I must start by being confessional. I harbor no moral grudges towards William Jefferson Clinton. Yes, he committed adultery while president. While I am obviously opposed to the sin of adultery I do not dismiss the sinner (see John 4:4-26).
What I am opposed to is Christians who blindly support George W. Bush and claim him to have restored dignity to the White House while completelty dismissing Clinton as a bad guy.
What bothers me is that Republicans successfully pushed for Oil company executives to not testify under oath. The same executives who were invited by Cheney to meet with his staff to "discuss" the White House energy policy in 2001. And I know people who believe that unrest in the Middle East and OPEC are responsible for high gasoline prices. Ok OPEC is not entirely blameless, but there has been no decrease in Middle Eastern unrest latley. And we have recently lost refineries along the gulf coast which would usually lead to increased gas prices. (Constant demand and decreased supply = higher prices.) Isn't it VERY interesting that things being the way they are, gas prices finally drop dramatically when oil companies are in the spot light?
I can sleep better tonight knowing that honest people have restored dignity to the White House. At least the Clinton's are not longer in power.
4 comments:
Yes, it is funny how staunchly W is defended by the same people who denigrated everything William Jefferson did...
I am no fan of WJC either, but the blind loyalty to GWB is a bit frightening. W has done some good things, yes, true, but NOT EVERYTHING he does is acceptable.
I, for one, am moving rapidly away from support of the policies that this administration is pushing; everything from their foreign policy (especially with Israel and China) to their domestic policy (your fore-mentioned 'cozy' relationship with the oil companies.
I wonder what the choice will be next election season? A typically lame and unfocused idealist pushed forward by the donkeys, or a big business as usual, (and increasingly Big Brother-type big government) elephant?
What a choice!
The knock on Americans by Euros is the lack of interest in the political process evidenced by the low voter turnout. Give people a choice and they might turnout.
Great Ryan. The last few months have reminded me that the difference between "R" and "D" is like the difference between diet coke and diet pepsi.
Nice analogy Charles.
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