That duck won't quack, Ron. ;-)

You know as well as I do that Rig is not just against organized religion...he's obsessively against it. He is pathologically against it. He's loony on the subject.

He was a Hillary Clinton backer, okay? He can't stand Obama, because he wanted Hillary to win. He thinks that the Democrats have screwed up so badly by picking Obama that he would probably be against Obama now no matter who else was in the race...and that has nothing to do with his hatred of religion nor does his favoring McCain have anything to do with him being hypocritical about hating religion.

Obama is officially religious. So are McCain and Palin. Hell, EVERY candidate who gets to run for president or VP in the USA is officially religious...they wouldn't dare NOT to be. And Rig is therefore against the religiosity of ALL of them...but other than that, he still has to decide whether or not to vote for Obama on a wider basis than merely the religion question (Obama also being openly religious).

Your endless attempts to embarass Rig by bringing up what you misinterpret as a conflict of interest on his part re religion are as futile as pissing on a forest fire, and about as silly.

Really, can't you come up with something else more substantial to argue with him about? Something that is actually relevant? Rig doesn't even bother acknowledging these silly personal attacks you make on him about his religious views pro or con, so they clearly aren't working...if he was bothered, he'd respond.

I've got an idea...why don't you just go "Nyahh! Nyahh! Nyahh!" repleatedly and stick your tongue way out at him, put your thumbs in your ears, and wiggle your fingers every time he attacks Obama. Maybe that will shut him up. And maybe not.

Let me explain it simply: IF Rig's ONLY interest in a candidate was that candidate's degree of Christian thinking...THEN he might be opposed to McCain and Palin.

Evidently (and not surprisingly) there are OTHER matters that also concern him about the candidates in addition to whether or not they are religious (which they all bloody well are)...and those OTHER matters are what are causing him not to support Obama.

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I think he's loopy, by the way....and I think you are too. But in a different way. He's obsessed with hating religion, you're obsessed with engaging in petty little personal putdowns of people you disagree with about politics.

Hillary is, I would say, less overtly religious than Obama or McCain or Palin. But Hillary isn't in the race anymore. If she was, Rig would be supporting her, and you would not be nattering on and on and on about him being a hypocrite about his anti-religious views, would you?

No, you'd have to find some other petty little pointless matter to natter on and on and on about....

"Well, we know now how seriously to take anything you say on that topic from now on." (if I may quote you from above...)