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• Sunday, August 17, 2008 06:07 PM

  I'm Looking For A Disciple Of Jefferson, Not Jesus

  Except for the admonition to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" Jesus had little to say about how secular governments ought to be managed. I really don't care if the President is a Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, or Atheist, as long as he or she promotes the kind of popular representative government with guarantees of individual rights that was initiated by the Founders and advanced so nobly by our society until the past few decades. The obeisances of Senators McCain and Obama before the idol of evangelical approval does nothing toward securing thrifty, responsible government with equal protection under the law. Both aforementioned Senators have revealed their underlying corruption by voting for telecom amnesty in the recent FISA Amendments Act. Neither has come out strongly against the Real ID Act, the misnamed Patriot Act, or other legislative infringements of our inherent rights.

  I suspect I am expecting too much to have a candidate who is plain spoken, calls the flim-flam apologists for military aggression for what they are, and is honest about the terrible trouble we are in from extravagant government borrowing and spending and a monetary system controlled by a power elite, inaccessible to the popular will.

  So whether McCain or Obama "praises Jesus" is their own private business, as far as I am concerned. I just hope that neither of them turns out to be a bought and sold flunky for transnational corporations in their bloodthirsty stop-at-nothing bid for world hegemony.

  —futhark Read futhark's other letters
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