My church is not political at all, and does not get into the issues. Watch the debate faciliated by Rick Warren this weekend between Obama and Mccain. I think a lot of the truth about the candidates philosophy can be put to the test.

Getting back to the fairness doctrine, I am still opposed to censorship unless there is obscene language on the radio or something. I read in a poll that nearly half of Americans favor the fairness doctrine. I wrote to my Congress person who supported it to change his mind; It is clearly censorship and it would not be to not let people’s voices be heard. Here is what I dug up though.

Nearly half of Americans (47%) believe the government should require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary

I think perhaps the reason Europe doesn’t have the church attendance both among Catholics and protestants that they are disillusioned by it’s corrupting power it had in Europe for centuries. They see the problems that religion has created in America and want n o part of it, many of them. In Europe religon was a source of many wars for centuries, and it is becoming that way here, with so many poor people listening to what their preacher says, rather than focusing on getting food on the table for their family, and their jobs being outsourced to foreign entities. That just isn’t right.

There are many people who have been great public speakers and spoke from ‘their heart.’ I’ll name some of them: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vladimer Lenin, Benito Mussolini, need I go on? The interesting thing about Obama, he doesn’t say anything. The only thing he says it ‘change, change, change,’ but he never outlines the change, other than raising taxes, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, and inflate your tires and tune up your car as his energy policy. That is ‘change’ but it’s not change I want.

I only wish President Clinton had taken Sudan up on their offer to turn Bin Ladin over to the U-S. He flat our rejected that offer. Had he accepted it, perhaps we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in right now.

Christians are pro-life because Scripture talks about the unborn. Psalm 139 is just one example:

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

To say people have the ‘right’ to kill a baby is just beyond my comprehension. If a baby is born prematurely (at six months), it’s considered a baby. But, if the baby is unborn (at six months) it has no rights. How, in an age when we have so much knowledge we choose to reject fact. IT A BABY whether it’s born or unborn.

Christians aren’t perfect. I’m sure not. Dont’ profess to be. I have no hope of being perfect. But, I do know that MANY Christians have been outspoken about the Republicans overspending while in control of the legislature. Dr. James Dobson was one of MANY Christians critical of the Bush administration and the Republican led Congress. The Republicans blew it. They deserved the defeat the last two elections. They abandoned their roots. They sold themselves out. They got lazy and forgot who and what message got them there. It was a Ronald Reagan message of less taxes, less government, less regulation — empowering the American people to work hard and pull themselves out of the trouble we were in. It was a wonderful message and Americans rallied around it. It was a message that was ALSO of empowerment. I don’t hear that message from Obama — it’s just a message of change with no particulars.

I know that I am set in my ways and it sounds like you are to, but I do not believe that our infrastructure is something I am too proud of. Fema was a nightmare,after Katrina and the response to that disaster totally showed the reality of poverty in this country. The money didn’t even get to so many of the needy people, and many people were supplied with trailers that had toxins in them. That is not a country I can be truly proud of. I look at injustice in our court systems, and I never hear Christian conservatives stand up against the immorality of a system that has convicted many people, later found not to be guilty. It is not what I believe nor what my church believes and I have lived long enough to think about these things carefully. It is a sad state of affairs.

But I look around at the world around me and see a country that has increased it’s national debt tremendously under the Bush administration. Christian philosophy should be opposed to borrowing money like we have, in order to help finance the war in Iraq.

JFK and FDR both had a boat-load more experience than Obama. FDR was not only a State Senator, but he was assistant Secretary of the Navy. Then governor. He had a ton of executive leadership before he ran for president. JFK was in the navy. His PT boat was rammed by the Japanese and he led many to safety. Then he won a congressional seat — then the senate. Are you kidding — these men had the SAME experience at Obama. That’s nothing short of a lie.

Obama less than an ideal leader? He’s not fit to run for the office. He wavers on foreign policy issues. He thinks Iran and Venezuela are small countries that mean little to the U-S and can’t fight for any issue that isn’t popular.

War isn’t a family value. War is bad. But, war is reality. Hiding our heads in the sand hoping terrorism goes away won’t make it go away. Many of you democrats, for what ever reason, want us to lose this war in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t understand it. Why would you want that? Even if you didn’t agree with why we went in there…we’re there. Let’s win it and get out of there. Can’t we at least agree on that?

If you want to talk about family values, let’s look at the issues. Obama is for killing families — babies specifically. He’s pro-abortion — even favoring killing babies the survive abortions. He’s for higher taxes, which takes money AWAY from families. He’s for taking money away from companies making money and giving it those who may or may not deserve it. Taking profits from a company and redistributing that money is nothing short of Marxist Socialism. Doing so would put companies out of business, creating more joblessness, which ALSO isn’t good for our families. The only thing Obama is for is more government, making families more dependent on the state to help them survive.

I’m not for that. I’m for empowering people to help themselves out of poverty.

We have a lot of community organizers around the world. I’m sure it’s honorable, but they shouldn’t be running for president unless they have the credentials to go with it. I sure wouldn’t hire a community organizer to run a multi-billion dollar company. And, I don’t think someone with those credentials should be running a multi-trillion dollar country.

What’s sad is that people won’t use their brain to get beyond the politics and use their brain to figure out who’s qualified and who isn’t. Take the Democrat and Republic title off the candidates and Obama has nothing but pretty words — no substance, no experience, and no convictions to be the next commander in chief.

Being a community organizer is a very honorable job to have. The neighborhoods throughout south Chicago, are some of the poorest and most crime filled communties in the Country. As a white male in a small town I can’t even imagine what it is like to try to create funding for churches, and protecting kids from gangs and drugs. Being a community organizer may sound like a liberal job title, however they exist all over the country.

As for defense, I am not at all worried, because foreign policy shouldn’t be a subject of bi partisan debate as it has the past 7 years. Our debates should be over health care, taxes, and our economy. There are just too many people in America who are waging partisan wars and we need to show some compassion for once. It is sad what our nation is coming to.