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By Joshua Kagi ⋅ February 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s been a couple of weeks, and it’s almost midnight, but it’s time for another installment of “Monday’s are for Music” from your favorite (though probably not really) blog. Keeping on the same basic political theme of the last couple posts (and the next couple coming down the pipe), today I’m posting will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas music video that he, along with 30 other celebrities produced for the Obama campaign. You can read about the amazing details in the New York Times.

And just a friendly reminder that if you live in one of the Super Tuesday states which votes tomorrow, please go to the polls and have your voice heard and counted. While I’d prefer you vote for Obama on the democratic side or Huckabee on the republican side, you should do the research you need and vote for the candidate that most represents or reflects your values — it’s more important that you vote, not that you vote who I, or anyone else wants you to vote for.

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Research, and then voting, based upon YOUR values is key. If someone is just going to vote for the sake of voting, or out of fear and hate-mongering (like in 2004), then I hope those someones will stay home, both in their state’s primaries and in November as well.
You know me Josh - I was furious after 2004 when we were told that the “faith and values” voters elected dubya. I have always, and will always be, a “faith and values” voter, and I take NO responsibility for anything in the last eight years’ administration. We all should be faith and values voters, every election, every issue, every time.
Thanks for your closing statement, and your passion for making the process what it was designed to be.

Yes we can.

I love you.

Posted by your barb | February 5, 2008, 8:47 am

I just came across this quote. It made me smile, so I wanted to share it with you. I figure here, on your political statement du jour, would be a good place!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~~~~ John Kenneth Galbraith

(gotta love us Galbraiths!!)

Posted by your barb | February 5, 2008, 9:10 am

Barb,

Not all conservatives are bad.

Posted by Jason Carr | February 5, 2008, 9:36 am

Of course they are, Jason. But no worries - I read somewhere recently that you are “middle of the road”.
(please note that that emoticon is winking….)

Posted by your barb | February 5, 2008, 10:12 am

Yes, I got it!
I grew up in a very conservative home (not Christian, by the way), but when I started going to church as a teenager, I was always taught that to be a Christian, one must vote Republican. I beleived that for a while, then I made friends with Christians who were more liberal. I didn’t get it. I thought they were nuts!

Sometimes it’s hard breaking through the walls of tradition and familiarity, but I’ve enjoyed it. My wife and I have a very left-winged friend who lives in Portland, and was a Bush-hater from the start. We are polar opposities (although she’d probably be surprised that I’d vote for Obama), yet we are still friends. We can debate, argue, and hurl “friendly” insults at each other about our views, but in the end it’s all about the friendship.

I hope and pray I never allow someone else’s political affiliation be the crux of a friendship. How shallow would that be?

Posted by Jason Carr | February 5, 2008, 2:08 pm

I’ve actually had people in my life who have the left the friendship because of my off-the-wing left leanings….I was devastated for awhile. Then I realized that, obviously, our friendship wasn’t what I thought it was.

And, just to make ALL of you laugh, when I was 18 and registered to vote, I, too, registered Republican. My dad (former USAF navigator who I used to describe as someone who was so conservative he would only fly in planes with two right wings) went w/ me and told me what box to check. Having never paid attention to ANYTHING political except Watergate, I was clueless. I stayed a Republican, and un-attentive for years. Then along came Jesse Jackson’s candidacy and I resonated with what he said….the, as they say, is history.

Posted by your barb | February 5, 2008, 3:19 pm

Make that last line the REST, as they say, is history.

Posted by your barb | February 5, 2008, 3:20 pm

Sorry to hear that, Barb. I guess it’s part of our fallen nature to gravitate toward the superficial.

I think a lot of people are afraid, because it might challenge what they’ve always believed!

Posted by Jason Carr | February 5, 2008, 3:44 pm

I think we should stop calling ourselves anything.
I wonder whether people, you know, that growing number who do not identify with any party, really care about party platforms.

Here’s a scary trend I see.
Why is it that it is politically incorrect to label people based on so many things….but when it comes to their party…go for it.
Hate them for being an “R” or a “D”.
Perhaps that’s why the “Independent” party is growing so quickly in Oregon.
I think a lot of people are sick of the politics. Yet, when they go to vote, instead of finding out what the candidates are really about, we vote for them because of the LABEL.
Or, we assume because someone is a democrat they care more about people, or because they are a republican, they are more religious.
We allow this kind of labeling to happen.
It’s wrong.
It’s not good.
It has caused the problems we see right now in this country.
People are sick of it and they aren’t voting.
Wonder what would happen if all those who don’t vote, suddenly got out there and cast a ballot, as a protest.
I wonder if the United States, If Oregon, would start to look more like “We The People”…rather than we the few who bother to vote?

Just a thought.

Posted by Rick Dancer | February 9, 2008, 5:48 am

I think we’re already seeing what you’re talking about Rick. I agree, the growing number of indie voters is because of that very thing. My husband just changed recently (he was a lifelong Republican) because he is sick to death of the “party line”.

“We the people” is why I am an Obama Mama this time around….I just think he’s got “it” in that regard.

(and I am just clarifying here: My good natured ribbing of conservatives up there was just that - good-natured ribbing)

Posted by your barb | February 9, 2008, 11:23 am

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