My political safe place....hear me rant....: Family First

Monday, September 3, 2012

Family First

I support you President Obama. I agree that the time in your life when your girls are growing up is very important. I agree that you would be obligated as a father and husband to respectfully decline social events bc your job as a father is the most important job you can have....even beats out being a well socialized President of the United States. The fact that Republicans are criticizing your conscious effort to be a better father than you ever had is very sad.
What a frustrating job to constantly hold your hand out to Republicans and reach across party lines to only have them then say that bc you would not have a few drinks and socialize with them and other members of Congress that that is somehow indicative of how well they will work with you. Republicans decided before Obama even took office that their own political safety (for re-election) was more important than being able to work together and better our country.
Such a shame and disappointment.
I really hope that we will see more politicians step up and want to be elected who are willing to work together. I think we need a complete overhaul in Congress and get rid of everyone and start over with....well, there are probably no people running for an elected office without other personal agendas! What happened to pride in working for a country you love?
Such a shame and disappointment.
That is the hope I have for my children. That this country will find a way to set their own political parties and agendas aside and vote for people who will do what the American people ask them! Maybe the next generation will have more luck...Keep your eye out for up and coming elected officials with no strings attached to them! I know I will....Republican, Independent or Democrat, if you can work with others and if you can listen to those who elected you, I will vote for you.
As for President Obama....keep being a great Dad during a time in yours and your daughters' lives that you cannot ever get back. Family first always. And keep working hard at breaking down walls of stubborn opposition in Congress and otherwise, and keep being our President.

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Quote of the day:

BYU commencement in 1972, President Brown counseled graduating students to “Strive to develop a maturity of mind and emotion and a depth of spirit which enables you to differ with others on matters of politics without calling into question the integrity of those with whom you differ. Allow within the bounds of your definition of religious orthodoxy variation of political belief. Do not have the temerity to dogmatize on issues where the Lord has seen fit to be silent.” He also warned, “beware of those who feel obliged to prove their own patriotism by calling into question the loyalty of others. Be skeptical of those who attempt to demonstrate their love of country by demeaning its institutions.”

And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
Oh, they can bend it all they want
John Mayer: "Waiting on the World to Change"

"Let us learn respect for others if we are to realize the abundant life. Man, by nature, is tempted to seek only his glory and not the glory of his neighbor or the glory of his God. None of us lives alone—in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor’s poverty."

-Thomas S Monson

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Scripture of the day:

Scriptures to have in our hearts when we vote!

"That now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality." — 2 Corinthians 8:14

"Renounce war and proclaim peace." — D&C 98:16

"And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them." — Moses 7:18

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." — James 1:27

"Plead the cause of the poor and the needy." — D&C 124:75

"We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied." — D&C 134:9

"And now, because of the steadiness of the church they began to be exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things whatsoever they stood in need—an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely cloth. And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need." —Alma 1:29-30

Hel 4:12-13
12 And it was because of the ^apride of their hearts, because of their exceeding ^briches, yea, it was because of their oppression to the ^cpoor, withholding their food from the hungry, withholding their clothing from the naked, and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek, making a ^dmock of that which was sacred, denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation, murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery, rising up in great contentions, and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—

13 And because of this their great wickedness, and their ^aboastings in their own strength, they were left in their own strength; therefore they did not prosper, but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites, until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.