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California Cell Phone Law and Obama's Christianity

By Silvia Mayers - Jul 2nd, 2008 at 7:32 pm EDT

Also listed in: Evergreen

On July 1st, the State of California began inforcing drivers to use hands free devices while using their cell phones during drive time. Every news story that I read or watched were either focused on the best headsets to use (because you can't live in Silicon Valley and not know the best technology out there) or what the law exactly meant (which basically goes like this: you can not have the actual cell phone to your ear while driving, but you can still text and dial phone numbers, unless you are under the age of 18, which means you can't do any of the above but drive with both hands on the wheel).

So I have a couple of questions: 1. If you can still text and dial numbers, is the California government saying that these two fucntions are not as distracting, if not more than having a phone glued to your ear?? Have they ever noticed how impossibly small the keyboard pads on cells are these days? and the most important...2. Why, in any of these so called news reports, does no one bring up the question "How necessary is it to use your cell phone while driving?"

Now granted, before I became a mother, I never thought twice about using my cell in the car. But now that I am a paranoid mother of one who is particularly irked by the rampant distracted drivers in this overpopulated city, I only use it in case of emergency. I know, someone give me a cookie, but that's one less distracted driver on the road! Thank me later.

On a completely unrelated note, I've also been keeping up with the 2008 election and this week, the press has been particularly interested in what Barack Obama is doing to reach out to the "evangelical vote." Sen. Obama has been hitting the trail and telling voters that he's a proud Christian and American. (Mostly, this is to debunk any rumors that the man is NOT a Muslim.)
And in report after report, it is left to be understood that "Senator Obama is a Christian man." Why does no one, including the Obama camp, want to address the bigger problem here and that is that whomever is spinning rumors about his religious ideologies has a definite agenda: That is to scare the public into believing that Obama is not truly American because he is not a White Christian man, and to continue to propogate the belief that all Muslims are inherintly evil, by ACCUSING the man of being a Muslim.

I can't imagine what it is to be a Muslim living in America these days, though, being a person of color gives me some insight. I understand that Sen. Obama is trying to win a campaign and not "alienate" certain voters, so he's coming out and saying "Look, I'm a Christian like most of America." But could he at least sprinkle a little Seinfeld in there by adding, "I am not a Muslim....not that there's anything wrong with that!"

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