PROMOTION COMES FROM THE LORD

If you're like me, you've probably spent far too many hours listening to the pundits (I had to check my dictionary on that one) sharing about each of these guys and why either one should become the next president. Thankfully, Rick Warren of Saddleback Church came up with a great idea to let each one answer the exact same questions in front of the same audience but not in each others presence. It gave us a chance to more accurately see their personalities and hear their core beliefs.

Today I read a commentary by Leonard Pitts Jr. from the Miami Herald about the Saddleback Forum. I thought some of it was worth passing on, especially after my youngest son said he'd like to vote for ObamaCain...which of course isn't an option.
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Quoting Pitts: "You found yourself wishing Dr. Frankenstein was around to combine each candidate's best qualities into one. That expedient being unavailable, we are left to parse the ways last week's forum illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates and the parties they represent.

Obama, for all his vaunted rhetorical agility and eloquence, seemed curiously leaden. Like legions of Democrats before him, he was unable to find a way of explaining nuanced positions in concise and compelling ways. In answering the abortion question, for instance, one could argue that he--to use a journalism term--buried the lede. Might he not have been more effective had he said from the beginning that his goal is to keep abortions legal--but make them rare?


Republicans, of course, don't have the burden Democrats do; by and large, they don't do nuance. On abortion (outlaw it), immigration (build a fence) and just about every other issue you can name, they are as clear and blunt as a punch in the nose. There is stark simplicity to their positions that is undeniably appealing.

But if these last years have taught us nothing else, they've taught us not to mistake stark simplicity for wisdom. That, after all, was supposed to have been the key to George W. Bush's appeal: he was a plain-spoken guy of plain-spoken values, not some egghead intellectual elitist noodling around in shades of gray.

Seven years later, we see where that's gotten us. The one thing most of us agree on is that the country is a mess.

It's something to remember as candidates struggle to explain who they are and what they believe, something these last years should have made abundantly clear.

The simplest answer is not always the best."
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I don't personally agree with Mr. Pitts! I'm thankful that I don't worry about a car bomber every time I go shopping! I am concerned about shootings and rising costs of most everything, but I'm not looking to McCain or Obama to solve these problems and because of our FREEDOM we can enter a church, a mosque, a temple, a fortune-teller or a satanist church to seek our 'higher power.'

I know the NAME of my higher power...the only TRUE GOD, JESUS CHRIST and here's what He has to say on the subject: "Exaltation comes neither from the east Nor from the west Nor from the south, But God is the Judge. He puts down one, And exalts another. Ps. 75:6-7"