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Obama Economics 101
This is the kind of thinking that’s going on in Washington right now…and pretty much for too long to even remember.
An Exegetical Moment: Hating The Light
On Wednesday, April 29th, this image will be unveiled at the New York’s Union Square. It speaks for itself. The artists purports he just wants dialogue and it’s not portraying him as the Christ.
Not everyone was born yesterday.
It is the kind of blasphemy that those in this country perpetrate 
more and more as we see The Day approaching. It shouldn’t come as a surprise really.
I find this quite ironic after the Obama administration asked Georgetown University to take down all religious symbols before he would make his speech which Georgetown complied with. If someone were to come into my house and tell me to take down all of my religious symbols, I’d simply tell them they’re not coming in my house.
FOLLOWING CHRIST IS NOT POPULAR
Many have the wrong idea about following the Lord. They believe by doing so, we just become nicer people and in turn, everyone will like us and be drawn to us. In a sense, we should become nicer because we are learning how to love:
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you… (Luke 6:27)
Even when we do this, there will be those that hate us as that statement implies. This is a reflection of the total destructiveness of sin.
But another reality of the Christian is that as we get closer to God and walk more in the Spirit, the more those of the world will hate us.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. (John 15:18)
Yes. Being a Christian should make us more loving. But it also doesn’t preclude us from standing for the truth. This is why the world hates us. We stand for truth as the light of the world and through that, the world stands condemned.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:14-16)
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19)
SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOF
No matter what the world says or does, we should continue to spread the Truth in all its forms. That Truth is the word of God which testifies of Jesus Christ.
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. (Matthew 10:27)
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17)
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
What we do is not about being popular, being liked, or even being nice. It’s about being light.
Bill HR 1388: A First Amendment Attack
Bill HR 1388 has passed in the House of Representatives and it has some alarming undertones. Obama’s insidious plan to separate our youth from faith in God and indoctrinate their deity as government has begun.
The bill says that it will help promote a patriotic service attitude in youth for the country. However, what it really is saying is it wants to expand the government and lessen the role of faith in young people’s lives.
The puprose couldn’t be clearer, beginning in section 1101 where the wording is changed to expand government scope and influence. Among those changes are:
(2) in paragraph (4), by inserting after ‘income,’ the following: ‘geographic location,’;
(3) in paragraph (6), by inserting after ‘existing’ the following: ‘national’;
(A) by striking ‘programs and agencies’ and inserting ‘programs, agencies, and communities’;
‘(11) leverage Federal investments to increase State, local, business, and philanthropic resources to address national and local challenges;
This really should come as no surprise from an administration that is systematically spending the United States into oblivion, increasing the national debt and deficit by a trillion dollars per year if we keep going down this road.
But the red flag here is the blatant discrimination against religious organizations.
In SEC 113, it states:
(A) ensure that students of different ages, races, sexes, ethnic
groups, disabilities, and economic backgrounds have opportunities to serve together;
NO GOD ALLOWED
Section 1304 Prohibited Activities And Ineligible Organizations
(2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes.
(7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services,
providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory
religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities
devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities
primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or
engaging in any form of religious proselytization.
Once again, trying to slide in under the radar, an attack against our freedom of speech and religion is being brought by the Congress of the United States, courtesy of Carolyn McCarthy, D
emocrat representative of New York.
Section 2 basically says do not protest, dissent, or speak your mind in any way. The first and last part of Section 7 is key because it can include any religious discussion. Basically, no God allowed. Not only does this infringe on our freedom of religion (not from), but it infringes on our freedom of speech under the Constitution.
STATE OF THE NATION
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, (Hosea 4:6a)
The context of this verse of scripture is given from God to Israel at a time where they had forgotten about God because of an increase in their blessing. They had become godless, immoral, liars, and killers. It was this lack of knowledge of God that led in a lack of knowledge the things that mattered the most.
