I promise, I promise, I have more depth than the presidential election; however, I will not be accused of being uninformed. I found this to be a great article so I'm posting it. Also my mother (who I truly love and respect more and more each day) openly challenged me to find Obama's policies (in detail) and send them to her for review. This came after I scolded her for not knowing them, but disliking him without a full view of what she didn't like.
You are certainly free to dislike him for a variety of reasons including his economic policy, but at least you will now have a firm handle on what his policy is and what you dislike (or in my case like) about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/magazine/24Obamanomics-t.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1&ref=politics&adxnnlx=1219332374-Ekds%20fG6TFGPGqTntewWNQ
Barak Obama has convinced me
http://rickwarrennews.com/transcript/
I've provided the full transcript so that you can see what you like/dislike about each candidate if you happened to miss the forum. I hope you enjoy it! I really do. It was extremely helpful for me, but only in that it reinforced my decision.
I openly endorse Senator Obama. I'll be putting signs out and probably wearing a t-shirt before all is said and done. I have found his words from Saturday to be even more empowering for my decision. I appreciate his style. You may not like him, but if you don't it's because you're seeing the real him (in my opinion). He's smart and uses big words and pauses when completing thoughts. Good for him. Doesn't mean everyone else is beneath him, it just means that somewhere along the way someone told him that if you can't speak correctly - no one will respect you (I had a grandmother like that, too, and when you're raised by a grandmother, it's bound to seep in. My God, my Mimi, told me if I spoke with a Southern accent that everyone would think I was an idiot...grandmothers are old school and he displays all of the characteristics of a man loved and cared for by his grandparents. You'd have to have been raised by one yourself to recognize it for this though)
Here's the deal though, I promise no one leaving nasty notes on my blog will have a more heated conversation with me about this than I have had with my own parents about this decision. I think Mason was shocked by the degree of candidness we are allowed in my home. All manner of words fly, tones change, and voices are heard, but it's passionate and respectful. If you can't offer respect, I'll delete your comment and block you. I will not be bullied about my decision. I have arrived at this conclusion through prayerful consideration and feel that God speaks to me in my walk. I didn't just choose this person because of the news blurbs. I believe he can exact God's will too.
If you disagree vehemently, write about it on your own blog because it will make you feel better to get your word in.
Otherwise, here's hoping we have Obama as the next president.
Peace, Love and Political Baby kisses!
I've provided the full transcript so that you can see what you like/dislike about each candidate if you happened to miss the forum. I hope you enjoy it! I really do. It was extremely helpful for me, but only in that it reinforced my decision.
I openly endorse Senator Obama. I'll be putting signs out and probably wearing a t-shirt before all is said and done. I have found his words from Saturday to be even more empowering for my decision. I appreciate his style. You may not like him, but if you don't it's because you're seeing the real him (in my opinion). He's smart and uses big words and pauses when completing thoughts. Good for him. Doesn't mean everyone else is beneath him, it just means that somewhere along the way someone told him that if you can't speak correctly - no one will respect you (I had a grandmother like that, too, and when you're raised by a grandmother, it's bound to seep in. My God, my Mimi, told me if I spoke with a Southern accent that everyone would think I was an idiot...grandmothers are old school and he displays all of the characteristics of a man loved and cared for by his grandparents. You'd have to have been raised by one yourself to recognize it for this though)
Here's the deal though, I promise no one leaving nasty notes on my blog will have a more heated conversation with me about this than I have had with my own parents about this decision. I think Mason was shocked by the degree of candidness we are allowed in my home. All manner of words fly, tones change, and voices are heard, but it's passionate and respectful. If you can't offer respect, I'll delete your comment and block you. I will not be bullied about my decision. I have arrived at this conclusion through prayerful consideration and feel that God speaks to me in my walk. I didn't just choose this person because of the news blurbs. I believe he can exact God's will too.
If you disagree vehemently, write about it on your own blog because it will make you feel better to get your word in.
Otherwise, here's hoping we have Obama as the next president.
