Maybe Americans are ready for a change. Maybe hope is alive. Maybe the election will precede our nation’s coming of age. So many questions fill my mind.

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“With Mr Obama already turning the focus of his campaign on Mr McCain, Republicans are facing up to the highest disapproval ratings for a president, George W Bush, in living memory and a recent poll in which 80 per cent said the country was heading in the wrong direction.”

from an article entitled, “Republicans fear john McCain defeat against Barack Obama“

Maybe McCain will be seen for what he is: more of the same.

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And what’s more America is starting to realize Republican’s don’t have a corner on faith. A number of Americans are both Christians (or practicing members of another faith) and Democrats. Many of us see how we treat others as a part of our faith, not something divorced from it.

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Lifting the Cup by Henri Nouwen

“When we hold firm our cups of life, fully acknowledging their sorrows and joys, we will also be able to lift our cups in human solidarity. Lifting our cups means that we are not ashamed of what we are living, and this gesture encourages others to befriend their truths as we are trying to befriend ours. By lifting up our cups and saying to each other, “To life” or “To your health,” we proclaim that we are willing to look truthfully at our lives together. Thus, we can become a community of people encouraging one another to fully drink the cups that have been given to us in the conviction that they will lead us to true fulfillment.”

Emphasis mine

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I’m telling it like it is.  America needs a change.