Exit Polling With Soul: Explain Yourself

Tuesday November 4, 2008

Categories: Judaism, Politics, Religion

There may be only two candidates with a real shot at winning the Presidency, but there are as many religious/spiritual reasons for choosing them as their are believers. What is yours?

Let me know who you voted for and share the teaching or verse which most brought you to that decision. It will be a spiritual education for us all. And check out this poll from Beliefnet's political editor as well.

http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Politics/2008/11/Beliefnet-Election-2008-Exit-Poll.aspx

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Veronica

November 5, 2008 10:56 AM

Women's rights, the supreme court, foreign policy and health care
the war in Iraq, the financial mess. These would be my major reasons
for voting for Barack. Mostly also because he understands in my view
the meaning of Tikkun Olam and has a steady spirit which did not
change throughout the campaign. He has a tough job ahead .

Lucy Silver

November 5, 2008 11:28 AM

I voted for Obama--in the primary and in the general election.

We have all sinned: we have split into the red and the blue, and hate each other. We have grown fat, complacent, vain, and stupid. We are longer capable of living frugally, no longer able to tighten our belts and perform labor. Our judgment is uninformed and wrong because we accept sound bites as explanations to difficult questions. Our educational system, holding our future, produces the ignorant and uneducated. Our healthcare sysem is a crazy but untouchable puzzle. The world's ecosystem has become Malthusian, no longer able to sustain the seven billion people on the planet. The global economy is in an historic depression that will change and perhaps even end what we have come to define as capitalism.

So why Obama? I wish I could cite a prophet that described the situation. Obama is not a magician or a messiah who can fix these problems. But at least he recognizes them as existant and real. Under the best-case scenario, perhaps his CALL FOR CHANGE can, in some SMALL measure make a small difference somewhere. John McCain seemed not to recognize what has happened in the world.

Lucy

Carolyn G.

November 5, 2008 2:42 PM

I voted for Obama because, to quote Einstein: We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Gavriella

Aviellabara

November 5, 2008 4:35 PM

I voted for Obama for real change to fix our serious problems that we all face, especially our young and our old. I cried when he was announced the winner. Tears of joy. The people turned out in record numbers. Our state broke 85 % turnout with many more young people and first time voters.

Shalom,
Aviella

Ruvain

November 5, 2008 5:49 PM

Dear William Turner,

Lieberman knows that being Jewish does not require the abdication of his mind. Your suggestion that he is a turn coat indicates that you think he should follow lock step with the Thought Police. Lieberman is an Independent because the Demo Thought Police kicked him out. Thus, he ran for his Senate seat and he won. Exercising one's brain to have independent thoughts is not being a turn coat.

There is no fact to show that Lieberman would favor Israel over the US. It is the right wing religious zealots and the left wing thought police who place their ideology ahead of the best interests of the United States. Sen. Lieberman has never done that.

Rabbi Brad seems bent on writing for an Interfaith Forum. That is fine. Interfaith is fine. If that is his desire, however, the good rabbi should write for an Interfaith Forum and he should stop subjecting Jews to these anti-Semitic comments.

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