I picked this out of a recent newsletter from Adam McManus

LETTER TO BUSINESS OWNERS ABOUT THE ELECTION

Dear Fellow Business Owners,

As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have  resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next President, and that my Taxes and Fees, will go up in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Customer will have to see an increase in my fees to them of about, 8%. I will also have to lay off 6 of my employees. This really bothered me as I believe we are family here, and didn't know how to choose who will have to go.

So, this is what I did. I strolled through the parking lot and found, 8 Obama bumper stickers on my employee's cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.

I can't think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.

I am sending this letter to all Business owners that I know.

Sincerely,

Hard Times Ahead 

sent by email from friend

Mr. Obama,

Given the uproar about the simple question asked you by Joe the plumber, and the persecution that has been heaped on him because he dared to question you, I find myself motivated to say a few things to you myself. While Joe aspires to start a business someday, I already have started not one, but 4 businesses. But first, let me introduce myself. You can call me 'Cory the well driller'. I am a 54 year old high school graduate. I didn't go to college like you, I was too ready to go 'conquer the world' when I finished high school. 25 years ago at age 29, I started my own water well drilling business at a time when the economy here in East Texas was in a tailspin from the crash of the early 80's oil boom. I didn't get any help from the government, nor did I look for any. I borrowed what I could from my sister, my uncle, and even the pawn shop and managed to scrape together a homemade drill rig and a few tools to do my first job. My businesses did not start not a result of privilege. It is the result of my personal drive, personal ambition, self discipline, self reliance, and a determination to treat my customers fairly. From the very start my business provided one other (than myself) East Texan a full time job. I couldn't afford a backhoe the first few years (something every well drilling business had), so I and my helper had to dig the mud pits that are necessary for each and every job with hand shovels. I had to use my 10 year old, 1/2 ton pickup truck for my water tank truck (normally a job for at least a 2 ton truck).

A year and a half after I started the business, I scraped together a 20% down payment to get a modest bank loan and bought a (28 year) old, worn out, slightly bigger drilling rig to allow me to drill the deeper water wells in my area. I spent the next few years drilling wells with the rig while simultaneously rebuilding it between jobs. Through these years I never knew from one month to the next if I would have any work or be able to pay the bills. I got behind on my income taxes one year, and spent the next two years paying that back (with penalty and interest) while keeping up with ongoing taxes. I got behind on my water well supply bill 2 different years (way behind the second time... $80,000.00), and spent over a year paying it back (each time) while continuing to pay for ongoing supplies C.O.D.. Of course, the personal stress endured through these experiences and years is hard to measure. I do have a stent in my heart now to memorialize it all.

I spent the next 10 years developing the reputation for being the most competent and most honest water well driller in East Texas. 2 years along the way, I hired another full time employee for the drilling business so that we could provide full time water well pump service as well as the well drilling. Also, 3 years along the path, I bought a water well screen service machine from a friend, starting business # 2. 5 years later I made a business loan for $100,000.00 to build a new, higher production, computer controlled screen service machine. I had designed the machine myself, and it didn't work out for 3 years so I had to make the loan payments without the benefit of any added income from the new machine. No government program was there to help me with the payments, or to help me sleep at night as I lay awake wondering how I would solve my machine problems or pay my bills. Finally, after 3 years, I got the screen machine working properly, and that provided another full time job for an East Texan in the screen service business.

2 years after that, I made another business loan, this time for $250,000.00, to buy another used drilling rig and all the support equipment needed to run another, larger, drill rig. This provided another 2 full time jobs for East Texans. Again, I spent a couple of years not knowing if I had made a smart move, or a move that would bankrupt me. For the third time in 13 years, I had placed everything I owned on the line, risking everything, in order to build a business.

A couple of years into this, I came up with a bright idea for a new kind of mud pump, a fundamentally necessary pump used on water well drill rigs. I spent my entire life savings to date (just $30,000.00), building a prototype of the pump and took it to the national water well convention to show it off. Customers immediately started coming out of the woodworks to buy the pumps, but there was a problem. I had depleted my assets making the prototype, and nobody would make me a business loan to start production of the new pumps. With several deposits for pump orders in hand, and nowhere to go, I finally started applying for as many credit card as I could find and took cash withdrawals on these cards to the tune of over $150,000.00 (including modest loans from my dear sister and brother), to get this 3rd business going.

