6/1/08 MOUW SAYS HE COULD HAVE VOTED 4 OBAMA OR McCAIN DEPENDING... "... ago, as a previous national election year approached, a magazine asked several of us to describe the kind of person who should be elected as president of the United States. We were forbidden to use any names, or to say anything that would point to one of the people who would likely be running. Just give us the general characteristics, the desire skills and virtues, we were told. When my long-ish paragraph appeared in print, someone wrote to tell me that he and a group of his friends had discussed what I had written, and they wanted to congratulate me for endorsing Abraham Lincoln’s candidacy! They were obviously meaning to tease me a bit, but actually they were not far off the mark. I would certainly vote for Lincoln if he were running this time around. He embodied what I think of as some of the noblest characteristics of a presidential leader— not the least being a willingness to speak pastorally to the nation. Lincoln spoke movingly about the need for a national healing that could only come if citizens were willing to acknowledge their need for individual and collective forgiveness I got to thinking about all of this the other day, when I happened to ... "...Image of the national leader as “a nursing father” (see Isaiah 49:23) These days we are increasingly being given choices between fathers and mothers in political leadership. That’s a good thing. Either way, though, we need a lot of nurturing in the public arena. We need to be encouraged to grow as citizens and to flourish as a people who are committed to justice and righteousness. In hoping for that, I am not entertaining any fantasies about the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. But until the real Second Coming occurs, I do pray for a season when national leadership will "fall like rain on the newly mown grass" .... both Republicans and Democrats, often splitting my ticket I do have to say, though, that this present campaign is one of the better ones for someone like me. There is much that I admire in both candidates. I think I know which one I will vote for, but things could happen that could push me the other way The fact is, though, that I do not get my hopes up when I vote, even when I am ..." http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/?m=200806

6/1/08 MOUW SAYS HE COULD HAVE VOTED 4 OBAMA OR McCAIN DEPENDING... "... ago, as a previous national election year approached, a magazine asked several of us to describe the kind of person who should be elected as president of the United States. We were forbidden to use any names, or to say anything that would point to one of the people who would likely be running. Just give us the general characteristics, the desire skills and virtues, we were told. When my long-ish paragraph appeared in print, someone wrote to tell me that he and a group of his friends had discussed what I had written, and they wanted to congratulate me for endorsing Abraham Lincoln’s candidacy! They were obviously meaning to tease me a bit, but actually they were not far off the mark. I would certainly vote for Lincoln if he were running this time around. He embodied what I think of as some of the noblest characteristics of a presidential leader— not the least being a willingness to speak pastorally to the nation. Lincoln spoke movingly about the need for a national healing that could only come if citizens were willing to acknowledge their need for individual and collective forgiveness I got to thinking about all of this the other day, when I happened to ...

"...Image of the national leader as “a nursing father” (see Isaiah 49:23) These days we are increasingly being given choices between fathers and mothers in political leadership. That’s a good thing. Either way, though, we need a lot of nurturing in the public arena. We need to be encouraged to grow as citizens and to flourish as a people who are committed to justice and righteousness. In hoping for that, I am not entertaining any fantasies about the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. But until the real Second Coming occurs, I do pray for a season when national leadership will "fall like rain on the newly mown grass"

.... both Republicans and Democrats, often splitting my ticket I do have to say, though, that this present campaign is one of the better ones for someone like me. There is much that I admire in both candidates. I think I know which one I will vote for, but things could happen that could push me the other way The fact is, though, that I do not get my hopes up when I vote, even when I am ..."
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