Remember a few months back, Dick Cheney had this to say about the outcome of the 2004 election:
“It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.”
So, one wonders, how exactly did that turn out? Recent testimony by Porter Goss shed some more light on Cheney’s comments:
“It may be only a matter of time before al Qaeda or other groups attempt to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons. We must focus on that,”
As I suspected at the time, apparently Cheney was right after all. By electing George W. Bush, we have made ourselves more likely to be hit, not less.
In an attempt to rebut Sen. Hillary Clinton’s bestselling book, It Takes a Village, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) will offer It Takes A Family: Conservatism And The Common Good this summer.
I have read neither of these two books, but to be perfectly honest, based on title alone, Sen. Clinton’s book is more biblical than Sen. Santorum’s. Jesus did not call his followers to live isolated from the community in which they lived. Rather, he called them to live a radically inclusive lifestyle where the community played a primary role in spiritual growth and learning.
Why should it be any different for our children? While certainly the family, due to its proximity to children, plays a primary role in raising them (especially when they are young), the larger community also must play an important role (especially when they are older).
And certainly, if the family is isolated from the larger community, or if the larger community influences both family and child in a negative manner, or even if the larger community does not create an environment which allows the family to provide the necessities of life, then this child’s upbringing will be insufficient.
The Republican party’s over-emphasis on the “personal” rather than the “corporate” is completely non-Biblical, and as such, isn’t a family value I wish to teach my children.
Are you kidding me? Bush is nominating the death squad guy to be the Director of National Intelligence?
