Obama's Campaign Opens


I must first say: I'm not speaking as pastor of First Christian Church but as a private citizen who supports Barack Obama's candidacy. I'm excited about his potential to lead us in a new direction. I recognize his lack of experience, but as history has shown experience isn't everything. The experience he does have, life experience that is, could serve him and the nation well.

Brian McLaren offers him sage advice that needs heeding -- especially the reminder not to lie to us, and those lies include the flattering kind that tell us that we're the greatest nation of all. We like to hear it, but it rings hollow. This from God's Politics Blog posting:


Those who say, "Those things are in the past, we should just move on," would never say that about, say, September 11, 2001. Tell us the truth that we have unfinished business, recalling the old proverb that says the one who hides his transgressions will not prosper, but the one who confesses and forsakes them will find mercy. South Africa discovered how a different future is possible when a nation tells the truth about its past, and you could help us have our own time
of truth and reconciliation.

And of course, please tell us the truth about the hope that comes through truth-telling. You and John Edwards and several other candidates have already begun inspiring many of us with your hope – audacious hope regarding poverty, environmental healing, and peace. Because, as you say, another world is possible. Many of us dare to hope that, and if you don't tell us the old
political lies and instead tell us the inconvenient truth, then our shared emerging hopescan become a dynamic new reality.

All of us are cynical at times, but in the launch of your campaign, I feel more hopeful and inspired than I have in a long time. Thank you.



I to wait to hear more from the new candidate and hope he and others, including John Edwards will speak truth we need to hear, even if we don't want to hear it!

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