Yes, once again, I had everything hanging over the line in an effort to start another business. I had never manufactured anything, and I had to design and bring into production a complex hydraulic machine from an untested prototype to a reliable production model (in six months). How many nights I lay awake wondering if I had just made the paramount mistake of my life I cannot tell you, but there were plenty. I managed to get the pumps into production, which immediately created another 2 full time jobs in East Texas. Some of the models in the first year suffered from quality issues due to the poor workmanship of one of my key suppliers, so I and an employee (another East Texan employed) had to drive across the country to repair customers' pumps, practically from coast to coast. I stood behind the product, and made payments to all the credit cards that had financed me (and my brother and sister). I spent the next 5 years improving and refining the product, building a reputation for the pump and the company, working to get the pump into drill rig manufacturers' product lines, and paying back credit cards. During all this time I continued to manage a growing water well business that was now operating 3 drill rig crews, and 2 well service crews. Also, the screen service business continued to grow. No government programs were there to help me, Mr. Obama, but that's ok, I didn't expect any, nor did I want any. I was too busy fighting to make success happen to sit around waiting for the government to help me.

Now, we have been manufacturing the mud pumps for 7 years, my combined businesses employ 32 full time employees, and distribute $5,000,000.00 annually through the local economy. Now, just 4 months ago I borrowed $1,254,000.00, purchasing computer controlled machining equipment to start my 4th business, a production machine shop. The machine shop will serve the mud pump company so that we can better manufacture our pumps that are being shipped worldwide. Of course, the machine shop will also do work for outside companies as well. This has already produced 2 more full time jobs, and 2 more should develop out of it in the next few months. This should work out, but if it doesn't it will be because you, and the other professional politicians like yourself, will have destroyed our countrys’ (and the world) economy with your meddling with mortgage loan programs through your liberal manipulation and intimidation of loaning institutions to make sure that unqualified borrowers could get mortgages.

You see, at the very time when I couldn't get a business loan to get my mud pumps into production, you were working with Acorn and the Community Reinvestment Act programs to make sure that unqualified borrowers could buy homes with no down payment, and even no credit or worse yet, bad credit. Even the infamous, liberal, Ninja loans (No Income, No Job or Assets). While these unqualified borrowers were enjoying unrealistically low interest rates, I was paying 22% to 24% interest on the credit cards that I had used to provide me the funds for the mud pump business that has created jobs for more East Texans. It's funny, because after 25 years of turning almost every dime of extra money back into my businesses to grow them, it has been only in the last two years that I have finally made enough money to be able to put a little away for retirement, and now the value of that has dropped 40% because of the policies you and your ilk have perpetrated on our country.

You see, Mr. Obama, I'm the guy you intend to raise taxes on. I'm the guy who has spent 25 years toiling and sweating, fretting and fighting, stressing, risking and building a business and get ahead. I'm the guy who has been on the very edge of bankruptcy more than a dozen times over the last 25 years, and all the while creating more and more jobs for East Texans who didn’t want to take a risk, and wouldn't demand from themselves what I have demanded from myself. I'm the guy you characterize as 'the Americans who can afford it the most' that you believe should be taxed more to provide income redistribution 'to spread the wealth' to those who have never toiled, sweated, fretted, fought, stressed, or risked anything. You want to characterize me as someone who has enjoyed a life of privilege and who needs to pay a higher percentage of my income than those who have bought into your entitlement culture. I resent you, Mr. Obama, as I resent all who want to use class warfare as a tool to advance their political career. What's worse, each year more Americans buy into your liberal entitlement culture, and turn to the government for their hope of a better life instead of themselves? Liberals are succeeding through more than 40 years of collaborative effort between the predominant liberal media, and liberal indoctrination programs in the public school systems across our land.