Peace, Love and Political Baby kisses!
Where do we go now?
Within the last month, I've become aware of the cultural, political and religiously diverse crowd that I have visiting my blog. They say ignorance is bliss, and in this particular case "they" were right.
I've been suffering through "blog" fright.
To be honest, knowing that I have so many different kinds of people reading my words makes me insanely nervous. I mean, what if I upset or alienate someone I consider a friend? What if I write too much about Clare? What if someone thought that I was interesting and now they're like "whoa, she's single minded and stupid?" What if I don't write well enough or intelligently enough? What if I bring religion to the table and it makes me sound nutso to a friend of mine, who I don't really discuss religion with? What if my political views make someone feel excluded. The 'what if's' are unlimited and never ending. I kind of view it like email - the words are there, but they have no soul except through the perception of the reader, right??
So, that's been my head space for the last couple of weeks. It's been paralyzing and, honestly, it stinks to be worried about it at all. I enjoy blogging. I enjoy coming to my page to post a reminder to myself or write about something that upsets me or a funny story that I've just experienced. I love for Mason to tell me that he looks all of the time to see what's up (my husband is my top blog stalker - that cracks me up! I figure he hears me talk enough, how could he possibly want to read more of the stuff?)
So, today I announce that officially could care less what you all think!
(read with a soft word and a smirky smile on my face)
If you keep coming back, I must be mildly entertaining or at least providing a curious look into the largely uninteresting and unmotivated inner-workings of my mind. If you think I'm uninteresting and still keep coming back, well....(I leave the end of this sentence for you to fill in)
By working through this fear in this posting, I have come to view this diversity with such gratitude. I am proud that I have been granted access as a friend to so many wonderfully intelligent, fun, Christian, Buddhist, Atheist, intellectual, banal, spunky, alternative, straight-laced, left-winged, right-winged, conservative, liberal, active, and lazy people. How freakin' fantastic!
I now realize how lucky am to know no end to the boundaries of friendship, how lucky I am to have so many people that I refer to as friends, and how being afraid only stops me from enjoying the reality of my life (and those who are in it).
I've been suffering through "blog" fright.
To be honest, knowing that I have so many different kinds of people reading my words makes me insanely nervous. I mean, what if I upset or alienate someone I consider a friend? What if I write too much about Clare? What if someone thought that I was interesting and now they're like "whoa, she's single minded and stupid?" What if I don't write well enough or intelligently enough? What if I bring religion to the table and it makes me sound nutso to a friend of mine, who I don't really discuss religion with? What if my political views make someone feel excluded. The 'what if's' are unlimited and never ending. I kind of view it like email - the words are there, but they have no soul except through the perception of the reader, right??
So, that's been my head space for the last couple of weeks. It's been paralyzing and, honestly, it stinks to be worried about it at all. I enjoy blogging. I enjoy coming to my page to post a reminder to myself or write about something that upsets me or a funny story that I've just experienced. I love for Mason to tell me that he looks all of the time to see what's up (my husband is my top blog stalker - that cracks me up! I figure he hears me talk enough, how could he possibly want to read more of the stuff?)
So, today I announce that officially could care less what you all think!
(read with a soft word and a smirky smile on my face)
If you keep coming back, I must be mildly entertaining or at least providing a curious look into the largely uninteresting and unmotivated inner-workings of my mind. If you think I'm uninteresting and still keep coming back, well....(I leave the end of this sentence for you to fill in)
By working through this fear in this posting, I have come to view this diversity with such gratitude. I am proud that I have been granted access as a friend to so many wonderfully intelligent, fun, Christian, Buddhist, Atheist, intellectual, banal, spunky, alternative, straight-laced, left-winged, right-winged, conservative, liberal, active, and lazy people. How freakin' fantastic!
I now realize how lucky am to know no end to the boundaries of friendship, how lucky I am to have so many people that I refer to as friends, and how being afraid only stops me from enjoying the reality of my life (and those who are in it).
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