Jane Smiley: Joe Biden Asked Me For Money Today

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Jane Smiley

Joe Biden Asked Me For Money Today
Posted December 18, 2008 | 07:18 PM (EST)

Every week or so, Joe Biden sends me an email and tells me how expensive the transition is, and asks me to contribute yet again. This morning, after I gasped at the ridiculous choice of homophobe and anti-choice activist Rick Warren to give the invocation at the Inaugural, there was Joe again, holding out his hand. In his note to me, Joe didn't seem at all perturbed by his new alliance with a man who rejects and condemns everything I stand for. Joe just wanted my money.

I handed the Obama campaign as much as I was allowed to over the fall, and I bet I gave them a good deal more than anyone at the Saddleback Church. My suggestion to Joe is that instead of coming to me for money, he spend a little of his own and go see Milk, which I did last night. By the end of that movie, pretty much everyone in the audience around me was sniffling and weeping. It's a sad movie, and what's sad is not just that Harvey Milk and George Moscone were shot by a homophobic religious nut. What's sad is that Milk was shot in 1978, thirty years ago, and Rick Warren still hasn't learned which way is up--or rather, which way is the decent, Christian, and humane way to be--that is, give all Americans equal rights and stop fomenting prejudice and hatred against people you don't agree with.

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...But don't ask me for any more money until you figure out that Rick Warren hasn't been buttering your bread. People like me have been doing that, and we are getting a little ticked off.

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[davidinalameda]

1. just one issue with her column

Dan White, who assassinated Milk and Moscone, was not a religious nut

he was conservative but I don't see religion playing a part in the murders

[TahitiNut]

8. Are you saying that Twinkies aren't part of the Eucharist?

:silly:

:hide:

[davidinalameda]

10. only in churches

like Our Lady of the Ho-Ho's

but twinkies are blasphemy to those of us who believe that Little Debbie is the goddess

[TahitiNut]

11. (LOL!!)

But .... she shore don't LOOK like a Fudge Brownie!?!?

:rofl:

[davidinalameda]

14. LOL

you're funny

:rofl:

[mitchtv]

2. the Mr and me are anxiously awaithing our next

request.

[Mari333]

3. thank you for that ...n/t

[KG]

4. am i missing something here?

didn't the dems win big this year without the support of the homophobic fundy religous whacko vote?

so, obama needs to pander to them with by including warren butt-munch dude, um, why exactly?

[charlie]

15. A Sister Souljah a day, keeps the wingers at bay

...or something. Hell if I know.

[LeftCoast]

5. I replied to that email

Told Biden to go ask his new buddy, Rick Warren for some cash.

No more from me. Not for a long time.

[Mari333]

6. kick

hit them where it hurts..in the pocketbook.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. ...and Warren has plenty of money to give Obama...WAIT...maybe *that's* why he invited him...

???????????

[peacetalksforall]

9. Bravo! Jane Smiley and the people who replied to VPE Biden.

[applegrove]

12. I love Jane Smiley.

[Solly Mack]

13. K&R