U.S. Debt Deal

CNN released an article today entitled “All It Takes to solve U.S. Debt Problem is Willpower,” which I think has an excellent commentary on the way things are currently going in Washington, D.C.

The author quite skillfully points out the economic reality that we in the United States have dug for ourselves.  We all have a bitter pill to swallow if we want to escape from the weight of our debt: tax increases aren’t going to be enough, nor will spending cuts.  We all know that both are necessary, and I honestly believe that we all understand that, even the politicians in Congress.  However, where we run into trouble is when we start getting specific: “We’re going to raise taxes this much” or “we’re going to cut spending this much,” and so forth.

However, what we all have to understand as our nation deals with these financial issues is this: however much suffering we endure by fixing our debt crisis, the alternative involves much more suffering.  When we go to a dentist with a toothache, we accept the reality that however much the extraction or surgery is going to hurt, the alternative is to allow the aching in our mouth to continue to increase.

I think the heart of our problem in the United States has been that we’ve been trying to eat financial Ibuprofen by the bottle; we’ve been comforting ourselves with the platitudes that if our current economic crisis had not occurred, we would not be having nearly so much trouble paying off our debt, that once the economy rebounds, we will quite easily be able to pay off our debt, and other such things.

Again, analogously, we in the United States have been downing financial cocaine for the last forty years by living beyond our means and spending more than we make.  A cocaine addict, when he is going into withdrawal, immediately thinks that if he could just have more cocaine, then everything would be alright.  But we all know that cocaine to a cocaine addict is a death sentence; if he continues to indulge his addiction, it will eventually destroy him.  I would argue at this point that the worst-case scenario for the United States would be a total economic recovery that enables us to spend ourselves into oblivion for the next 20 years until we are so steeped in debt that there is no escape.

There is a Biblical principle that God can do good things even during trying times.  We tend not to think that way anymore; we think that good things only happen during good times and bad times can only breed bad things.  However, if we are wise stewards, we need to accept that good can come from bad.  In the spirit of that thinking, I argue that we in the United States have an opportunity to lay a strong economic foundation for the next 20 years of our nation’s existence if we will appropriately and wisely deal with the struggles that are currently facing us.  By dealing with them properly, I’m not saying we “kick the can” to the next generation and let them deal with it; we have to deal with it now.  Otherwise, we will continue to borrow from the future until there is no more future to borrow from…nor any “now” to rescue.

So, if we are going to deal with the economic realities that face us today, we have a lot of bitter pills to swallow.  Even so, if we want there to be any hope and any expectation that things can improve in the future, we will do so.

Just some rants; sorry if it’s all rather non-sensical.

SfC

Weekly Schdeule, April 6-10: The Onsalught

Monday

-Music History – Movie Response Paper Due

-Writing About Literature – Reading

Tuesday

-Music Theory – Assignment

-Band Concert

-Writing About Literature – Reading & Response

Wednesday

-Music History – Quiz

Thursday

-Music Theory – Assignment

-Human Language – Exam (Delayed to 4/14)

-History – Paper Due

Friday

-Writing About Literature – Reading

For my history class, I just finished the book Carnival of Fury by William Ivy Hair, which is a historical novel about Robert Charles and the race riot of 1900 in New Orleans.  I must say, it was a fascinating, though somewhat shocking; I guess it is easy to forget how far we as a civilization have come in terms of civil rights and understanding have come in the last hundred years.  It is easy to look at all of the problems of modern civilization with disdain, but it is also valuable to remember that life in the United States has improved by leaps and bounds in the last century, especially for minorities.  Therefore, it should be our goal that people living in a hundred years are able to say the same thing about the 21st century.

I have also very nearly finished reading Tony Campolo’s Letters to a Young Evangelist.  Overall, I have it found it a very good assessment of the modern-day Evangelist movement, and it has been insightful to read his opinions and understandings of today’s complex issues.  He, too, is very vocal about his frustration about the apparent alliegiance of the vast majority of modern-day evangelists with the Republican party, which has led to a great deal of political agendas within the Evangelist movement.  He also points out that Fundamentalism (in the modern understanding) has begun to try to adopt the title of Evangelism to sound less politically and socially acceptable, and Campolo’s solution is for non-Fundamentalist Evangelicals to refer to themselves as “Red-letter Christians.”  Honestly, I find it far more simple to just say, “I’m a Christian,” and if someone asks for some kind of added specificity, I’ll reply, “I’m an independent Christian.”  Anyhow, that is not the only thing Campolo addresses: he also discusses the roots of modern-day Evangelism, the Praise & Worship movement, the importance of witnessing, the roots of “Rapture” theology, and many other issues.  If he ever reads this, I must offer a storng congratulations to Mr. Campolo; his book has been enlightening about many things, and he has encouraged me to think for myself on a wide range of issues.  Of course, I haven’t totally finished it, but that is where I am now.

