My Pick for HotAir Quote of the Day

Satanism and socialism are usually found together. And Democrat is synonymous with socialist, so no big surprise.

Maxx on July 1, 2008 at 1:29 PM

All true.

We just need to do a better job of recognizing that there are some Socialists in the Republican Party, too, and we should boot them out of the Republican Party, not make them the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States!

These are among the Socialist positions which John McCain supports:

1) Amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens, who would immediately add to the Socialist voting population.

2) Anthropogenic Global Warming Socialist taxation.

3) Anti-ANWR Drilling, to keep us dependent on OIC countries (including Russia) for oil.

Energy Independence Day

In May 2007, Nancy Pelosi announced amid great fanfare that the Democrats had made July 4, 2007 Energy Independence Day.
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Pelosi promised us a New Direction and energy independence. A year later, we see that New Direction, but energy independence is even farther away than ever. Barack Obama would give us four years more of the same failed policies of demonizing energy producers, useless subsidies, and a clampdown on energy production. Every voter who pumps gas knows that the Democrats have failed on energy policy, and that four years more of this New Direction would wreak economic disaster.

Obama and the Presidents

In his speech delivered in Independence, Missouri today, Barack Obama said:

George Washington is rightly revered for his leadership of the Continental Army, but one of his greatest acts of patriotism was his insistence on stepping down after two terms, thereby setting a pattern for those that would follow, reminding future presidents that this is a government of and by and for the people.

Abraham Lincoln did not simply win a war or hold the Union together. In his unwillingness to demonize those against whom he fought; in his refusal to succumb to either the hatred or self-righteousness that war can unleash; in his ultimate insistence that in the aftermath of war the nation would no longer remain half slave and half free; and his trust in the better angels of our nature – he displayed the wisdom and courage that sets a standard for patriotism.

And it was the most famous son of Independence, Harry S Truman, who sat in the White House during his final days in office and said in his Farewell Address: “When Franklin Roosevelt died, I felt there must be a million men better qualified than I, to take up the Presidential task…But through all of it, through all the years I have worked here in this room, I have been well aware than I did not really work alone – that you were working with me. No President could ever hope to lead our country, or to sustain the burdens of this office, save the people helped with their support.”

Here are some of my thoughts….

1) It would have been very patriotic for FDR to have followed Washington’s example and stepped down after two terms. However, the Socialist FDR chose to act like the Presidency was a lifetime appointment. Rather than a government of and by and for the people, he decided to give us a government of and by FDR, and for the Socialists. FDR gave us the government-run ponzi scheme of Social[ist In]Security. FDR attempted to expand the Supreme Court to fifteen justices.

Ostensibly, this was to ease the burdens of the docket on the elderly judges, but it was widely believed that the President’s actual purpose was to add Justices who would favor his Socialist New Deal policies, which had been regularly ruled unconstitutional by the Court. This plan, referred to often as the Court Packing Plan, failed in Congress. The Court, however, moved from its opposition to Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, rendering the President’s effort moot. In any case, Roosevelt’s long tenure in the White House allowed him to appoint eight Justices to the Supreme Court (second only to George Washington) and promote one Associate Justice to Chief Justice.

FDR was no patriot, he was a megalomaniac.

2) The “unwillingness to demonize those against whom he fought” line is meant to neuter us in our fight against the Islamic fascists who want us to “submit or die”.

3) Is the line about “the better angels of our nature” part of that new age spirituality being promoted by Oprah?

4) It would have been nice if all of those who suffer from BDS would have had the decency to do what Truman said and supported our President. Both Republican and Democrat members of Congress pledged to support the President and sang “God Bless America” on the steps of the Capitol Building on September 11, 2001. They didn’t keep their pledge very long, did they?

5) Since Obama claims to be a Christian, and mentioned Harry S. Truman while speaking in Truman’s hometown of Independence, Missouri, why didn’t Obama mention this Truman quote?

