Analysis Of The 2008 U.S. Elections Part 11

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I want to cover today some things about former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and on the democratic side Hillary Clinton. I am going to have to talk about Sarah Palin, who ran with McCain, in the next post after this. One reason why I am mentioning McCain, Hillary, Palin, Biden and Obama in this series is because just about all of them are having an influence, either good or bad in the near future, in many areas of the world.

I believe that John McCain was not a good candidate for president. For starters I do NOT believe the political party, Republican, that McCain represents is a good party to lead ANY country during this time-frame.

McCain although he served his country in the military, divorced his FIRST wife after she suffered in a car accident, and married another women, still current. I did some research into McCain and his ex-wife, and from my research, McCain instigated the divorce and it was not pretty how he did it.

His ex-wife eventually conceded, but some are calling the way McCain divorced his wife, abandonment. Now, according to Jesus this is adultery. There is a better way he could have handled that situation, and not even have to leave his first wife. There are things a couple can work out because of this exception, and agreements can be made between the two people married, that I believe God will understand; but you just should not leave your spouse because they got into an accident.

Another thing, I researched reports about McCain's record on voting on the mininum wage. McCain's record, according to 4 or 5 reports show a horrible quality that defines him, and really defines his political party and many who support and voted for him. I saw some reports that showed McCain, serving as a U.S. Senator for the people, voted AGAINST raising the minimum wage nineteen times.

In others words, he, McCain, voted AGAINST GIVING LOW INCOME WORKERS a raise 19 times; not just once or twice for obscure reasons, but again NINETEEN TIMES. I saw a couple of others that said he voted AGAINST it seventeen times. However, 17 or 19 times, that is still alot of times to neglect low income families or the poorer groups in a society.

Those two things, in the above paragraphs concerning McCain are two major problems that directly affected other people in a bad way. So, seeing just those few things, I would have a problem with McCain and his Republican political party, and so does God.

On to Hillary. Hillary Clinton, who ran for president on the democratic side, but lost to Obama, has probably the better domestic policies, especially in the case of women and minorities. I am not too confident about her foreign policy ideas.

Everybody knows her husband, Bill Clinton, who I think is one of the best presidents America ever had. However, with Hillary, although I thought from a domestic standpoint, she would be a good choice to lead, I would not see her being as good, overall, as her husband was. Some people might disagree, but I think despite her party affiliation, Hillary is in some ways conservative, and more conservative than people think.

I think some of her foreign policy views about diplomatic engagement with conditions on the other party, appear to compromise with the conservative Republicans ways of thinking. In some ways she is different from Bush; but in other ways like not talking directly to Ahmadinejad without conditions, just like she can sit with Israel's Netanyahu, she is more like Bush.

So, to that extent, I think that is a problem, because she is not giving each leader equal respect without reason of direct negative provocation. Also, Hillary, in public, has always appeared to be too ambitious, in relation to personal necessary responsibilities I will not mention at this time. I have more to say about Hillary in the next post, when I lead in with Palin.

Analysis Of The 2008 U.S. Elections Part 10

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In this post I want to cover some things about the U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden. First, let me say that I really want to mention things about Sarah Palin, and a little with Hillary Clinton. After this post, I should be discussing much about Palin in the next post. I am really closing in on her in this blog. I just have to be a little more patient.

I think the U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden is a decent person. He has alot of foreign policy experience, and understands alot of what is going on in many parts of the world.
Actually, Biden probably should be the U.S. President, but when he ran during the campaign, most Americans paid him no mind; because most Americans really do not have a clue about the wider picture of who they choose as their leaders.

However, I think of all the people who ran for president in 2008, including Obama, Joseph Biden from a policy and world experience point of view, probably was the most qualified to be president. Having the policy and world experience does not necessarily translate into a good president, the best president, or good or great leader. However, it does help.

Although a person does not have to know everything to be a president of any country. A person should know some things and at least have a plan or a vision for his or her country. Again, it was about time and long overdue that America finally elected a QUALIFIED Black person, or non-White person for a change.

One knock on Biden to me is that he seems to be beholden to the Catholic church. Now this does NOT make him a bad person, but everybody who reads my blog, know I preached about critical problems with the Catholic church and their doctrine before.