In addition, I have very nearly finished reading the Bible from cover to cover.  After this, I will probably go back through the New Testament books again; in one of the Bible studies that I participate in, the teacher spent several weeks before Spring Break teaching us how to study the Bible for ourselves so that we can come to our own Bible-based conclusions on all issues that the Bible touches on, including Church doctrines.

Thursday, I finished reading Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, which was a novel about Blacks living in America in the mid-20th century.  However, it doesn’t just address the white-black distinctions and prejudices of the time; it also touches on class differences within each race, the necessity for knowing one’s ancestory, and many different topics.  While it was definitely not a book I would normally read on my own, I did enjoy it and the insights that it provided into another range of thoughts.

Anyhow, I am now going to spend some time writing the paper for my music history class.  It is on the American musician Charles Ives, who is considered the first modern American musician.  WE watched a documentary on him before Spring Break, and so the paper is to be a sort of review of the documentary and on Ives in general.

Have a great day and God bless!

thefaithfulmind

Personal Frustrations With Politics

It is a rare occurrence for me to take my blog down the road of politics.  In fact, I was thinking yesterday and realized that I had never even taken the time to congratulate the President-elect, Barack Obama, so congratulations to Mr. Obama on his electoral win.  I truly hope that he turns out to be a better president than I expected of him before the election.  I don’t think I’m the only one who sees that Mr. Obama will be leading our nation through a turbulent period of our nation’s existence, and I hope that he is up to the task.  I feel compelled to also add that I, for one, am uncertain as to how to react to the impeachment of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. On one hand, Mr. Obama has certainly made it clear that he has maintained a distance from the Governor because of his corrupting influence, but through this sequence of events, I have also become aware of the corruption of Illinois politics, which I was previously unaware of.  Of course, this casts a small shadow of doubt on Mr. Obama in terms of how he might have been involved behind the scenes.

If any of my readers are highly supportive of Mr. Obama, please do not misinterpret these thoughts.  I, for one, find it ridiculous that in some presidential elections, it seems that the nation is so completely polarized by the elections that it is a challenge for the President-elect to reunite the nation behind a single banner.  I honestly hope that I am not being a part of that; all I am stating is that I do still have some reservations about Mr. Obama, but that does not stop me from wishing him a good presidency and supporting him as our new president.  Anyhow, the focus of this post is on another matter.

I have recently heard a lot of bile being directed toward our president leaving office, Mr. George W. Bush.  I have heard titles such as “Worst President Ever” and other such degradation.  I want to simply point out some of the reasons why such hostility toward our president is unwarranted.

For starters, I truly believe that character attacks are not conducive to the freedoms that have been given in the United States.  Such attacks betray the feeling in the United States that we can judge what the President does, so I must ask the question:  “Can we common citizens really judge how the President has done in office?”  If I was asked this question, I would have to say “No.”  Now, I’m obviously not saying that the President can’t be impeached or anything like that, but I do think that people should be more careful and hesitant in making a judgment on the President.  After all, especially in the modern world, I must say that the Presidency would have to be the most demanding and stressful of occupations imaginable, and I do believe that Mr. Bush, for all of his failings, has done the best he could.

Secondly, I tend to wonder how many of the complaints raised against Mr. Bush are the result of people observing something and thinking about it, or if their complaints are simply the parrot-talk of the “geniuses” that get on television and tell us what to think about our President.  I fel obliged to point out that this is politics we are dealing with, so 99% of the people who get on television and comment on Mr. Bush have politic aims and agendas that they are seeking through their comments on him.

