Well shoot, next thing you know, Centurion is going to tell me he's a Libertarian
My apologies then, to all three of you for having such an inaccurate assessment of your political compass. I'd be really curious to see what your
results were on
politicalcompass.org...
I hope y'all didn't take too much offense at my assumptions, I honestly was under the impression you were rightist conservative republicans, though.
But, like I said, that's only based off of the posts I've seen, I expect there's plenty I haven't seen that speak to the contrary.
Okay... soooo... back to the Obama church.
I still can't get over the feeling it's just a poorly worded mission statement, but if you do take the mission statement strictly at face value, I
can see where it would appear to be a major conflict of interests in someone running for office.
But you also need to consider that it's kind of like saying a Presidential Candidate would be incompetant because his sister was a drunk, or because
his brother went to jail at some point. I really just don't put that much importance on Obama's church's stance or what they've done. They're not
Obama, they aren't the ones running for office, and even if they were The First Church of The Black Panthers, it really wouldn't sway my decision
that much in whether or not I'd vote for Obama.
And I sure as hell wouldn't refuse to vote for him because of his name. That's, frankly, artarded.
But to be perfectly honest, I think it's just another black church with a strong community outreach program that focuses on black people, and pays
homage to Africa, as many black people are apt to do, and they just had a very poorly worded mission statement. To be perfectly honest, I doubt any of
the members there have ever -been- to Africa, and I seriously doubt any of them would jump at the chance to visit it, especially the areas that need
the most help, like the DRNC. However, that is just an assumption on my part.
The real problem here is that you're letting something like this sway your decision, when what you really need to be paying attention to are things
like who has the better policies, who's going to be working in your best interests, and who you think will either be the most honest, or most
effective. If you're not going to vote for Obama, make it for a REAL reason, like you don't like his STATED policies, or that he doesn't have
enough experience. Don't try to wave a pink wookiee and try and make it into a reason.
I believe the nation needs a clean up on the poltical system and that all the
dinosaurs needs to retired, we need to clean up congress because our political system is corrupted.
