Sunday Election Issues: 5 October 2008

This Sunday post is a collection of links to elderblog stories about the issues that are important to understand in making our choices on who to vote for in the November election. You can read the original post announcing this feature here.

Like yesterday, I’m behind due to my mini-vacation last week and I forgot to remind readers while I was gone to send in election issue links. Here are a few items worth knowing.

The Future of Our Country
From Sylvia Kirkwood of The View From Over the Hill: When is Enough, Enough?

An Unexpurgated McCain Bio
From Elaine Frankonis of Kalilily Time: Rolling Stone Outs McCain

Palin’s Take of the Vice President's Role
From The New York Times: Dick Cheney, Role Model

Dangerous Precedent
According to a story in the Army Times, beginning 1 October, an active duty brigade was deployed on U.S. soil for, among other reasons,

“help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack...”

This appears to be in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Here’s the Army Times story and a follow-up from ICH.

Not All Elders Lean Toward McCain
From Elders For Obama: Overcoming Fear and Prejudice video [4:00 minutes]

Elders For Obama website and more EFO video here.

[If you haven't done so yet, please stop by The Elder Storytelling Place and vote in the September 2008 Excellence in Storytelling Award. You'll find the ballot in the right sidebar. Voting remains open until midnight on Tuesday, 7 October.]

Comments

[Darlene]

There is another blog that I think deserves a 'look see' today. It's Janinsanfran's blog HAPPENING HERE. Click on it from the list one the left of this page to read it. It is about a stealth mission that Bush/Cheney have going and I think they will finally succeed in having the whole world hate us.

[Sheila Halet]

FYI: Rent or read Constantine's Sword by James Carroll...that is an eye opener in the persecution dept.
Thanks for the UTube, Ronni and glad you had a nice mini-vacation...pictures were lovely.