Clete, in the state in which you live, do they actually have voting booths that provide a "vote against Obama" button as an option? We don't have that here in Colorado.
There is no such thing as voting against someone in a presidential election. The buttons don't say:
Vote against:
* McCain - Republican
* Obama - Democrat
* Amondson - Prohibition
* Baldwin - Constitution
No, it gives you selections to support, to give authority to. Your act of voting is an act of approval to hire someone for a job. Not to exclude someone from a job. Your voting for McCain doesn't exclude Obama from the job because the future is still open and unwritten and Obama may yet be chosen for the job, someday. So, your vote doesn't exclude him. It only approves McCain.
You are the hiring manager for the Oval Office. If you think you can mask your... let's say "concern"... with excuses such as "my vote isn't really for McCain; it's just against Obama," your lying to yourself. Because that's just not what a vote is. That's not honest. I pray you will consider this and be honest with yourself first and foremost and admit to yourself that you can't hide behind the notion that a vote in that booth is "against" anyone.
It is what it is. It is a vote to hire a man who you know will work to continue a holocaust greater than the Third Reich and Stalinist Russia combined. If you hire an admitted thief to run the store's cash register and he steals money, you are responsible. If you knowingly hire an unrepentant pedophile to manage a daycare center and a little boy is molested,
you are responsible, even if some other applicant has previously molested twice as many boys as this one has.
You cannot escape your responsibility. You have two moral options -- refuse to support such men at all, or give your approval to a man who you are reasonably sure won't be hired, but at least you can plead for him faithfully. But you cannot give your vote to hire that pedophile, put him in that daycare, and absolve yourself of guilt. That guilt isn't something you can hide from.
You're the hiring manager. Who do
you want to hire?
