Ramblings and learnings

So I've been thinking a lot about faith and sin and service and leadership . I'm just not sure if we are all going to agree on everything, big or small. I do know this though, I will never break off fellowship or friendship with anyone for ideology or theology or a philosophical differences of opinion. I argue with my friends about life and love and politics and Jesus and [fill in the blank] and we have all got to this point in our road for specific reasons. I've been a Christian for over 20 years. I don't take any opinion or belief I have lightly. I also don't take any of my OPINIONS to seriously either. Not one belief is more important than a person. I disagree with everyone about something. Some big things and some small things. If I were to flush out EVERY issue we would disagree about fundamental values, how to raise kids, how to fight fair with our spouse, how to be a "good" Christian. We can find differences, but are those differences going to define me? Sometimes we take out our sword and we start chopping ears off. I don't know when it's time to chop ears off but it seems like Jesus was never about chopping ears off. bss [big sad sigh!]

The Caucus Is Over!

Interesting experience to say the least.

I feel bad for the underdog candidates on the Dem side because if we would have done a straw pole Biden and Richardson and maybe even Dodd would have had a bigger piece of the pie. The way it works for Dems is we litterally stand in the corner of our candidate and if we have 15% of the room our candidate is viable. Viable means we get a delegate. Our presinct got 5 Deligates to split bteweenthe whole room. We had 222 people total in the room and we needed 34 people to make Biden viable. We only had 27 and nobody was moving. There were like 5 undecided and the Hillary people were giving them the crazy eye and hitting them with signs so I wasn't going over there. Biden actually had an OK percentage of the room but because we had to stand were someone was viable we had to move. So, in the media it looked like the underdogs didn't have the support that they really did. Oh well, either way Hillary didn't win and I feel ok about that.

By the way my Republican bretheren, Pat Robertson won Iowa when he was runnnig for president. So don't get that Oval office chair form fitted to Huckabee's butt just yet. John McCain won New Hampshire in 2004 so maybe he will again. And could someone please tell Thompson to put his bags away.

Did I mention how crazy Hillary's people were? They scared me.

Obama/Biden
Obama/McCain
Obama/ ?????

Raucous Caucus Robots?

So tonight we Caucus! Never Caucused before. I wonder what it will be like?
I'm caucusing for Joe Biden. I've met him. I like him and I kinda trust him.
I don't really trust any of them, but Joe seems very real and down to earth. He's smart and has plenty of experience [which is a nice way to say he's been in politics for a long time.] I don't like his voting record on abortion but on mostly everything else I can't complain. I think he can get us out of Iraq with us looking OK and with Iraq in the best shape.
I'm really looking forward to this all being over just to see who running mates are and who both sides end up with as there candidates. I really wish there could be a bi-partisan ticket like Biden-McCain or Obama-Huckabee. I think that would really cause the nation to scratch their heads for a moment and not just be so quick to demonize the other guy.
If you take Hillary and Giuliani out of the mix there really isn't anyone else that is that offensive. They are all [except those two] palatable.
The iorony behind this blog is that Hillary-Giulliani is a very likely ticket and everything I just said goes right out the window.