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Barack Obama

Donald Miller’s Journey from Reagan Republican to Obama Democrat

by Rhett Smith on November 3, 2008

Great blog post by Donald Miller, From Reagan to Obama, a Brief Political History Our theology insinuated that shortly after original sin, once Adam and Eve at the apple, they registered as Democrats and went on with their lives, trying to create large governments that would enable lazy people through expensive social programs. We believed [...]

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Texting the VP Announcement…Brilliant!

by Rhett Smith on August 11, 2008

Politics aside, someone in Barack Obama’s campaign clearly understands viral marketing, social media, and the “groundswell.” And his campaign has just figured out a way to reach an audience and communicate a message to that I think McCain clearly doesn’t understand or underestimates. This is brilliant. Obama Plans Novel VP Announcement TXT Four years ago, [...]

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James Dobson’s Attack On Obama: When Major Evangelical Figures Act Like They Speak for You and I, but They Don’t.

by Rhett Smith on July 1, 2008

There was a time when I used to listen to James Dobson. I was a young kid in high school and college and you heard his name a lot. I read a couple of his books, and I even had friends whose parents played his cassette tapes on the birds and the bees for them. [...]

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37 Signals, Barack Obama and Nonconsumption

by Rhett Smith on April 17, 2008

Over the course of the last four and half years I have blogged primarily about church, ministry, theology and anything related to it. But one area that has drawn increasing attention from me is the area of technology, specifically Web 2.0, New Media, etc. I’m still trying to put my thoughts into words and sentences [...]

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Let’s All Be Honest With Ourselves…Can We?

by Rhett Smith on March 18, 2008

If you read or watch the news for any length you are bound to come across Christians who make pretty demonstrative statements about how voting for one candidate or another would be wrong as a Christian. Examples: There are those who say that if you vote for Obama, who is pro-choice, then as a Christian [...]

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Continued Series–Non-Political Observations on Why I Think Many in My Generation and Younger are Voting for Barack Obama: Reason #3

by Rhett Smith on March 10, 2008

I could probably post a few more reasons, but as I mentioned before, I tend not to post much on politics. So this is reason #3, and the final posting in this series (you can read the other two reasons below). Reason #3: Hope This is the one word that I hear more often than [...]

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Continued Series–Non-Political Observations on Why I Think Many in My Generation and Younger are Voting for Barack Obama: Reason #2

by Rhett Smith on March 5, 2008

You can read my previous post and reason #1 (openness) below. Just a reminder. These are non-political observations that I’m making, based on my experience in working with the typical young adults demographic and under (35 and younger). So if you want to read all my caveats about me not typicall writing on politics, or [...]

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Non-Political Observations on Why I Think Many in My Generation and Younger are Voting for Barack Obama: Reason #1

by Rhett Smith on March 3, 2008

First of all, let me say that I never write on politics. I just never have. The topic is obviously very important and interesting, but it just doesn’t interest me and fire me up like some of my friends and family. Second, I don’t consider myself an expert on politics. I watch the news, read [...]

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