valueless values

Sometimes values can be a valuable asset in life. Following beliefs based on fairness, equality, and educated reason make sense. Understanding that differences may be a challenge to us, but to be challenged by differences and not embrace the how's or why they seem different create an even wider divide then the difference itself.

Sometimes valueless values based on bigotry, dogma, hate and fear are negative energy which create a divide no bridge or tunnel can or will ever be able to connect. And with valueless values understanding just drifts away from the crux of the issue and swirls further and farther from the truth or common ground.

I sometimes worry that those who seem to expound about THEIR values being the correct and just values spend more time trying to find fault in others than they do in finding fair.

Ex Governor Sarah Palin, has relinquished her term in office in Alaska, because she said she does not want to be a lame duck governor. Might be some value to that but she signed on with the voters of Alaska to be in office for four years, knowing very well that the last two years of office could be lame duck but still productive. She quits and is supposed to be demonstrating values because she does not want to be lame duck. Then why run for a four year term?

The Ex Governor says as an average citizen she will now be able to speak the truth without being ridiculed or misquoted. She says that even though her words have been printed as said, or she has been video taped speaking, the press misconstrues her message. She says something, regrets it after she is criticized and it is not her fault, but in turn those who question her about her comments. Those are values, never admitting the truth, but blaming others for not understanding the truth?

And Sarah, wanting to be known as the ("Everyman", or in her case the "Everywoman" character) says she is reneging on her promise to serve four years because she does not want the state of Alaska to have to go through a painful and expensive series of litigation regarding about 15 questionable acts of dishonest, unethical, perhaps criminal activities, that just happened to take place while being Governor Sarah Palin.

Hmmm, I might buy her family values "schtick" if in fact Mrs Palin, Mom Palin said she was resigning office because, her daughter Bristol, had a baby out of wedlock and is now not only a single parent but a teenaged single parent. (Her daughter Bristol did not abstain from sexual conduct as Mom had preached but decided that unprotected sex would be okay.) And that Mom Palin wanted to help with her daughter's new responsibility and perhaps have dialogue with her daughter about the options available for a very promiscuous teen, other than abstaining.

Or I might pleasantly smile as Mom Palin said she wanted to spend more quality time with young Trig, who with his special needs needs more one on one care and love. That Mom Palin wanted to interact with he son in his early growth years and make sure she did all she could to help Trig be all he can be.

But none of those values have seemed to settle in the list of rhetoric thrown about by the Palins. Nope it is about Ex Governor Palin, just becoming Sarah, one of us. She wants to speak her mind about the valueless values in this country and in her own selfless, or is it selfish way she wants to create the right kind of values.

I am tired of those who presume they are greater or grander based on not much but shouting quotes from the Bible louder, or saying they speak with God, or because they market themselves as one of us, never quite describing what one of us is really like.

Valueless values seem to be a common ailment of so many politicians. I value them ( the politicians less and less.

As a post script regarding values. I do want to thank Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who put principle above party lines by endorsing Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

Seems Senator Graham removed himself from the white gentleman's club of Republican Senators by saying that overall, the type of justice administered by Judge Sotomayor has been consistent with bipartisan philosophy and Judge Sotomayor can be beyond politics.

Wonder though if Senator Grahams new found honesty will earn him less favor with the Republican party, who only know how to say no.

Thank you Senator Graham for finding your valuable values and voting smartly.