I’m absolutely frustrated with politics right now.
For those of you who missed the presidential debate on Tuesday, I envy you.
We are sitting in the middle of what could be one of the most defining periods in a generation, and those who would promote themselves as potential leaders of the free world can’t even muster the cohunes to address tough questions in an honest and logical way.
To be quite candid, even a bogus answer to the actual question presented would be a breath of fresh air.
Apparently now it’s okay when asked a question like, “What would you propose be done to address the current economic crisis?”, to answer “Go across party lines” or “Deregulation is bad” and not be called out or questioned for it. For anyone who has even part of their brain turned on, the response to that should be nothing less than, “umm…..try again.”
The whole thing is almost childish at this point, not to mention that fact the rules and format determined by the presidential debate commission leave no opportunity for a quality debate to occur even if someone tried.
AHHHHHHH!!!
(breathe in.............hold it..............hold it...................breathe out)
Okay...I feel better.
To use the words in one of my friend’s most recent posts,
“Vent Mode: OFF”.
I suppose now that I've said that I need to say this – this whole eleciton thing compiled with our nation's current condition has got me thinking, and I believe that it’s critical the we who hold the Judeo-Christian worldview think hard, and figure out as best we can what living that story out looks like in our present circumstances.”
The discussion of faith and politics is one that I feel has been at a minimum, inappropriately addressed by many of our Christian friends, including myself. In light of that and the reality that soon we’ll be deciding on who will be the face of our nation for four years to come, my next post will begin dealing with that very issue.
In order to figure this one out we’ll definitely need everybody’s feedback, so stay tuned!
Once upon a time. . .
15 years ago
6 comments:
Yeah I'm totally ill-pleased with politics. I got scorned for criticizing Palin actually. I think people are thinking I'm not Christian or as Christian as I should be cause I'm not totally in the Tank for McCain & Palin. I'm going to write in Steven Colbert for president I think, lol. But yeah back to your point I concure.
Hey Lowell, in the words of Westley in The Princess Bride, "Get used to disappointment." :)
For years I was far too emotionally involved in the elections. But I don't say that to minimize their importance.
A part of living in expectation of the Kingdom is using everything in our power to bring positive change to the planet.
But I have come to the conclusion that neither party will save the world, or even America for that matter. They are two sides of the same tarnished coin. They represent one more failed attempt of mankind to create a utopia on the earth.
So I vote, I debate, I become informed, I advocate...
And at the end of the day, my real hope lies in the coming of Messiah's Kingdom.
So I guess we can ask, who is the better of two evils? The economy is hurting, should we try to go for the candidate that has the highest chance of fixing it or should we go with the one that has the highest chance of keeping the country in our moral standards.
I havnt really been following the debates to much, but I think that McCain has a 55% chance of fixing the economy and 35% chance of helping the moral issues of the US. And I figure that Obama has a 65% chance of fixing the economy and 15% chance of fixing moral issues. (Of course these calculations are exact and mathmatically derived :) ) I wish there was a third choice!
That's my point - we need another choice. To have another choice, we need a different apparatus through which viable candidates can move through (other than the Republican and Democrat parties).
That kind of thing, in this day, takes a boatload of cash...
I vote messiah.
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