From what Obama's saying, it sounds serious.
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The thing for me is that an invocation is not a speech. It's not speech and so it is not directed at an audience. Even at a Presidential inauguration, an invocation is not directed toward the President. An invocation is a prayer.
The person giving an invocation is praying. Assuming the person who gives an invocation believes in deity of some sort of another -- s/he's going to be praying to that deity as he believes in him/her, so there's not sense (to me) in watering it down, or hiding it.
I think America's history and Constitution are more aimed at allowing people to speak their beliefs (whether they're theistic or not) in the public square, rather than pretend they don't hold those beliefs when in the public square.
And, again, let me apologize for writing the "j-word". I did not mean to offend, I simply wasn't thinking about how it would sound outside my head.
quester, speaking only for myself, I got the tone you were going for and took not one bit of offense.
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Teddy Kennedy's been taken out of the Luncheon on a stretcher.
God, if Teddy goes today . . . New York with two new senators? Gosh.
Obama almost gave me a heart attack when he started with "[Teddy] was...." and then paused. Longest pause ever.
God, if Teddy goes today . . . New York with two new senators? Gosh.
Teddy's Massachusetts' senior Senator.
Whoa. The past fifteen minutes or so, I've been hear police and ambulance sirens about every two minutes. I guess they're taking Teddy to GW Hospital?
God, if Teddy goes today . . . New York with two new senators? Gosh.
Ted Kennedy is from Massachusetts.
Longest pause ever.
Seriously.
I hope Kennedy is as OK as he can be.
In one of the shots of the Obamas at the luncheon, you can see a phone sitting on the floor. I wonder what that's for.
Teddy's Massachusetts' senior Senator.
Duh, I knew that.