(Political Animal) PALIN AND RUSSIA, PART V.... It started like a harmless joke, didn't it? Sarah Palin is from Alaska, Alaska is near Russia, and since Republican rhetoric has become breathtakingly ridiculous lately, some of us joked that Republicans might think the proximity between the state and the country counts as foreign policy experience. It was meant as satire. No one really expected Republicans to make the argument.

And yet, he we are. On ABC's "World News Tonight," none other than John McCain became the latest Republican to make the connection.

Don Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz) just closed the first night of the Democratic Convention with a benediction....Try to find it, I'm sure it'll be all over youtube by the morning...It was amazing....but for now, here's an interview that he did with Christianity Today....

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2008/08/donald_mil...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWX5u69hmzY&feature=user

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/comparing-obama-and-mc...

Question: Does evil exist and if it does, do we ignore it, do we negotiate with it, do we contain it or do we defeat it?

Obama's answer:

Real people, real life, real love and forgiveness and healing.

Ya shabab...

This Friday, Pastor Khaled is going to join us to continue his series on Complete in Christ.
Be on time as we start exactly at 7:30pm.

Come excited and expecting the Lord.

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This article is about Obama's tire gauge solution:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1829354,00.html?imw=Y

And this article is about McCain trying to portray Obama as the Antichrist:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1830590,00.html?cnn=yes