where do i start?

Great Googlimoogli! What's so radical about that last post is that AR just came out of the closet as a liberal. Portland really has taken hold. But what makes you think I was only talking about Christians in middle America? I'm condescending to everybody. Well, everybody who sticks his or her head in the sand rather than pay attention to what's going on in the world. And I never called anyone stupid. (Well, not in my last post, anyway.) I just suggested that there are a whole lot of people out there who would rather look at pretty pictures than live in the real world. Understandable, but irresponsible in my book.

I will not accept that going with your gut when it comes to voting is an intelligent choice. Whether a candidate comes off as your best pal or a snake has everything to do with the caliber of his or her P.R. staff and nothing to do with actual character. Heck, you were the one who told me that Bush's style of talking became much folksier when he started running for president. He went to Yale, for pete's sake; tell me what he's got in common with the average guy hanging out in a bar in Ohio. But, if you look at his record, you may actually get a sense of who he is. Would you call someone who promises to work toward bipartisanship then shuts down anyone who disagrees with him a man of character? Or someone who promises to pour money into education in order to get his initiative passed then pulls the funding once he's gotten what he wants? Or someone who says he's a follower of Christ, but makes tax cuts that disproportionately favor the rich while doing so little to help the poor? I'd call him a hypocrite.

So you want to know what I did to pull myself out of a post-election slump? I chose to love the sinner, but hate the sin. That, and I moved to Portland. If you look out the window as your plane descends into PDX, you wonder 'why are the lawns are all blue. Then you realize: it's just the John Kerry for President signs.