Barack Obama vs Alan Keyes
What are the priorities of the candidates?
It appears that fiscal issues are Obama’s main concern.
“As I travel around this state, I don’t get asked about gay marriage, I don’t get asked about abortion,” Obama said. “I get asked, ‘How can I find a job that allows me to support my family.’ I get asked, ‘How can I pay those medical bills without going into bankruptcy.’”
here’s another quote…
“I will leave Mr. Keyes to the theological speculations. My job is to focus on the issues that voters care about - jobs, health care, education,” Obama said.
I have emailed the Barack Obama campaign to see what his views are on the social issues that affect the family and I have not heard anything from them yet. His webpage has a section titled ‘On the Issues’, however these were not listed. I found it frustrating to not find this information that I figured would be there…and instead I found a picture gallery with over a hundred snapshots of Obama on the campaign trail. That’s nice if I were going to vote for him based on who endorsed him or who he has met….but I want to know what’s in his heart - I want to know what he believes and what he will stand for.
Alan Keyes‘ concerns are rooted in principles that are bigger than the temporary swings of an economy or job market. Here are some of his views…
I think most of our politics in recent years has been about vote your money, vote your pocketbook, vote your jobs. These are critically important issues, but the truth is, when we think it through, that a lot of the money issues we face are rooted in the fact that we have to spend large amounts of money compensating for our moral defects, for the breakdown of the family structure, the rise in crime and violence, the increases in poverty that come about because of the decline in the family structure.
We’re paying a deep, huge cost for the moral weakness of the society, and then we act as if that’s a money problem. I don’t believe it is, and I think we know it’s not.
We need to start addressing the real underlying cause of these challenges and to recapture a sense of the moral foundation, so that we can restore the moral discipline, restore the sense of commitment to true family life that then provides the basis for economic strength in our communities, for better performance for our children in our schools, for a greater sense of responsibility on the part of parents toward those children, and so forth and so on. We know that these are the keys to real progress, and it’s time we got out and voted like we know.
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