Election 08

Well, we are 4 days away from a very important election. I think I have just about heard all I can take of the "spin". I hear all these people telling me what I believe. I hear a candidate speak and I understand them clearly and I then hear the spin and I wonder if maybe I am hearing a candidate from another dimension.

I just heard Palin talk about the attacks on her when she talks about Obama’s plans. And the media just attack her more, while Biden gets irritated by a reporter who asks a few hard questions.

Am I in the United States of America? The one founded on individual’s rights, the one that gave freedom to those oppressed by Britain? I do not recognize it anymore. The mentality of “I am owed this” is overwhelming. It is like those first rights have expanded to everything from education to healthcare to a free house.

Our forefathers could not have imagined the country as it is now, but there knowledge of people and their tendencies is very evident. The whole structure of our government and the election process is amazing. If you look at the county map of the election of 2000, it shows that the majority of the counties in the US went to Bush. Now, I am not stupid, I know the number of people in Gore’s counties equaled the number in Bush’s. But think about it, is it fair for a few urban areas to control the country? Of course not! The founders wanted the states to stay in control.

And there is the key. What has happen to our State’s power? It has been slowly eroded away by the federal government. Year by Year, the federal government has gotten bigger and bigger. It now controls more of our everyday life than our founders ever could have imagined.

So, 4 days. What will happen? How will we be affected? I have one suggestion. Pray for our leaders and pray that God’s will be done.