Re: 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
Gentlemen, I hope you don't mind me interceding with a subject that is a small tangent from what you're discussing, but I want to mention something I saw this evening that really and truly bothered me. It was this picture.
People are free to disagree with me on this one, but to be perfectly frank, I find the sentiment in that caption outrageous and vile. That was enough to stir my ire, but what truly upsets me about it is it was shared by someone I know from church, a man whose most deeply rooted values lie in the Christian faith. My own belief system is damaged and conflicted, and I question what I believe on a daily basis, but somehow, withdrawing aid of any sort from those countries (or any other to which we supply money and resources) does not strike me as a very Christian thing to do. It certainly would have no positive political ramifications at all - it's a perfectly dreadul method of dishing out vengeance on a vast majority of people who did absolutely nothing wrong, and would do nothing but (further) promote the idea that Americans are vindictive bastards.
I hope neither campaign touches this idea with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole.
Originally Posted by mattbcl
