Well, we’re getting into September, and the political stuff is taking off, gearing up for one of the most interesting elections in the last couple decades.
I’ll be doing some more political ramblings over the next week. Some things on my heart to say, but I will return again to more spiritual matters next week … don’t get too bogged down. Stay with me.
This election, as with most, will come down to who turns out and votes. This makes McCain’s choice of Palin really smart. He did several things in one blow — he showed his commitment to many conservatives while revealing to many moderates that he is not like the rest of the party and takes issue with them, as well. Not to mention Palin is a woman and very strong and has a great history of taking down corruption. Very smart choice that could really pull many moderates and independents his way and turn out for his ticket.
In fact, a few Democrats that I know, long die hard ones, are really bothered by the whole Obama thing. You wouldn’t know it from the coverage of the election, but there are many long standing Democrats who have a problem with many of Obama’s stances … on abortion, extreme socialism, etc., and are planning, for the first time in their lives, to vote Republican in McCain.
Most of the people I know who are die hard Obama supporters are either way liberal themselves or Christian “converts” to the Democratic Party. By “converts” I mean that they used to be more socially and economically conservative Christians in their political thinking but have turned a complete one-eighty and now show the same towards the Republican Party that they used to show towards the Democratic Party … you know, name calling, mocking, bitter, all that … funny how some people don’t change even when their politics do … and that does go both ways.
But the Democrats have a few things going for them. Obama is a charismatic figure, so the love the mainstream media shows him is more likely to work when it just couldn’t with Kerry four years ago. The mainstream media has also done a good job painting the Iraq War as a failure and grossly unpopular and all that, despite many positive things that have happened as a result of it and a troop surge that has worked. All of this has energized the liberal base and pulled in many who are unsatisfied with the current administration, for several reasons, many of which I’d even agree with.
So it will be interesting to say the least.
I’d like to conclude this post by pointing out how the Democrats and liberals are showing their true colors … the amazing, although not surprising, hypocricy shown throughout the last couple weeks and months.
For instance … why weren’t there violent protests by conservatives at the DNC? I mean, I know many who really disagree with much of what they stand for and are motivated to make sure they don’t win in the upcoming election, but why didn’t a party supposedly of ignorant, gun toting, violent people show up at the DNC and cause a scene? Why is it a liberal sneaks into the RNC and is incredibly rude? Why is that acceptable? If it were done in the opposite sense (if a conservative interrupted the DNC as rudely as she did), that person would have been lynched by those peace loving liberals and the media would have painted that person as a dangerous loon.
Moving on, why hasn’t Cindy McCain been invited onto the View or other major shows? She is way more interesting than Michelle Obama. I mean, have you read about this lady? She has been incredibly successful in her own business (which, by the way, is why John didn’t know how many houses he had … she has her own assets … why aren’t feminists happy about this?), sits on the board of a charity Michelle Obama only donates to, has adopted a couple poor kids from India at the behest of a Nobel Prize winner, Mother Theresa, and routinely goes to other countries to help find landmines that randomly kill children in underdeveloped countries … she actually saw a kid die from one … How is this lady not pasted on the front page as a great woman?
Because that would go agains the media’s primary objective: get Obama elected. It is so obvious it’s actually funny. Every word and action by the Republicans is questioned or criticized while the Democrats, and Obama especially, is “inspiring.” I mean, they even question Palin’s experience … and yet continually hail Obama as this great choice for the leader of the free world … when she has WAY more experience doing the exact things he says he wants to do, like fight corruption in Washington and corporations and govern in a bipartisan way.
Again, what is concerning to me is that many Christians, especially within the “Emergent” movement have been sucked into this frenzy without substance. I haven’t been happy with the Republicans in years, either, but if this is my only other option, I’ll need some more actual experience and facts to support it.
So, being the social studies major that I was … I’ll be doing some history lessons this week … two, actually, to address some of the major Christian concerns with both the Republican Party and why they seem to be flocking over to the Democrats.
Until then,
Peace.
Can we vote for Cindy McCain then? She sounds like someone who’s consistently pro-life. We need that now more than ever.
On the flip side, it did impress me that John McCain made good on promises about Hurricane Gustav. It was a purely political move to handle it the way he did, but it was also the right thing to do.