More Reasons... and a Prayer That I Might Honor Christ

I want to stop writing about politics.  Hopefully, this post will conclude my compulsion to write about politics for a while.  Even though no one is standing in front of me, screaming in opposition against me and what I've been writing, you wouldn't know it by the stress and anxiety I'm feeling inside.  And yet I feel compelled to write; it's that important to me.

I have to admit that, after having done the reading I have over the past few weeks, even if Obama was pro-life, if everything else was the same (on both sides), even though I'm not thrilled with McCain, I couldn't vote for Barack Obama.  In addition to supporting infanticide,

• he was a member of the far-left, Socialist-organized New Party when he ran for the Illinois state senate;
• his health-care plan would put more power in the hands of the government; that would be bad enough, but one estimate says it would actually cost more and cover fewer people than McCain's plan;
• His associations with Bill Ayers (an education professor that Obama worked with in Chicago who sees education as the way to inculcate socialist/communist values in the next generation), Jeremiah Wright (a radical preacher who thinks the U.S. government invented AIDS, and in general thinks America's negatives far outweigh its positives), and other radical left-wing types calls into question his judgment, as well as his claims to more moderate views now;
• he has no record of accomplishment in doing all the moderate, bridge-building things his image would lead you to think he has, in fact, his record is the most liberal in the U.S. Senate;
• and as if all that weren't enough, now there is a credible (though certainly not proven) analysis claiming not just that Obama didn't really write all of his famous book, Dreams From My Father, but that his ghost writer was none other than the radical Bill Ayers!

Given all that, John McCain would have to be shown to be a pretty bad candidate for me to vote against him.

I know my blog gets virtually no traffic--even my friends don't stop in to see what I've read lately (though, admittedly, I've hardly written a thing here in several years).  I also know there are some who know me who vigorously disagree with me, but choose not to engage me in any conversation about these issues.  I don't know that I can accurately guess why that is. 

But I hope that the posts that I've made over the past couple of weeks give those who disagree with me enough insight into what I believe, why I believe it, and the evidence that supports those beliefs, that either (1) they would come to agree with me (hey, a guy can dream, can't he?) or (2) they would engage me on these beliefs, and present cogent arguments against mine.

If it's truly a godly, righteous, and Christ-honoring thing to vote for Barack Obama in this election, then I pray that someone who cares about me and my obedience to Christ would confront me, and convince me to become thusly obedient.

In Christ,
brian.