Third, I believe that if Mr. Bush has been a bad President, then we as the United States public need to take some responsibility.  After all, Mr. Bush is an elected official, which means that he wouldn’t be in the seat that he has been for eight years unless we (the public) put him there.  It seems to me that so many people want to attack Bush because he has involved us in two wars in the Middle East, but the way I see it, he did that in his first term in office; if we were so against these wars, then why was he reelected?  Now, I will admit that at the time of the 2004 election, many of these events were still unfolding, i.e. the lack of weapons of mass destruction and the subsequent investigation into how these errors were made.  To this, I can only say that I will admit that Mr. Bush disappointed me in this scenario.  However, I do believe that some good has still come to Afghanistan and Iraq because the United States has deposed of the former governments and have brought development and some form of hope for the future to the peoples of both of these countries, regardless of whether all of them embrace this new hope or not.

I have also noticed how everyone seems to want to blame Mr. Bush on the credit crisis.  Let me emphasis this as much as I can:  even if he knew about it (and I think he did), he was very limited in what he could do to try to stop the crisis before it started (and I believe that he attempted to do this, but his efforts failed).  You see, Mr. Bush is the president, but when it comes to economics, he is not responsible for making sure that the economic machine of the United States continues to function.  I also tend to think that Mr. Bush (one person) did not wield enough power (or influence with Congress) to help the crisis.  I fear that Mr. Bush has become the scapegoat that people have used to for their problems.

Finally, I want to make one more note about Mr. Bush:  he is a human being.  I can only imagine how much of a strain these last eight years have been on him -physically, emotional, and mentally -and no one seems to want to even thank him for the service that we asked him to pay to us.  Everyone seems to want to take out their frustration at the government on Mr. Bush, but he is only one person.  In fact, politically, I would think that Congress would be more responsible for many of the problems that we, as a nation are facing (Housing Market Crisis, Recession, etc.).  However, I fear that the convenience of a single scapegoat for the public overrides that logic in most cases.

Anyhow, those are some of the thoughts that I have had lately.  As I said at the beginning, I wish sincerely wish Mr. Obama a good, safe, and successful presidency.  May God see fit to bless him with wisdom and understanding in leading our nation.

SfC

Happenings of Various Sorts: Studies, Writing, and Brief Comments on World Affairs

I return to my blog with some good news:  after a couple of weeks of focused effort, I am on the better end of the semester.  After a couple of weeks requiring unusual focus on my part, I have finished all but one of my midterms and exams for my classes.  It isn’t that I’m going to totally kick back and relax, but I can rest easier now than I was a couple of weeks ago.

I have an English exam on Monday (it was supposed to be on Friday, but the professor had an emergency and class was canceled), and then midterms are behind me.  My World War II class is back to status quo until the end of the semester, though we haven’t seen our grades from the midterm and our papers.  Music Theory is steadily improving; by investing more of my time and focus in it, I can comfortably say that I understand what is going on and am improving at doing it quickly (which is half the struggle of the class).  Religious Studies is showing itself to be more difficult on during this half of the semester; we finished Is Religion Dangerous? by Keith Ward (a very good read that, in my mind, reinforces my belief that, although people twist religion to selfish ends, it can be a fundamental and foundational force of good in the world) and now we are on to Religion: The Basics by Malory Nye, which is set up to be more like a college textbook…which makes it an overall thicker read.  In addition, we’re short on discussion groups for Religious Studies in the next couple of weeks, so we will be left to our own devices to understand the book, unless we decide to ask about it shortly before the lecture sessions.  Finally, my French Horn lessons are also going smoother, thanks to more time and thought devoted to figuring out everything.  It isn’t even really a hard task, just time-consuming.  I think I’m starting to realize that very few things in life are truly as difficult as they just time-consuming.

In addition, I have been making progress on my book as well.  I began using Photoshop to create heraldries for the many factions that will be in my world, as well as putting the finishing touches on one of the regional map.  I was also inspired earlier this week to begin writing down a rough race sketch for the humanity of Kenushi Ryu.  I will gladly share some or all of this progress, depending on if there is any interest in the readers.

