There is hope in young Christian Conservatives-Really!!! [View All]

[Tsiyu]

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/fishwrapper.html

From John Sugg's "Fishwrapper" column:


(this concerns high school students being placed in internships with Repukes in a Repuke-dominated district, and one student's complaint about her treatment)

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In the fall of 2003, Thompson placed McMichen into Hobbs' clutches. Thus began the student's political awakening -- but not in the way Thompson surely hoped.

"You think there's an executive there when you call, but no, it was just a 17-year-old intern, me, making $200 a month," McMichen says. "I had it all, if you look at it one way. A big corner office with big windows. I rubbed shoulders with the who's who ... Newt , Hastert, Gillespie, Sonny Purdue, all the time, and even Dick Cheney himself. And, oh yes, Zell Miller, but he was the only Democrat I met."

Pretty heady stuff. If she had done what was expected -- play brain-dead -- there would have been some nice payback. "The college recommendation letter opportunities were booming," she says. Hobbs offered McMichen, an aspiring journalist, a job on his right-wing scandal sheet, Georgia Citizen.

Then came McMichen's epiphany. "I began being more passionate about politics when I was passing out a resolution supporting the war," she recalls. "I realized I was against the war. Period. War is not a Christian value."

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