[Dialogue] the President

[LAURELCG at aol.com]

Thanks for your thoughtful answer, Randy. My disappointment won't keep me  
from voting for the President's reelection. I'm working to avoid getting 
pulled  in to campaign rhetoric and the talking heads on tv.  Looking for  
where history needs to move beyond the political and economic corruption that  
define our day. If symbols are still key, where is the tunneling going on  
beneath the rotten structures that will bring them down? Where should I put 
the  energy and passion that went into the 2008 campaign? 
 
Jann 
 
 
In a message dated 6/4/2012 1:09:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
rcwmbw at yahoo.com writes:

Jann and Sunny,
 
I too have struggled with some of the decisions the President and  his 
administration have made, like for example, the decision to allow super  pacs to 
raise money for his campaign.  Since I can't be happy with  all his 
particular actions, I've had to fall back on his  values, and there I believe his 
are as close to my own as any  national candidate for office in my lifetime.  
So for  now I will continue to trust his foundational values  and I will 
stick with him as my candidate until I feel his  values have shifted to the 
point that I no longer can if I am to  maintain my own integrity.
 
Our father in freedom Dietrich Bonhoeffer told us that often the  choices 
are between wrong and wrong, and right and right.  My  experience in choosing 
candidates is that it is always  between individuals who are both right and 
wrong at the same time,  that is, there's good and bad in all of them (and, 
by the way, all  of us.)  This is one reason why it is a distortion to 
demonize those with  whom we disagree.
 
The 2008 presidential election was the first for me in  which I felt I was 
voting "for" the  candidate I supported rather than "against" the one I did 
not  support .  I confess I'm not as enthusiastic about Obama now as I  was 
last time around, but it is so clear to me that the values of  Mitt Romney 
are so contrary to my own that there is no dilemma whatsoever for  me as to 
who I will vote for.
 
Randy
 
PS  I believe any elected official, who serves a term  with an eye toward 
getting elected for another term, is compromised to one  degree or another.  
That is why I would support the presidency being  limited to one 6-year 
term.  If Obama is re-elected I believe his lame  duck status will allow him to 
do things he never did in his first term.   I feel this is indicative more 
of a flaw in  the system than a flaw in the man.

 
"Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the  
world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it  desires."
-Martin Buber  (adapted)


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