I've got Kathy set up with her own e-mail account, but she hasn't made the leap to surfing the net. Which means that usually I get her prayer requests for her (they used to send it by mail to her, and she realized everyone else was getting it e-mailed to them, so that's how she got the e-mail account) Sometimes she gets more than prayer requests from other church members. One person sent her an e-mail about John McCain, that links to this article about his appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show. This is where I'm in tricky territory, not to mention being very frustrated. He asks us to notice how he contracts himself in the first paragraph, how he is honestly ashamed about the candidate the Republican party has selected for this election, and will "probably find it very hard to vote for him".
Of course, I can't really say anything, since technically it's not my e-mail. And I don't know what good it'll do. And what do I say? Sorry the Republican party picked a candidate he doesn't like, and I guess all the news reports I saw about the primary elections, where the voters got to pick their party's candidate, were all lies since the fix was in. Of course, there was another fix back in 2000 that you guys didn't complain about since it favored your candidate, so now you might understand what we've been saying since then that you responded with "get over it": that when the fix is in, sooner or later the fix isn't going to go your way, and you'll understand, but it might be too late. Or are you mad that Mike Huckabee didn't get the nomination?
And I'm sorry that even though John McCain is running for a third Bush term that he isn't repeating the same talking points W made the first two times about "family and traditional values" which is what they say to get your vote, then not only do they don't do anything about those values, not only do they flount those values, they go ahead and make their friends and cronies richer while the rest of us get worse and worse off. Since the Republicans revere Ronald Reagan so much, let me ask you a question he famously asked: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? How about eight years ago? Do you really think they're going to act on any of the things they promise to you, or at the very least not lead hypocritical lives?