Hello, my avid readers - yes, both of you!

I took a few minutes today and re-designed my blog. Your thoughts?

There is a Christian-ophobic furor about Huckabee's latest offensive ad in which a Christmas tree was next to a bookshelf, and a Christmas card about Christmas from President Bush.

In response, Democratic candidates have unanimously agreed to remove all resemblances of Christianity from future campaigning.

The 9 Point Commitment Includes:

• No campaigning at street intersections, in case someone looks down from above and sees the cross-streets.

• No going to church, though some were contemplating starting
  

• No looking up, as this is reminiscent of Stephen, the first Martyr, and others looking to heaven.

• No more use of the letter "t," because it is the shape of the cross (when unable to avoid using the letter, they will use symbols of all religions, t=cross, *=Jewish star, c=crescent, %= yin-gang, @= universalism, $= worship of money, -=no religion, as in the sentence,
  
  "I'm happy (t*c%$@-)o be the candidat(t*c%$@-)e for presiden(t*c%$@-) of (t*c%$@-)he Uni(t*c%$@-)ed S(t*c%$@-)ates of America. (t*c%$@-)hank you."

(end sarcasm)

This week Mike Huckabee, one of the few practicing Christians in the presidential primary races released a Christmas ad. The guy was a Southern Baptist pastor for years before his 11 years as Governer of Arkansas, so he's always talking about his faith.

So he releases a Merry Christmas ad, reminding everyone that regardless of the nasty politics that are happening right now, we need to remember the reason for Christmas is Jesus' birth.

The response? The shelves of his bookshelf behind him with Christmas decorations looks like a cross!

Peggy Noonan, who didn't even notice the bookshelf on first viewing jumped on the political insanity bandwagon stating that in America, we don't "hit people over the head with [religion's] symbols in an explicitly political setting, such as a campaign commercial, which is what Mr. Huckabee's ad was." - His commercial wasn't forcing religion because he said Jesus is the reason for the season, but because a vertical and horizontal piece of painted wood made it into the shot.

But here's the problem : he was saying that he's a Christian and believes that Jesus is the purpose behind Christmas!

Subliminal messages are to get by un-noticed - he was saying the words outright!

I find it very interesting that it's not worth attacking the guy for what he believes, and what he is actually saying on the ad, but for some supposed politically-minded bookshelf that is subliminally agreeing with the speaker.

Doesn't this attack seem like the result of some disorder? I'm not sure if it's passive aggressive or just insane.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton's campaign is distributing fliers bashing Obama, using a quote from John Edwards to make Obama look bad, with Hillary no-where mentioned, so it looks like Obama has bad policies and Edwards is the one who is attacking... and who does everyone attack? The guy with the bookshelf that made a profession of faith.