Comments on: Ha!

By: Mox

Mox — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:12:14 +0000

A more independent interpretation of election night: http://volokh.com/2009/11/04/four-obvious-lessons-from-tonights-elections/

By: Halden

Halden — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:07:21 +0000

Thanks, Richard for the comment and the original post.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:04:00 +0000

The people who thought this could be a “referendum on President Obama” probably will think it was regardless of the outcome.

By: Bobby Grow

Bobby Grow — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:30:26 +0000

I thought the proletariat was the Obama crowd; have things ‘changed’ that fast?

By: Richard L. Floyd

Richard L. Floyd — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:35:55 +0000

Halden,
Thanks for putting up the link to my blogpost defending blogging. Between your link and Jason’s post last week about my blog, quite a few people have just found Retired Pastor Ruminates, for which I am most grateful. One salient thing I didn’t say in my post yesterday is that blogging has helped me stay in touch with younger voices. I notice that many theo-bloggers are graduates students or young scholars. I really enjoy having them as interlocators. I wish that I could have been in conversation with some seasoned theologs when I was sitting in my rural Maine parsonage trying to stay intellectually alive back in my late twenties. The irony of my being one to defend blogging is that I am a crazy bibliophile, child of two librarians, and have been accused of believing in “salvation by bibliography,” since I answer every question with a book recommendation. At age sixty, I am also most likely one of the few of us in these conversations who learned to read before I ever saw a TV.

By: Richard L. Floyd

Richard L. Floyd — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:17:38 +0000

I live five miles from the New York border and get my public radio from Albany. The media frenzy around this race has been spectacular, even by their normal distorted canons. Everybody wants to read the tea leaves in these small elections, but this one defies interpretation. The Democrat who won is a Blue Dog conservative, the Republican candidate, who dropped out, is pretty liberal and threw her support to the Democrat, and the Conservative candidate, who ran when he didn’t think the Republican was pure enough, lost votes by splitting the Republican vote. How this could have been a referendum on President Obama, no matter who won, eludes me.