A comment by Dr. Rood, a very bright professor of mine here at Biola, got me thinking about the mission of America. Often, people like John Kerry, dilute the traditional goal of the United States by removing from it a universal grounding. In other words, my country can't be the best country in the world, because there are so many countries, and there's no absolute basis upon which to base a claim for supremacy.

Here's the deal though, America IS the best country in the world: and to be an American entails a belief in this, at some level or another. This is because, America's a creed of sorts, as G.K. Chesterton points out. To be an American means to think that this grand experiment of democracy has the ability to be successful. And the reason it will be successful seems to stem from its basis in the nature of man and the universe.

To base something as an accurate representation of the natural order of things is only possible when the order is knowable, obviously. So, Kerry is a bad choice, and I hope that he's not elected today, because Mr. Global Test doesn't seem to believe in the efficacy of Reason.