The most important business in this Nation–or any other nation, for that matter-is raising and training children. If those children have the proper environment at home, and educationally, very, very few of them ever turn out wrong. I don’t think we put enough stress on the necessity of implanting in the child’s mind the moral code under which we live.

The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days.

If we don’t have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally wind up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the state.

Truman obviously agreed with the Supreme Court decision in 1892 which said, “this is a Christian nation.”

But Obama doesn’t believe that. Obama says America is ‘no longer Christian‘.

Black Theology vs. Color-blind Theology

Barack Obama spent 20 years as a member of Trinity United Church of Christ. The church’s talking points mentions the word “Black” eleven (11) times and the word “African” nine (9) times.

I believe in a color-blind theology.

So who’s the racist?

Dissent

In his “patriotic” speech today, Barack Hussein Obama II mentioned “dissent” not once, not twice, but three times.

Most Americans understood that dissent does not make one unpatriotic

But when our laws, our leaders or our government are out of alignment with our ideals, then the dissent of ordinary Americans may prove to be one of the truest expression of patriotism.

Beyond a loyalty to America’s ideals, beyond a willingness to dissent on behalf of those ideals, I also believe that patriotism must, if it is to mean anything, involve the willingness to sacrifice – to give up something we value on behalf of a larger cause.

Why is that significant? Because the “larger cause” is the cause championed by the magazine with that name: Dissent.

In the early 1950s, a small group of independent-minded radicals launched a quarterly magazine called Dissent.

“Independent-minded radicals”? How appropriate that Obama chose Independence, Missouri, as the location from which to speak about dissent!

Unity, Independence, and Hell

On Friday, Barack Obama chose the town of Unity, New Hampshire as the stage from which to deliver the Hillary-Barack “Unity Rally”. Did the stage show work? Not especially. There was still not much unity in Unity.

Today, Barack Obama chose the town of Independence, Missouri as the stage from which to deliver his “Patriotism” show four days before Independence Day. One has to wonder if Obama will deliver a “Hell on Earth” speech from Hell, Michigan. Enough with the cutesy Presidential stage show. Let’s get to some substance.

In his speech today, “The America We Love“, (HotAir commentary here), Barack Obama ended with these two sentences:

That is the community we strive to build – one in which we trust in this sometimes messy democracy of ours, one in which we continue to insist that there is nothing we cannot do when we put our mind to it, one in which we see ourselves as part of a larger story, our own fates wrapped up in the fates of those who share allegiance to America’s happy and singular creed.

Thank you, God Bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.

I commend Barack for ending with that last sentence. In a speech about patriotism, he could hardly have done otherwise. His next-to-last sentence, with “we see ourselves as part of a larger story” reminds me of an Obama speech from last year, in which he said:

But my journey is part of a larger journey - one shared by all who’ve ever sought to apply the values of their faith to our society. It’s a journey that takes us back to our nation’s founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees.

Barack Hussein Obama, II seems intent on bringing the “imperialistic” United States of America to it’s knees. Look at how Obama started his speech today:

On a spring morning in April of 1775, a simple band of colonists – farmers and merchants, blacksmiths and printers, men and boys – left their homes and families in Lexington and Concord to take up arms against the tyranny of an Empire. The odds against them were long and the risks enormous – for even if they survived the battle, any ultimate failure would bring charges of treason, and death by hanging.

And yet they took that chance. They did so not on behalf of a particular tribe or lineage, but on behalf of a larger idea. The idea of liberty. The idea of God-given, inalienable rights. And with the first shot of that fateful day – a shot heard round the world – the American Revolution, and America’s experiment with democracy, began.

Obama surely seems to be preparing the soil for his dream (actually the dream of his Communist father) of a Socialist/Communist Revolution in the United States. The United States of America is not an “experiment with democracy“…it is a Constitutional Republic.

I’ve had enough of liberal Democrats claiming that the USA is a democracy. It’s not, and they are lying to you when they say it is. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag has it right:

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

When Democrats talk about Democracy, they are really talking about their dream of Democratic Socialism. Their dream is to replace this constitution with this constitution.

