Christian America has long been cynically manipulated by politicians eager to win support and cash to fuel earthly ambitions.
Database Mining in a good suit means that most supporters will never see their candidate portrayed so transparently as the Second Coming, unless they self-identify officially as ‘church-going’ Christians.
Oregon voters are extremely unlikely to see this incarnation of the candidate for change. My own distrust of the candidate began in his equivocation on the role of religion in politics. As a person of faith who prays daily I absolutely reject any suggestion that faith has any role to play in the political process. I don’t want to know whether a candidate prays or not, what his or her sexual orientation may be, or whether they prefer to shop at Target or Saks.
Preacher Mike Huckabee is far more open about his Christian identity. Are all the highly intelligent voters who support the candidate for change and who have such contempt for folks for the clinging religious voters aware that a vote for change is a vote for Christian more of the same?
We’re approaching something close to a crisis, where folks who want experience and some level of candor liberate themselves from the pundits and party loyalty to look to the real challenges we all face.
Flying under a false flag might strike many as a sign of sound judgment and integrity.
We won’t see these depictions of Obama as Jesus in New York or Oregon.
Fair enough?
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that Robert Novak claims Huckabee is up to no good behind the scenes?
Of course, Huckabee denies all this. But I don’t know who’s crazier, Novak or Huckabee. So, who to believe?
in our candidates I find Obama’s church the least offensive. It’s a liberal denomination that is active in social justice. If you think Obama is a fundamentalist with a nasty apoplectic Christian agenda or a theocratic vision of government, your wrong. You seem to be a man/woman with a very strange fixation boarding on cult follower for Hillary.
Data mining is Mark Penn’s forte. Micro demographics has driven her campaign, morphing her into a populist with a regional accent, who doesn’t need no stinking economists to the tough competitive woman who represents a break in the ‘glass ceiling’ the competent CEO. Hillary’s religious mentor Doug Coe is a nasty piece of work. The Families agenda is a neocon’s wet dream, and when she prays she’s in the company of ‘man on dog Santorium. Give me the Rev Wright any day.
Obama is a constitutional scholar and is not advocating the second coming or the Christianizing of America (as though it wasn’t already there) but a way to reconcile the rift’s that bring us ‘culture wars’ and allow the pols to tear down our system while they fan the our differences and keep us busy fighting each other over which ‘faith’ rules the country.
The constitution seems to be the book he intends to use, not the bible. Oregon has it’s share of loony hate filled religious nuts but they won’t be voting Obama or Hillary. They believe Obama’s a Muslim and Hillary’s an agent of the Devil. If OR goes for Obama, it’s not because we think he’s Jesus. What’s so funny about peace love and understanding? is more applicable here. As one voter told me what’s wrong with change, hope and talking to each other. Fear is not a good reason to vote for someone period.