I have a special feature to post today - a "guest blog", if you will, that my wife wrote. She normally blogs on her MySpace account, and sometimes on our family blog, but after reading what she wrote today I think it is exactly the sort of thing I like to have on Earth to William.
The first part won't make much sense if you haven't read what she posted last night, but the meat of it does not need any background info. Without further ado, here is Rose's "the negative blind people and the muffinless":
"I got up at 3:30am to feed Gus this morning and thought, wow, it smells great in here, like cinnamon and pumpkin.
Then in the dark I realized I sat next to the dog. He was emitting muffin smell still .
I am getting tired of hearing people on TV complain about voters who haven't decided who they are going to vote for. I keep hearing "If you haven't decided after 20 months blah blah blah" "How hard can it be one is black, one is white, one is old one is young, one wants socialized medicine, one wants to pay your mortgage"(I swear those are real quotes from at least 2 different tv shows). We haven't been undecided because we are less intelligent. We are not slow. We even aren't indecisive necessarily. Have you stopped to consider we don't want either candidate. One TV host even went so far as to say "If you haven't decided by now, you shouldn't show up".
Look, I know that we are the people they are aiming the ads at now. Yes I think it's annoying too. I would love to hear any candidate say anything positive. Besides Obama and McCain ads that dominate the screen, I am so sick of the Gregoire/Rossi campaigns and smear ads, and even worse are the Darcy Burner Dave Richert smear campaigns. Since when is anyone qualified because they can say negative things about someone else.
All I am saying is that I am unhappy with all choices I have been presented with, and I am still trying to figure out how I don't have to settle, especially since we are stuck with this stupid 2 party system. A vote for any independent, consitution, green, libertarian or any other smaller party is a vote thrown away, and I wish more people would vote in that direction so that they weren't wasted, because there are people out there that aren't offering the same old same old.
Indecision is not ignorance my friends. It is the opposite. It is quite thoughtful. It is the pause to consider how I can do my part and truly make a difference in the world. Even how to rebel against the negativity that has swallowed the airwaves recently. I am not easily and blindly led to trust someone, especially when the stakes are so high, not just for our economy and security in these weird time, but because I have to consider the world I want my son to live in. He can't speak, so I must for him. And quite frankly I don't see anybody I trust his future with.
Please don't send me messages telling me who I should vote for and why. Please don't bombard me with information about how I am crazy or irresponsible.
This is what I have decided. There is no good decision. Which is depressing when you don't have any muffins either. "
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i do have muffins again. I made another batch. There's hope restored to the system again?
Hello William and Rose, I do enjoy your blog. It is probably the most interesting of the blogs my friends have, and I think it's great that you have been so regularly updating it. I like your 'readonedaily' blog too, but its a little fast-paced for me :)
I've come to a few realizations this election season. I recently finished a class on the U.S. Constitution which helped me work through some of my ideas about politics. Here is what makes sense to me:
First, no one is perfect, and I think both McCain and Obama are probably good choices when compared to historical presidents. I believe they both have good intentions.
Furthermore, I've come to the conclusion that if I cannot support and respect a candidate (not just now, but throughout their term) I will not vote for them. Beyond that, I think I am called as a follower of Christ to support and respect governing officials, period. I often have a hard time with that because of the amount of negative attention our officials and candidates receive, and the fact that I don't have a personal relationship with them.
Lastly, I've strengthened my stance that there are much more important things in the world than politics. I think that if Jesus were to talk about our democratic government today (or at any point in U.S. history), I believe he would be just as unimpressed as he was with the forms of government that were common when he lived as a human on the Earth. I believe the only form of government acceptable to God is a theocracy. I believe the only thing I need to consider regarding 'society' and 'government' is that I do not forget the command to 'love my neighbor as myself'. I specifically do not believe that I have a responsibility to make rules for a group of people to live by. I also specifically do not believe that I am responsible for coercively enforcing any such rules.
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