Whose "Values?"

"The cries for Democrats to overcome their "out-of-touch-ness" and embrace the predominant faith all dodge the full horror of the situation: A criminal has been enabled to continue his bloody work with the help, in no small part, of self-identified Christians."

There's more in a great piece in this week's The Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich.

I reject the propaganda narrative that Kerry lost the election because of "values" so-called. I voted for Kerry (after wrestling with his position on the war) precisely because of values--values that will never accept preventative war (per se a war crime), 100,000 Iraqis killed, torture as American policy, "enemy combatants," a lying president, etc.

I live in a different world from those who countenance the deaths of thousands in a nihilistic war, but get all bent out of shape if two guys look at each other funny. That's like trying to save the silverware as the house burns.