Check out Brian Mclaren’s open letter to President Obama. He encapsulates both my frustration with Obama and my hope that he can make better choices. It is time for a third option to be tried in America.
Check out this article in the NY Times. I know where I stand on health care reform. I am getting pretty tired of special interests and lie-machines getting in the way of reform. I have been thinking about this for a while. We have set up a system where simply because someone is wealthier than someone else, they will get to live longer, despite their life choices (I think of many famous people who get pushed to the front of the line for kidney transplants after a life of abusing their bodies). I used to be on the other side of the fence. You know what changed my opinion? Becoming poor. Working multiple jobs and trying to go to school with a disabled wife and 2 kids. And pay health insurance? Heh. You know how I have health insurance? The Presbos. First Presbyterian of Granbury pays for my medical insurance. I digress. The right to life and how long you live should not be determined by how wealthy you are.
Another note: many fiscal conservatives (I am not referring to pro-life, yay God social conservatives) say they like the idea of competition in business because it drives them to make better products at cheaper prices in order to compete. They are lying. That is really what the public option is about. Breaking the oligopoly that exists now in health care and producing a public (read: not socialist) option for people to go to. So there. I took a stand on an issue. I am not pro-Obama, or anti-Obama. I simply think that this is the most Christlike thing to do, given the options presented.
Argue. Discuss.
Here is Brian Mclaren giving his thoughts on Obama’s stimulation plan, but really its about “then” vs. “future”, as in “I remember back then” vs. “where do we want to be in the future”.
Here is a vid of John Piper going off on Obama. I am trying to think of why I don’t like it. According to Piper, 1,000,000 babies are killed every year by abortion. 1000 innocent people a day are killed with conventional guns. Is it because Piper did not Pipe up and talk about Obama getting rid of arms manufacturing? Is it because he is yelling? Is it because of how Jeremiah Wright was condemned for what he said? Not sure. I was ambivalent about John Piper before. Now, my slanted opinion is that he seems to get loud too much with too much fake emotion. I am not sure you will ever see me trying that hard to pull on your emotional strings. What are your thoughts on this?
