This excellent essay by Orson Scott Card (link) really gave me pause. Here’s that link again. If you are a Republican who goes along with common Republican reasoning on immigration, this may be a particularly relevant read. I have said some things at this blog about amnesty vs. naturalization which made basic assumptions that Card’s essay there turn on head. And I think he’s right.

There is not an essay in Orson Scott Card’s “World Watch” columns at ornery.org which I would not recommend - especially to avowed Democrats, because Card divides asunder the hypocrisies (such as in this essay) and off-the-wall illogic of the current Democratic party. It seems to me that most of the flurry toward Democratic candidates hinges on disgruntlement about the war. If that is the case for you, please read Card’s comments on that, also.

The Democrats use the word “withdrawal”, but they all know it’s a euphemism for surrender.

My previous entry gives reasons I could never support Clinton or Obama (because of their stance on partial birth abortion). Here are a few more reasons I wouldn’t support Obama: he has the most liberal record in the Senate. He is farther left than anyone else in the Senate. Also, his church swears to a creed of black nationalism. Here is one link about that (which points out Obama’s spiritual advisor affiliates with terrorists), and here is another. If sympathy for a position that simply returns the worst of white racism is your definition of spiritual, Obama is your man.