by Peter Walker
I think my election buzz has finally run its course, and I’m starting to feel the effects of impending hangover.
Surveying the collateral damage caused by a long and vicious campaign season, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with all of the rhetoric still hanging in the air – some of it largely unchallenged. All is fair between politicians, but once the races finish, the American people are expected to forget the harshest allegations and campaign propaganda.
“I didn’t really mean he was a friend of terrorists…”
President-elect Obama called it “do anything, say anything politics.”
But I haven’t forgotten, and neither should you. As Christians, we have some claims to confront, and even more to answer for. Read the rest of this entry »
12-07-2008 |
65 Comments »I ran across the site How Obama got elected recently.
What do you think? Did Obama get elected simply because of the selective way the media presented information about the respective Presidential candidates? How does this website do on fairly presenting information?
12-04-2008 |
5 Comments »I enjoyed this as much as the first one.
10-31-2008 |
1 Comment »If you thought last week’s video was pushy, what about this?
You cannot be a Christian and vote for Obama
To all those who name the name of Christ who plan to willfully disobey Him by voting for Obama, take warning. Not only is our nation in grave danger, according to the Word of God, so are you.
10-30-2008 |
24 Comments »Craig (I had the pleasure of meeting Craig’s awesome wife Sarah in Denver – here’s their website) sent me this video as a suggestion for an interesting blog post. What do you think of it?
10-24-2008 |
22 Comments »So McCain did very well and Clinton and Obama both did well and are still fairly even, with Clinton a little ahead.
It was neat to hear Obama won Alabama, given the history of the Deep South.
The way things are going, James Dobson might not be able to vote in the Presidential Election at all:
James Dobson, the influential founder of the conservative, evangelical advocacy group Focus on the Family, has delivered a blow to John McCain – by saying he won’t vote for him if he’s the Republican presidential nominee.
“I am convinced Sen. McCain is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are … I cannot, and will not, vote for Sen. John McCain, as a matter of conscience,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for president in my lifetime. I certainly can’t vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions. If these are the nominees in November, I simply will not cast a ballot for president for the first time in my life,” he said.
Dobson said he was just expressing his views as a private citizen – but many of his millions of followers in the evangelical community, who listen to his radio show and read his books, will take it as a signal to do the same.
from here
02-06-2008 |
19 Comments »I’ve never been as interested in the primaries as I am this year.
I watched the results coming in yesterday evening (on the Internet, of course). At first I was disappointed Barack Obama was behind Hillary Clinton but I’ve decided I’m pleased she did so well. And he did well too – he came a close second.
I’m glad Hillary did well because I’m feeling more and more that there is a lot of hidden sexism in the objections to her. I’m not saying there are no legitimate reasons to prefer Barack Obama. But, I think some of the objections to Hillary have more to do with negative feelings about ‘aggressive women leaders’ than anything else.
I think being a woman leader is difficult, because a lot of leadership behavior is still thought of as inherently ‘male’ by a lot of people. Which means it’s fine for a man to behave that way but if a woman does, there’s ‘something wrong with it’.
I understand that racism may be a problem for Barack Obama – I don’t know as much about that first-hand as prejudice against women so I won’t comment further. I consider any progress against sexism or racism in this country to be a good thing and so I’m pleased to see Hillary and Barack both doing well.
01-09-2008 |
14 Comments »Some of the Republican candidates say why they think openly gay and lesbian people shouldn’t serve in the military.
11-30-2007 |
17 Comments »Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine included a very interesting article about Evangelical Christians and Politics: The Evangelical Crackup.
Just three years ago, the leaders of the conservative Christian political movement could almost see the Promised Land. White evangelical Protestants looked like perhaps the most potent voting bloc in America. They turned out for President George W. Bush in record numbers, supporting him for re-election by a ratio of four to one. Republican strategists predicted that religious traditionalists would help bring about an era of dominance for their party. Spokesmen for the Christian conservative movement warned of the wrath of “values voters.” James C. Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, was poised to play kingmaker in 2008, at least in the Republican primary. And thanks to President Bush, the Supreme Court appeared just one vote away from answering the prayers of evangelical activists by overturning Roe v. Wade.
Today the movement shows signs of coming apart beneath its leaders.
10-29-2007 |
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