Our Only Comment on the Presidential Election

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Our Only Comment on the Presidential Election — 52 Comments

  1. We have Political Commercials on 24-hour heavy rotation where I am — radio, TV, junk mail. All sounding like Calvinista Preachers, 24/7.

  2. Well that is a sad commentary on the state of the election process. I feels the same way, but I’m an adult. My question would be why she is feeling that way about the election? Why would a 3 or 4 year old be exposed to that much of the election process, especially if she is that upset about it. (Of course it could be that she woke up too early from her nap and that was the last thing she heard about as she was dozing off.) . . . still sad.

  3. Bridget, she may be parroting words and emotions she’s heard from her parents and that’s the real origin of her sadness….her parents’ distress.

  4. Maybe she’s seen too many “scary” political ads on tv…you know, the ones where if “that guy” gets elected, the communists will take over and we’ll all be eating beans from a can under the freeway sort of ad.

    Heck, those ads make me want to cry!

  5. Maybe she’s seen too many “scary” political ads on tv…

    “IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR SO-AND-SO, NARNIA WILL BE OVERTHROWN AND PERISH IN FIRE AND WATER AND GOD *WILL* HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!”

    Anyone know a source for one-way super-saver fares to Ponyville?

  6. Victorious and Doubtful –

    I have voting age children who may not vote because of the adds and rhetoric being thrown around on all sides, on the local and national level. The process does nothing to encourage young adults to be involved, and the money being spent to get any party elected is sickening. I would like reform for the entire candidacy process.

  7. http://is.gd/b64rKs

    FORT COLLINS – A 4-year-old Fort Collins girl expressed her frustration over the seemingly never-ending presidential campaign.

    9NEWS viewer Elizabeth Evans said she and her daughter, Abigael, were listening to NPR on a trip to the grocery store Tuesday when she started tearing up.

    The mother asked Abigael why she was crying and she responded, “I’m tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney.”

    This little girl may have captured a sentiment many voters feel less than a week away from Election Day.

    Elizabeth says on the way back from the store she switched the radio from NPR to Neil Young.

  8. Teri Anne, I have IE9 and I can see it. Perhaps you need to restart your computer after updating? Just guessing.

  9. “…Elizabeth says on the way back from the store she switched the radio from NPR to Neil Young…”

    I got tired of the talking heads on NPR too and put Led Zeppelin IV into the CD player.

  10. Thanks. Less than a week to go before some of my fb friends calm down (or totally implode)

    I will NEVER get my head around American political discourse. (with apologies to all the fine, wonderful Americans I khnow)

  11. Helen Keller had this to say in a letter written in 1911:

    Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean?
    It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not
    avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

  12. I can’t wait until the election is over because it has been months and months of visual pollution from campaign signs at every intersection in every town. One of my coworkers called it “electoral graffiti” today at work and I couldn’t hardly disagree.

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    (¸.•´ (¸.•`  ¤ “When You Wish Upon A Star?”*´¨)

    I guess I’ze piss’in ma vote away…

    hmmm…

    I’ze votin’ fer sanity.

    *
    “When you wish upon a star,
    Makes no difference who you are!
    If your heart is in your dream,
    No request is too extreme…
    When you “wish upon a star”
    Your dreams come true!” *

    …if you look for it,  it’s the “second star to the right, and straight on till morning…” 

    I’za lookin’… 🙂

    *
    “Hope defer’d makes da heart sick…”

    (sadface)

    John on Patmos: “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them…”

    Jesus: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away…”

    Dream with me…

    S“㋡”py
    ___
    * “When you wish upon a star” Lyrics written by NED WASHINGTON, LEIGH HARLINE © BOURNE CO. (adapted)

  14. I taught high school government for years. As part of my job I was required to register 18 year old students to vote.
    I am no longer surprised to find 30-40 year old ex-students of mine who no longer vote. They are among the 51,000,000 in America who never vote.
    Being a so called “good” former civics teacher, I early voted yesterday. I left the polls sick to my stomach. I was not sure if it was the choices or lack of choices I had to chose from….or the monstrosity that is now the local First Baptist Church. ( It looks like a Greek temple.)

  15. Sopy

    I am always impressed with people  who can make those cool symbols like you do. And you are correct-it will all pass away for something far more glorious.

  16. K.D.

    Comment of the day.

    I left the polls sick to my stomach. I was not sure if it was the choices or lack of choices I had to chose from….or the monstrosity that is now the local First Baptist Church. ( It looks like a Greek temple.)”

    Don’t you know its their way of showing the world that God has blessed them with lots of money?

  17. @K.D., I’m voting on Tuesday. Our polling place moved in the last year from the Methodist church down the street to the Wisconsin Synod church up the street. Neither are megachurches. There is a mega near me, but as far as I know, they’re not a polling place.

    (Personally, as a hard-core separation of church and state type of person, I don’t think churches should be used as polling places, but that’s Just My Personal Opinion.)

  18. This was me last night. I came home from work (looking after kids at YMCA) to find my power back after Sandy, which I went through mostly alone because my hubs travels for his work. I had been in the cold and dark since Monday. I checked my now working phone to find 20 messages. Three were from family/friends checking on me and 17 were robo calls about the election. The destruction and pain for people in NJ and NY is huge. To hear the continual blovating on TV and radio in the midst of this makes me cry.

