One reader of this blog says that none of the current candidates for president are worth voting for, and that we should “make America Strong again” and “let the rest of the world kill them selves.” What do you think? Do you agree?
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Today is ResponDay on the blog. On this day I respond to some of the remarks that have been posted in the Comments Section below my entries. Unfortunately, there is neither time nor space to respond to everyone’s observations, but I try to get to a sampling every so often, and then post my reactions to them. So here we go…
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IN REACTION TO MY ENTRY HERE LAST MONDAY in which I decried Sen. Hillary Clinton’s remark to the media that “I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he’d bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002″…G.W.McKay wrote: To add to the Drama of her statement, She along with President Clinton, offered Obama to be on their ticket as Vice President. This in President Clinton words “would be an unstoppable Duo”. Now, if Obama does not have the Quals to be the President, then how can he be the VP, where he would be a breath away from the Presidency.
I agree with you, G.W. If find it the immensely strange for Sen. Clinton to spend seven months trying to convince Americans at every turn that Barack Obama is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief, only to then openly suggest that he might made a good Vice President — holding an office only a heartbeat away from the presidency. The chutzpah of all this is breathtaking. Only a campaign as brazenly willing to do or say anything to win could possible engage in such outright contradictions, in hopes of swaying just a few more voters into the Hillary camp by floating the idea of Obama as her running mate. What a sad, cynical maneuver. I am disappointed in the Hillary campaign.
Also in reaction to my entry last Monday, Blake Hayner wrote…Check your baggage at the door we don’t need anymore judgments. I’m going to practice the principles that are taught in Conversation with God in all my affairs. Unconditional love — that means for everyone: Republican, Democrat, Independent, male, female, White, Black, religious, non-religious. We are all one. What we’re watching is all entertainment, nothing more.
I agree with you, Blake, that we are all One, just as every part of my body is One with Me. Yet that doesn’t mean that when my stomach has a sickness, I must ignore it. I may actually have to call it what it is: a sickness. What is going on right now in the Clinton campaign feels like a sickness to me. I would call it Winatanycostitis.
Unfortunately, what we are watching, Blake, is not ‘entertainment.’ It is the most important process in the political life of this country, and could decide the future of the United States and the world. I am sure you have noticed the impact that our current president has had. All world leaders place profound footprints on the sands of human history. And so, to me, this does not seem like entertainment, Blake.
IN REACTION TO MY ENTRY HERE LAST TUESDAY…in which I congratulated the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention for signing a declaration calling climate change a real problem and encouraging Baptist ministers to preach about protecting our environment…Walter from The Netherlands wrote: I really do not, and i will repeat this statement, I do not believe that there is global warming produced by mankind.
With respect, Walter, every evidence that science has come up within the past ten years points to just the opposite conclusion. Human beings most assuredly are responsible, in large part, for global warming and climate change. Forgive me for using strong terms, but it feels like it is time to take our heads out of the sand on this.
And Michelle Ma Belle wrote…Everything in life works in cycles. Everything!! And from everything even destruction comes new beginnings. There is evidence of this in science and religion. When someone claims the end is near, well they may in fact be correct, the end is inherent, always occurring as well as always beginning.
Putting your faith in a higher consciousness and aligning yourself with a more positive thought than ‘warming’ would be a start.
Positive thinking does not mean we are not to announce that we hear the train coming — especially when we are standing on the tracks. It strikes me that even positive thinkers might be allowed to say, “Hey, we are standing on the tracks, and I positively hear the train coming!”
IN REACTION TO MY ENTRY HERE LAST WEDNESDAY…in which I asked, Is the Bible literally true?…Kenneth Schwab wrote: The Bible is intended to help us with our morals and values, and was never intended to be an accurate history book.

I should like to point out that we are not talking here about the Bible as an “accurate history book.” The words I have quoted above are not “history.” They are not simply written accounts of life in Biblical days and times. Those words purport to be spiritual directions. They are much more than merely fascinating narrative accounts of day-to-day existence, they are spiritual instructions, to be followed, presumably, by readers of the Bible.
If they are NOT to be followed by such readers, then all future editions of the Bible should SAY, in PRINT, just before these sections….”NOTICE: The words that follow are not to be considered injunctions from God, or from any religious authority. These words are merely historical accounts, and they are inaccurate at that.” Or words to that effect.
My point–which Mr. Schwab, below, seems to have missed: If we are going to simply “write off” certain portions (maybe whole sections of whole books) of the Bible as being “historically inaccurate,” then the entire book is suspect, is it not? Which is precisely what I am saying here. Each person must decide for himself or herself what is “true” and what is not. Obviously, the Bible itself is not literally true.
Obviously.
Oh, and if any of my readers would be willing to re-read my direct quotes from the Bible above and tell me how those scriptural teachings “help us with our morals and values,” as Mr. Schwab says that the Bible was intended to do, I would be most grateful. I’m a bit confused here.

IN REACTION TO MY ENTRY HERE LAST THURSDAY…in which I discussed Geraldine Ferraro’s remarkably racially motivated comment about Barack Obama that he is only where he is today because he is black…Michelle Ma Belle wrote: Mr.Walsch…Who comes up with some of your material? I really feel like you are in opposition with the emulation you are trying to possess. While I put no one on a pedestal, I feel a struggle with your energy.
Gosh, I come up with my own material. Wow, maybe I had better fire my writers! Seriously, I don’t understand why it seems out of bounds to simply observe “what is so” in our world. And even to comment on it. Jesus did the same thing in his time. Not that I am comparing myself to Jesus, but just making the point that even Jesus walked around being a little, shall we say, “critical” of how the authorities during his time were handling things. “You vipers! You hypocrites!” he called them at one point. Hmmmm. I wonder who wrote HIS material…?
And August wrote: Frankly, I vote for none of the above. The Republican candidate is a Bush wannabee. The last thing this country needs is more Bush policies. I don’t think Obama has the experience to fight the crooks in Congress and get anything accomplished. I don’t trust Hillary, if for nothing else the way she sticks by that…husband of hers. Will there ever really be a change in this country? Not as long as the Democrats and Republicans are running it. What we need is someone brave enough to close our borders. end our dependence on foreign oil, and quit supporting all these third world nations that only hate us for it. Let’s make America Strong again. Let the rest of the world kill them selves off.
Well, August…what can I say? I disagree with you on just about everything you’ve said here. Shall we let it go at that?
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