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If Obama wins, I resolve not to be bitter and angry. If Obama wins, I am not going to move anywhere else. (While admitting that unlike liberals with their utopian dreams of Canada and Europe, there really is nowhere else for me to go.) And as I said after our loss in 2006, if Obama wins I am not going to declare that the entire 50-52% (or whatever margin) of the nation that voted against me are a bunch of idiots for disagreeing with my political views. They are my countrymen, and our disagreement doesn't change that, or shouldn't.
There are going to be things that make me sad if Obama wins, very probably things that break my heart. I make no secret of the fact that I believe much of his agenda, particularly the social agenda Obama stands for, is evil. Not the gleeful hand-wringing evil of movie villains or the unambiguous tyrannical evil of your average despot, but the tragic evil of misguided good intentions, which is a thousand times more dangerous and pervasive than either of the first two.
If Obama wins I fear I must bid farewell to the dream that I will see the great wrongs of society righted while I am still a young man. I will have to watch as the darkness gathers over the land that I love, and for a time I will mourn all the more the wasted potential of the past eight years, the broken promises and squandered dreams bequeathed to us by leaders who promised much and delivered little.
But if Obama wins, ironically, I feel I will have great hope -- not because of him, but in spite of him. Never does the light grow more than when darkness is ascendant. Whether in two years, four years, eight years, or twelve years, this too shall pass. In the meantime, I will work with every talent God has given me, to raise up a standard against the flood loosed on the world by principalities and powers. If the light is going to win this time, or any time...a lot has to change about the way we do things. I believe this is my vocation. I don't know all the "hows" yet, but the "why" is because I love my country, and that's reason enough.
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. --Paul of Tarsus
October 20 2008, 02:34:11 UTC 3 years ago
...really?
October 20 2008, 02:43:19 UTC 3 years ago
That, or Steak became a genius satirist when we weren't looking.
October 20 2008, 03:08:19 UTC 3 years ago
Yes, there are portions of Obama's policies that I think are evil. But my definition of evil doesn't require a person doing/supporting evil things to be an insane puppy-eating mastermind or something. I'm not saying "Obama = Bin Ladin/Hitler/Stalin/Mao" or something like that -- I give him the benefit of the doubt on being well-intentioned, like I do most people. But I don't think being well-intentioned and doing things that are evil are always mutually exclusive. In fact, I think history shows they almost never are.
October 20 2008, 03:14:00 UTC 3 years ago
Evil, it is a strong word.
October 20 2008, 03:37:35 UTC 3 years ago
Evil is a strong word, but I believe it exists, and I don't believe there's any point in equivocating about it. I'm not going to say "stupid" when I'm not talking about a real, objective standard of intelligence as opposed to ethical issues.
October 20 2008, 21:49:45 UTC 3 years ago
October 21 2008, 00:57:29 UTC 3 years ago
Truth be told, I don't really like either candidate's economics all that much, because I feel more radical change is needed than ANY candidate is willing to support this election cycle. Tax Cuts here, tax cuts there, a little more money here, a little more money there...I feel like we're slapping little patches on rotten-hulled sailing ship, when what we need to do is give this bloated Man O'War a viking funeral and head back to the shipyards to start over. And I just realized that I can't seem to talk about economics without sounding like a pirate.
October 20 2008, 12:21:01 UTC 3 years ago
It's akin to the old phrase: "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions".
October 21 2008, 22:09:40 UTC 3 years ago
What did I say Steltek?
"If there was anyone worth voting for? I would." I think there should be a "oh hell no for either one of them" option on the voting ballot. I haven't really seen anyone else running either save for these two. It's like watching a 2 alpha wolves fighting over who gets the deer.October 22 2008, 10:33:52 UTC 3 years ago
Re: What did I say Steltek?
Except in the case of our current candidates, it strikes me more as the tiny young puppy fighting with the one-foot-in-the-grave old codger over a bit of bacon.Comparing Obama or McCain to "Alpha Wolves" is an insult to Wolves.
Check the independents and third-party types.
There are others running, but no one really gives a crap about them.
October 23 2008, 03:57:42 UTC 3 years ago
Re: What did I say Steltek?
Only because one is black and the other has a woman running as his vp. thats the only thing that hypes thier shit so it doesn't smell as bad as it should.