Obama Archive

  • 47 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: A Faith like Mine

    Posted on December 18, 2012 | 7 Comments
    I now admit, somewhat sheepishly, that one of the reasons I voted for Obama is because of his religious beliefs.

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  • 44 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Mormonism, Utah and Equal Opportunity

    44 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Mormonism, Utah and Equal Opportunity

    Posted on November 5, 2012 | 19 Comments
    Utah is a state where, if you're poor, your neighbors will bake you cookies, and then cheerfully go the ballot box and vote to take away any hope of your children having the same opportunities as their children.

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  • An Outsider’s View of the US Election

    Posted on November 5, 2012 | 6 Comments
    Today’s guest post comes to us from Geoff in Australia. Many Americans live in isolation from the world because your media does not cover stories from the rest of the world, only your local area, and during elections, perhaps the rest of the country.   […]

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  • What Teaching Argument Taught Me About Talking Politics

    Posted on November 4, 2012 | 4 Comments
    Although I fancy myself an amateur city planner with dreams of working in the professional back-up dancer field, I actually spend ten months of each year teaching writing for a living. In my fourteen years in the classroom, I’ve presented hundreds of lessons on principles […]

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  • Election Week Musings

    Posted on November 2, 2012 | 6 Comments
    If we are supposed to be a Christian nation, as so many claim, let us behave today as Christ would. We are only as strong as our weakest link. Let us strengthen our brethren, as Jesus bade. When we make a feast, let's not invite our friends, kinsmen, or rich neighbors but rather the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. When they are strong, they will be capable of helping lift up others as well, and cycles will be broken.

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  • Lena Dunham’s Sex Joke: A Missed Opportunity

    Posted on October 30, 2012 | 3 Comments
    Dunham's points about women's issues are worthy of serious discussion and consideration. But she undermines her credibility in the way she presents them. We still have a long way to go until women can be perceived as powerful without the cover of sexuality to make it "palatable."

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  • Why This Mormon Woman is Voting for Barack Obama

    Posted on October 23, 2012 | 17 Comments
    Today’s guest post comes to us from Karin Olson of Huntsville, Texas. Yesterday I cast my vote for Barack Obama for president on the first day of early voting in Huntsville, Texas, wishing I lived in a swing state.   I see him as the […]

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  • Ride to our Sign Party

    Posted on October 21, 2012 | 16 Comments
    Disclaimer:   This series of photos did not take place on a Sunday and they were not part of any type of official religious institution or spiritual observance.   And yet, this was the most spiritual experience I have had in years, so I figured […]

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  • Restoring America?

    Posted on August 29, 2012 | 4 Comments
    Politics is like blood sport at our house.   We love it.   I have a picture of Kennedy as a newborn, sitting in one of those vibrating rocker seats, “watching” Meet the Press with us on a Sunday morning before church.   Our kids […]

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  • Walk to Church in Hyde Park, Chicago

    Posted on June 24, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Today’s Walk to Church comes to us from Jenna in Chicago, who writes: We are moving from Chicago to the Bay Area this year, and I finally convinced my husband to get up early enough to walk to our LDS meetinghouse so I could document […]

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