Posted on 07/17/2014 7:34:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It's time to stop running away from the nation's troubles.
Barack Obama should see the Catholic Charities mission in McAllen. He should also have a town meeting with the Tea Party nativists who are so angry and threatened by the rush of refugees–43,933 unaccompanied children alone since October–who began to appear from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. His job, after all, is to rise above the rancor and, well, lead. You don’t do this by making a speech to a favored audience. You do it by taking action, setting a personal example.
Obama is currently wandering about the country, trying to meet average people, but the choreography is more stringent than the Bolshoi’s. He said he didn’t want to go to the border because it would only be a “photo op” … on the same day his office published a photo of the President and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shooting pool. Who choreographed that?
He needs to go to the border–on a lot of issues. If he’s going to accomplish anything in the last two years of his presidency, he’s going to have to change his style, which will be near impossible for a man as entrenched behind his flacks-in-jackets as the President is. He’s right about photo ops. Enough already. But there are other “ops”–study ops, passion ops, conversation ops. He needs to do something dramatic to win back the country.
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Your prejudice is apparent in that I am to be misunderstood and excoriated because I deprecate the Mormons making Jesus and Lucifer as brothers.
However, it is YOUR right to take exception. I still wish YOU and YOURS, as I wish the same for all the Mormon, ALL the blessings, peace and grace of our good Lord.
What is so scary is that in our country (with Canada, Australia and Europe) there is as free a vote as there can be. The rest of the world has no free vote.
We moan, groan and gripe about our voting outcomes but in other places there IS no voter outcome other than what the people in power want there to be. Less than half of those with the eligibility to vote DO vote in our representative republic, so REALLY a very small number of people decide on who governs (and thereby TAXES)us.
Nice to be so spoiled. Sad that relatively so few people are interested in who governs/taxes us.
WELL put.
Own it. You refused to vote for someone because you have an inherent prejudice against his Mormon faith. Many millions refused to vote for Romney because they thought he was a RINO, or because he was a Northern Elitist from Massachusetts , but you deliberately stated you with held your vote specifically because of an article of his personal faith.
” How could I vote for a person who believed that? Faith won out for me. I left the vote blank.”
Now your vote may not have made a difference in and of itself, but multiplied by millions it makes Obama the Commander in Chief for four more years of dismal.
Maybe YOU don't allow others the freedom of expression and choice that others allow you!
Matthew 6:19-21
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
I understand that your bigotry prevented you from voting in an election that required critical, rational thought.
That is your right. No one requires that a person do what they do not want to do. The fact is that you where motivated to act, or not act, by personal animus of a person who held a different religious belief.
You decided it was better to vote in, by default, the greater evil. A person who certainly disdained your form of religion and actively works to destroy it, instead of voting for a person who was at worst neutral on other peoples religious beliefs and would have worked to protect the religious practices of all.
Sell it in whatever you want, it was not religious conviction that caused you to not vote for Romney and instead not vote at all, it was religious bigotry.
Stop hiding behind religious verse that is irrelevant in a secular election against two political opponents. As a religious person you are compelled to participate in the Civil Society. It is only by great good fortune and God’s good will that we have the ability to chose our leaders. To decide not to do so is itself ungrateful and a shirking of ones own moral requirements.
An attitude like yours would find it difficult to vote for anyone that doesn’t have the exact religious beliefs and political views you hold. That is a very difficult proposition in a two party system.
If I am presented with 2 candidates I have nothing in common with, I will refrain from supporting either of them.
As is your right.
That being the case, please, pick yourself up and get in the game. Start a candidacy for office. Get elected to a position from which you can yourself create policy. Beyond that we are in for a situation where we will be given a choice between two less than perfect candidates, EVERY TIME.
When presented with two bad options we are compelled by our need for an ordered society to make the pick the better of two bad choices. No one of any real conviction could ever delude themselves that Romney would have be worse than Obama.
I am not voting for a certified lying leftist even if he ran against Satan. I don’t have a dog in that fight. I could not live with myself voting for a pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-gov care leftist like Romney.
Sorry.
The fault is his and his party that he lost. It is not my fault that they chose such a lousy candidate.
It’s that simple.
If they choose a lousy candidate they lose. It is not my fault or anyone else’s that he lost. It is their own fault.
They do not own me, they do not own my vote, I have duty to vote for a candidate I dislike, distrust and disagree with.
Romney lost because Romney was a bad candidate, period.
If you vote in Republican primaries, you either voted for or against the party nominee. If you did not vote in the primary, than you by default made Romney the Party candidate.
Regardless, once the nominee is decided, we have a responsibility as sane people to make a distinction. As for what you say of Romney, much of it may be true, but much may not. What is true is that Obama is much closer to Satan than Romney and is an economic illiterate into the bargain.
So many people decided to teach the Republican Party a lesson and the greater American Society as a whole by withholding their vote. Unfortunately, we all suffer and often the lesson remains unlearned. Such is the case with many a pudlik skool student. Those same lesson teachers are often the most shrill in their denouncements of Obama and his policies. That smacks of obtuseness, it is the height of mental masturbation. They attack what they by default promote.
I didn’t decide to “teach the Republican Party a lesson”
I decided I was not a Republican.
God bless you and yours.
Fine, feel free to revel in your irrelevance.
Right back at ya!
Thank you.
Mitt Romney is the one that is irrelevant, keep beating that drum though
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