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Principled Voting for a Principled leader

I've disliked McCain for a while.

I've disliked McCain since I first saw him.
Which was at the republican debates or maybe it was before that on the Daily Show. There was something about him that I couldn't quite put into words.
I've tried.
The best word i've come up with was "Snarky". 

Besides the fact I don't agree with a lot of his actual positions.
(I suppose I agree with more of his positions than a more socialist type president.)

But civil liberties and the overeaching of the government is probably the main concern and high profile republicans have become the main opponents of those rights.

Which is wierd because their platform and actions of the past used to be on the side for good on many of our rights and a smaller less corruptible government.

Changing their minds or what some call Flip-Flopping

But that aside it's sad that so many good republicans who once vowed they would never vote for McCain during the primaries... are now "flip flopping" and saying they will indeed vote for him.
I was so excited because I thought they were gonna take a stand for something.
Make a statement.
Follow their heart and their principles.
Now it looks like they aren't.

They're gonna fall into the pernicious evil that tells us that it's alright to choose evil... as long as it's less evil than the other evil. Talk about going down "by degrees"

 

Some better things to talk about

The issues of our time that we should be talking about aren't being talked about:
We accept where are country has gone, we do not question the actions of our past leaders.
We do not fix past problems the way we should. We accept that someone installed a poor economic system and only resolve to keep it afloat rather than change it or restore it. We patch the education system with programs like the no child left behind. Instead of changing it to a principled based system. We insist that no one should be allowed to fail.
If you're LDS that philosophy might sound familiar. There was a certain someone that once proposed a plan that I find very similar about how no one would fail with him at the helm.

We also allow ourselves to be duped to believe that preventative wars and messing in the affairs of other countries is just fine because of safety. We also allow ourselves to give up our liberties (ex. privacy, speach, unreasonable searches, bare arms) to have more safety. We don't hold to our principles that inspired founders and the constitution taught us. When we give up liberty for safety we will have neither. There are many muddled affairs and it's hard to know the best things to do. The challenges of our leaders are difficult. They analyse and hold strong to their analysis, but what they don't understand is that living by a principled truth is much better and much easier.

Principles to live by in my opinion

• Do not give up our rights,
• do not be the agressor,
• do not grab for power,
• do not forget our god,
• don't lead by fear,

 

"Give me liberty..." this should be above Health Care, money, agressive wars, or even dare i say it education.

So many patriots of old believed it to be so important that it was first even above their own lives. 
It was their own abusive government they were fighting btw.
(Heaven help us that it doesn't come to that once again.)
 

The constitution is the inspired wisdom that was set in place to protect what was most important. It was not created to make sure the chinese or the french or the iranians took away our liberty. It was made so we ourselves wouldn't do it.

Obama

And as for Obama. 
What principles guide him?
Because then we can understand how his policies will go down.

Does he want no one to fail?
Are those 5 bold points among his donts?

Will he bring us back our lost liberties?
will he lead the saftey of our country in a principled way?
will he turn our hearts to god (without telling us or forcing our hand)?
will he try to lead through fear?
will he make sure no one person or persons gets too much power and maintain a system of checks and balances?
Will he protect the citizens from the government like the constitution intended?
Will he make people stand up on their own... or will he force them to stand up?
How about the stand on principled economics? How about the national debt? 

 

Only principled politics will lead us to great things.
Patching the holes on a sinking boat is not the answer.