Calling a radio show is hardly a "Stalin-like tactic."

Know how I define "Stalin-like"?

At a rally in Florida, Sarah Palin attacks Barack Obama for a supposed relationship with Bill Ayres. An audience member responds: "Kill him!"

At the same rally, an audience member hurls a racial epithet at an African-American sound man for a national network, then shouts, "Sit down, boy!"

Elsewhere in Florida, a UNIFORMED county sheriff appears at a McCain rally and rails against "Barack Hussein Obama."

McCain asks a rally, "Who is Barack Obama?" An audience member responds, "A terrorist!"

Palin attacks Obama for a comment (taken out of context) on Afghanistan. An audience member shouts, "Treason!" (And you know what we do with traitors, don'tcha?)

This election is entering a very dangerous phase. I can't wait until my car windows get broken out because I had the audacity to put an Obama bumper sticker on my car.

Nance,

That was one of the best-reasoned and respectful responses I've ever heard from you, so I'll lay off on the sarcasm.

I'll only say that I agree absolutely with your opinion that Jesus wanted nothing to do with politics; the combination of religion and government is a toxic stew that too often corrupts both.

"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." -- Matthew 22:21

Some people have viewed this passage as a statement by Jesus that a true believer should not obsess about taxes, as earthly wealth is a distraction from a focus on God (as you suggest by your statement that rich people have no need for God.) Of course, only Communists believe this interpretation.

The part where Jesus called for passage of a massive tax cut for millionaires was edited out of future editions.

"I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." -- Matthew 19:23-24

Of course, what Jesus meant by that is that we should give rich people another really big tax cut, even if it means we have to slash social programs for the poor.

Redferret,

Your confusion is understandable. Nance, you see, is operating in an alternate universe in which, earlier in this thread, someone actually did mention FISA, leading to his logical retort.

In this alternate universe your alternate self lamely suggested that FISA was not a "threat to our personal freedoms," leading to Nance's second killer zinger of the day.

Fortunately for Nance, McCain now holds a seven-point lead in the polls in this alternate universe. So he's pretty happy these days.