Old Fogey's Quotes for Sunday

"It will take one or two punches to fold them up like a cheap suit."
Matt Keelen, a Republican lobbyist heavily involved in House campaigns
In a Pivotal Year, GOP Plans to Get Personal
[Dig deep folks and give often. The slime machine is cranking up]

"When we present Jesus as a pro-war, anti-poor, anti-homosexual, anti-environment, pro-nuclear weapons authority figure draped in an American flag, I think we are making a travesty of the portrait of Jesus we find in the gospels."
Brian D. McLaren, progressive evangelical pastor and one of contemporary Christianity's hottest authors
Evangelical Author Puts Progressive Spin On Traditional Faith
[Amen]

"There's nobody in the United States government whose job it is to find Osama bin Laden! Nobody!"
Frustrated counterterrorism official
Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold'
[Well, yeah. But we've got Sadam]

“I believe in a strong, robust executive authority, and I think that the world we live in demands it.”
Dick Cheney
Cheney’s Power No Longer Goes Unquestioned
[Never mind the annual survey, taken by the highly regarded German Marshall Fund of the United States, that shows that 77 percent of Europeans disapprove of the way Bush has handled international affairs (Bush's Approval Ratings Slumping Further in Europe]