All in Agreement

It seems that several groups of people have ulterior motives for voting for Barack Obama this election year. I have been hearing and reading articles that suggest that there are certain groups who will vote for him for reasons having nothing to do with how they perceive his ability to be a good President.

For example, there are certain people (not all African-American, by the way) who will vote for him simply because he IS an African-American (and contrary to what Rush Limbaugh believes, this truly is a small minority of the population)

Another small segment of the population are actually some ultra-Conservative Republicans, who will vote for him to punish their own party for leaving the core values of the party. They feel that by putting him in place will galvanize the Republican base for the midterm elections in 2010.

Another small segment is truly whacko! These are some white supremists out in California who will vote for Obama because they believe (in some sicko Charles Mansonite logic) that it will spur a race war and cause all the "complacent whites" to finally get out of their lounge chairs and demand to regain their place at the controls of the country.

All of this is faulty logic and truly insane. But you know, as my father used to say, "Whatever works!"

If it gets him into the White House so that there is finally some respite from the virulently aggressive hawks who have been digging America's grave for this entire decade!

G'Obama!

VG

WSJ yesterday

While glancing over the Wall Street Journal yesterday I noticed an article that was talking about how, in the waning days of the presidency of George W Bush, his administration is force-feeding a bunch of legislation - fast-tracking it in order to cement the legacy. The article did mention that this is truly nothing new, as Clinton did the same thing in the last days of the 20th Century.

In fact, everybody does it, the article said.

The difference though, is in the people that they upset, what with their racing legislation through so fast it has no time to be reviewed, critiqued, discussed, or amended.

Clinton's speedy end-of-term legislation pissed off the Logging Industry, the Coal Industry, the Oil and Gas Industry, and the Construction Industry.

Bush's speedy end-of-term legislation is pissing off Animal Rights Activists, Wildlife Protection Activists, the Forest Preservation Lobby, and almost every single Environmentalist there is.

Regardless of what side you fall on who you like and who you don't, you MUST admit this:

One group wants to tear down in order to build up, and the other group wants to preserve.

You can always tell what side you're really on by the kind of people that someone hacks off. Me,
I side with the people who want to protect living things, not those who want to rape the earth in order to make a greasy buck.

Call me Mr Tree Hugger, and I'll lay down in front of your bulldozer.


(Where are the good protest singers these days, anyway?)


VG

Christian and no Conservative

I don't know exactly how the Republican party has become so very good at making Christians feel as thought hye can't vote for a Democrat. I'm quite certain that there are millions of seekers of truth out there who can pile on page after page of evidence as to how the Republican party has subverted true Christianity into some fearmongering enterprise, but siuffice it to say, they';ve done a very good job iof it. A decent Christian can't rightly vote for a democrat these days without the conservative propoganada making him or her feel as though by doing so, they are apporviing carte blanche babykillers, for homosexuals to mate openlyon your front lawn and to take away all the money that decent hardworking people earn and give it to the meth addict down the street.

Which is all absolute balderdash. The fact that the conservative party has somehow appropriated the title of Christian is in fact a disservice to Christianity. It is extremely hard to show people the true love of Jesus Christ when these intolerant bigots cloak themselves in the Shroud of Turin to further whatever political agenda they have at the time (one of the most notorious examples in recent years would be to wage war)

It's time for the moderates and the liberals to take Christ back away from the clutches of the Religious Right and put Him back where He should be - as a Saviour for all of us. Not just those who want to keep gays in the closet, take away women's rights to control a fundamental function of their bodies, or damn the rest of us to Hell for daring to speak out against an unjust war.

In fact, I read once somewhere in the notes of a great philosopher (an Italian immigrant who ran a corner store in Manhattan for fifty years in the Twentieth Century) who stated that Jesus Christ was perhaps the greatest Liberal ever. Period. Let's see if I can remember how he put it:

Did Jesus Christ say that you can eat only if you can afford to eat? No. He said, "Everybody eats." (The feeding of the five thousand - the Body and Blood from the Last Supper)

Did Jesus Christ say that you can only get healed if you have health insurance? No! He said, everyone can be healed. No one is turned away.

Did He say pay your taxes? YES! He said "Render unto Caesar's what is Caesar's and render unto God what is God's"

Did Jesus say put people down because they were lowlifes? No! In fact, about the Mary Magdalene, the whore with seven demons - who most likely in today's American culture would be akin to a meth addict who kids go malnourished and whose utilities have been cut off and who whores herself for the price of a fix and whose whole house stinks like fecal matter and dead rodents - He said, I will be with her, because she needs ME.

So, my friends, if I have any friends out there in the blogosphere (because I don't know because I never hear from any of you) -

I say we tell everybody that Jesus Christ is neither to the LEFT nor to the RIGHT -

He is right in the center - and directly ABOVE.


Let's turn our eyes to Him and follow Him the way He's meant to be followed, and not use Him like a poster child to further our own wants.

Thank you, and good night.

VG