The first general election campaign ads of '08

I just watched the first John McCain ads for the general election on youtube, the first one is titled "TV ad" and the second one is titled "Man in the Arena". If John McCain plans on playing up and running on his Vietnam War experience then I say he be asked about the Human Rights aspect of his "service to our country". Is he so extremely proud of fighting in a war that had no threat to us? To protect us from no enemy threat by killing innocent people? I am by no means attempting to belittle his POWMIA experience, that took tremendous courage and strength that I could only hope of having, but there should be a since of character about ones actions and a since of what to be proud of and what not to and a Vietnam War experience should not be an experience to be proud of.

Media slant

Mass media is an uncontrollable force that will no doubt change the landscape and direction of the presidential election at any given time. Fox News is by far the most slanted of the mainstream media outlets. Last week Barack Obama came on the big three major news networks to dismiss controversial comments about his former pastor Jeremiah Wright and I watched clips of all three of them and Fox News, by far, was the most divisive and had more framing and leading questions then the other two. The only thing we can do to combat this is to use mass media ourselves. Anyway possible to voice the truth, as we see truth, we must. All three media outlets failed to give McCain the gauntlet for his endorsements from and ties to equally as controversial pastors John Hagee and Rod Parsley, who have both made anti-catholic, anti-muslim, anti-gay sermons and a plethora of others in various forms and capacities. Let us not miss our opportunity for real authentic hope and change in the form of a person who genuinely loves people. 

Hobbies

My free time as of late has been filled with very productive activities. I have been reading a lot lately, mostly Brian McLaren books, but books that nonetheless have my mind racing with ideas and desires and questions. Also, I finally got tired of having adobe CS2 and not really knowing much about it besides what I learned in a graphic design class I took at Tech so I started teaching myself how to use all of the applications mostly through tutorials and also some from my brother. Me and Rachel also just bought an awesome new Nikon D40 camera from her brother for a ridiculously cheap price so we have been learning how to use it and it has been a lot of fun. We are going camping in a month and I can't wait! I will try to remember to post some pictures from our trip....Finally, I just downloaded Obama's Blueprint for Change and plan on reading it through to really familiarize myself with his and issues. Last night I saw a kid in New Orleans wearing this T-shirt.... 

Speaking of New Orleans, the past two nights we have gone to NO ( monday night and last night) it has been thriving with people, lots of business conventions and travel. This was very exciting to see, to know that it is up and running, slowly but surely, so if you havn't been in a while come on down and if you need a place to stay we have an air mattress and some couches!

your decision after reading this?

This is a post from Jim Wallace's blog "God's Politics" it is posted by a woman by the name of Peggy Gish, a fulltime worker with Christian Peacemake Teams who has been in Iraq since 2002. Read this article and let me know what you think.