Obama Whores for Right Wing Divines

It flabbergasted this morning to read that Barack Obama has taken up whoring for the right-wing divines by announcing he will continue and expand George Bush’s so-called faith-based programs.

Those programs, in case one has been asleep for years, shovel money from the Treasury into the coffers of churches running what they call charities. The aim of this effort is to buy Catholic and evangelical votes. So much for separation of church and state.

What this unconstitutional award of taxpayer funds does, in effect, is to plump up church finances: Money that the federal funds replace Elmer Gantrys of all sorts can now use to recruit the heathens for the Lord.

Many of these church operations make sure those who need food, shelter and other sustenance don’t get any unless they say prayers, sing hymns, speak in tongues, handle rattlesnakes and otherwise profess to be believers. The Catholic groups have been noteworthy in trying to exclude homosexuals from coming on staff.

So suddenly the great liberal, Obama, who has been shunning Moslems as if their very presence might give him AIDs, announces he now leads the Panders Party, thereby joining John McCain, the great maverick who will pull his pants down for any conservative nastiness, including faith-based programs.

It will interest to see if Obama will say, sure, let the Moslems get federal bucks too for their charities (the ones not staffed entirely by FBI agents). I wouldn’t bet on that.

It will also interest to see how Obama’s new moving to the right plays out with liberal Democrats. Such still have Ralph Nader to vote for.

At this point Obama is beginning to prove himself just another do-anything-to-win politician. It may be that the only thing that gets liberals to vote for him may be their intense disgust with George Bush and fear that McCain may just a trifle worse than Obama when it comes to selling out.

But the presidential campaign has a long time to run yet. Obama’s sniffing the polls. Who knows what he might endorse next? Overturning legalized abortion? Nuking Iran? Banning gay marriages?

Maybe his campaign slogan should be: Yes We Cant. No apostrophe.