For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face. (2 Corinthians 11:20)
Paul here is talking to the Corinthians about how that church was being led back into bondage by men who spoke well of themselves, put heavy financial burdens on them, and how Christ was not sufficient.
We now have a similar individual who is president of the United States.
Not only is Christ not sufficient, but He’s an enemy that shouldn’t be spoken of along with faith as an expression in general in the public square. God, no matter what faith, is not allowed.
TAKE ACTION
It’s not too late. Take action by calling and writing your senators today to stop this bill as written. We are the government. Let’s take the duty, privelege, and blessing of this republic and show ourselves responsible in caring for this great nation that God has given us.
This is not just about politics. It’s about our future.
Obama: I Cannot Tell a Lie. I Lied.
The mantra throughout the 2008 presidential campaign was change. All of the things that Barack Obama would do to change what’s happening in Washington. Yet this new Obama-nation sees plenty of “more of the same” with no change at all.
Obama ran a campaign based on rhetoric against President Bush and accused opponent McCain of being a carbon copy. Yet the changes that he’s attempting are disastrous for this country and he’s not making all the changes he said he would.
For example:
- Terrorist prisoners in Afghanistan will still be help without a trial. He’s O.K. with that though he made it clear he wasn’t.
- Those tax cuts for the wealthy we heard over and over that he said he was going to yank? Yeah. They’re staying for the full run.
- The Bush administration’s assertion that “state secrets” privilege to avoid releasing information? Obama and his staff has made it clear three times that it isn’t going anywhere.
It appears that the Obama staff are glimpsing the harsh realities of governing a nation and what that means. He may have talked a good game during the election but it was a different story when the perspective of..oh…truth set in.
This stimulus bill will prove to be another, “Hmm. Maybe we shouldn‘t have done that” moment.
The Justice Department had to eat crow on their position to uphold telecommunications companies who can’t be sued for helping the government in obtaining wiretaps in the interest of national security.
“The government is compelled to defend (the) statute as long as it can reasonably do so,” spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.
He really didn’t want to say that hence the clause at the end. Regardless, this is not what Obama supporters want to hear.
“There are some troubling signs that can’t be ignored,” Anthony Romero of the American Civil Liberties Union wrote recently.
During his campaign, Obama swore he wouldn’t take public funds for his campaign…and then he did. That should have been a red flag to anyone paying attention.
The Bible is clear:
But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one. (Matthew 5:37)
I don’t expect Obama to follow that since he’s not a Christian. Yes, I said that on purpose with full assurance that it’s the right statement. Doesn’t matter that he let the faith based initiative program continue (another hold over from the Bush administration) or that he went to Jeremiah Wright’s church (who also is NOT a Christian). He may have the religious thing down pat, but he’s not a Christian.
The bottom line is that he should have looked at things a little closer and said zero about which he knew nothing about to prevent him having egg on his face. Like now.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; When he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent. (Proverbs 17:28)
Follow along folks as the walls slowly begin to crumble, the onset of truth settles in, and a landslide of inept bureaucratic moves shows itself in the plain light of day.
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Obama’s Love Affair With Abortion
I don’t understand the obsession that Obama has with abortion. It appears as if he’s on a mission to systematically increase the mass slaughter of the unborn and he’s willing to force medical professionals across the country to do it.
Conscience? We Don’t Need No Stinking Conscience!
One of the last acts of the Bush administration was to pass a regulation that allowed doctors and health care professionals to refuse to perform abortions based on moral ramifications. A Health and Human Services (I just find that title ironic) announced that they will post their intentions and open a month long discussion on the issue from medical professionals around the nation as well as the public at large. That official did not want to be named because the notice had not been completed yet.
“It would be a horrible move. These regulations were a long time coming,” said Tom McClusky, vice president at the Family Research Council. “What they seek to do is protect patients, nurses, doctors and other health care professionals from being forced to violate their consciences.”
