The election of Donald Trump gave me feelings of relief and concern, for my country and the Republican Party. I also include ideas of how it was he won, and whether racism was involved.
And I cover other reactions to his election. Or do I?
No podcast episode this week. It would have come out today, and would have been obsolete with 24 hours, so I decided to skip it.
Instead, just remember to vote. Really. No, I’m serious. You may not have the choices you’d like (I know I don’t like them), but they are the choices we have.
So my advice:
Pray
Think
Vote
Keep praying
We’re going to need all the thinking and prayer we can get for the next 4 years. See you next week!
This time out, I spend an entire episode on one (rather long) bit of listener feedback. Ruthie Rink wrote in to say how, as a conservative and a Mormon, she is working out how to vote in this election. I couldn’t cover everything she said, so her full text is below, after the podcast episode transcript.
While I won’t be doing what she’s doing, I can’t fault her on her decision-making. Perhaps you might want to consider this.
This time out, I’m talking to my fellow Christians who believe that a vote for Trump may not be morally right. A prominent Christian magazine has a scathing editorial against him, and I’ll be responding to that. And if you’re not a Christian, you might want to listen anyway, to get a little inside scoop of what those wacky people are thinking. Hey, I’ve always said I would try to give you a perspective you may have not heard before.
This is the second part of my analysis of the September 26th debate between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. As I wrote last time, there was just so much to get into (because we finally got to compare the candidates side-by-side) that I couldn’t fit it all into one episode.
And with the next debate between them coming very soon, I had to get this out before that, which is why you’re getting 2 episodes in one week. But hey, it’s just 10 minutes! 🙂
I took some notes during the September 26th debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It was the first time to have a good “compare and contrast” between their policies. I took so many notes that I had to split this into 2 episodes!
It may seem like a lot of time to spend on one debate performance, but we finally got to compare and contrast policy issues directly between the two candidates. For the most part. So I think this is worth the time.
Democrats: Keep abortion safe, legal, and frequent.
Last episode, I talked about why I’m voting for Donald Trump; because of the importance of the choice of Supreme Court justices. Here’s a closer look at one of the details as to why, and it goes more into why we’ll need to vote the platform rather than the person. When it comes to funding abortion, the Democrats simply aren’t pro-choice.
If you can’t vote the candidate, vote the platform.
Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. That’s the choice we have this presidential election. Instead of hand-wringing about how we got to this point, I want to focus on the actual decision come November, what I’ve decided, and how I made that decision.
In my mind, neither is a good choice. There’s just no two ways about it. In the past, as a conservative, I’ve had to hold my nose and vote for guys like Mitt Romney or John McCain because the difference between them and their Democratic opponent was so wide, and had such awful policies (or promises of policies) that there was no contest in my mind.
With Donald Trump, I’m going to have to hold my nose, as well as a number of other body parts, because his policy promises today just don’t line up with what he’s said in the past. But I am going to vote for him. In this episode, I discuss the main reason why.
The WikiLeaks email hacking of the Democratic National Committee shows how much the (supposed) neutral group really was pulling for Hillary, and how much they were in bed with the media, and how little they wanted actual debate within the party. The Sanders supporters protested all throughout the convention, mad that they were treated so poorly.
And some claimed that the convention had a fence — a wall, if you will — surrounding it. That I just don’t believe. C’mon, as much as they have railed against Trump’s idea, would they really build a wall to keep out undesirables? >wink<
These are my thoughts and observations during the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
The Republican National Convention has wrapped up, with, of course, the nomination of Donald Trump and Mike Pence for President and Vice President of the United States. There was all the usual pageantry and speeches, but this convention also lived up to its hype of being an unconventional convention.
Many of the Republican primary candidates just stayed away from the convention, including the host state’s governor, John Kasich, because they didn’t agree with many of Trump’s policies. But one did show up, and his speech dominated the news cycle. It didn’t have to, but it did mostly because of the reaction (actually, over-reaction) to it.
This time out, I’m talking to my fellow Christians who believe that a vote for Trump may not be morally right. A prominent Christian magazine has a scathing editorial against him, and I’ll be responding to that. And if you’re not a Christian, you might want to listen anyway, to get a little inside scoop of what those wacky people are thinking. Hey, I’ve always said I would try to give you a perspective you may have not heard before.
