politics, who needs it
Jun 30th, 2008 by melinda
I just discovered that Barak Obama spoke at a nearby rally this morning. Oops, missed that one.
I wish I could say I really cared about it. But I’m becoming quite disillusioned about politics. This whole election has been so crazy, so much back and forth, criticism, division… it really drives me nuts.
I have studied the civil war quite a bit lately, and sometimes I just have to totally focus on that. If you look at our nation today, it is so divided. You’re a red state or a blue state. You’re republican or democrat. You’re for the war or against the war. There is no middle ground.
The civil war reminds me that our nation has survived these same divisions before. The civil war reminds me that a popular government will survive. It won’t be easy and many men may die. But popular government can survive this.
i don’t care about politics either and i just began my fourth year in the army and am currently in iraq. how horrible is that?
Ha, not horrible at all. I think the military has less to do with politics than a lot of people would like to believe. I mean, in some ways it has a lot to do with politics - but in some ways not at all.