My favorite word is anthropomorphize. It is a word with no synonyms and I get excited when I have the opportunity to use it.

My least favorite word is occassion. I always, ALWAYS misspell it.

My favorite word is snowfall
My least favorite word is abuse

Rachel said, "At the end of the day, we just gotta vote for who we think will do the best job and then go on loving our neighbors and getting the real work done ourselves."

Yes, I agree with you there. I would also encourage to share the gospel with those we love.

I’ve got no problem acknowledging that Barack Obama is a less experienced politician that John McCain. He’s a relative newcomer to the political scene, which I think is both a strength and a weakness. Like McCain, he does not have executive experience as a mayor or governor, as Sarah Palin has.

However, it’s important to at least acknowledge Obama’s experience. He served in the Illinois State Senate and, as a U.S. Senator, served on the Foreign Relations committee, working on those non-proliferation initiatives we’ve heard so much about. He’s also been a part of the Veteran’s Affairs Committee, and traveled the world – meeting many of its leaders. Joe Biden, of course, has even more foreign policy experience than Obama.

Sarah Palin has only been to two countries besides the U.S. She has ABSOLUTELY NO experience meeting with foreign leaders or negotiating foreign policy. She seems like a fine person, but I'm not sure yet if she will be a liability or an asset to the McCain campaign.

But, at the end of the day, I don’t think the election will be about experience. I actually think it’s about Obama. The Republican party wants to reinforce the idea that he’s too risky, that he's too different, and that he's an elitist. They want to put the attention on Obama as a person,in order to distract from the fact that things haven’t exactly been rosy over the past eight years. When you can’t run on policy, you run against a person.

It's important to me that the blog not get too political, so let me be sure to say that I don't think any of these folks - McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden - have the power or change the world or bring about better care for the "least of these" (from the unborn to the uninsured to the victims of war).

At the end of the day, we just gotta vote for who we think will do the best job and then go on loving our neighbors and getting the real work done ourselves.

you hit the nail on the head, Rachel. Palin is a cynical choice by McCain.