PLEASE, GOD, MAKE ME PRESIDENT
Re: The Prowler’s Faith of
Our Senators:
Are people so naive that just hearing a man say “Jesus” can
convince them he is a Christian? Are Christians so silly that they
are more impressed by a man knowing and using certain phrases in
their presence than in how that man defines his faith? Barack Obama
is a “Christian” who cannot say that Jesus is the only way to
heaven, that salvation lies only in Christ and his sacrifice, and
who seeks to redefine Christianity as “just another path” to
God!
The Bible tells us that even the demons know who Christ is, and
even they know He is Lord! Not to say that Obama is a demon or
anything (because you just know some Obama supporter will try to
twist it that way), but just saying certain words and phrases means
nothing in the bigger picture. It is what you believe that defines
your faith, not what you say. Remember, not everyone who cries
Lord, Lord is going to make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.
— Eric Edwards
Walnut Cove, North Carolina
Has anyone asked Obama about separation of church and state? Where
are the ACLU and Barry Lynn to complain about Obama bring religion
into the political realm? One word best describes the new age
messiah who thinks to rewrite scripture — hypocrite.
— Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina
Let’s do a thought experiment:
I’m a non-Christian, but I decide to study the topic. After I
study, I remain a non-Christian. Can I truthfully say the
following:
“… I let Jesus Christ into my life. I learned that my sins
could be redeemed and that if I placed my trust in Christ, that he
could set me on the path to eternal life when I submitted myself to
his will and I dedicated myself to discovering his truth and
carrying out his works.”
This was said July 5 by Sen. Obama. In my
opinion it says that he did an academic study, but says nothing
about the outcome in terms of faith at the time, nor what is his
present faith.
“… I let Jesus Christ into my life.” can easily mean that he
spent time to read about and hear about Jesus’ life and teaching.
When I read Moby Dick, I let Ishmael, Ahab, Melville, and even the
whale into my life.
“I learned” is an academic statement that says nothing about
emotions, about faith, or about belief. The sentence in its form
is: “I learned” that X could happen “if” A, and that Y could happen
“when” B and C. So Mr. Obama, what happened next? Did you ever do
A, B, or C, or not? It is nice to hear about your cognitive
understanding of the premises of this religion, but these weasely
and evasive words seem more than anything to have the goal to
mislead. If that was your intention, then you are or have a very
good TelePrompter writer. Even the headline writer was fooled.
I’m not sure I would believe Sen. Obama if he made a direct
statement of faith, but I think it is important to note when he
wants to convey an impression while avoiding an outright
answer.
This would make an excellent example for a class on critical
thinking. One could point out his use of words that will make an
emotional connection with his audience, while not really saying
much:
Sins
Trust
Eternal Life
Submitted
Truth
Works
Using complex sentences that are 36 and 48 words long are
effective at concealing the actual assertions. This failure to
describe his own faith while giving the impression that he has, is
worthy of close scrutiny whether it is intentional or not.
— A Reader
That the Arlington Group, or any conservative Evangelical group, is
considering endorsing Senator Obama is simply mind boggling.
Senator McCain may not be fluent in theological or theosophical
language but this is poor reason to bestow blessings on a false
messiah.
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.
Yellow with age, undated, it is from the New York
Times, headed “BRADLEY AND HELMS,” it reads:
Sens. Bill Bradley and Jesse Helms are not exactly soul
mates — one is a liberal Democrat from New Jersey and the other a
conservative Republican from North Carolina — but the two men came
together once on the basketball court.
“He’d asked me to show his granddaughter a few moves,” Mr.
Bradley told New York Times sports columnist Robert Lipsyte. “She
plays in high school, and she and I spent an hour together.
“I showed her how to set a pick, the back-door play, you know,
it was all out of what I learned at Easy Ed Macauley’s summer camps
when I was a kid, and she just absorbed everything, a terrific
girl. But what caught my eye was Jesse Helms and his wife, doting
grandparents, sitting across the schoolyard the whole time, just
watching. That tempered my criticism of him. I saw his
humanity.”
It takes a man with humanity to see it in another man. That must be
why I kept the clipping. A rare Democrat. I may have an example of
the only kind word ever printed in the
N.Y. Times about
Helms
Jesse Helms was a kind man, a courtly man who could not be
forgiven his principles in an unprincipled venue.
— Diane Smith
UNBUCKLED
Re: Christopher Orlet’s The Big
Bang:
I agree. I just received a $91.00 ticket today from a Pinellas
Park, Florida police officer. In fact I never usually wear a seat
belt but today I put one on and my son was driving. He was pulled
over and I unbuckled mine so I could get the information out of the
glove box and sure enough the police officer accused me of not
having the seat belt on. When I tried to explain he didn’t care.
More revenue for the useless.
— Deborah K. Harlow