As always, it was the wording in the bill that is the bone of contention. Supporters said that is clarified federal policies and increased awareness to medical professionals about what they were allowed to do in keeping with their conscience. Opponents said it was too vague and argue that it woul
d reduce access to health care services.
“I think it’s a wonderful step,” Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Abortion…errr…Pro-Choice Caucus. She’s introduced legislation to overturn the regulation.
“That rule was actually a poorly drafted last-minute attempt to, I think, restrict health care access and I think it would have had far-reaching and unintended consequences.”
The White House released a statement saying Obama supports a “carefully crafted” conscience clause, not Bush’s version. In other words, make it more difficult for doctors, nurses, and others, to refuse to perform abortions.
The Change Hasn’t Changed
In my post Four Reasons To Have An Abortion, I laid out the facts as to why people have an abortion. None of them are reasons. All of them are excuses. More importantly, as a Christian (a real one), we should oppose this kind thing at every turn. The fact that this man supports such a heinous act and calls it “health care” should be a big red flag. The Bible is clear:
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. (Amos 1:13)
We have to stand against this, pray against this evil and be what God has called us to be: beacons of light in a land of darkness.
Get on the horn right now and start giving your representatives and senators a call. Email them and let them know that you oppose this.
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How To Pray For Obama
Well what many hoped wouldn’t happen has happened. Barack Hussein Obama is the president of the United States. As we see this administration ushered in, what many people are saying is that we should pray for Obama. This is true. Yet, when we say that, what do we mean? How exactly should we pray for Barack Obama?
LORD, LET HIM FAIL
This, of course, is not what many Christians think about when we say we should pray for Obama. Many would argue that it doesn’t foster the great commandment of love. That can’t be further from the truth.
Barack Obama as president does not automatically mean it’s a good thing for the United States. Socialism has proven time and time again throughout history to be the downfall of a nation. Infringing on the freedom that God Himself has given us and slowly taking that away is never a good thing. Praying for his success in supporting and strengthening the genocide of 3,000 babies a day is not what Christians should support. Being hostile to God’s word, the principles this nation was built upon, is never a good thing.
We should pray against that and every other policy that is unbiblical, anti-Christ, and ungodly. We should pray that he fails in this and all others. That is love for our country, our fellow man, and for God.
Scripture points out over and over that when a king was chosen that they set the tone and reflected the spiritual condition of a nation. So Barack Obama as president is not a good thing. God is telling us something. We better listen.
CHANGE
The mantra that we heard throughout the election from Barack Obama was change. Well, there is some change that we should be praying for and that’s Barack Obama’s.
We definitely need to pray that Barack Obama would change in terms of him becoming a believer in Jesus Christ. As the old saying goes, he needs Jesus.
If you think he’s a Christian, you are sorely mistaken. Let me be the first to shout it from the rooftops that Barack Obama is not saved. He’s religious. That never saved anybody.
He’s a humanist trying to masquerade as a Christian and it’s clear that many aren’t buying it (some for the wrong reasons but that’s for another post). A life changing, mind altering encounter with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords is what saves and Obama needs one….yesterday.
MY PRAYER 
The prayer that should be going out across the nation and the prayer that I will continually offer up to the Lord Jesus Christ is this:
Forgive us Lord for being remiss in our duties, for compromising the values and principles which You put in place to make this nation great to begin with. We’ve failed in our turn on the watch and we’ve reaped what we’ve sown. Have mercy on us Lord.We proclaim Lord that You are our God. You are our leader. You are the one who should be worshiped. You and You alone are the Messiah.
Give us the strength and the courage to stand for Your truth unabashedly. Let our lives reflect You. Let You be first and foremost in our thoughts. Let Your word rule in our hearts.
Lord God, let Your righteousness shine through this dark time. Let those in our government who are Your enemies fail at every turn. Let every policy, every bill, every law, every stroke of the pen that goes against You and Your word fail.
