Buffalo Boy's Blog

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070930/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_faith

Senator John McCain in this interview states that he would prefer a Christian president because those are the values that this country was founded on. Is he kidding?

Im sick of politicians making religion an issue. First of all, this country was not founded on Christian values, it was founded on freedom from religion. The British settled here to escape religious restraints of England. So John McCain needs to go back and check his history books again. There were other religious factions settling this country other than Christians.

Second, why does the religion of a president matter? He goes back on his statement and tries to save himself by stating that he would vote for the best person even if they were Muslim. Too late John, not that you had my vote, because you didn't, but you probably lost a lot more votes by making your initial statement.

Bottom line, we are not electing a priest or pope next November. We are electing the leader of this country. Talk of what religion the candidates are is just distracting the people from discovering the real issues. The religion means squat. Separartion of church and state. It doesn't matter and it shouldn't even be discussed.