It's official. Random At Best is officially endorsing the McCain/Palin ticket for president. The flood gates should open up in their favor. I think the polls will soon reflect the influence Random At Best has on the election. It was a tough decision, as both candidates are very qualified and will likely do a good job. To help me make my decision, I broke it down into three categories: Economic Policy, Social Policy, and Foreign Policy. I'll break the two candidates down based on these three categories.
Economic Policy: Unfortunately I don't think either candidate has the correct solution for the current economic crisis we now see ourselves facing. I think the "Bail Out" was more like a "Cop Out", but frankly, should one of the candidates come out and announce that they are against the bail out plan, it would be political suicide. Unfortunately, that says more about the voting public than it does about the candidates, but both have demonstrated that they are more concerned with winning votes with their economic policy rather than really addressing the problem. I call this a draw.
Social Policy: I would say that I align more closely with Obama than McCain when it comes to Social Policy. Now when I talk about social policy, I am mainly talking about the candidates responses to social issues, not their plans for social programs. When I listen to Obama, I hear someone who wants to advocate on behalf of the individuals who have been margenillized by society. And who is the ultimate advocate of all time for the "least of these"? Jesus of course. I don't mean to hyperspirutaulize the issue, but it is clearly demonstrated by Jesus that we have this obligation. I just don't get the same impression from McCain.
Foriegn Policy: Quite Honestly, McCain takes this one hands down. Barrack Obama on Foriegn Policy scares me. The single largest issue to face our new president will be foriegn Policy, even larger than the economic crisis. From what I gathered from the first debate, Barrack Obama is quite naive and unprepared to finish what was started in Iraq, much less know how to deal with other dangerous leaders in places like Iran.
With Foriegn Policy being the most important issue for the next president, Random At Best is officially supporting John McCain.
9 comments:
Have you thought about Ron Paul at all??
Also, about that social policy, "advocating on behalf of the individuals who have been margenillized by society," we could begin with the children who have yet to be born as the first people to be marginallized by our society. I'm pretty sure Obama is not ready to defend them! (Sorry to quote you on your blog!)
I agree with most of your thoughts Ryan. See. I told you I'm not a contrarian!
As far as Ron Paul, haven't looked into him much, but I prefer to vote for someone who stands a chance. Wait. I live in CA. So a vote for McCain is also throwing away a vote. At least if I vote for Paul I can defer all blame no matter who wins. I might be talking myself into Ron Paul on your blog...and I don't even have a clue where he stands!
Some questions and comments with regards to Jesus and social policy:
HOW did Jesus respond to the needs of the "least"? Did he go lobbying away to get someone to take care of the issue for Him, or did He take matters in His own hands, going to these people Himself and personally addressing the issue?
I am by NO MEANS convinced that the government is the best way, nay, a good way at all to address these issues.
If we want change, and are following in line with Jesus' example, WE should be the change in His name.
If we feel compassionate towards the person on the corner who has no clothes, nothing to eat and no place to live we should buy them something to eat or give them somewhere to sleep or cloth them ourselves, not look to Big Brother to do it for us.
Jesus didn't.
Furthermore, I believe that high levels of governmental social programs = heavy dependence on the government itself. When this occurs, where do people's dependence and faith shift to? The government.
Where should people's faith and dependence be? Jesus. Who should be showing them the love of Jesus? Us.
Imagine if all of the millions of dollars spent on political campaigns went instead to non-profit or non-governmental agencies that addressed all of these social issues at a local level!
Unfortunately, we as the Body of Christ have not historically addressed this issue enough and thus are in the position we are where it is the norm to look more and more to the government to solve these issues for us instead of "getting our hands dirty" ourselves by rolling up our sleeves and volunteering at homeless shelters, or raising funding for our own mission, etc.
That said, I don't think we should support the idea of allocating large amounts of resources to governmental social programs, but rather smaller and non-profit, non-governmental agencies that are much more fluid, dynamic and effective than the government. As well as, and most importantly, much better vessels for showing people Christ's love.
Dear RAB,
Bold move.
Your faithful reader,
Mrs. Matthew Danger Troxell
Wow, I was really on the fence about who to choose. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. But seriously, thanks for not making that a four page essay.Straight to the point. My attention span for blogs can only make it a few paragraphs.
go to this site and read "fear mccain" objectively.
http://zmag.org/znet/places/2008+Election
honestly, from a christian point of view, obama is the clear choice between those 2, and i consider most christians to subscribe to the jesus who helped the most needy, not the first testament angry god, which is more like mccain. either way, read the article, mccain is not a good person or a good candidate
I tried to be objective, but then I read this:
"The supposed centrist "maverick's" swing to the far right has found grotesque expression in his running-mate selection --- a viciously stupid evangelical hit lady whose only qualification for office is her ability to energize the GOP's white-nationalist messianic-militarist and pseudo-Christian base."
This is some serious partisan propaganda.
Whats even crazier is how blogs are taking over the world and replacing conventional forms of media. We refute one blog post with another, as if either of them really really hold any authority. HAHA.
its not a blog its an editorial, with links to the facts in the article, and dude, come on , palin is stupid. she watches SNL on mute, she doesnt know anything about foreign politics, its insane she is involved in any form of government
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