You alone turn the hearts of leaders and people. Let Your hand turn this nation back again to be a beacon of light and hope. Let those who would want to make this simply political have their eyes opened and understand that this is all spiritual. Send a revival Lord.
Lord, You have shown us where we are at spiritually as a nation. Have mercy on us Lord.
Turn the heart of president Barack Obama to You Father. Let him see the truth Lord. Let him understand more than he’s understood before. Give him wisdom to deal prudently and righteously. Change His heart Holy Spirit to be saved from the wrath to come and serve You and You alone in spirit and in truth.
Obama’s Fat Lady Ain’t Sung
Since the 2000 presidential election we have seen litigation and investigations follow soon after any election. Usually this is related to some kind of voter fraud. But there are several cases which are catching momentum in the news about the legitimacy of Obama’s citizenship.
And The Hits Keep On Comin
Last week I encouraged people to go to ObamaCrimes.com and check out the case against Barack Obama. In a nutshell, Mr. Phillip J. Berg, a University of Toledo graduate (which is where I currently reside) has filed suit against Obama that is questioning the legitimacy of Obama’s citizenship. The ironic thing about the Berg case is that he’s been a lifelong Democrat.
Now, there are several cases pending asking the same thing, including one from the United States Justice Foundation on behalf of the American Independent Party and their presidential candidate Alan Keyes, along with Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson, both California electors.
Then there’s a similar case in Hawaii from Andy Martin, an Obama critic, which he’s trying to get the Hawaiian Department of Health to release those records which they are refusing to hand over. They’re stating that privacy statues prevents them from so doing if the entity involved does not have a “direct tangible interest” as laid out by state statute.
More than a few cases have shown up in the courts all around the country in Ohio, Connecticut, Georgia, and Washington, all which have been dismissed. Another in New Jersey was also dismissed but is still pending an emergency stay of application which the attorney, Leo C. Donofrio, is appealing to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Many unconfirmed cases are said to be popping up all over the place: Utah, Wyoming, Texas, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia.
Now there’s another online petition that is asking for the public’s help in discovering Obama’s citizenship and therefore his right to be president of the United States.
It’s a dog eat dog world out there and now this thing is starting to grow some teeth.
Oh, That Paradise Hawaii
The Obama birth certificate is said to have been released online. Just a couple problems with that:
1. According to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, there is a difference between the two documents. A certification of live birth is not an authentication of Hawaiian birth. Specifically they state:
In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL.
2. Obama’s half sister, Maya Sotero, has named two different hospitals where he was supposedly born.
3. Obama’s grandmother stated in a YouTube video that she witnessed his birth in Kenya.
To say that something is off is an understatement.
What Is The Big Deal?
Here’s the number one question I have about the whole endeavor: why hasn’t the certificate been released by Obama? If everything is on the up and up, it should be no problem to produce it and move into the White House. It would also show that he has a slice of integrity. Lastly, he could just put to rest all of this buzz. If someone were to ask me for my birth certificate, I wouldn’t have a problem with giving it up. If they were enemies, I’d put that monster to bed immediately.
No so for the O.
When investigators were sent to the two hospitals to check out the claims made, they were met by sheriff’s deputies.
An Obama spokesperson had no idea why he hadn’t released it.
“I have no idea. I think they released what they chose to release, and Hawaii has confirmed that he was born in Hawaii, so I don’t know what else you want.”
What they chose to release? What the heck does that mean?
It means something smells funny and I ain’t talkin ’bout roses.
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The End Of White Guilt?
Well, it’s the beginning of a new week and a new day. Many Americans are still reeling over the election and what it means for America. In response to this, the National Black Republican Association has put out an emancipation for white America:
White Guilt Emancipation Declaration
We, black American citizens of the United States of America and of the National Black Republican Association, do hereby declare that our fellow white American citizens are now, henceforth and forever more free of White Guilt.
