Can I Grow Up To Be Obama?

There were times when I would sit down and start wondering about different things in life, and I think to myself... what a wonderful world ♫

"Wouldn't it be great if Jesus was just sitting beside me, and I can ask him a million questions!"

Well, obiously, I can't actually do that. Certain things are just not in the Bible, like...

I would be praying,

"Dear God, I wonder who will I marry?"

(silence)

(more silence)

(even more silence)

zzzZzzzZZ

So, the next best thing you have is your pastor. When you have dinner with church mates along with your pastor, you start asking difficult questions. If God doesn't tell you, and if you can't find it in your Bible, and if your pastor doesn't know - it is probably some mysterious thing you shouldn't know.

LIKE WHO YOU WILL MARRY A FEW YEARS DOWN THE ROAD

WHY IS YOUR LECTURER SO BORING

WHY DO WE HAVE 2 EYES AND NOT 3 EYES

WHY CAN'T MEN GET PREGNANT

WHO WILL WIN TOMORROW NIGHT'S SOCCER MATCH

Well, only the first question. The others were just cover up questions. Its funny, when I hear a peer asking for advice from Josh.

Peer:

"Josh, what do you do - I mean, I have a friend, and he wants to ask a girl out but he doesn't know what to do, if you were him, what would you do?"

Josh:

"You mean you want to ask a girl out..."

But yeah, I asked Josh about American politics.

I shared to Josh that the tone Obama used before and after his victory was very different. So did Mccain and his defeat.

Before Obama won, we said so many "positive" things.

Together, we will bring change to Washington.

Open up possibilities.

Inspire the crowd.

Before Mccain lost, he said things like

"We will definitely win this race"

"We won't let a Socialist run this country"

After Obama won, it went like

"It (the change) might not be seen in a year, not even a term"

although things like

"Yes, we can!"

were still around.

Joel:

"Those speeches, I know he wants to inspire the crowd. But speaking in such a way as though they can literally do ANYTHING just isn't true. I mean, yes, ALL things are possible, IF you vote me, IF the cabinet is very cooperative, IF no other regular disasters strike America, IF this and IF that - there are a million conditions"

" Just like Mccain talking about winning - I know they (Obama and Mccain) wants to win and they want to persuade the crowd to vote for them. But how can they possibly both win and speak in such a way? It feels like lying - all the promises before and after the election"

"It seems as though, if they didn't said such things which were very much like those 'self-fulfilling prophecies' (you pronounce a wish, and you do your best to keep to it, and if you succeed, then you have fulfilled your own prophecy... part of the trick is to pronounce the wish in such a way as if it must happen, IT MUST HAPPEN! and hope that you will somehow be inspired to persevere - it is just another word for self-motivation I think) - IF they didn't say it, forget about being President, they might not even get to become a Senator. With that in mind then, how can it be possible that a Christian who wants to be true to his conscience and to God - speak truthfully to the crowd?"

" I know that in the speaker's mind - he knows the million "IFs". But in his speech, he mentions almost none of the little footnotes! I know the people who listens to Obama are not entirely stupid, and they - to some extent - know some of the footnotes. But the whole thing about not mentioning the little warning signs just feels very deceitful"

"To take it to a more personal level. If you are the coach of a soccer team - you gotta tell them ' WE WILL WIN THIS MATCH GUYS! YOU CAN DO IT!' its the kind of pep talks you just gotta say

(some of the words were actually by Josh, I just wrote them as everything said by me as it is hard to type out a full 10 minutes conversation)

Well, that wasn't exactly the conversation. But that was the idea. Josh agreed on the fact that it also happens when you want to encourage your son - "Go Jordan, you can do it!". He pondered over the fact if saying such things that Obama spoke : can it be considered an outright lie? or not?

This scene reminds me very much of Batman - when Two-Face held the wife and the kids of Mr. Inspector-Guy in ransom.

Two Face said something like:

"Tell your kids everything is going to be fine. LIE! LIE AND TELL THEM EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE!"

The fact is this. Nothing is fine. Batman could have arrived 1 second late. Well, of course, in movies, he can't. But in real life, sometimes somebody dies because the ambulance arrived a little to late. A bank is robbed and robbers get away because the police is too late.

In a real world, certain things just can't be promised for sure.

Josh said that he will think through it. I look forward to his answer.