I didn't hear President George W. Bush's speech last night, but Eric Noah-Wilson gave me a rundown, and I had read the newspaper account from The Tennessean. As a friend said, "Many people, even non-Republicans, are seeing that Bush has had a tough four years with 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and that no one wants to meet face to face with mother's of fallen soldiers as Bush has done over the last year."
Here's an interesting story about reversals in rhetoric. I've never thought the idea of "winning the war on terror" was rhetorically or morally or theologically correct, that we could somehow in our American idealism root out evil in the world. Here's a story on Bush admitting war on terror not winnable and Kerry saying yes it is. Reversal story
Eric also shared with me his shift of thinking during an NPR story we both heard on the drive in this morning. The set up: small Alabama town loses textile mill, 300 jobs, and $300,000 of annual revenue. Super Wal-Mart comes in, people have to drive 40 miles for other jobs. Eric said he felt sorry for the workers. But then he thought, You know, those town leaders could have done something to diversify and bring in new industries, planned ahead.
"Like a pro sports team?" I said.
He gave me a wry smile.
"Well, Eric, you started the NPR story thinking like a Democrat, caught yourself and started thinking like a Republican," I said, tongue in cheek (but speaking the truth in love).
Issues are so complex that we do often mix Republican and Democratic ideals, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as kingdom of God ideals override the party notions.
10:26:50 AM 
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