Note to self and a few friends:

Yes, I know there was a debate.
It ran on the American stations we get on cable, and the CBC.

Political debates enforce opinion.
About 50 million US citizens watched, and looking around the blogosphere decided voters weighed in predictably.

The start of this year I committed to carefulness regarding our neighbour election and here is what I’m going to remain committed to.

The next month those of us in the international blogging community might do well to step back and show civil, deliberate kindness to our friends who are voting November 2nd.
I think it’s a damned if you do and damned if you don’t month.
Given how much God is evoked in US elections, the resources used, how intense final days get and how emotional this 2004 race is; by kindness I mean tolerance and meekness. I think those characteristics are mistaken for moral weakness or wimpiness and I think any of us that post news or politics have to remain prepared to be misunderstood.

I can’t find the peice I read that over 70 elections were being held this year.
Malaysians voted, Canadians voted, the Philippines voted, Hong Kong voted, Spain voted…Australia is voting…
Perspective.