i just finished reading another book yesterday and one particular quote that really stuck with me from it follows:

“That was when I experienced a moment of stunning understanding. Popularity had nothing to do with the truth. If these kids took a minute to ask themselves where Cap got off writing thousand-dollar checks, they’d be rioting, not applauding. But what really mattered was image. The eighth grade president was a star now. Nobody questioned it when he did something wonderful because that’s what was expected of him.”

Now, the book is called Schooled, by Gordon Korman and it’s about a group of eight-grade students, probably intended for a much younger audience than i gave it, but i think the point of that quote is downright chilling, considering the current presidental campaign that ends in four days… Karl Rove touched on it recently as well, in a brief article titled, Obama: Polls over Policy? (may not be the top article)…

Another chilling quote comes from across the pond…

You have to pinch yourself – a Marxisant radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.

Ouch. Well, let’s get to the quick and finish up this political chatter i left hanging last time…

POLITICS: CHARACTER

A lot of folks don’t think that character really needs to come into play when it comes to picking the President or other leaders… they may cite the need for seperation of church and state or something silly like that, but they’re wrong… a leader must be a person of character… why do you think the Bible is so particular about who can lead in the church? it’s important… we have a choice between two men, one man has taken stands for his beliefs, his country, and for others… one man has become very popular, but hasn’t exactly taken any stands on anything… in fact, all he’s really taken is money from questionable sources, including the mortgage companies that where instrumental to triggering this economic crisis…

it seems to me that if you refuse to take a stand on anything then you really don’t subscribe to any real system of beliefs… of course, that’s exactly what Obama has argued on his own behalf, ironically… Think back to the whole Rev. Wright incident… Obama attended that church for a long time and looked to Wright as a mentor, but then, once it became a hinderance, he abandoned the whole relationship, stating that he never really heard anything hateful spoken from the pulpit there and that, of course, he didn’t believe in all that was presented… basically, he had spent his entire churched career giving lip-service to the church… it’s hard not to think that he’d do the same as preisdent…

POLITICS: VOTER FRAUD

well, this certainly falls inline with the whole question of character, but this is an issue that’s really sprung up in the last few weeks with the ACORN scandal and what not… i get kind of angry, though, by how it was brushed aside and swept under the rug for the most part… one case involved 1800 registrations of which only SIX were valid… now, these individulas involved were charged, but it’s been pushed aside largely because it’s “voter registration” fraud and not actual voter fraud… the problem though, and why none of these reporters would be very good chess players, is that if you were planning to commit voter fraud, the first step would have to be voter registration fraud… this is clearly step one of a process that could easily result in actual voter fraud and it should be treated as such…

HANGING CHAD

there’s more that i can talk about – i’ve been so absorbed by the atmosphere of this election push, but i don’t know that it has to do with the actual election so, i’ll just leave it at that before i get completely swept away in politics… later today, i’ll do a post about football and after that sometime soon, i have a couple books to review… and after that… who knows…

but before i go, here’s my plug for the front page… two new items up for peeping… a new Left to Write that actually talks a bit about elections and such… and a new 25 Words or Less that covers ten albums that released in February as i continue to try and dig out of the reviews hole that i put myself in… as always… more later…

peace… love… bdg…