What is so terribly sad about this is this. America was made great by people who embraced the one-time American culture of self reliance, self motivation, self determination, self discipline, personal betterment, hard work, risk taking. A culture built around the concept that success was in reach on every able bodied American who would strive for it. Each year that less Americans embrace that culture, we all descend together. We descend down the socialist path that has brought country after country ultimately to bitter and unremarkable states. If you and your liberal comrades in the media and school systems would spend half as much effort cultivating a culture of can-do across America as you do cultivating your entitlement culture, we could see Americans at large embracing the conviction that they can elevate themselves through personal betterment, personal achievement, and self reliance. You see, when people embrace such ideals, they act on them. When people act on such ideals, they succeed. All of America could find herself elevating instead of deteriorating. But that would eliminate the need for liberal politicians, wouldn't it, Mr. Obama? The country would not need you if the country was convinced that problem solving was best left with individuals instead of the government. You and all your liberal comrades have got a vested interested in creating a dependent class in our country. It is the very business of liberals to create an ever expanding dependence on government. What's remarkable is that you, who have never produced a job in your life, are going to tax me to take more of my money and give it to people who wouldn't need my money if they would get off their entitlement mentality asses and apply themselves at work, demand more from themselves, and quit looking to liberal politicians to raise their station in life.

You see, I know because I've had them work for me before. Hundreds of them over these 25 years. People who simply will not show up to work on time. People who just will not work 5 days in a week, much less, 6 days. People always looking for a way to put less effort out. People who actually tell me that they would do more if I just would first pay them more. People who take off work to sit in government offices to apply to get free government handouts (gee, I wonder how things would have turned out for them if they had spent that time earning money and pleasing their employer?). You see, all of this comes from your entitlement mentality culture.

Oh, I know you will say I am uncompassionate. Sorry, Mr. Obama, wrong again. You see, I've seen what the average percentage of your income has been given to charities over the years of 2000 to 2004 (ignoring the years you started running for office - can you pronounce “politically motivated”), you averaged of less than 1% annually. And your running mate, Joe Biden, averaged less than ¼% of his annual income in charitable contributions over the last 10 years. Like so many liberals, the two of you want to give to the needy, just as long as it is someone else’s money you are giving to them. I won’t say what I have given to charities over the last 25 years, but the percentage is several times more than you or Joe Biden (don’t you just hate goggle?). Tell me again how you feel my pain.

In short, Mr. Obama, your political philosophies represent everything that is wrong with our country. You represent the culture of government dependence instead of self reliance; Entitlement mentality instead of personal achievement; Penalization of the successful to reward the unmotivated; Political correctness instead of open mindedness and open debate. If you are successful, you may preside over the final transformation of America from being the greatest and most self-reliant culture on earth, to just another country of whiners and wimps, who sit around looking to the government to solve their problems, like all of western Europe and all countries on the decline. All of those countries because of liberal socialistic mentalities have a little less to offer mankind every year.

God help us...

Cory Miller

just a ordinary, extraordinary American, the way a lot of Americans used to be.

P.S. Yes, Mr. Obama, I am a real American... www.cmillerdrilling.com

 

 

 

If man was an accident of chance and millions of mutations, how do we explain his perfect mate, woman?

author unknown

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in he looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, 'God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes.' The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.

Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, 'Here I am God. I'm still waiting' It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him, knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked, stunned, and sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, 'What the heck is the matter with you? Why did you do that?' The Marine calmly replied, 'God was too busy today protecting American soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot. So, He sent me.'

GLENN: "Gang, this is the final warning. I mean it. This is the final warning. You cannot become -- you cannot get any clearer on what is coming. It amazes me day after day after day after day that America just doesn't seem to care anymore, but you cannot get any clearer. If this is out here and this man is elected, you are going to elect the most arrogant Marxist who will not be stopped because he came into office fully uncovered. Every -- do not pretend to be shocked when we begin to see a Marxist and who I believe will become a fascist President. And he will become fascist because he will not understand how you suddenly don't want to become Marxist. As he starts to change the Constitution, listen to what he said in 2001. "

Parents,

As always we should be watching our kids for any type of noticable mood or personality changes, active increases or decreases in energy and "interesting" new friends; watchful eyes and ears can frequently head off major trouble before it develops.

