"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." -- President Obama, Feb. 4.
Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
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This is a disturbing turn of events, way too much pork in this Nancy Pelosi engineered bill. Our President really needs to be careful. I know he means well I just hope his intellect
triumphs over his inexperience for the sake of the country.
This is a very interesting article sent to me by my sister Em. It articulates some drastic future scenarios like:
"At no period in American history has our democracy been in such peril or has the possibility of totalitarianism been as real. Our way of life is over."
The article content is a great frame for discussion of our future. I think there are many answers to our challenges if we look deeply at many sources of wisdom and history.
For instance, I think our democracy was in greater peril at the onset of FDR's administration. Jonathan Alter wrote a really interesting book about FDR's first hundred days.
I thought Joe Lieberman did a great job with his speech in support of John McCain. His appeal at the end to democrats and independents was very sincere. I think they should have put him first instead of Fred Thompson so more people would see him.
I was really surprised by McCain's pick for VP Alaska Govenor Sarah Palin. I happened to catch her acceptance speech (see speech below). I am really impressed with her. She is real, sincere, smart and honest. I think that is a good combination. McCain really showed good judgement to choose a person who could help unite the country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSlWHmB5YI8
As a side note, I found a blog that has been promoting her for VP for over a year at http://palinforvp.blogspot.com/ . The blogger is Adam Brickley and he did a segment on Fox News this afternoon. What an interesting guy. He is a 21 year old college student.
A commenter on the web site said some informative things about Gov. Palin:
It is just amazing how all these liberal attack dogs who didn't know who Sarah Palin even was 7 hours ago are all now experts on her competence and experience. As a former Alaskan, I can tell you libs that you're greatly mis-informed of the complexities of the job of being Governor of Alaska. Spouting the low population of the state when you speak about it only shows your ignorance of Alaska and it's complicated politics. Alaska is a vast state 2700 miles wide and 1400 miles tall with 1/3 the shoreline of our entire country. It has over a million lakes, over 100,000 glaciers, it borders 2 foreign countries, has 229 Indian and native tribes who the government has to deal with, has America's main fishing industry with all the regulation involved, is a huge mining state, and is America's oil and natural gas capital. The state has one of the largest Homeland Security response centers which is run in conjunction with the Governor and state gov't. Alaska also has 3 army bases, 3 air force bases, and 5 coast guard bases. All this with rough roads that need constant re-building, hundreds of remote villages that require schools, health care, affordable fuel and transportation. Then consider the special interest lobbies that represent all these interests and their influence on politicians. If any of you think running Alaska is like running a city the size of Austin (like a CNN host just said), you are grossly non-informed. This lady is a dynamo, a reformer, and an amazingly talented leader. Anyone who is running against her who doesn't realize it will join the long list of former political foes laid to rest along the wayside.
Joel Hunter is a pastor at Northland Community Church in the Orlando area. A lot of my friends attend there. Joel has a wonderful reputation and the Northland Church is great place by all accounts.
I thought Joel did a good job giving a balanced assessment of the interview.
Here is the Fox interview with Joel Hunter and Ralph Reed this morning.
Bill Kristol has a good opinion piece in the NY Times this morning on the interview.
OPINION | August 18, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist: Showdown at Saddleback By WILLIAM KRISTOL John McCain outperformed Barack Obama at Saddleback Church, where they expressed their different worldviews.
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