Comments for Unexamined Ballot, Not Worth Casting at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 18 May 2013 21:45:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/unexamined-ballot-not-worth-casting.html#comment-7153 I received a phone call this morning from the Republiocan National Committee. The caller admitted I had not contributed in years. I explained that the GOP talks of smaller gov.t but the Bush admin. swelled the the Fed gov't, instituted the Medicare Prescription Plan which is bankrupting Medicare, and its Neo-Con branch lied us into the Iraq War. He asked if I would like to see Obama in office for four more years. I responded that Obama was the Nobel Peace Prize winner, was he not? The fact that we are in five illegal wars under Bush/Obama should be of no concern. In 1984, George Orwell remarks in the novel that a war was raging for years, but no one could remember any longer why it had begun. The Republicans in the NY Senate may vote on "same-sex marriage" today. The U.S. is teetering on collapse and no one has any solution how to resolve it. Let it go. - Manfred Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:42:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/unexamined-ballot-not-worth-casting.html#comment-7151 Good advice, Francis, except that most of the time we have a choice between tweedledum and tweedledee. In this PC age, a direct answer to a direct question is rare. Questions about abortion, in particular, almost always lead to equivocation regardless whether the candidate is "pro-life" or "pro-choice," which seems to be the sole litmus test for Catholic voters. American politics has devolved into one big cliche. Each election cycle we must endure the same old bromides, dressed up in new sloganeering, complete with red-white-and blue campaign paraphernalia, and platitudes about "our children and our grandchildren" or "future generations," yada, yada. Just once in a debate, I'd like to hear a candidate in rebuttal to an opponent's windy answer say, "He's full of s--t." That guy would get my vote. - Grump Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:32:46 +0100