Amy Welborn shoots & scores with this:
It’s one thing to agonize because you are torn between two candidates whose victories might result in positive or negative consequences of proportionate value, or because your vote might (realistically) contribute to a particular moral or immoral result, but to treat this as if we’re voting on a canonization case, your vote on which somehow shows the world something about you is silly...Meanwhile, Peggy Noonan says:
It seems to me that some of our conversations about political life in Catholic circles ask far more from government than it is able to give.
There is now something infantilizing about this election. Mr. Obama continued to claim he will remove wasteful spending by sitting down with the federal budget and going through it "line by line." This is absurd, and he must know it. Mr. McCain continued to vow he will "balance the budget" in the next four years. Who believes that? Does even he?The infantilization, if more pronounced (and I tend to doubt that since every election is that way), is likely due to pandering due to the economic crisis.
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