Yes

I would just like to point out that on my last post I have 15  comments to date.  That is the most comments I have ever seen posted on a blog of someone with my stature.  Now onto the subject that is more important than politics and abortion:

Football

1. I had Georgia winning by 10 today.  Mainly because they seem to have low scoring, close games with Spurrier as the coach of South Carolina.  They won by a touchdown and I don't think they are bad for it, but I don't think they will stay #2.

2. USC is sick nasty and Ohio State is sick to their stomach.  Seriously, you know it is bad when ESPN, who used to change OSU's diapers, is stating the truth and dogging them big time for being exposed repeatedly in big games and not only not being able to win, but just being embarrassed every time.  USC is obviously #1 and if Georgia is #2 then USC should think about playing in the NFL to keep things fair.  OSU can kiss playing in championship games goodbye.

3. Mark May on ESPN is a bad analyst.  Last week when he tried to interrupt Lou Holtz in the middle of a statement Holtz said, "Oh, let's just ask Mark because he obviously knows everything there is to know about football."  Props to Lou for sticking it to the guy and props to Jesus for allowing me to see it.

4. USF keeps pulling these wins out of their butt pads and I honestly respect them now.  It wasn't just a fluke here and there, but they are actually a pretty solid mid-major team.  Grothe has a lot of heart at QB and I hope they keep winning.  

5. Miami coach should stop crying about UF coach Urban Meyer running up the score on him.  The week before when Miami was playing a no name school they were up by 35 points with 6 minutes to go in the 4th quarter and on 4th and 6 at the opponents 20 yard line they went for it.  So trying to play this card of everybody should feel sorry for us and the recruits will come to UM because they can see ALL THE CLASS that the school has compared to UF should really stop.  I believe when you play competitively starting in middle school or at least high school if you don't want the score run up on you then you should play some defense. 

6. I feel bad for UCF.  They always seem to ALMOST get the break they need to win the big games.  It just never pans out.  Their biggest problem now is that their offense struggles big time.  They are going to have problems when East Carolina plays them.

7. FSU... nobody cares.

8. UF had the day off.  They play TN next week and although TN lost to UCLA opening week, this one will be tough.  I have been to this game two times at UT and it is a tough place to play.  UF has ridic talent on offense, but they seem a little out of synch right now.  Big ups for the UF defense who is playing solid against a Hawaii team who spreads it out a lot and against Miami who has some quick players on offense.  I have UF by 17 next week over Tennessee.

Weak

We are less than 3 months away from all of this election drivel coming to an end.  There are many things that are annoying about election season, but this small writing is to focus on something that has crossed my mind the last 4 years especially.

 The "Religious Right" has given Christians the ability to become ignorant in politics.  This whole movement became popular and greatly influenced my thoughts on politics growing up.  Basically their main contention is this:

As a Christian you should not vote for anyone who takes a pro-choice stance on abortion.

Obviously there are many more arguments from this group of people involving politics, but this is their biggest and the one that defines their vote.  

My response will be numbered:

1.  This reasoning allows for incredible laziness.  That basically tells people, "don't worry about any issue besides one.  If the candidate supports pro-choice, then don't vote for them.  It doesn't matter what the other person's stances are on every other subject, if they are against abortion then you should vote for them."

2. Roe vs. Wade happened in 1973.  That is ten years before I was born.  How long are we going to put all of our chips in that hand?

3. Every conservative candidate that has been on the ticket for the Republicans since Roe vs. Wade has been in favor of allowing abortions in certain circumstances (mainly if the life of the mother is in danger).  If I were in a debate and I had the Repubs declaring that it was murder to abort a baby I would easily argue that there is no way they can allow for abortions in certain circumstances because that would still be murder.  But you don't hear pastors that bash pro-choice say anything about that.  It wouldn't be good for their argument.

4. The last poll on Pres. George W. showed that only 64% of Republicans favored his leadership.  That is incredibly low for your own side.  But even now if it were George W. vs. Obama or anybody for that matter the Relig Right would still tell you to vote for W. even though you know how terrible of a job he has done.  No matter how much money he wants to waste on sending our troops to die for a meaningless cause... abortion would still be more important.  No matter how shady and secretive his administration has been... the only thing that would matter would be his stance on abortion and you would still be told to vote for him.  That is stupid.

5.  This is probably my last point on this.  All of this nonsense assumes that God would be surprised if a Democrat won the election... and if that person did then God couldn't carry out His plans for the country or whatever you believe in that matter.  Do you really think that religion plays that big of a role in politics?  Maybe the church should be under more persecution in this country so we actually have something to fight for.  Maybe we should not be allowed to go to church anymore or read our bibles.  Maybe then we could actually care about carrying out the plans of Jesus and not think that it all depends on who is in the White House.  Maybe we should take more responsibility in our homes and fess up that our families are a mess because of us and not because of Washington.  

Nobody wants to take responsibility for anything and that is what is frustrating.  We minimize this election to abortion and stupid commercials.  McCain is running ads that compare Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears and we laugh even though we know that is weak and stupid.  Obama runs a strong and positive campaign and it is hard for us to find things wrong with him.  He has integrity, he respects his opponents and he speaks as well or better than Ronald Reagan.  So we go back to the abortion issue.  

Weak.