2 posts tagged “politics”

I ask everyone to please think critically and compassionately. To look beyond the smearing of names. To think rationally about topics of interest. And to think outside the box, because our box is no longer working.

That said, I have read a lot of reasons why people should not support Obama. Some may be valid, but most are just silly, if you engage your brain a little bit.

Lets tackle some:

1) Obama opposes offshore drilling to reduce gas prices

What is bad about this?

Lets look beyond the surface here. offshore drilling impacts the environment, by disturbing one of the most biodiverse places on the planet: The Ocean. Furthermore, most of the natural fuels in our country have remained largely untapped for a reason: They are meant to be EMERGENCY RESERVES. (High prices do not constitute an emergency). Finally, creating more ways to rape the earth for natural resources is *not* the correct long term solution.

Instead, how about pioneering a more fuel efficient and bio-friendly campaign to change the way the world uses energy? Now thats a direction to stand for.

2) If elected, Obama has stated that he will meet with nations that sponsor terrorism, without precondition.

So?

Look at the past. Understand terrorism and the mindset of the people who are succeptible to becoming engaged in these groups. Critically ask yourself if our current policy has actually worked. (It hasnt).

Meeting without precondition implies a true desire to talk. To change. To help truly move towards a more globally peaceful society. Obama just wants to make things better, instead of making things worse by treating other nations in childlike ways. You cannot inspire true cooperation and inclusion, via silence and exclusion, and mandates.

Ask yourself this: would you refuse to sit down and talk with your significant other without precondition, after they had behaved horribly? If you are not willing to treat someone of meaning like this, what makes you think that treating a nation like this is the correct thing?

3) Obama has been praised and endorsed by terrorist groups.

Big deal.

You know what this should say to you? Here is a man that many people of different viewpoints support. Isnt that a great quality for a president to have? Or would you rather continue to propagate the anti-americanism that currently exists (believe it or not, Joe Schmoe ... many other countries will justify how they treat you based upon how your leader treats their country.)

If we truly want global change, then it behooves us to have someone in power (as figurehead) that many other people like.

 

4) Obama is muslim, is related to muslims, etc.

Who cares?

Religion should not be used for descrimination in the presidential elections. Need you be reminded that our country was largely founded by people who were looking escape religious intolerance and persecution? Need you also be reminded that one of the largest atrocities in religious history was commited by Christianity?

Point is this: you can never judge one person by the religion they believe in. Any and every religion can be victim of slander, when you consider fundamentalists and extremists as a representative.

If you have any doubts about the peacefulness of the muslim (or other) religion, please google Assissi Decalogue.

There are many more things to say. But most of it still comes down to: Think Critically.

Overall, I believe the most critical aspect of the election is this: Do you want change? If you do, then you probably want Obama.

Also, I think that most people overlook the main function of the president: to be a figurehead for the nation, and bring together a group of people to truly get stuff done. And that, is effectively about charisma and choices. Both of which, Obama seems to be really good at.

The question is ...

Are you willing to make the choice that requires critical changes? Or do you want more of the same. (keep in mind what that means across the last 50 years, seriously).

Let me preface this with: I am *not* a Republican.

However, I really like almost everything I have heard from Ron Paul. In the Godforsaken Event that a Republican becomes President ... I pray that it would only be Ron Paul. All the other Rep Candidates-  MORONS!

Paul won me over early. But in the last debate he showed that he *clearly* understood some of the Nation's woes with respect to foreign policy. Furthermore, he displayed empathy towards other culture's perspectives by proclaiming his belief that America is creating more danger for itself by being on foreign soil.

I have been saying this for years.

It came as almost no surprise, that the reaction by the other Morons was encapsulated by this quote:

"I don't think I've ever heard that before, and I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11th," Giuliani said to wild applause.

Guiliani - are you serious?

First, Paul has responded to your insinuations with reading material. Reading material that clearly makes Guiliani and other Republicans seem dumb. Most notably, the 9/11 Commission Report detailing that Bin Laden was enraged by US presence in Saudi Arabia.

Did the Republicans just forget that this view was *slathered* all over the place back then? Do they not know how to use the Internet (or perhaps even their own influencial connections) to reference old information? Did they not think to read the reports about one of the most influencial aspects/topics of the current campaign?

These questions are especially important when referencing Giuliani - who has used a marriage to 9/11 to bolster his presidential campaign. It would seem that he should be the most literate on the subject, *especially* considering it happened in a city during his time in office.

All I can say is ... Ummmm - WHAT?!

Honestly, what is *absurd* is that most Republicans just cannot employ enough of an unbiased perspective to consider the possibility that our unwanted presence on foreign soil - our incessant meddling in other people's affairs - is the *exact* thing that is causing other countries to HATE us.

We pretend to champion democracy. But do we really? I do not think so. It seems to me that we are championing our own self-interests, and in a short-sighted fashion.

Overall, I would like for people to take this viewpoint:

We have a foreign policy that is entirely different than the domestic policy we employ. We dont do it that way at home, so why do it abroad? If we as a nation are trying to honestly better the global community, it needs to be done as if we are a part of it, and not an outsider (or above it). As if other nations are our brothers, and children ... not our puppets.

We need to actually care about the world and not just ourselves. Short term, Mid term, and Long term.

And the problem is that we still have decades worth of messed up foreign policy to correct before we can get there.