by Jim » Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:09 pm
Is there any truth to the rumor that the meeting will be called the “Baptist Hajj,” the better to reconcile Baptists with Muslims instead of just reconciling Baptist whites with blacks and vice versa…not to mention honoring some of (if not most of…who knows?) the Carter Center’s financial backers? Atlanta- as-Mecca has a nice sound, but San Antonio as the only signed-up participant city thus far seems ominous for the NBC – that Alamo thing, doncha know. As for timing, one supposes the meeting should have been held last January (the triennial thing, to be exact), but then, of course, the latter half of November is much closer to 2012, another quadrennial madness, with Obama needing all the help he can get, although Hillary didn’t profit the last time around, even with hubby Bill on the program. Alas, the climate has been cooling since 2008 (since 1995, actually), so St. Albert, lately of masseuse-fame, will not likely appear, a terribly inconvenient truth, though the polar-bear king seems to be having a good time lately.