Richard Dreyfus's speeches someday) or their middle class-alienating vulgarities (see Whoopi Goldberg's jokes about the president).

I get special joy -- I must get over this -- in contemplating the hell Michael Moore might go through if he dwelled on the possibility that he contributed to the Bush victory by so unmistakably signaling his elitist attitudes.

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