  19. The many millions spent on this race is a sin. I am sure God views it that way. There are several ways to change it. Do as they do in Canada and the UK, have a very shortened period of “running,” (6 months?). Have the TV stations give free time to candidates (national), but not in meaningless campaign speeches. We need to know basically what they will do about many things, and that is usually what they have DONE or SAID they will do. People dont change that much. So, surely there is a way to post a list of policies with the candidates choices, no talking or arguing, on frequently on television. The policies could be a sort of national contest with what voters want to know about. Posted regularly, with MC to explain and go over them, no leaning one way or the other, very objective. No responses, just regular reminding voters what they say and want to do.

  20. Just when you thought the circus could not get any more bizarre,
    this:

    With the 2012 Election days away, we are gearing up for KCM/EMIC’s first ever, LIVE Election Coverage. And we’re excited about it! We are putting together this LIVE coverage just for you — commercial free, packed with the Word of God and minute-by-minute updates. Not only are we covering the Presidential Election, but we will cover other national elections as well. During our election coverage we will connect with special guests, take an in-depth look at what God has to say from His Word and hear prophecies that reveal God’s plan for America.

    Kenneth Copeland Ministries LIVE Election Coverage 2012

  21. Thanks. Less than a week to go before some of my fb friends calm down (or totally implode) — Lynne T

    And the very next day, the 2016 Presidential Campaign Season begins…

    Actually, Lynne, the first few weeks after the 2008 elections were crazier than the Ken Copeland Election Coverage.
    * Some drunk black guy in Chicago punched out a cop yelling “I can get away with it now! Obama! Obama! Obama!”, and he wasn’t the scariest Obama fanboy out there.
    * All these RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL fanboys came out of the woodword spamming “I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU SO!”. And they were all named John Galt.
    * Another John Galt tried to lead all of LiveJournal in the Oath of Galt’s Gulch.
    * Still another John Galt claimed this was all Prophesied in Atlas Shrugged, Chapter X, Scene Y. Yes, chapter-and-verse.
    * “Who is John Galt?” I don’t know, but the guy’s got more Celebrity Impersonators than Elvis.
    * Then there was the YouTube clip from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith — “So this is how democracy dies. To thunderous applause.”
    * Then there was this “Spiritual Warfare” type my sister-in-law told me about — how God told him “Now My Judgment on This Land Begins.” (Same source that later told me a picture on my wall was demon-possessed.)

    Last time I looked, I was almost 57 years old. I’ve had my fill of Teh Crazy long ago.

  22. Good old K. Copeland…the one who said that God told him that he could have died on the cross to pay for our sins just as easily as Jesus did.

  23. I agree that if I never hear another political ad or robocall again, it will be too soon. I live in Ohio! Once every four years, they get interested in us for a few weeks.

    Still…whenever I think about not voting, I remember the Egyptians going crazy with joy a year or so ago, at the chance to actually vote for the first time in decades. I remember picture of African risking death to get to the polls. I also remember that when my mom was born, women were not allowed to vote in this country, and up till the 1960s, black people in many parts of this country were effectively disenfranchised. A lot of people suffered and died so I could walk into our plain little county building this afternoon (early voting allowed), stand in line for half an hour, and make a few marks on a piece of paper.

    As far as the money spent on the campaigns goes, I agree it is obscene. Much more so because of the Citizens United ruling that has brought boatloads of money from around the country into Ohio to influence the vote. (Guess which way!)

    If I ran the zoo, I would, first, do away with the Electoral College, which makes some states much more “important” than others. Decide it based on the popular vote.

    Then, shorten the campaign time to two months, as they do in England.

    Then, have all the voting done within a 48-hour period that ran exactly the same 48 hours regardless of time zone. That is, if it started on the East Coast at 7 a.m Tuesday, it would start in Hawaii at the same time: 2 a.m Tuesday (according to the Time Zone converter, and run for 48 hours.

    If I ran the zoo. 🙂

  24. Good old K. Copeland…the one who said that God told him that he could have died on the cross to pay for our sins just as easily as Jesus did. — Diane

    Guy thinks kind of highly of himself, huh?

  25. HUG

    He actually said it. I think if you google heretical Copeland quotes or something you could find it. I sent a list of them to my mil to no avail.

  26. …I always feel sorry for Americans at election times. In every other democratic country, we vote for who we think has the most beneficial policies and will be able to best address the issues of the day. But in the USA, the way you guys vote may or may not rouse the horsemen and usher in the apocalypse 😉

  27. Here is my view on politics in America.Democrats are liberal about telling you lies.They lie to you without self control.Republicans are conservative about lying to you,they are more tight lipped about it.We get jacked in the end just the same.

  28. I need to remember to watch Kenneth Copeland’s website Tuesday night instead of a “worldly” source like CNN or Fox News 🙂

    Wondering if this will lead to TBN giving us NASDAQ coverage 😉

  29. Sophie

    Thak you for a good laugh.   “”But in the USA, the way you guys vote may or may not rouse the horsemen and usher in the apocalypse.”