However, I now find myself confronted with a gargantuan task in writing my book, a task that I have mentioned in previous posts.  Although I have, for all intents and purposes, decided that the creation of an artificial language for the purpose of use in my book will be highly positive, if not necessary.  That being said, all of the work that I have done on naming characters, cities, nations, and every other facet of my world has basically been creative, but random and, if I am going to create my own language, most or all of what I have already named will, for the sake of consistency, need to be renamed in the ancient tongue (or tongues?) of the world.  So, I find myself at a position where at least beginning the creation and forging of an artificial language seems necessary, yet I find myself faced with a project of such enormous proportions, I don’t even know where to start!  Of course, it isn’t to say that there is nothing else I can do before my language is alive; there’s still plenty of maps to be made and that sort of thing.  However, the sooner the language is created, the sooner I can forge on ahead with so many other facets of my world (Kenushi Ryu) with greater confidence.  Perhaps, if you (the reader) feel you have something to contribute to my efforts, even if it’s just encouragement, I would be very grateful!

Finally, for the last couple of weeks I have directly omitted writing anything about world affairs; the election, the economic downturn, etc.  I feel that I must explain that.

As for the election, I find myself completely disillusioned about the whole system.  That is to say, I believe that via absentee, I will cast my lot to John McCain, but I do not do so enthusiastically.  I must say that I do have my doubts about Sarah Palin; after all, in the words of Joe Biden (addressed to Barack Obama at the time, ironically) the Presidency “doesn’t lend itself to on-the-job training.”  I agree with that, and I believe that the Vice Presidency, a heartbeat away from the Presidency, is scarcely different and, no offense to Palin, but she doesn’t have the political experience of John McCain or Joe Biden.  I must restate that I do still find Obama to be a suspicious character.  To illustrate that, let me put it this way: when someone launches an attack on Obama, the media is all over it and, when McCain is attacked, there is little, if any acknowledgment.  Obama’s like the media’s poster boy.

Also, despite the enormous amount of coverage that the rumor of Obama’s foreign birth is getting on the blogs, the media hasn’t covered it, at least that I have heard of.  It is difficult to tell if this is because the bloggers are starting rumors to damage Obama or if the media coverage betrays skewed opinions and poor journalism.  Overall, a friend of mine spoke a few weeks ago of how disillusioned he was about the election, and I must agree, although for different reasons.  I have seen one too many times during this election phrases like “I will never vote for a Republican” (or it could just as easily be the other way around), which tells me that people aren’t really thinking about their vote; they’re casting their vote based on illogical biases that really don’t have anything to do with what a candidate believes and has everything to do with what party the candidate holds to.  In other words, I’m tired of people throwing their lot in to someone just because of their party affiliations…or worse, picking the candidate that talks better.  This is not saying that a good politician can’t communicate properly; it’s just that, from what I’ve observed, that’s all that Obama has.  He doesn’t have as much experience as McCain, and I’m monstrously suspicious of Obama; if nothing else, am I the only one whose noticed that his supporters practically worship the guy?  That, to me, is deathly frightening.

Well, no matter.  The election is in 10 days (not including today) and mine is just one vote in something like 300,000,000, albeit there will probably only be about 50-60% voter participation (maybe 70%, since this is a major election).  And trust me, I would love to learn that I’m wrong; I would love to hear of voter turnout at 80 or even (gasp!) 90 percent.  It sickens me that people take for granted the democratic form of government and let their potential votes fall silent.  Anyway, this is likely going to be my last post about the election; it seems like most everything that is worth saying has been said a million times.

As for the economic downturn; well, from my limited knowledge of economics, let me say that I honestly believe there is little either candidate can realistically do to reinforce the economy unless they can come up with some new way to restore investor confidence.  Every day Wall Street takes a hit, it’s suffering is echoed across the rest of the world.  When I think of the economic problem, I envision a suspension bridge; a single chord in the middle has started giving slack and lowering and the increased strain on the rest of the bridge is forcing the entire structure closer to the abyss.  I do think that, if one major stock market in the world collapses, that it won’t be the end of the world.  If two crash, then it will be more difficult to recover, but it will be possible.  Three, and we’re getting precariously close to a world-wide crash.  Four or more, and I honestly think that the whole world economic system will implode upon itself.  What will that look like?  I have no idea, and it isn’t something I want to think about.

Anyway, like I said about the election, it seems that most of the things worth saying have been said, so I will let that be for now.

Take care, and God bless!

SfC

P.S.  Don’t forget, if your interested in seeing some of the materials I’ve been able to construct for my novel, let me know!

