McCain Versus the Juggernaut
We stand with him.
by William Kristol
If Obama wins, we wish him well. But for now, we can only echo the words of the 30-year-old Abraham Lincoln. On December 26, 1839, responding to the confident prediction of one of his political opponents "that every State in the Union will vote for Mr. Van Buren at the next Presidential election" and that Lincoln's opposition to the Van Buren forces was therefore bound to be in vain,
Lincoln responded:
Address that argument to cowards and to knaves; with the free and the brave it will effect nothing. It may be true; if it must, let it. . . . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. . . . Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if after all, we shall fail, be it so. As it happens, the Whig ticket Lincoln supported won that 1840 election. So might, against the odds, the party of Lincoln win this year.
I am multifaceted, independent minded in the sense that I seek the mind of Christ and not conventional or prevailing wisdom, and not afraid to question the questionable because I believe it leads to greater truths and more solid absolutes. I know that since I am often in the counterflow lane here, many people probably have me mislabeled by a lot. I can understand that because I do not fit neatly into many of the standard boxes. I see this as a strength because many of the people that I am called to minister to also do not fit in those boxes and I need to have an answer for them.
I know this is much more of a response than you bargained for , but I did want to point out that there are many sides to me and that I probably am more like most of the people here (and JP for that matter) than some may realize.
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
I am multifaceted, independent minded in the sense that I seek the mind of Christ and not conventional or prevailing wisdom, and not afraid to question the questionable because I believe it leads to greater truths and more solid absolutes. I know that since I am often in the counterflow lane here, many people probably have me mislabeled by a lot. I can understand that because I do not fit neatly into many of the standard boxes. I see this as a strength because many of the people that I am called to minister to also do not fit in those boxes and I need to have an answer for them.
I know this is much more of a response than you bargained for , but I did want to point out that there are many sides to me and that I probably am more like most of the people here (and JP for that matter) than some may realize.
What is up with all this pontificating? Did you just get out of church?!!!
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