Posted on 10/13/2008 1:44:39 PM PDT by pissant
McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace.
I used to nod wisely when people said: "Let's discuss issues rather than personalities." It seemed so obvious that in politics an issue was an issue and a personality was a personality, and that the more one could separate the two, the more serious one was. After all, in a debate on serious issues, any mention of the opponent's personality would be ad hominem at best and at worst would stoop as low as ad feminam.
At my old English boarding school, we had a sporting saying that one should "tackle the ball and not the man." I carried on echoing this sort of unexamined nonsense for quite some time—in fact, until the New Hampshire primary of 1992, when it hit me very forcibly that the "personality" of one of the candidates was itself an "issue." In later years, I had little cause to revise my view that Bill Clinton's abysmal character was such as to be a "game changer" in itself, at least as important as his claim to be a "new Democrat." To summarize what little I learned from all this: A candidate may well change his or her position on, say, universal health care or Bosnia. But he or she cannot change the fact—if it happens to be a fact—that he or she is a pathological liar, or a dimwit, or a proud ignoramus. And even in the short run, this must and will tell.
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I agree - this atheist is writing this more against Sarah than against Obama who he sees as a twit but not as God fearing. Go back to the UK you Godless piece of dung.
You are absolutely correct.
Those that 'the god of this world has blinded' need our prayers. They may make things uncomfortable for believers, but we are only here for a short time, 'but we have a building of God, an house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens.
So we pray not only for the Palin family, and our country, but also for unbelievers. May the Gospel light shine in their hearts, to give them eyes to see and ears to hear.
Amen!
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