Politics a' Plenty

I don't know what I was thinking.  I really hoped - looked forward to the recent mid-term elections, just to be through with all the expert commentators on who would win and who would lose.  Sadly - for me - they've simply switched from prelude to postlude in their commentary.  Now we get to hear - AD NAUSEUM - who's to blame, what's to come, and how it will affect the presidential election in 2012.  And there's the over-arching question that everyone is hammering home - "Does he get it?!"  I'm still not sure what IT is to GET.  I'm not sure anyone else is either.

Remember now, I'm a news and politics junky.  My wife has accustomed to leaving the room and reading something worthwhile, while I flip back and forth between Fox News, CNN and MSNBC - hoping against hope that I might find some actual news amongst the opinion.  Alas, it's rarely found.

Here's my concern.  I know, the goverment is expanding too much and spending too much money.  I know, the government HAS to act in order to avoid catastrophe.  I know, I know;  we have to take our country back . . . we have to act.  I know all this - really, I do.  But when are we as a nation going to stop listening to all those who would tell us what to believe and what to be afraid of?  When are we going to start considering what it will take for us as Americans to move from our self-preserving decisions to that which might actually be a solution for everyone?  When will we stop operating from a stance of "winner/loser" and begin operating for the best outcome for ALL concerned?

Just some random questions......it is a Monday after all.

David

Election day musings...

It's here - thank the good Lord it's here - now we can get started on the presidential election of 2012.

I am so weary of the political hoopla - and I'm a political junky.  But the level of animosity is beyond any I've witnessed.  It's tiring.

I will be curious to see how soon the newly elected begin demuring - begin blaming their ineffectiveness on everyone from their predecessors to the terrorists.

Can we talk?  Really - can we talk?  I don't want to argue.  I don't want to decide who's a patriot and who's not.  I don't want to call names and trade blame.  Can we talk?

It's the only way I can see out of the poisinous climate of discourse in which we find ourselves. 

It occurs to me that if we as Christians REALLY want to have some impact on the political scene, the biggest contribution we could make is civility.....respect.....trust.....mercy......compassion.....and oh yeah - love.

I know, I know......get real!