MORE AND MORE CHANGE - Just A Minute for 9/02/08 - Tuesday

Howdy folks. –

 

            Yesterday was a biggie with “Gustav” nearly doing a repeat on New Orleans (and giving them a preview of what they still need to do (mainly with tax money from the rest of the nation) to make New Orleans bullet proof (maybe) against storm surges and other damaging things from the passing hurricanes. And we may have to contend with “Hannah” coming to visit South Carolina – let’s pray just to fill up our lakes.

 

            Then came a BIG surprise! Senator McCain’s pick for VP, Sarah Palin, has an unmarried daughter five months pregnant. Hardly good news for any family but especially for a candidate who has and wants to continue to run on a family values ticket. Nonetheless the Palin family made the best of what could be said – greeted the news with happiness over a new grandchild’s arrival – and the impending wedding of their daughter, Bristol, to her husband to be – with appropriate non-attention from Senator Obama’s camp [except for ‘snakehead’ James Carville (his wife’s name for him -- not mine)] … thus the campaign proceeds apace. It is certainly a far superior solution than aborting the child as advocated by many – and shows the depth of love and family unity of a Christian family in a crisis time. What does it do to the McCain – Palin ticket?  For one thing it demonstrates the value of a totally defenseless human life that needs protecting. It’s not something we would want to have confront with any family – but it happens – and no one makes light, or excuses it. It simply shows the love of Christ manifest in a family.

 

            Now comes the GOP speeches… and I generally think they are among the least important things that happen in a campaign. I happened to see the famous (or infamous) line uttered by Barry Goldwater in San Francisco in 1964. It was the one and only convention I’ve attended… and while exciting, it foretold a huge defeat – in fact it held the record of fewest states won that stood until George McGovern came along a few years later and carried only his home state.

 

            Well politics is a noisy, expensive and for the most part I think, unenlightening exercise – but we do it. Very little of what gets dealt with in campaign speeches comes to actual fruition. There are good intentions I suppose but more often they turn out poorly if at all. Man for all his vaunted intelligence and ingenuity still seems to have big trouble ruling himself. May the Lord lead us to HIS conclusion of this matter.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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MORE AND MORE CHANGE

Just A Minute – Every day this convention is totally new. The GOP lead yesterday was the surprise announcement the Palin’s expect a new grandchild in December -- it almost overwhelmed “Gustav’s” visit and news of the refugees. 

Yesterday I promised more information on Governor Palin: I talked with a personal friend, fellow pilot and alumnus of BJU, now retired from a church he planted 30 plus years ago in Wasilla where Sarah Palin was Mayor for two terms. He tells me she’s a believer, smart with a clear-cut testimony; he gives her a totally thumbs-up recommendation.

As to her not having foreign relation experience, I’m reminded Alaska is the closest part of the U.S. to Russia. Only three miles across the Bering Strait --the two continents are barely 55 miles apart. Negotiations about navigation and fishing rights go on there all the time.

Politically she’s made her mark in Alaska, defeating a sitting governor of her own party, and topping a two-term Democrat to win the office. So, I think the “hockey-mom” will hold her own in tough contests.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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