I initially read that as “… compare us to the alternative … to the Almighty“

the FU*K ups says BUCK UP!

Patty Murray, Rick Larsen, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and President Obama all believe that the government can solve our economic problems simply by spending trillions of government dollars, much of it borrowed money, and then legislating to redistribute income in the name of fairness. In spite of evidence from such countries as Cuba under Castro, Chile under Salvador Allende, Zimbabwe under Mugabe, and others, they believe that state directed economic solutions actually work. Such solutions don’t and won’t unless someone figures out a way to perfect human nature. With so much evidence against state directed economic solutions, isn’t it time we gave up on those tired, failed policies?

The economy is not suffering from too little government spending or too little government interference. It is suffering from a lack of confidence caused by the higher taxes and bigger spending proposed by the Democrats.

It is a faith in government solutions that is their religion. Just as we must defeat aggressive Islam, we must also defeat this faith in statism. It is, as betsy bounds states, going to be a long road to travel. But it can be done. Chile did it. Hopefully, we won’t have top resort to a militay coups.

Five weeks to the election. Can.Not.Wait.

I look at Obama sometimes, on TV (with the mute on–I, like a lot of others both here and elsewhere, can’t stand the sound of his voice), and I wonder to myself, “Who IS this guy?” Not in the sense that he’s an enigma (although he is), but in the sense that he’s a total stranger, I don’t even recognize him, he doesn’t even strike me as being a person. That may seem a bit thick, but nevertheless. And I have an accompanying sense sometimes that here we are in this awful mess, and holy cow the presidency of the United States of America is VACANT. I tell you what, it’s shudder-inducing.

I read a piece in the NYT this evening which reported Obama talking about his Christian faith and how he came to it: http://tinyurl.com/2dnzvdt.

I suppose, first of all, that he’s talking about it to blunt the notion so many seem to have that he’s a Muslim. His remarks were in response to a question, but we’ve learned, have we not, to suspect that these questions may be planted. The question was, “Why are you a Christian?”, put to him at a back-yard home meeting with some people in Albuquerque. His answer was arresting to me, because I know something about Christianity, being a Christian myself, and having studied the canon of my faith (none of which things makes me any different from a lot of other people, of course). He said, first, that he is a Christian by choice. Well, everyone who is a true Christian, is a Christian by choice. The entire fundamental point of the New Testament teachings is that people must choose Jesus. That’s what the Sacrament of Baptism is, the outward sign of the inward choice. That’s what the altar call is about: No one is coerced into the statement of faith. You step forward and you make your stand. In the presence of witnesses, but by yourself. Alone.

He then said that he’d been persuaded of Jesus’ precepts that he should be his brother and sister’s keeper. But this is not what the Christian faith is about, and the only time those words appear in the entire Bible is in Cain’s scornful denial to God that he knew anything about where his brother Abel, whom he had murdered out of jealousy, was: “Am I my brother’s keeper?”, Cain said. The words were not an affirmation of anything at all; they were a denial. They denied brotherhood. They denied responsibility for murder. They denied care, concern, or even curiosity.

It’s also important to notice the implicit arrogance in Obama, himself, thinking he is either charged with, or capable of, taking care of his metaphorical brother and sister.

He then mentioned “treating others as they would treat me,” which seemed to be a sort of fractured reference to the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” But it’s not right, and if you read it as he spoke it, grammatically, you have to think he’s talking about vengeance. Think about it: “Treating others as they would treat me.” Some have advanced the possibility that he’s actually motivated by an attempt to avenge European colonialism in Africa. I do not know, but either he doesn’t know how to make himself clear or he made himself perfectly clear. It’s a puzzle, but in any case he did not say what he appears to have wanted people to think he meant.

He did, either by accident or design, get it right about Jesus having died for our sins. After everything else he said, though, I’m not sure what that bit is supposed to persuade us of.

It was, all-in-all, a strange little exchange. It’s easy to read too much into these things, but anyway one wonders what kind of con this guy might be trying to pull.

Joe Biden absolutely has a sinister heart.

Ask Robert Bork. Calculated double cross.

He’s no good as a human being. He’s just not. He is a vicious adder. You haven’t been paying attention.