This freedom from White Guilt was duly earned by the election of Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, to be our president by a majority of white Americans based solely on the color of his skin.Freedom is not free, and we trust that the price paid for this freedom from White Guilt is worth the sacrifice, since Obama is a socialist who does not share the values of average Americans and will use the office of the presidency to turn America into a failed socialist nation.
Granted this November 4, 2008 – the day Barack Hussein Obama was elected as the first black president and the first socialist president of the United States of America.
This is declaration is telling in the fact that:
1. Not all black Americans voted for Obama.
2. Not all black Americans are fooled by Obama.
3. Not all black Americans think Obama’s socialist policies are good for America.
The following is an excerpt from the L.A. Times opinion column from Shelby Steele from Stanford’s Hoover Institution:
For the first time in human history, a largely white nation has elected a black man to be its paramount leader. And the cultural meaning of this unprecedented convergence of dark skin and ultimate power will likely become — at least for a time — a national obsession. In fact, the Obama presidency will always be read as an allegory. Already we are as curious about the cultural significance of his victory as we are about its political significance.
Does his victory mean that America is now officially beyond racism? Does it finally complete the work of the civil rights movement so that racism is at last dismissible as an explanation of black difficulty
? Can the good Revs. Jackson and Sharpton now safely retire to the seashore? Will the Obama victory dispel the twin stigmas that have tormented black and white Americans for so long — that blacks are inherently inferior and whites inherently racist? Doesn’t a black in the Oval Office put the lie to both black inferiority and white racism? Doesn’t it imply a “post-racial” America? And shouldn’t those of us — white and black — who did not vote for Mr. Obama take pride in what his victory says about our culture even as we mourn our political loss?
Answering no to such questions is like saying no to any idealism; it seems callow. How could a decent person not hope for all these
possibilities, or not give America credit for electing its first black president? And yet an element of Barack Obama’s success was always his use of the idealism implied in these questions as political muscle. His talent was to project an idealized vision of a post-racial America — and then to have that vision define political decency. Thus, a failure to support Obama politically implied a failure of decency.
Of course, it is true that white America has made great progress in curbing racism over the last 40 years. It is exactly because America
has made such dramatic racial progress that whites today chafe so under the racist stigma. So I don’t think whites really want change from Obama as much as they want documentation of change that has already occurred. They want him in the White House first of all as evidence, certification and recognition.
There is an inherent contradiction in all this. When whites — especially today’s younger generation — proudly support Obama for his post-racialism, they unwittingly embrace race as their primary motivation. They think and act racially, not post-racially. The point is that a post-racial society is a bargainer’s ploy: It seduces whites with a vision of their racial innocence precisely to coerce them into acting out of a racial motivation. A real post-racialist could not be bargained with and would not care about displaying or documenting his racial innocence. Such a person would evaluate Obama politically rather than culturally.
There is nothing to suggest that Obama will lead America into true post-racialism. His campaign style revealed a tweaker of the status quo, not a revolutionary. Culturally and racially, he is likely to leave America pretty much where he found her.
But what about black Americans? Won’t an Obama presidency at last lead us across a centuries-old gulf of alienation into the recognition that America really is our country? Might this milestone not infuse black America with a new American nationalism? And wouldn’t this be revolutionary in itself? Like most Americans, I would love to see an Obama presidency nudge things in this direction. But the larger reality is the profound disparity between black and white Americans that will persist even under the glow of an Obama presidency. The black illegitimacy rate remains at 70%. Blacks did worse on the SAT in 2000 than in 1990. Fifty-five percent of all federal prisoners are black, though we are only 13% of the population. The academic achievement gap between blacks and whites persists even for the black middle class. All this disparity will continue to accuse blacks of inferiority and whites of racism — thus refueling our racial politics — despite the level of melanin in the president’s skin.
My Prediction
My prediction throughout all of this is simple: nothing will change. The reason for this is because of ignorance and not attacking the root of the problem of racism.
Tomorrow I’m going to go into detail as to why we will always have racism and the absolute best way to fight it.
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