The Coolest Thing

Nice sentiment, but what Obama doesn't get and what undoes him is that he fails to understand we need to make sacrifices not for the next generation, but for this generation. The future will always be perfectable, it is the present that needs work. Work the man is unwilling to do other than when it involves telling others to reach for their wallets, their time, their faith, their ideals to prop up his utterly unsuitable bid for the nation's highest office.

Nor is he evidently sincere in his religious convictions.

Vanderleun, your opinion is always welcome. I guess you and I heard this differently. I heard him basically say that we need to make sacrifices now that will affect the next generation.

And I don't share your concern for his religious convictions. I think he's trying to take a different approach, specifically regarding abortion. He made a good point that the Republicans had 20 years (Reagan/Bush/Bush) and have not overturned RVW. This is a Supreme Court issue.

The problem needs to be addressed from a different perspective. How do we help women make better choices and solve some of the underlining issues that leads women to make a choice for abortion.

And I'm pro-life btw. But I live in a country that has created a law that respects a woman's rights to choose.

The question that comes up with that word "sacrifice" is a divisive one, and is seldom explored: Is sacrifice the point?

It seems people like Barack Obama never directly address this, and from that, it seems like they cannot afford to. To many rhetorical questions have the potential to expose the platitude as the empty promise it is.

You mention abortion. Would that not be a virtuous sacrifice, if the Supreme Court were to overturn it? Sacrifice the convenience to people who want to exercise this "choice"...for the sake of the future generation being allowed to live, and have opportunities. That might be the best example possible. But Obama says it's above his pay grade. How about affirmative action with quotas in hiring and college admissions? Sacrifice grudges and personal crusades for tit-for-tat nonsense...to finally realize this equality everyone says they've been wanting for decades, and really make racism a thing of the past, at least, institutionalized racism.

How about sacrificing the global warming campaign? Sacrifice millions of dollars to be made by Al Gore and other holders of stock in fraudulent carbon-exchange mercantiles...so that the future generations can realize their opportunities in full, and the message can be sent to other countries that they need to stop being jealous of America's prosperity. Or...sacrifice that guy who raped and killed little kids, to make sure he can't ever do it again. We used to call it executions, we could just call them sacrifices.

I could go on like this all day.

The point is -- it seems with people like Barry O, whenever there's a real payoff to the sacrifice that would be meaningful, and precious to the people who would be in a position to benefit from it, inevitably, that is the point where they stop believing in it. And that leads me to my conclusion: The sacrifice is the point. They don't want an exchange of lesser-for-greater. They just want pain.