I haven’t written in a long time on here.  There are a lot of reasons, for one I have been very busy; two, when it comes to writing and reading I am not very ambitious.  These two mixed together make for a horrible blogger.  None the less, I have decided to come out of semi-blogging retirement to write about something that is becoming more and more dire…our current political situation.

There are few people that realize where we are in history and the decision before us the in these next weeks.  Robert Frost wrote a poem published in 1916 called, “The Road Not Taken;” a relatively famous poem to the literary types.  I only found out about it earlier this year when I was forced to read it for a college literature class; I even ended up having to write a paper on it.  At the time I found it rather troublesome and frankly boring to have to “waste” my time writing about a poem that was written almost a hundred years by some dead guy.  I was convinced that there were plenty of other things that I could be learning about.  However, as time has progressed I have thought a lot about those “stupid” poems and stories that I read in that class.

This brings us to today where there is not a more fitting analogy, to me, for our current political crisis, if I may, that this poem.  Mr. Frost’s poem speaks of a traveler that stood at a point with two roads before him; knowing that only one road could be traveled he stands looking down each.  They looked similar, each “grassy and wanting wear;” each “in leaves no step had trodden black.”  Finally he starts down the second road, saying “I kept the first for another day.”  Yet in his heart he knows that he will never be at the point in his life where he can come back to this decision again.  The poem ends with the following

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

We (as a country) are at this point where “two roads diverged in a yellow wood.”  We will look back at this point and say that this election, which ever direction it goes, “made all the difference.”  If Barack Obama wins the presidency and the Democratic Party win sweeping victories in the House and Senate it will be a dark day for our country.  I don’t personally like John McCain and I don’t know that much about Sarah Palin.**(See below when you are done reading)  But Barack Obama, his vice presidential nominee and the people supporting him stand for everything I stand against.  He wants to bring amnesty to illegal immigrants, abruptly end the war in Iraq, he is pro abortion, pro LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender), against traditional marriage, against free speech and print, against firearms, and he sat under a preacher for years that was anti white and anti America.  He is liked and supported by people like Louis Farrakhan, Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad, and Communist Party USA; that in and of it self should worry people.  At first his rhetoric sounds promising, but once you keep reading you will realize that things aren’t what they seem.  If, as I said before, Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party take over full control of this country things will change.  He has said all along that he will bring change, and I believe him, but I fear that change.

In closing, I don’t really know what we can do.  Honestly, I believe our time; the time of the conservative, logically thinking mild mannered people has or is coming to an end.  I am reminded of a few lines from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

Unfortunately, I believe that we omitted our tide, and we lost our ventures.  Now, there is a new tide rising in the affairs of men, and I fear that they will not be as foolish.  All we can do is pray that God will be merciful on us as we begin to pay for our political apathy.

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More information on what the Obama/Biden Campaign stands for:
http://obama.3cdn.net/36ddd2f5daac41cb21_rym6bxaax.pdf
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaonFaith.pdf

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**A side note, despite what the masses of evangelicals think she is pretty irrelevant; when was the last time anyone saw Dick Cheney?  Case in point, who was George Washington’s vice president?  How about Abraham Lincoln’s?  John F. Kennedy?  Exactly.  No one remembers vice presidents.  The country doesn’t look to the vice president, especially a woman to make decisions.  Men like women, proven fact, but when crisis comes men look to other men for decisions; they look to the president, not the vice president.