Recent Activities

Several events of interest have occurred in the last couple of days. My brother was married on Tuesday, and I was the Best Man of the ceremony. The wedding itself lasted for less than 15 minutes; beyond that, we had a reception at the bride’s church. It was a strange event for me; while I was a little disappointed that my brother wouldn’t be around like he used to be, I was still happy for him to having finally been united with another.

Afterward, I left for my college for a couple of days to hang out in that town and see if I could sort through some of the things that I still needed to do in order to be all geared up for college in a month. While I was there, I managed to read through Book III of Psalms, and I also started reading Black, the first book in Ted Dekker’s Circle Trilogy. It is thus far a good book, and I look forward to being able to finish.

I have also finished Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, which was on my To-Do, list. As it stands now, my reading list includes finishing Black (Dekker), Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe (Hart), and The Closing of the American Mind (Bloom) as well as reading through the rest of Psalms before I go to college, with hopes to also get started reading A House United (Frangipane) and Christians Only (DeForest).

I have also received some authorial references over the summer that I would like to look into. One is that of Wendell Berry, referenced on the grounds of his knowledge of farming in relation to my novel. The societies of my series of novels will be medieval rural societies, which is difficult for a modern writer to illustrate due to its distance in the past and difficult for me to illustrate specifically because I have limited agricultural and horticultural knowledge. Therefore, I’m hoping that, by pursuing and reading some of Berry’s works, I might A) find a new fiction writer that I can observe and learn from as a writer, and B) learn something of cultivation of plants and care for livestock.

Another reference I have received is for Gilbert Keith Chesterton. From a cursory investigation of him, I see that he is something like what I hope to become, being a Christian apologist and writer as well as lacking any political base. While most of my ideas line up with Republicans, I try to not allow party affiliations affect my thinking; it has been my decision that political parties are a form of organization in government that, as they stand right now, would be far more productive if they were eliminated and recreated from the ground up. However, that is just my opinion. Anyhow, I shall endeavor to be on the lookout for works by these two authors as the summer draws to a close.

That’s about all that I have to talk about for today. Bless you!

SfC

My Fears in the Coming Election

I know that today’s the 4th of July, the day our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, officially starting a full-scale rebellion against the British Empire that would eventually be won in favor of the United States. So, my first business today will be to wish everyone a happy 4th of July and wish the United States a happy 232nd birthday! However, as usualy, I feel that I must discuss to some limited extent the responses that I have to some of the things I have been hearing recently.

So recently, I have heard a great deal of non-positive talk about Barack Obama. Big surprise; I live in a largely conservative area of the United States, so that doesn’t surprise me. However, what I have been hearing has been going beyond the usual degradation of a liberal political candidate: I have heard several people refer to him as possibly being the Anti-Christ, which is a major albeit common accusation against something the people consider liberal and anti-Christian. However, when I first heard of the question of Barack Obama’s religious background (mostly from people who call him a Muslim), I looked it up and saw that he has declared himself as a member of the United Church of Christ. Okay, I told myself, people are just starting rumors about the candidate that they don’t like. I have since had a conversation with the writer of The Teeming Brain about this and he, too has heard that rumor that Obama was a Muslim, even with some people taking it so far as to say he is an Al-Queda infiltrator. Between the two of us, we decided to put down the heinous untruth whenever we heard it.

However, there are some things that I have read (for myself, trying to be sure not to take all of my information second-hand) that raise my suspicions. For example, I read an article by Daniel Pipes (Was Barak Obama a Muslim?) that spoke about Obama’s religious background. For example, here is a section where it shows Obama’s reply to the question of his possibly-Muslim pasts:

The candidate for president of the United States has delivered two principal statements in reply. His campaign website carries a statement dated Nov. 12 with the headline, “Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim,” followed by: “Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.” Then, on Dec. 22, in the unlikely setting of the Smoky Row Coffee Shop in Oskaloosa, Iowa, as he munched on pumpkin pie and drank tea with four locals, Obama provided more detail took on this topic than before. When asked to explain his Muslim heritage, he replied:

My father was from Kenya, and a lot of people in his village were Muslim. He didn’t practice Islam. Truth is he wasn’t very religious. He met my mother. My mother was a Christian from Kansas, and they married and then divorced. I was raised by my mother. So, I’ve always been a Christian. The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country. But I’ve never practiced Islam. … For a while, I lived in Indonesia because my mother was teaching there. And that’s a Muslim country. And I went to school. But I didn’t practice. But what I do think it does is it gives me insight into how these folks think, and part of how I think we can create a better relationship with the Middle East and that would help make us safer is if we can understand how they think about issues.

