Christina’s Common Sense

Under fire from, well, anyone with the IQ of their toilet bowl, Barack Obama has announced that he will resign from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The straw that broke the camel’s back, it seems, was Fr. Michael Pfleger (I’d like to know who ordained him, and why the Church keeps him around), who was a guest preacher at Obama’s now ex-church a couple of weeks ago. Pfleger sounded not unlike the white Jeremiah Wright with all his politicking (not to mention cursing) from the pulpit:

Obama has now withdrawn his membership from Trinity. However, the damage has been done. The revelations about this church where Obama blithely sat and learned these last two decades have shown Obama to be not the messianic figure everyone thought he was. He is now tainted as just another corrupt politician. The resignation from Trinity is not going to help. If anything, it’s going to look like a political move driven by ideology more than idealism. Which it is.

If I may boast a bit, I made it myself :).

You can tell it’s finals week because my posts are done late at night and are of little substance…

I’m not a fan of Chris Tomlin, but this is a really nice music video done for the movie Amazing Grace. If you have not seen it, I recommend you do—particularly if you’re interested in political activism and/or the intersection between faith and politics.

Also, I have changed my blog’s format as a result of the homepage not displaying properly on my screen and this being the most legible layout for such a situation. I hope it displays properly for you, and if it doesn’t I am trying to fix it.

I don’t know who made this video, but it sure is funny.

I developed an interest in Silent Cal after reading his autobiography (which I reviewed here) in my American Presidency class. Today in said class the professor played various sound clips of early-20th century presidents, but Coolidge was conspicuously absent. However, a portion of a speech he gave about lowering taxes is on YouTube.

Could Coolidge run in our current media age with that nasally Yankee accent? I have my doubts. Never mind his penchant for cutting taxes…

Sometimes I think I ought to become a reporter so I can go to the Press Correspondents’ Dinner. It might be worth it to witness speeches like this.

Dick Cheney, making fun of the press and himself:

Mitt Romney, on why he dropped out:

Or maybe I should get myself into a position where I could give one of the speeches.

After discussing Patton in my Two World Wars class last night, I stumbled across this on YouTube. It’s an overdub of the flag speech from Patton (which you should really see if you haven’t yet), and done very well. Hold out for the end!

And for those who wish to see the real thing, here it is:

As a piece of worthless information: Reagan got out of Hollywood because he lost the role of Patton to George C Scott. Can you imagine Reagan giving that speech?

Thanks to Katie for showing me how to embed :).