I’d like to hear Obama stop talking about “bring[ing] an Empire to its knees”, stop talking about “take up arms against the tyranny of an Empire”, stop glorifying “Democracy”, and instead start talking about the greatness of our Republic.

Now that would be patriotic!

Speaking of unalienable rights, how about the first God-given (Creator-endowed) unalienable right mentioned… Life?

I remember, when living for four years in Indonesia as a child, listening to my mother reading me the first lines of the Declaration of Independence – “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I remember her explaining how this declaration applied to every American, black and white and brown alike; how those words, and words of the United States Constitution, protected us from the injustices that we witnessed other people suffering during those years abroad. That’s my idea of America.

Barack, how about applying this declaration to every American, born and unborn alike? How about protecting the unborn’s God-given unalienable right to Life? How about using those words, and words of the United States Constitution, to protect the most innocent of all of us from injustice and suffering? That’s my idea of America.

Your record in the area of protecting the innocent from injustices and suffering is absolutely horrendous. You actively supported the injustice and suffering of partial birth abortion. That’s correct…you adamantly supported taking away the unalienable, Creator-endowed right to Life from innocent, helpless, full-term babies. What part of “unalienable” don’t you understand? And now you have the audacity to preach to others about a lack of understanding of the Declaration of Independence…how disgusting! Shame on you, Barack Obama!

Obama lamented “I have found, for the first time, my patriotism challenged – at times as a result of my own carelessness”. Oh, you mean this? Or maybe this? That wasn’t carelessness, that was deliberate.

Barack Hussein Obama, II, your own words and actions, as well as the words and actions of your close associates over the last 20 years, show you to be a Marxist Revolutionary. You are unfit to be President of the United States.

I realize that the belief system of Trinity UCC - where you were a member for twenty years - the UCC church that was your “inspiration” and to which you drew an analogy when you said:

But my journey is part of a larger journey - one shared by all who’ve ever sought to apply the values of their faith to our society. It’s a journey that takes us back to our nation’s founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees.

is a belief system based on “Black Liberation Theology“:

The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone’s book, Black Power and Black Theology.

Dr. Cone freely admits that the Nation of Islam and its teachings are totally in line with his Black Power philosophy.

I understand that the Nation of Islam teaches that black people constitute a nation and that through the institution of the Atlantic slave trade they were systematically denied knowledge of their past history, language, culture, and religion and, in effect, lost control of their lives. Central to this doctrine, NOI theology asserts that Black people’s experience of slavery was the fulfillment of Bible prophecy in Genesis 15:13–14 and Acts 7:6–7, as well as other verses. It’s interesting to see the Nation of Islam quoting the Bible. Combine that with Trinity UCC publishing material from Hamas in its church bulletin (Israpundit commentary here) and it’s not hard to see that TUCC and NOI go together like peas and carrots. Now note the importance of “Four Hundred Years” in tose two Bible passages:

Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Genesis 15:13-14

But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years. ‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’
Acts 7:6-7

Why is that significant? Just last year we celebrated “America’s 400th Anniversary“. Also understand the Democratic Socialism goals of the Jamestown Project at Yale. This is real. There are radical people at work here, many with close ties to Barack Obama.

Both the Nation of Islam and Christian believers of “Black Liberation Theology” believe that Barack Hussein Obama II is the fulfillment of “400 years” prophecy. They are wrong, but he is a false prophet in which both groups believe. So now, do you understand the “Obamessiah” movement? Obama made another one of his “gaffes” (that is really an oblique reference) today when he said:

As we begin our fourth century as a nation…

How exactly is it that we are beginning our fourth century as a nation? Our nation was founded with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Our nation will be celebrating it’s 232nd anniversary of its birthday this July 4, 2008. How is that the beginning of “our fourth century as a nation”? It’s not. I have to laugh at the irony of what Obama said next:

The loss of quality civic education from so many of our classrooms has left too many young Americans without the most basic knowledge of who our forefathers are, or what they did, or the significance of the founding documents that bear their names. Too many children are ignorant of the sheer effort, the risks and sacrifices made by previous generations, to ensure that this country survived war and depression; through the great struggles for civil, and social, and worker’s rights.

