The Election

I've wanted to write about this for awhile but kept putting it off because information changes hands so fast these days and perhaps I just wanted to make sure I was expressing an opinion and not preaching or regurgitating the news with my own bias. Am I biased? We are all biased. I definitely am biased towards the democratic party as if it were some sort of club or clan I have always been a member of. In reality(where I sometimes visit) I do allign myself with the more liberal thinking and less religiously influenced democratic party but when you announce this there is always someone who brings up Ted Kennedy's car accident or Bill Clinton's affair as if these things have changed the world. I don't really care if Sarah Palin tried to have her relative fired from the state troopers, what I care about is the big picture. If there is any doubt about what the big picture is then you better pick up a freakin newspaper. Did the Republicans do this? Yes they did but they weren't alone. Greed has done this to our country and it wasn't done solely by the non right Christian community. I would suggest it was done primarily by them but what do I know. But trying to keep it simple, we have two presidential candidates running and we have to pick one. Are they both horrible? No, and when I hear that from people I record their ignorance to avoid later conversations. I do believe we have a great candidate and that is Sen. Obama. I really used to like John McCain before he sold out to the right and stopped expressing his views and started spewing the embarrassing garbage his speech writers have him saying. It's like when Bob Dole lost, after the election when he could be himself, I discover he was an intelligent, very funny human being. All this high school name calling McCain is doing is so beneath him but perhaps he is reaching out to the Wal Mart shoppers whose sole goal this year is to get a new set of snow tires for their pickup. After watching the debates could anyone with an ounce of intelligence believe this man could lead our country back towards some semblance of greatness? Doesn't he just smell of the cronyism of the past 8 years where we have been raped of our standing in the world and our standing in line at the supermarket? Is this man of Religion going to stop killing people in a country whose people looked like Bin Laden. "Thou shalt not Kill" had no caveats in the Bible I read as a child that made exceptions for people who lived in places with oil under the ground. Don't buy this? How many troops are in Darfur where the people are Black and the ground has no Oil? Want to argue about this? Read up on the past few years history there first. Do I think Obama is perfect? I have yet to see anything bad about him except for the stupid minister and weathermen thing which makes up a mille fraction of his career. This man speaks clearly, seems as honest as I can tell, has charisma, and doesn't talk down to me or treat me like I'm stupid. I have always felt Joe Biden should be running all the foreign affairs of this country, he has more knowledge in is little finger than Sarah Palin has in her entire brain. Ok, Ok, I am preaching, but I have never felt so strongly about an election in my life. It started out that I would vote for anyone who wasn't George Bush's friend and ended up with someone who will do a great job. So don't tell me this year that it doesn't matter, all politicians are corrupt, blah blah blah. Go Vote. If you like the way things are, vote for McCain. I don't say this meanly, only factually. If you need things to change like I do then Vote for Obama. Just remember, John McCain is not Jesus Christ and if you are voting for him for religious reasons, please do some research. Obama is not Satan, do the research. If you are voting republican because you are against abortion, McCain cannot change that nor can Obama stay it. Go vote against abortion somewhere, but this year please vote for the change we need, it is time to be desperate yet we have such an excellent choice. I believe this with all my heart