Well done Straight up telling of the story with photographs that tell the story in images.
Photojournalism like the early years of LIFE magazine — not fancy but useful. This was really a very honest piece of work. Thank you.

I wouldn’t vote for Mitt Romney, for a list of reasons that we no longer need discussion, but I thanked him at the time for mentioning Mali and he deserves some credit now, in retrospect, for putting the word “Mali” on people’s lips. I’m certain that that mention to such a large audience had some positive effects. I am honestly grateful for that. Thank you Governor Romney. This was a good deed.

These denizens of the right-wing echo-chamber have two problems. #1 They are stupid. #2 They are liars. The product of the two together is stupid lies. Even propaganda has to pass the smell test. When you lack any sense of proportion along with insufficient sense of smell to sort out insincerity, you fail in the PR game. Not big news.

Riehl wrote: “”The guy had already been elected, and our message was that Barack Obama’s a socialist that wants to control your life. I’m not arguing that he isn’t, but is that a message people want to hear?”” I’m arguing that the message was bunk, from the getgo. It was never true and it’s not true now. It was just the lie you told each other in your circle jerk — the lie you foolishly chose to believe then more foolishly deluded yourself into believing you had convinced rational people, who decided that you were fools. Barack Obama attended a play written by a great social organizer of poor and formerly powerless people. That is a threat to democracy only in the mind of an idiot. On this and many other delusions they were wrong out the door.  When you’re headed in the wrong direction, it does not matter how far you walk. The problem of the right-wing blogisphere is abysmal judgment built around a an ideologically fixed set of puerile opinions, plus incredibly childish behavior that would serve to discredit even sound opinions if you had any.

In 5th grade, I was a jew in a Catholic school learning catechism.
In the end all it did was sharpen my BS detector.

You talk about freedom in the most imprisoned nation on earth. You are a joke.

I think that Senator Lindsey Graham figured it out;
The GOP is about to hit a wall because they are running short of old-White bigots. The need to get back to their economic agenda. Unfortunately for the Republican Party, their economic agenda also sucks.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives the following English translation of the Apostles’ Creed.[15]  In its discussion of the Creed, the Catechism maintains the traditional division into twelve articles,
the numbering of which is here added to the text. 1. I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
2. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
3. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
5. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again.
6. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
7. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
8. I believe in the Holy Spirit,
9. the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints,
10. the forgiveness of sins,
11. the resurrection of the body,
12. and life everlasting.
Amen. Really?  Does any adult sincerely believe that in 2012? How could that litany of lunacy be the foundation for a decent life? Really?

CREDO Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae,
et in Iesum Christum, Filium Eius unicum, Dominum nostrum,
qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine,
passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus,
descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis,
ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Patris omnipotentis,
inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos..
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum,
sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem,
remissionem peccatorum, carnis resurrectionem,
vitam aeternam.
Amen. Really?

PS. The “Catholic League” is one schmuck. Bill Donohue. This creep does not speak for most Catholics, even if he does take orders from the Hitler Jugen pope.