John McCain

In our weekly service Sunday night, Rev. Elise, our former campus pastor, spoke about hope.
Hope, she said, is not just optimism in the face of adveristy.
The root of hope means 'valley' or 'a place between two hills'.
America is in a valley. Stock markets, housing markets, divorce rates, crime rates...not good.
Sometimes this feels like a never-ending rut.  Read More »

I can honestly say that, up until late Tuesday night, it had been some time since I was proud to be an American. Many foreign nations are rather angry with the USA over the wars in the Middle East and our bumbling President Dubya. But the fact that Americans elected an African-American (actually, biracial) President less than five decades after integration is flooring, and terrific.  Read More »

Well, looks like I'm starting off my blog on Election Day '08. I've always been involved in politics, something my mother influenced on me at an early age, and am excited to vote for my first presidential election. I wanted to take this opportunity to briefly blog about the SNL special from last night.  Read More »

Like many of the directives handed down this campaign age (because it’s been too damned long to be just a year), I missed that memo that we should take the time to write about our voting strategies.  Read More »

The day has finally arrived, November 4, 2008. Today is the U.S. election and the campaigns of Barack "B-Man" Obama and John "Johnny Mac" McCain will end. Whichever candidate wins is only a minor concern, whats going to happen the election is what interests me.  Read More »

This is the piece I wrote for the College newspaper wrapping up my series of articles about John McCain and the 2008 Presidential Election.  Read More »

The United States, today, attacked Syria. Three men, one woman and four children were killed. Syria's state news agency "SANA" says 4 helicopters from Iraq crossed border about 5 miles into Syria, and hit a farm.  Read More »

I've said repeatedly that I'm going to vote for John McCain next week. But despite the imperturbable political front I've displayed for the past few months, there's been a sort of political panic in my mind. John McCain is not the candidate he used to be. Democrats make fun of his use of the word "maverick," but he really was a maverick once upon a time. Now, it seems that's not as true anymore. I am a Republican, and I am a moderate, too. I belong to the party but think independently. I feel like John McCain's been pushing me away.  Read More »