Compromising to Win

Any man or woman that will vote strictly along religious lines, whether it be evolution or abortion should have their votes taken away. Our world is in trouble and we need a leader that will take control of it and not waste time looking into our private lives. What makes one think they have the power or privelge to judge us? Only God can judge and none of the religous right or their leader are God.

"It was pretty cool." Ray McDonald Jr. at Wings Over Wine Country.

I was getting ice cream, a Purple Dinosaur cone, last week and there was a little boy getting ice cream with an older woman. I told him that the difference between the men and the boys is the price of the toys, but the price of the ice cream is always the same. You can't go negative when it comes to ice cream. With more global warming, the ice cream business is the place to be cool. Global warming was making my cone melt, so I needed extra extra napkins. It was a real mess.

Running for presidency is a selfish aspect; you try to make yourself look as best as possible, but at the same time you need to pin point your opponets pressure points while at the same time you the crowed on bothe sides to still apriciate you.

You can't win them all. Take the good with the bad and if you lose don't take it too hard. You learned a lesson that you could not of learned by winning. You won't do that again.

Again what is negative? You want to resolve the worst of it you might try loosening up the libel standards a bit. As it stands right now you can say anything you want about any public figure regardless of its validity and he has essentially no recourse.

The truth is the truth. You can yell all you want about how bringing Reverend Wright is dirty politicking but the fact remains Obama attended Church there for twenty years and subjected himself, and his wife, and kids to the man's hysterical and false teachings. And people wonder why Obama's wife has made the lamentable comments she has made. I'd submit to you that she learned the beliefs upon which those statements were based from Reverend Wright's much abused pulpit and that Senator Obama's kids kids have learned much the same garbage.

One can also argue both sides Of John McCain's failed 1st marriage.

In both cases what may seem irrelevant to some others would say reveals something of the man's beliefs and character.

The question already has a biased view, and a false assumption: Just because the stakes are high does not mean that you have to compromise on your moral position. This does not mean that it doesn't happen... But, let us take into consideration that strange idea that "if" a candidate were to refrain from runnning any sort of mudslinging campaign, there would be a great positive moral force in the favor of the supposed candidate... At least I would belive this to be so...

With quality, there can be no compromises and as we well know quality pays for itself. You have to love quality or you get stuck with something else and end up hating it. Then you search for quality all to find love. Some problems are greater than others. Love conquers all and compromises compromise all. When the stakes are so high, they can always be raised. Heaven knows no limits and there are kids to raise and there is hell to raise. I'm trying to stay out of hell. Politics can be hell, with smoke and mirrors. No fun there. Go above and beyond with Smoke n Thunder http://www.smoke-n-thunder.com/v2/site.html Don't get hit by lightning!

Since the U. S. Constitution specifically creates a separation between church and state, both of the Presidential candidates representing the major political parties of this nation should be asked what steps their administration would take to protect the American people from religion.

The implied analogy that a religious messiah was entering politics to save the US and the world was bordering on blasphemy. So it had to be outed and counted out of the political game. No harm done for the real truth of the candidate still remains based on which the political campaign can continue to be fought.

If a negative ad is based on a lie it is a moral compromise. But if it has a basis in truth, then it is politics 101.

The political messiah analogy does have some truth in it because a politician should not be worshipped as a cult figure. Politicians are politicians and should be treated as such.

It is when one's moral values "must be" compromised for the sake of their political success that one has to make a choice whom they will serve. Mommon does not like any rival for our affection and will strive to ruin any one naive enough to think they can serve God while living for Mammon. God is somewhat jealous of our love and loyalties too and can see right through the fence-straddler.
As to how I deal with these moral connflicts? Personally I do not run for office, but I also pray regularly and fervently for those who do. That's how I deal with it.