Well, that’s just grand, isn’t it? Never a Muslim…but if you read on in the article, it explains that when Obama was in elementary school in Indonesia, part of his schooling included two hours of Islamic teaching a day as well as regular trips to a mosque for prayer. Now, I know it’s different for a child to do this than a teenager or adult; as a child, you just do what you are told, and it is even noted in the article that Obama and his friends weren’t serious children of prayer; they just mostly imitated the actions of the elder men. However, in my mind, this is still a major breach of trust on Obama’s part; at the very least, Obama was trying to bend the truth to try to reach out to the common American (mostly Christians). However, at the worst, Obama was outright lying for the sake of his campaign. The article also points out that, depending how the Islamic community responds to this, he could be considered a traitor and they would try to execute him.

Of course, there was also the trouble for his campaign several months ago where the Preacher at Obama’s home church lashed out against basically everyone except black men and women, talking about “throwing down the white oppressors” and other such things. What I find hard to believe is that Obama denied being like that, even though that was his home church for 20 years. Though that doesn’t mean he must conform to everything that minister says, you aren’t around something like that willingly for 20 years of your life without believing some of it.

That minister of Obama’s also, from time to time, struck on some Antisemitism, which really just urks me in a very serious way, and Obama doesn’t seem to have noticed the same level of Antisemitism from other angles of his campaign, taking donations and endorsements from people who have historically Antisemitism views. Obama also, from time to time in his campaign speeches, makes it clear that if he is elected President, the United States’ relationship with Israel will be radically different from the past. That alone makes me raise my eyebrows.

However, what worries me the most is his entire campaign is all about change, and everyone in the United States now wants change. Everyone is beginning to feel the pinch of those higher gas prices, higher food prices, a still-deflating house market, and all of the other troubles that have been descending on our country for some time. Obama promises change, and people believe him. Heck, I’ll say that I believe he will bring change. However, Adolf Hitler also promised change to Germany in the 1930′s and he brought it, and the world hasn’t been the same since. My point is this: sometimes, no matter how badly we feel that change is necessary, change sometimes carries too high a price. Obama has a record of garnering support from people who carry a grudge against the Jewish people and of, from time to time, hinting that he agrees with them. He has been untruthful about his religious past in an attempt to reach out the voters, especially evangelical voters.

I forget where I heard this, but I have also heard that Obama is mobilizing his campaign to start to reach out to evangelical Christians in a way that no other modern Democratic campaign has. I have already seen one of the commercials with Obama talking about his upbringing an environment where he learned of duty and faith. My question is where he feels it is his duty to faithfully be as painfully truthful as he needs to be to keep from lying.

Oh, and I have also heard that, in his speech where he announced his campaign for Oval Office, he compared himself to Abraham Lincoln. In my mind, he shot himself in the foot again here because Abraham Lincoln is probably one of my top three or four presidents (next to FDR, Washington, and Jefferson) and lemme tell ya, Obama is no Abe Lincoln. Lincoln spoke of freeing people from their slavery; Obama and his supporters speak hatred against the Jews.

So, what about John McCain? I will admit that I haven’t yet fully investigated him, though I need to. I have, of course, heard that he will just be another term of George Bush. I don’t think that’s true because, no matter how you look at it, McCain is an individual just like all of us, so even if his voting record completely went along with Bush (which it doesn’t), he still has his own goals and his own expectations as to what he wants to accomplish if he does attain the office.

Like I said, I think a good note to end on would be to remind the reader that Adolf Hitler pushed for change in a country that desperately wanted it. Well, that country got the change that Hitler was pushing for, and it led humanity into one of the darkest nights of hatred and evil that we have ever known. Although I have doubts that Obama is that Antichrist, on top of all of these mental objections, my gut just tells me that there’s something about him that frightens me at the prospect of being given such power. He’s charismatic, alright…almost too charismatic. His promise of change sounds too enticing…and, if he’s willing to lie, or at the least “bend the truth” to reach voters, it shows how far he’s willing to go to accomplish his ends.

These are just my thoughts. Whomever you desire to vote for, research thoroughly and make sure that you are voting for the person that best represents your beliefs.

SfC