I am a complete lunatic however when I think that everyone should have healthcare in the richest country in the world. When I think that the poor need more than fancy talk, they need real help; I am absolutely nuts. Mind you, I have actually worked with the impoverished and the disabled for the past 17 years, so maybe I am a little biased in my insanity. In the spirit of full disclosure, John McCain would be better for me personally. Based on my salary, his tax plan is better for me than Obama’s. My professional work right now is in Welfare to Work, so again, McCain is better for me. Time to lock me up in a straightjacket I guess.
I just want the truth. If you line up where both candidates really stand on the issues and at the end of the day you vote for McCain because he is pro-life; so be it. Just don’t vote for him because you think that Obama is a Muslim, or doesn’t wear a flag pin, or won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance, or wants to take “in God we trust” off of currency, or is going to raise your taxes. Don’t vote for McCain because you think he represents true Christian values, is a maverick, is a reformer, or any of the other lies they keep peddling out there. None of this stuff is true and the truth should matter.
It was a sad realization for me however when it dawned on me that the truth doesn’t seem to matter much to most of my Christian brethren. They forward emails full of outrageous lies, written by corrupt politicians pretending to be Christians, and think that someone who merely points them in the direction of the truth is a political lunatic. They are being used by people who co-opt their beliefs and twist Christ into a horrible caricature to suit their own ends.
There is truth and there is fiction. There is black and there is white. There is right and there is wrong. It is not a political opinion to say that Barack Obama mocked the bible, as a recent email suggested to me. That is what is known as a lie. The horrible liar that put the video and email together is a republican strategist who has formed a 527 where his website brags that he hopes to be the swiftboat organization of the 2008 election. He has ties to disgraced republican felon Jack Abramoff. Not only is he not a Christian, he does not care for Christians. But he does care who Christians vote for. So he splices a speech from Obama, taking things horrifically out of context and turns a message praising the Sermon on the Mount into a distortion of Obama allegedly mocking the bible. Then he buys some Christian email lists and creates a faux-outraged Christian email and sends it out once. He only needs to send it out once because we will oblige and send it to the ends of the earth without so much as checking the facts. My bible says we were to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth, in His love, not lying emails smearing someone who was actually praising the Beatitudes. But what do I know? I am alone. I am just a political lunatic.
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