Perhaps our president understands the cost of war all too well, and does not take lightly a decision to send kids to die.

No doubt about it.”

But no reason about it either…

It’s what is so amazing about “fans” of any stripe. There’s little space for thought or consideration (much less, thoughtful consideration) because “fans” are too busy parking their ideological cars at the Palindome.

Obama has disappointed on certain issues, but this country was in terrible shape when he took office and it will take a lot to get it back on the right track. How anyone could honestly posit that Sarah Palin would be managing things better defies rational thought.

She quit from the pressure of dealing with ALASKA?!?!?! She’s up to the task of wrangling the U.S. Congress, military incursions in two countries, escalations of tensions in Iran, North Korea and Gaza and the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression?

Please.

There’s a WHOLE lotta mustard seeds in Palinworld.

Well, if I had a choice between Obama running the country or Palin running the country as President, I’d rather have Sarah Palin.

No doubt about it.

I’m not sure that apologizing for someone else’s thin skin is the categorically-Christian thing to do. I think it turns out to be enabling of bad internet behavior when one caves in to trumped-up offense.
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Karen –

I was posting at 11:19 PM, so forgive me for being tired. At 11:19 PM. Anything else I would say would be misinterpreted as piling on.

I am sorry about that. I really am.

My goal is to love Jesus and follow Him the best I can . . . sorry to see you go.

John Mark

If anyone who falls into the description of the people I am talking about and admiring here (which, of course, your comment misses) ever meets me (and they do), they think of me as a “them”, but in a nice way. I’m from NY; they are from someplace else. I have an advanced degree; they worked while I was in grad school. I started real life late; they started early, and are reaping the benefits of it now (for example, those of them which are my age are now grandparents, and I have kids in grade school).

Given that my parents were first-generation college grads, I hold those who did not take this path is high esteem — I know many of them myself. As I said in this essay, “I think these people are our spiritual friends. And while I don’t think I want them running things, as they say, I like what they bring to the family of faith and I know I can personally learn a lot from them.”

I like them; I am often not like them — to my disgrace. Please don’t take that as looking down on people who, frankly, make the world work. Bloggers like me do not make the world work: the guy who owns his own business and works in the field with his guys doing hard things even when the weather isn’t great makes the world work.

There’s a parable in there about the office of the President, but I’m too tired to work it out for you. Have a nice evening.

I would agree, but it is a bad book for the hoi polloi. Read Reagan’s Where is the Rest of Me? to see a book aimed at film goers and regular folks which is also meaty and interesting.

John Mark

She captured the hearts of the down-home folk, but let down the folks at home, who need a leader to at least understand geography. I would have nightmares if she became President of the United States, knowing the red button is just a fingers touch away, and if we were attacked by Iran, she may send missiles all the way to Australia. YIKES! But I am sure, beyond all reasonable doubt, she could tell you where the blue gills and trout run-a-plenty in the icy blue, northern lakes, and where the bears sit in the woods. Sorry, if you thought I was going for something a little more graphic, here.

She has great gut instincts, and has a strong ability to get things done by the sheer force of determination, but she also needs to be a little savvier in the noodle department. I have to say, all in all, I really, really like her, but would I vote for her for any political office or buy her book? NO! Just as I would not read anything written by Ashton Kutchner (sp).

Btw, I loved Firing Line with Buckley, and subscribed to National Review for my Fathers reading pleasure, he, too, was a fan.

Personally, I would have loved to read an erudite, pithy, esoteric book by Ms Palin – but that’s not what she gave us. Her book appears to be aimed at the hoi polloi, the people who exist in such numbers that they can elect a regular person to be president.

Take President Obama, for example. What do you suppose the average level of education was among those people that voted for him? That is not an insult aimed at Obama or his supporters: it is to make the point that he knew how to get elected, i.e., by appealing to the masses. Every elected official knows that – or needs to – and does that.

I’m not saying I would vote for Palin, only that she and her handlers may be more shrewd than we know. She may have taken a page from Obama’s book of election strategies.

So she wrote – or someone wrote – a book that many of us (self included) would regard as pedestrian and banal. But one man’s baloney is another man’s steak. Recent election history bears that out.

So unless we’re writing posts about John 3:16 or 1 Cor 15:1-4, we’re not writing about the ‘evangel’?

Ask you pastor if that makes any sense, and come back here and report to us what he said.