There was another issue I had with Biden, in which, he talked about questioning a person's judgement and not questioning a person's motive, unquoted.

It is important to question a person's motive, especially if you do not know the person or understand the situation, or if what the person is doing does not seem to be right or is blatantly wrong.

A person's judgement or what they actually do stems from his or her motive. The motive is what the person intends to do or really mean or want to do in their heart. Many people will say that you or I can not know what is in a person's heart, or their motive for doing something, or before they do something. People will say you can not read a person's heart or their mind. Well, I have to disagree and say yes you can.

Now, to some degree it is true that most, if not all of us, can not know a person's heart or motives. Most people can not read minds. However, God knows what is in a person's heart. God knows what a person is thinking. If you are close to God and listening to God, God can tell you about a person's motives.

God can tell you all about a person. God can reveal, to somebody, details about a person and details about a situation. So, it is not you, but God telling you. Alot of people will go into a church or be around a Godly person, and the Godly person, hearing from God, will tell the person about themselves. The person being told, who usually is living a life of sin, anyways, will will not like what they are told and get mad.

That person, being exposed by God, gets offended and wants to complain, angrily, that so and so pastor or preacher or lay person do not know anything about them. They are looking at the pastor or preacher just as a human and not as a representative of God whom God is using. It is true that the pastor or preacher is a human, but even more important is that, that human is a pastor or preacher for a reason.

That reason is God has chosen that specific human to be His messenger. So, God will use the human person and show him what He, God knows, and tell him to speak or reveal the information. It is revelation from God. Also, again, it does not have to be a pastor or preacher. It can be any specific person who is close to God who is pleasing God with their life; Whom God will speak to or give revelation to.

So yes, with the help of God, you can read a person's heart, thoughts or motives. Again, if you can not trust the person, or something seems very wrong, you need to question the other person's motive. That way you do not have to question their judgement, because, hopefully by questioning their motive you can prevent bad judgements from happening in the first place.

Analysis Of The 2008 U.S. Elections Part 9

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As I am going through this series on the past year's elections in the U.S. I am not covering everything about those elections. I am mostly focusing on the Presidential part of those elections. There was other offices up for elections in the U.S. Congress, for example, and there were state initiatives that were voted on such as gay marriage or same-sex marriage approval.

It should be noted that in some states in the eastern section of the country, the people voted in favor of same-sex marriages; while in California, on the west coast of the country, the people voted against same-sex marriages. There was some uproar over the California vote, however, ultimately this is a good thing with what happened in California.

Not to be hateful towards gays or lesbians, but according to the Bible, God is against homosexuality. I pointed all of this out before, and as I am at the beginning of this post, I do not want to spend too much time on this. However, I do want to say that homosexual individuals, gay or lesbian, should not be discriminated against in terms of employment, education and health care. They should be treated as equal human beings, even though they live a disagreeable lifestyle.

In other words from the above paragraph, just because they are homosexual does not give any of us a right to neglect them if they need help socially or economically. Now, just because I or you help them does not mean that we agree with what they are doing, or that they are okay with God, or that we are going against God by helping them. No, that is not the case.

However, the homosexual lifestyle also does not have to be institutionalized with couples being treated like those in traditional marriages. Going to that point is going too far, and goes beyond helping a human being in need to going in defiance of God. So, nobody should want to do that.

If homosexuals want to be a couple, then they have to be on their own. Also, in the church no homosexuals or gays should be leaders or teachers in the church; because this, again, is in direct violation and defiance of what God says. Some things homosexuals should not attempt to do, and teaching or ministering as leaders in a church is one of them. I did not say they can not be a member of a church, participate or fellowship in a church, or that they are not saved.

They can fellowship and be a part of a church, but they should not lead there. It is just like a blind person, you do not want to deny the blind person what they need to have, and you want to treat them equally, however, you can not allow a blind person to drive a car or fly a plane. If you do, you are asking for a disaster. That analogy of the blind is what I am talking about with homosexuals or homosexuality.

Again, I do not hate homosexuals and no one should hate them. I read a couple of reports where several persons who were gay, were attacked and assaulted or literally beaten up. They were beaten up and taunted because they are gay. This is wrong.

