Archive for August, 2012
Responding to Cornwall: Three Important Issues
As I read through Bob Cornwall’s reply to this week’s question, I was initially struck by how much common ground there was, at least in terms of the issues themselves, and yet as I thought more about each one, the more that I could see that we differed considerably. Income Disparity This is an area […]
Read More..>>The Big Three
Week 2 of the debate starts with this question: What are the three most important issues a voter should consider this year in choosing a candidate to vote for at the federal level (President, Senate, House of Representatives)? Why are these issues critical? First and foremost has to be the economy. The Democrats claim this […]
Read More..>>What Really Caused Our Current Economic Problems
For quite some time a major argument of the Democrats has been to blame Bush for our current situation. Now this is being expanded to claim that to elect Romney and Ryan would be a return to same policies that got us into this problem in the first place. While a common line from the […]
Read More..>>Responding to Cornwall: Ryan
In his evaluation of the Romney-Ryan team Bob Cornwall, made a number of points, but I believe that many of them will be better addressed later on, as I am sure the issues will come up again and probably in a more direct fashion. So here let me address a couple of his underlying assumptions. […]
Read More..>>Responding to Cornwall on Faith and Politics
Concerning Bob Cornwall’s reply to the first question I must say that I find a lot of common ground, particularly when it comes to the problem of balancing involvement in politics and avoiding the dangers inherent in “the lure of power politics.” But, not surprisingly, there was some disagreement. One of the most problematic statements […]
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