Thoughts on the political debate

I have a really hard time listening to Obama now. I tune out every time he talks. I just figure everything he says is a lie anyway, so why listen to him. On the other hand, I find myself focusing very hard on what Romney says. In him I find decency and hope. I find it ironic that Obama works so hard to discredit Romney and to try to convince people that he is an evil heartless liar, when it's not true, and he works so hard on hiding his own lying and incompetence. It would be incredible, if it wasn't so predictable. I mean, just look at the scriptures. This is how anti-Christs always talk and behave. Look at the pharisees and scribes in Jesus' time, or the mobs in Carthage, or the priests in King Noah's court, or Korihor, etc. . .in each case the anti-Christ points fingers of outrage and scorn at those trying to do good things for good reasons, while hiding their own corrupt and evil motives and agendas through lies and half truths. They are always motivated by power over men, never by altruistic motives. . .but they always claim that the good person wants to enslave and exploit, and they want to free and be merciful to others. The evidence is always against their claim, but so many people listen with their ears and close up their minds. Meagan is so frustrated with her friends on facebook. All they care about with politics today is gay rights and abortion. I wonder what happened to the generations who thought both ideas were revolting.

Thus the poem by Alexander Pope:.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

How subtle he is, that master of deception! He knows our weakness and our desire to be trusting. He plays on both. He feeds on our need for security and gives us false leaders who make empty promises of fairness and who take away the sting of any remorse of conscience or assignment of responsibility from us while promising everything for nothing and ringing up debts that can't be paid and won't be acknowledged, like dirty little secrets, whose telling seems worse than the doing of them.