JUST BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
TRYING TO BE ALL THINGS TO SOME PEOPLE MAKES YOU A USELESS TOOL TO EVERYBODY:
POLITICIANS, ESPECIALLY THOSE RUNNING FOR THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ALL SEEM TO LACK ANY CORE POLITICAL OR MORAL VALUES. THEY ALL BEND AND SWAY IN WHATEVER DIRECTION THEY FEEL THAT THE WINDS OF POPULAR OPINION SEEM TO BE BLOWING, CHANGING THEIR STAND ON ISSUES MORE OFTEN THEN MOST PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR UNDERWEAR.
THE CANDIDATES ON THE DEMOCRAT SIDE, START OUT FAR LEFT DURING THE PRIMARIES AND WHEN THEY WIN AND BECOME THEIR PARTY’S NOMINEE, THEY START “MOVING TOWARD THE CENTER” TO GARNER VOTERS WHO ARE EITHER UNDECIDED OR IN THE HOPES OF SWAYING REPUBLICANS TO VOTE FOR THEM. THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES DO THE SAME DAMN THING, THEY START OUT FAR RIGHT TO “SHORE-UP” THE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS AND WHEN THEY WIN THEIR PARTY’S NOMINATION, THEY START MOVING TOWARD THE CENTER IN AN EFFORT TO PLACATE DEMOCRAT VOTERS.
BARACK OBAMA AND JOHN McCAIN ARE PERFECT EXAMPLES OF THIS. WHEN OBAMA FIRST STARTED TO CAMPAIGN, HE WAS FOR UNFETTERED ABORTION RIGHTS AND EVEN STRICTER FEDERAL GUN CONTROL LAWS, EVEN TO THE POINT OF BANING PRIVATE GUN OWNERSHIP. NOW THAT HE IS THE DEMOCRAT NOMINEE, HE NOW CLAIMS TO BE AGAINST PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION AND EVEN CLAIMS TO BE PRO SECOND AMENDMENT. OBAMA HAS EVEN CHANGED HIS POSITION ON MANY OTHER ISSUES.
McCAIN CLAIMED THAT HE SAW LIGHT AND HEARD THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE CONCERNING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THAT HE WAS ALL FOR THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT. NOW, TO COURT THE LATINO VOTE, HE IS MEETING WITH LA RAZA AND OTHER HISPANIC GROUPS, DISCUSSING HIS SUPPORT FOR AMNESTY FOR ALL ILLEGALS AND MAINTAINING OPEN BORDERS, AND McCAIN NOW SAYS THAT THE ISSUE OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGES SHOULD BE LEFT UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL STATES, WHICH IS POLITICAL SPEAK FOR LEGALIZING SAME-SEX MARRIAGES IN THE UNITED STATES.
WHEN OUR POLITICIANS AND THOSE WHOM WE ELECT TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND AND TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, DO NOT HAVE ANY CLEAR CUT MORAL AND POLITICAL VALUES BY WHICH THEY ARE WILLING TO STAND, NO MATTER WHAT THE COST, IT IS OUR COUNTRY AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO SUFFER IN THE END. THIS GOES BACK TO WHAT I WROTE ABOUT IN A PREVIOUS POST; “WHEN YOU ELECT MEDIOCRE LEADERS, YOU END UP WITH A MEDIOCRE GOVERNMENT.” YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS AT THE SAME TIME AND REMAIN LOYAL TO BOTH AND
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