Flip-flopping can be a good thing

I just read a line in an article about Clinton/obama that said Obama and Edwards are ‘seeking to portray themselves as more consistently anti-war that Clinton.” 

 

I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing – our current president has been nothing if not consistent, and you can see where it’s gotten us.  I don’t want someone who feels appointed by God, I don’t want someone who can convince themselves when they feel good after saying their prayers at night that God is on their side.  I was right there with the Congress that approved the war back in 2002.  It was meant to be saber rattling at the time – Hussein was mooning the entire inspection process and a lot of intelligence pointed to the fact that he probably had WMD’s, so this gave the world another negotiating tool, the chance to say “Look, man, the U.S. military is ready to enforce this if you don’t cooperate.”  We didn’t expect him to be stupid enough to not cooperate at that point. 

 

A whole other way of looking at the documented lack of post-war planning is that we were never really planning to go in.  It was all posturing, but when he called our bluff the cowboy president said “oh, really, you don’t think I will?” and pulled the trigger.

 

And here we are today, with a president I’d love to play poker with since he would never fold.  But sometimes you have to acknowledge that maybe the Holy Spirit didn’t give you the best guidance this time around, and it might be time to look for another way. 

 

That’s another scary thought – let’s say the Holy Spirit really did tell Bush to do this.  Does that mean It’s on their side?