It is flat out wrong to physically assault a person or group or their property or rob them because they are gay. That is not of God. That person is probably not hurting anyone and minding his or her own business, and besides, again they are still a human being.

If a gay person harrasses another person, or try to influence the next person, all the person has to do is say no thanks, or I do not swing that way, or that is not my kind of thing. Homosexuals should not be beaten because we disagree with them. If you are attacked or assaulted by homosexuals, then that is different and you have the right to defend yourself.

I mentioned this before, but nobody is perfect, but God really made a strong action of judgement against homosexuality probably more than any other sin. Not that God favors any sin, but he did something really strong against homosexuals in the Bible and spoke against that lifestyle very strongly.

So, if you are a homosexual or you want to vote in favor of homosexual couples, the way God approached the lifestyle is something to think about. So, homosexual's rights as a couple was part of the 2008 U.S. elections, with some states in favor of and some against. I am just here to say that God is against.

Henceforward, we should obey God. Let me say this to homosexuals, God still loves you as a person, it is the lifestyle that He hates. So that is important. Now, if God just so happens to come out and clearly say that, hey, being homosexual or gay or lesbian is okay, and that He will not punish those, for eternity, who engage in that lifestyle, then it will be fine. However, God has not came out and said that.

Now, I know some people will say the scriptures say God does not change. Yes, I know, however, God could change if He wants, or He could change or modify His rules or commandments if He choose. Nobody can stop God if He want to change, we can complain and hope that He will listen, and do something, but nobody can really stop God.

However, to this point, all His rules including being extremely against homosexuality remains the same. I did not expect to go this deep into that subject today. I wanted to talk about Biden. For sure, in part 10, I should be talking about Biden.

Analysis Of The 2008 U.S. Elections Part 8

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As I continue on Obama, since he is the U.S. President through 2012, I will from time to time, come back to him possibly in this blog at any given time or topic. Some of the things I am going to say here deal with both the past year 2008 and the present and future.

In terms of God, Obama needs to understand a little better how God operates, and how God speaks through people, good things and bad. I think After Obama was elected as President, I thought the public message that the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent out to Obama was funny.

Basically, without quoting Medvedev too much, he told Obama that the Russian people have no problems with the American people, and that Russians are not born out of the womb hating Americans. That part I thought was funny, because many Americans actually think that way. They think most of the world hates them, and hates them for no reason. That is one main reason why Bush was elected there twice.

Medvedev said something about mutual respect, which is another thing Americans have a problem with. However, the Medvedev statement not having inborn hate really got my humor. It is a shame he had to expose something that is true in such a statement like that. When he said that, that was the statement of the day.

Leaders from around the world, was so glad to see Bush go. Many people from around the world are believing that, with Obama, it is a new day of respect and peace for everybody. The people in some countries who do not like Americans, do not like them because America do not like them back. In other words, the hatred and disrespect stems mostly from America's conservative base and conservative media, first, towards other countries through elected American leaders by the American people.

Such was the case with the past 8 years of Bush. With that said, the now U.S. President Obama needs to be careful, not to act like Bush, which he is showing signs now of doing. Obama should have read Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's congratulations letter and personally contacted Ahmadinejad back.

It is not a sin to let him know that you received his letter, if you actually did. Especially if the person seemingly did nothing personal to you or your country.

You as President really have an obligation to speak to the man, now, during this time while everything is okay, and not disrespectfully ignore him causing tension to build.

That is evil and American in the worst way, and God sees that. This is one of the worst things you can do to a person is ignore them, when they did nothing to hurt you, but just try to communicate or say hello.

If there is something wrong with Ahmadinejad you are not helping the situation by ignoring him. If you quit letting evil people in power whisper in your ears and control your brain, you might just help the man and change things for the better.

Again, I want to go into some things about Iran, probably after this series soon. One thing, I want to say and will repeat when I talk about Iran is that there are many people in Iran who like the American people, and do NOT want to be at war with America or Israel. I will go into that at a later time.

I am going to have to extend this series to one or two more parts. When I go into talking about U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden, I will have alot of ground to cover. So, I will do a part 9 on a statement by Biden and hopefully finish with Hillary and discussing palin.