Check out this story on "cheese" from FOX news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271215,00.html

The following email was sent to the PROVE mailing list:

Dear PROVE Members,

 

Below are links to both the McCain and Obama health plans.  There is also an AAPS article discussing independent analyses of each plan.  We urge you to take the time to read through this information.  There are problems with both of these plans, and both candidates need to hear from those that will participate in the election process.  As a matter of fact, every candidate, except for those like Land Commissioner, should hear your position on issues concerning your family’s health care so they will know how to help fix things after the election. 

 

For more than a decade, PROVE has provided a voice and a platform for families to demand greater control over their vaccination decisions and to protect the privacy of their health records.  PROVE was born out of the problematic health care policies of the Clinton administration regarding immunization registries.  With the help of many concerned families, we were successful in aiding the defeat of a mandatory inclusion vaccine tracking registry in Texas.  We were also successful at advocating for and getting legislation passed adding the conscientious exemption from mandatory vaccination and for aiding in the defeat of the Governor's executive order requiring the HPV vaccination of sixth grade girls in Texas.  

 

The common thread through each of these issues we’ve become involved in is overreaching government.  There is a broken health care system in this country: not because we don't have enough government oversight or involvement, but rather because we have too much. More is definitely not the answer.  Much of what has been achieved in the last twelve years could be at risk with more government involvement.  Both candidates want electronic medical records.  Electronic records aren't really a problem in and of themselves, however, it is what can be done with them that is the concern.  If personal electronic medical records are used to measure health care quality(according to the pharmaceutical industry’s standards) or reward providers for achieving performance thresholds (defined by those leaning towards pharmaceutical interventions including immunizations) as one candidate suggests, then we can kiss what is left of medical privacy and the freedom to truly choose our health care goodbye. 

 

One candidate highlights immunization in several areas of his plan and says he will require that all children have health care coverage.  What if your health care dollars could be better spent by paying cash to one of the growing number of doctors refusing to participate in the insurance system who also lets you CHOOSE not to immunize your child?  Maybe your family chooses alternative medicine as your primary form of care.  How would this insurance mandate on families and the extra costs associated with it affect you, your taxes, your employer, and your community?  

 

Many of our current problems exist because we have allowed government institutions to run in a way where the people effectively have no voice.  Pharmaceutical and medical industry lobbyists have been and continue to be the primary voice in Washington.  Our children cannot afford to lose our voice as their parents – we know how to love and care for them better than any bureaucrat or conflict of interest laden lobbyist.  Do not be fooled into falling for some government health care scheme that will be administered by bureaucrats and lobbied for by companies with a monetary interest while ignoring those who are affected the most.

 

Please take the time to read these health plans and research additional information before you vote.  Then, most importantly of all, get ready to write letters and make phone calls no matter who wins because it will be necessary. 

 

Sincerely, Rebecca Rex and Dawn Richardson

Barack Obama Health Care Plan

John McCain Health Care Plan

Which candidate’s health plan will hurt the most?

"PROVE provides information on vaccines, and the immunization policies and practices that affect the children and adults of Texas. Our mission is to prevent vaccine injury and death and to promote and protect the right of every person to make informed independent vaccination decisions for themselves and their families."

God is pro-choice

God is "pro-choice".

Choose His way or choose your way.

Choose right or choose wrong.

Choose the high road or choose the low road.

Choose.

Your choice.

In sixteen days, choices will be made that will alter the future of this country and of all the countries of the world.

There is, in my opinion, no single social event more "world changing" than the election of the President of the United States of America.  This one event will alter the trajectories of billions of lives.  This one event will usher in a new era affecting the lives of virtually every man, woman and child on this globe.

No other position on earth has the capacity to effect so much change.  No other office has the global influence that this one holds.  Like him or not, this one person will impact your life.

I am astounded to hear that so many persons are planning on withholding their votes.  I have heard from so many that "my vote will not matter" and "there are no good choices" and "I am so sick of politics".

I ask these persons specifically to think on that a little longer.

Your vote, or the lack thereof, will decide the decision maker for world changing events.  Your vote, or the lack thereof, will have an impact of far reaching consequence.  Your vote, or the lack thereof, is crucial to the world population and the future of our global cultures.

