“… O’ LORD! Despite a great many prayers to You we are continually losing our wars. Tomorrow we shall again be fighting a battle that is truly great. With all our might we need Your help and that is why I must tell You something: This battle tomorrow is going to be a serious affair. There will be no place for children. Therefore I must ask You not to send Your Son to help us. Come Yourself.” -The prayer of Koq, leader of the Griquas tribe, before a battle with Afrikaners in 1876. Every election eve, I share the prayer above with whatever group of campaign staffers or volunteers I’m working with. Today, I’m gonna go ahead and ask everyone who read this to join us.
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“… O’ LORD!

Despite a great many prayers to You we are continually losing our wars. Tomorrow we shall again be fighting a battle that is truly great. With all our might we need Your help and that is why I must tell You something: This battle tomorrow is going to be a serious affair. There will be no place for children. Therefore I must ask You not to send Your Son to help us. Come Yourself.”

-The prayer of Koq, leader of the Griquas tribe, before a battle with Afrikaners in 1876.

Every election eve, I share the prayer above with whatever group of campaign staffers or volunteers I’m working with. Today, I’m gonna go ahead and ask everyone who read this to join us.

Source: call.barackobama.com

I’ve been reading lots of endorsement columns and editorials, and none of them make any sense to me. They carefully go through various positions on public policy, comparing the two candidates; or, in some cases, analyze how they think the candidates’ backgrounds will affect the way they’ll act if they’re in the White House.

I think public policy is extremely important, and I do believe that a president’s skills, interests and personality can affect his or her success in office. Yet I think that’s the wrong way to go about making this sort of choice.

On Tuesday, I’ll be voting for … the candidate nominated by my party.

Indeed, that’s my strong advice to everyone: figure out which party you would prefer to see in the White House, and vote for that candidate, and every other candidate nominated by that party. Doesn’t matter who the particular candidates are, what you think of them as people, or as politicians, or anything else. Pick a party and stick with it. That’s it.

Given the way U.S. politics works in 2012, one would have to be nuts to do anything else.

Jonathan Bernstein (Click That Name to Find Out Where)

Source: salon.com