Volume 12, Number 2, September-October 2008 president
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As this issue goes to press, the
1. On many issues, these men are not
very different from each other—especially
when compared with the candidates mentioned later in this article. While both
candidates claim that they are in favor of “change”, most of their published
literature does not actually describe their proposed changes, but rather
simply claims that the candidate is, in lots of differing words, “a better
guy for the job”. Most of their published “solutions” to problems involve
more government control and spending. They mainly have minor differences in
how and from whom they would tax or borrow the money. 2. Neither Democrats nor Republicans have an acceptable track record of doing what they promised. This writer has seen more than one study showing that there is usually little correlation between the campaign promises of both parties and what was actually done by the president who won. In other words, the winning president did some of things that he campaigned for, as well as about the same number of things that his opponent campaigned for and the winner campaigned against. On the other hand, the winner also made little effort to do a significant number of things that he promised when running. Readers might remember voters in the 60s and 70s avoiding
the “hawkish” republicans to elect
“peace-loving” Democrats—only to find that Democrats greatly escalated
the Viet Nam War, and Republicans got
us out of the war—and eventually made peace with Communist China. In 1988,
voters avoided “tax and spend” Democrats to vote for “read my lips, no new
taxes” George Bush—only to get big new taxes. In 2000 and 2004, son of Bush
promised to preserve freedom and keep government small, but the 3. These men primarily serve the interests of
international corporations and bankers, not the interests of the citizens of
the www.barackobama.com
www.johnmccain.com
Please keep reading. Our Country’s Lack of Wisdom in Voting Now, it would be relatively easy for our modern media to present the varying views of all candidates on each of the important issues of the day. TV and radio could do it in a serial fashion, devoting 10 minutes to an hour segments to each issue. A large newspaper or computer DVD could cover everything in a single issue. Of course, the Internet is virtually unlimited in both flexibility and capacity. There is room to present as much additional depth as anyone would care to investigate. But what does most media coverage consist of? It is much more like a popularity contest—such as one might find in a grade-school election or among entertainment figures. The occasional clever or foolish comment of a candidate gets the air time—not the significant policy decisions that we will all have to live with for many years. What Does the Bible Say About this Election? Many people will say, “You have to vote for one of the main two candidates because none of the others will win—even if it is just the lesser of the two evils.” But the Bible states: You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice (Ex 23:2). My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent (Prov It is really very simple! The Bible does not require us to
pick the winner or even vote for a man who could win. It requires us to side
with men who will follow what is just (Deut The Bible is utterly
full of examples of not siding with multitudes that are evil (Ex 32; Gen 6;
Gen 19; Num 14:1-10; Josh 24:1-15; Real Choices None of the three men pictured above are on a par with Christ. They do not all agree with each other. But they were all 2008 presidential candidates that presented real choices, contrary to the multitudes, but largely in the interest of the citizens of the USA.These men should be the candidates that the press talks about. They are: Chuck Baldwin, the candidate for the Constitution Party, is the only one of the three men still running for President. To show how important issues—as opposed to party politics—are to these men: I received multiple Constitution Party mailings sent at its expense asking me to help with the Ron Paul Campaign. Conversely, Ron Paul presently endorses Chuck Baldwin for president. Information is available at www.constitutionparty.org.
Dennis Kusinich is a U.S.
Congressman for Read the Issues All of these websites for the five men in this article have an “Issues” or “Platform” section where one can find what they stand for. Obama and McCain look like twins compared to the other three. We will deal with just one issue: It is clear that they all know about the Federal Reserve banking system and how it works (see lead article of this issue). Even so, Obama and McCain supported the September 700 billion bailout bill, and are likely to support more, even though they know that billions of dollars of that is going into the pockets of banking executives that helped to create that mess, and even though they know that there is no credible way that the overburdened taxpayers will ever be able to pay that off. Oh, they have fear tactics and excuses why we should stay with this failing system, but that is all they have. Chuck Baldwin, Ron
Paul and Dennis Kucinich are all strongly opposed to bank bailouts and the Federal
Reserve Banking system. They all have plans to eliminate the Federal Reserve. The Download Full Issue in PDF: September-October 2008 Quick PDF (.5 MB) September-October High-Quality PDF to Print (1.8 MB) Back to front page
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