The following is from Wikipedia:

"Elections for the United States Senate will be held on November 4, 2008, with 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested. Thirty-three seats are regular elections; the winners will be eligible to serve six-year terms from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2015 as members of Senate Class II. There are also two special elections: one in Wyoming and another in Mississippi; the winners will serve the remainder of terms that expire on January 3, 2013, as members of Senate Class I.

The 2008 presidential election, many gubernatorial elections, and elections for all House of Representatives seats will occur on the same date, as well as many state and local elections.

The current composition of the Senate, going into the 2008 election, consists of 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats, and two independents (Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who both caucus with Democrats). Of the seats up for election in 2008, 23 are held by Republicans and 12 by Democrats."

In this country, I believe, there is no one consequnce to consider more gravely than that the next President  will, in all likelyhood, nominate from 1-3 Supreme Court Justices and untold numbers of Federal District Court Judges.

If the Senate elections result in a filibuster proof majority by the Democrats, and Senator Obama is elected as President, he will face no challenges by the Senate on his appointments.  It is a certainty that he will appoint extreme liberal candidates, that they will be confirmed by the liberal controlled Senate and that the Supreme Court will attain a liberal majority.  It is equally certain that these liberal activist Justices will turn the Constitution of the United States "on its ear".

The Executive Branch, The Legislative Branch and the Judicial Branch would be of one mind, one philosophy, one trajectory; for years to come.  Totalinarianism won't be pretty for anyone not in control, even those who currently plan to cast ignorant and emotional ballots in that direction.

I am asking you to give grave consideration to these arguments and, if you should agree, to pass them on to everyone you know, asking them to make the same considerations and forwarding.  It is not now too late for a groundswell of support to move John McCain into the office of President, but it may soon be.

No, John McCain is not perfect and he is not the one I would have selected as our next President.  I do believe however, for moral minded Americans, that he is our only choice now.

Your vote matters.

May God bless you and your family and may God have mercy on America,

Steve

The United State Supreme Court Justices:
John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States - 53
John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice - 88
Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice  - 72
Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice - 72
David Hackett Souter, Associate Justice,  - 69
Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice - 60
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice - 75
Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice  - 70
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., Associate Justice - 58

the clock is ticking

"Barack Obama's tax plan is the opposite of supply-side economics. He proposes to raise marginal rates for just about every federal tax. He also proposes a raft of tax credits that taxpayers can receive if they engage in various government-specified activities."

 

These are my opinions and I ask you to "hear me out" even if you are not in agreement with my views.  The ability to have open discourse in this country is part of what makes a democratic republic work and, ironically, will probably be the first thing to fall in the near future.

In my opinion, Barack Obama will win the election as President of the United States and this will open the door to the end of our national culture as it was designed by our forefathers.

A one party government, which is what we will have when Obama wins, will no longer listen to the people.  They barely listen now, but with the restraints of a multi-party system removed, they will run rampant over the Constitution with no checks or balances for a minimum of 8-20 years.

The Democratic party, with the office of President and control of both Houses of Congress will:

Appoint only liberal judges to the Supreme Court and federal District Courts
Adopt the laws of foreign nations (by treaty and U.N. agreement)
Cripple the Bill of Rights, specifically the 1st and 2nd Amendments
Raise taxes to pay for a cascading of pork barrel spending
Destroy the Medical Care system in place
Destroy the effectiveness of the U.S. military
Remove freedom of choice in a variety of arenas
Persecute and prosecute Christians in the name of "tolerance" and "hate speech"
Effect unlimited abortion
Effect Euthanasia of the elderly, then the mentally imperfect, then ... ?

In short, all the far left liberal agenda will be enacted by an unchecked Democratic party government (NOT democratic government, Democratic PARTY government)

Where will we feel it first?

The economy - The Democratic Party is historically pro-tax raising and this unchecked Congress will put most of the middle class in the tank.

Religious expression - The right to free speech, already under assault in most of our society, will end for Christians specifically and other religious groups by association.

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms - handguns will disappear; crime will not.  The cost of ammunition will escalate on a level making it almost out of reach for most law abiding Americans.

The rights of parents to make decisions for their children.  The United States is one of two countries that have not signed the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.  Under Obama it will be signed and American parents will lose parental rights on a horrific scale (look it up).

