I'm not going to support John McCain, for various reasons. But, I'm not thrilled by Sen. Obama. These are my problems with him:
Number one, he's right out of the box.
The problem with Congress being unwilling to say and then act on the idea that the President, Vice President, and others in the Executive have "bad intentions" is similar to the problem that journalists have when they are both trying to be critical of the politicians they write about and be friends with them. It's hard to work congenially with someone you think might be a mass murderer or at least some of the world's most powerful criminals.
The US government cannot allow effective criticism of its policies. It cannot allow such criticism because it commonly engages in obviously objectionable behavior.
Chris Mathews said something interesting about the potential Republican and Democratic candidates for President.
I have been arguing that we must try to understand President Bush's policies, both foreign and domestic in one of two ways. Either he is the pawn of our economic elites out to make a buck, or he is a Christian Zionist who believes he must clean up around the house in preparation for the second coming of Jesus Christ.
I recently asked myself why the President and Mr. Cheney need to accumulate so much power.
I recently argued that we need to understand the President’s policies. . In trying to understand what he is doing, we have to develop a complete picture. In doing that, we have to not only determine all that he is doing, both in foreign and domestic policy, but make a stab at understanding where what he is doing is coming from. The question that interests me is the why. Why are we in Iraq?
I recently argued that the President should be understood as a Christian Zionist and that his efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran are part of the Christian Zionist efforts to prepare the world for the return of Jesus Christ. As I put is, they think Jesus is coming, so they have to clean house.
We've had a little discussion about German Russian immigrants in Germany. Here is a link to some information about that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4076245.stm
My Mom's parents and their families went, instead, to Nebraska and Oklahoma, then to Oregon.
