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The Gospel of Politics

7.8.08 @ 12:01AM

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A staffer reports, "[Obama] speaks our language. He seems more comfortable with his faith. Jesus' name rolls off his tongue, as do some of the phrases people of faith tend to use in these meetings," So, yes, words matter. Obama knows the hymnal well, but actions trump words every time. In Matthew 7:16, written in red letters, "Ye shall know them by their fruits: Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?" BHO uses holy language to obscure his true positions. He is for keeping President Bush's Faith Based Initiatives as long as long as the faith is left on the sidelines. He is for gay marriages -- or Michelle is. Also worth consideration, Obama and family attended, for 20 years, a church where hate, not love, was frequently preached. His words are awfully pretty but are they contrary to his action and his very brief voting record. His words are a pretty song used as subterfuge and distraction. In the words of my Yiddish speaking forefathers, "A half truth is a whole lie."

As for McCain, he will never be the most eloquent man in the room. He is often a leaden speaker with an ear of tin and a tongue of clay. Not all are given the gift of gab. Moses was a poor speaker who needed his brother Aaron to be his mouthpiece, but history shows that Moses is the one who carried out the Lord's mission.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

DYNAMIC DUO
Re: W. James Antle III's What About Bob?:

This Bob is just another storm-trooper for the Obama/Reid-Pelosi agenda of tax increases, pork/earmarks, bigger government and appeasement of terrorists. The Democrats he points to as role models (Heath Shuler, Brad Ellsworth, Joe Donnelly and Gene Taylor) have voted in lockstep for Pelosi's liberal agenda in the House. Like Pat Buchanan and Jim Webb, products of liberal empowering paleoconservatism (a pseudo-conservative group with a 1930's nationalist agenda) Conley is unprincipled, arrogant and motivated by self-aggrandizing egotism.

When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 Missouri sent a "conservative" blue dog to the House who said he was pro-life and for tax cuts his name was Richard Gephardt and we know how that storied ended. If elected Conley will be just another conventional Democrat (like all blue dogs elected in 2006) voting to raise taxes to spend on massive government programs while empowering America's enemies.
-- Rhonda Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

Antle's credulity is beyond belief. Hasn't he learned from his misguided fawning over Jim Webb and the 2006 "blue dogs?" Listen and learn -- there are no conservative Democrats and those that masquerade as conservatives to get elected cannot be trusted. Bob Conley, like Jim Webb, Jon Tester, Heath Shuler, Brad Ellsworth, Joe Donnelly (despite one pro-life vote) and Gene Taylor, is a MoveOn.org tax-and-spend liberal Democrat, eager to appease America's foes. All of the above vote as ordered by their masters: Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

It is this type of naivete (buttressing the false message that "blue dog" liberals and "liberalterians" are safe to vote for) that's undermining Reagan's Republican Party, the conservative movement and the future of our nation. Granted, Antle isn't as bad as renegade former Reagan speechwriter Pat Buchanan (the Left's favorite faux conservative), but the results are still the same -- Democrats in power. That is not only stupid -- it's dangerous.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

HACK AWAY
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Freedom and the View From Obamaland:

More fascist that what we've had over the past seven years?

I scanned the list of Lord's American Spectator articles for anything critical of Bush's seizure of executive power, the wholesale violations of our civil rights by warrantless domestic spying, or the billions of dollars in no-bid contracts going to Bush/Cheney's favorite corporations, and see nothing. Not a single article title that hints at a criticism of the current lord of the White House.

Of course, I did find a column criticizing Democrats ties to big oil. Bigger than the GOP's ties? Bigger than Cheney's ties? Please.

Lord is obviously a partisan hack. Quit giving him a platform for his hackery.

And, no, I'm not a Democrat. Just a moderate independent fed up with hackery by either party.
-- Brian Iller
Richland, Washington

BRADLEY AND HELMS
Re: John Corry's Jesse's World:

You probably don't have an obit file full of kind words from "across the aisle," so here is one I saved.

Letter to the Editor

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