Tis the season for hopes, dreams, and political statements
Feb 2, 2009 Five Non-Negotiable Issues, Governmental Reach, Obama Administration
I had many discussions with various people leading up to the November elections regarding political duty. As it became clearer that there were only two politicians who could win the Presidency in November, the action from those who identified themselves as anything from Christians to conservatives also had a much clearer mission. (In hindsight I believe it would have taken a major international event or a major revelation about Obama to sway the situation far enough, but even that wouldn’t have done it for another candidate.) It is my firm belief, and my guilt of conscience, that leads me to believe that a person is called to be practical when they enter the voting booth. Very rarely are we presented with a good vs. evil decision in life. It is hardly ever obvious that one option is so right and one is so wrong. Only once in a blue moon, when considering all of the races we get to vote on, do we get to vote with a candidate with a real chance and can really excite me. I was very clear in stating my own voting intentions, and that I wasn’t particularly pleased to cast my vote for Coleman or McCain (though I’m convinced the latter is a great man). Yet, when I went into the voting booth with $5 and a chance to buy the milk my family really needed or a lottery ticket, it was time to be practical and do the best thing I could possibly do at the time.
That brings me to my point: now is the time to buy the lottery ticket. It’s time to take that chance on not having to worry about where the milk money is going to come from in the future. We are about 2.5-3 years away from beginning the whole mess again (if we are lucky). You’ll remember that the current President’s campaign started about a year into his Senate run. That is why it is a good time to pick out your ideal candidate. It is not time to worry about their chances of winning (about this time four years ago it seemed clear that it would be Rudi vs. Hillary) but time to make your political statement. This is a time, far from meal time, when we have all of the freedom in the world to support even the candidates with the most remote chances but the most far-reaching ideologies we can find.
Take the opportunity while you have it, though. As we draw nearer to the chance to unseat a radical pro-abortion, pro-government, pro-tax administration it will be time to start moving in the most responsible of mindsets. It will be nearing that meal time again, when the only prudent choice we have is to choose the best quality milk we can actually buy and put that lottery ticket back on hold.
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