Education - The National Teachers Association, one of the most liberal, socialist, organizations in the world, will throw off all guise of responsible education and will ramp up an already systematic method of forced social indoctrination, such as we have never seen.  Have you talked to your public school educated children lately?  Do you wonder where they get their distorted, revisionist views of the worlds and America (are you a product of that environment yourself)?  Look in their text books.  Go to a "friends of the library" book sale and pick up a history book written before 1970.  Compare it to what is being taught in our schools today; do the same for math, science, etc..

The list is withering .....

Many people will vote "Anti-Bush" on Nov. 4, seeing Senator Obama as the only choice.  They will vote without giving any of these issues a thought and with no consideration of Senator McCain.  While I am not a fan of either candidate, I will vote "anti-totalitarianism" and cast my vote for Senator McCain.

At the same time, we must consider that 100% of the House of Representatives is up for re-election.  I am encouraging an "anti-incumbent" vote for the Senate and the House.  I ask you to vote against anyone who is currently in office.  It is time for a voters revolution.

Your vote on Nov. 4 will change the face of this nation either way.  Take a hard look before you vote.

George Bush is not the enemy, it is our ignorance.

What an Obama administration and a heavily Democratic Congress would accomplish by Fred Barnes

october surprise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyspCRmJv7w

This article is from Huntley Brown - concert pianist, man of God and a black man.

Why I Can't Vote For Obama
By Huntley Brown

Dear Friends,
A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it's worth repeating...

First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)

To beat Ted Kennedy and Hilary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.

There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100 % rating.
There is a reason the homosexual community supports him.
There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him. 
There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court. There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill.
There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. 
There is a reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.

Let's take a look at the practice he wanted to continue

The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures:

God help him.

There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law. 

Think about this:  You can't give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.

There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.

Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright's sermons. I wonder why now?

Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19 - 20 "Go and make disciples of all nations." This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you; talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?

Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have a

1. Commitment to the White Community
2. Commitment to the White Family
3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community.
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.

Cone is the man Obama's mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?

So what does all this mean for the nation?

In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment. 

Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 "Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."

Then God says

1 Samuel 1:18 " When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king

you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day." 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles."  21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, "Listen to them and give them a king."

Here is what we know for sure. 

God is not schizophrenic

He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God.

Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it.

For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you.  I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this.  I know I can look the other way because of the economy.

I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama's positions. Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends.

Since we know someone's value system has to be placed on the nation,

1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation.

2.  Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation?

Would you support a President who went to a church like that? 

Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama's former church.   If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside.

This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church.  The church can't be about race.  Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world. 

A church can't have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if it's a white church or a black church it's still wrong.  Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.

Obama's former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: "Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. 

A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps. (Remember this is a live baby)
B. The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
C. The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed. 

Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can't dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.

I can't vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that's who I am. Christian first, black second.  Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won't be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.

In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter. 

We need to follow Martin Luther King's words, don't judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don't know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.

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One must be buying if another is selling.

did biden get it wrong?

you betcha

sent to me by a friend:

PBS Poll on Sarah Palin - Takes 2  seconds! Another "vote" taken by NOW on PBS expecting  that their 80% liberal viewers will dominate. Let's prove that wrong.  Send to every  non-liberal you know.  Let's get some balance into the voting  group. This is the easiest vote you will ever make. It  takes literally two seconds.   Let's turn this around!!!   PBS  has a short video on Sarah Palin on their website.  Also included  is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP? I  logged on a few minutes ago and 37% percent had voted YES, 62% NO.    I just voted and it already has   started turning around. Here's the link:

Let's turn this around..... You don't have to give your name or  email address in order to vote. It's very simple.

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html <http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html>

Wake Up America

Take the Barack Obama test

If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past association with William Ayers, a known terrorist.

 

If he is elected President he would not qualify to be his own body guard!

As much as some well intentioned folks would like to blame one person or another party, it just simply does not appear to be that simple.  Reading these articles, and others, I can't help but wonder if we, as a nation/society/culture will learn anything lasting from the painful lessons we are reaping.

How Regulating Greed Contributed to The Current Financial Crisis

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