Title: Too Bad This Isn't High School
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Blog Entry: This may step on a few toes here at WeVoteRight.com, but I think it should be said anyway. I would vote for Barack Obama in a heartbeat… if the Presidential Election was a simple popularity contest. If my husband and I met the Obamas at (our) church, I think we would have gotten along with them quite well. I agree with him that the US is not a “Christian” nation—nor should it be (and I am a fully-devoted Christ follower). I respect him for citing the reasons he did when he had to remove himself from membership at Trinity (maybe he should have cited a few more, but I can understand not wanting to stir up any more controversy). Michelle seems to have a good sense of humor, and I think we would get along great. She seems to be able to laugh off a lot of the jabs from the media, which is a good quality in a First Lady. She doesn’t seem to want to co-president like another First Lady in the not-to-distant past. She loves her girls and seems to want to keep them from the spotlight as much as possible. Barack just strikes me as a nice guy. He seems sincere. He seems like someone who should be teaching others how to be men. He stands up for his wife when she is “attacked” by the media. He (as far as I can tell) loves and protects his children. He seems to be sincerely concerned about the problems facing this country and believes that he has the right answers to the problems. But I don’t believe he has the right solutions… on anything… at all (politically at least), and that means I simply cannot vote for the man. I would like to have someone in the White House I could see being a friend in another context. I would like to have someone in the White House that shares my religious convictions, but also knows that a president should be not an Atheist but Areligious—as much as one can when one is a religious person. I would like that, but the presidency is not a popularity contest. So I am torn. Do I vote for someone with whom I am pretty sure I would get along, but do not agree with on a single fundamental policy issue? Do I vote for someone whom I respect for his service and sacrifice to his country, but know without a doubt with whom I would not get along… and sometimes not even agree? Do I “throw away my vote” and vote for someone with whom I agree on most issues, but don’t know much about? Unfortunately, real life is not like a high school student body election, and you simply should not separate the man from his politics. Popularity is not enough, so I will have to think long and hard in the next few months. I hope a lot of people will do the same.
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