It is Obama who doesn’t understand the significance of the founding documents. It is Obama who invokes the “fourth century” reference to the 400 years prophecy. It is Obama who sees this election as part of the great struggle for Socialism. An Obama presidency would be Hell on Earth (and hence the suggestion that he make his next speech from Hell, Michigan). Obama is a false prophet.

You want true prophecy? The Holy Spirit told me on February 7, 2008 that Mike Huckabee is the next President of the United States. Don’t believe it? Watch and see. All of the major presidential candidates claim to be Christian. Only one of them would be willing to confess before men that Jesus Christ is Lord. This isn’t for Mike Huckabee’s glory, or any other man’s glory, this is for God’s glory.

Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!

Psalm 46:10

God Bless America, Land That I Love!
Stand Beside Her, And Guide Her,
Through The Night With The Light From Above.

Allahpundit and the 1st & 2nd Amendments

It’s amusing to me how Allahpundit can so clearly see the folly of the 4 Supreme Court Justices who dissented in the recent DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER 2nd Amendment case, but he doesn’t apply the same logic to the 1st Amendment, and hence is as wrong in his view of the 1st Amendment as Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter, and Stevens are in their view of the 2nd Amendment.

1st Amendment:

The quote of the day comes not from Scalia but from Stevens in dissent:

The Court would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons

Yeah, that’s … the whole scheme of the Constitution, isn’t it?

-Allahpundit

2nd Amendment:

The Court Red Pill would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons religious expression (speech, press, assembly, petition for redress of grievances)

Yeah, that’s … the whole scheme of the Constitution, isn’t it?

Yet, look at Allahpundit’s reaction to the following:

Govenor Bobby Jindal signed a law that will allow local school boards to approve supplemental materials for public school science classes as they discuss evolution, cloning and global warming…and issued a brief statement that read in part: “I will continue to consistently support the ability of school boards and BESE to make the best decisions to ensure a quality education for our children.”

What was Allahpundit’s reaction? Did he cheer a victory for freedom of speech and press? Did he celebrate diversity of thought? Did he get excited that fascist brainwashing of school children to believe in fictitious “scientific consensus” on topics like both evolution and global warming will now be challenged by valid scientific arguments contrary to those flawed theories? No. Here was Allahpundit’s response:

Depressing yet predictable. On to litigation!

posted at 3:30 pm on June 27, 2008 by Allahpundit

Allahpundit is as wrong about the 1st Amendment as Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter, and Stevens are about the 2nd Amendment. All five have personal prejudices that prevent them from seeing the clear intent of our founders in the Bill of Rights.

McCain Giving the Finger to Conservatives

I said it over three weeks ago, and I’ll say it again:

People need to understand how McCain is giving the finger to conservatives.

Yet Allahpundit chose to ban me instead of heed my adivce. Allahpundit still doesn’t get it…

McCain on immigration reform: “I’m glad I did it”

We know he’s planning to revisit the issue — the day after he’s inaugurated, no less — but the lack of remorse is news to me. What happened to that “lesson” he supposedly learned about securing the border first?
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Exit question: Why on earth would he feel compelled to say he’s glad he pushed for a bill that the base hates with a nuclear passion? I understand he has to walk a tightrope between Latino voters and border-enforcement conservatives, but that’s precisely my point: This isn’t how you behave on a tightrope. This is him flipping the bird to amnesty opponents. What gives?

posted at 1:16 pm on June 27, 2008 by Allahpundit

What gives? Go back and review this…

I think McCain is the best candidate Republicans could have nominated this year. I know there are people who do not want to hear that, but considering the times, it is the truth.

Terrye on June 3, 2008 at 11:30 PM

Perhaps, but is he the best McCain we could have gotten?

Ever read Red Pill’s scenarios of how we got snookered into getting McCain? Hear about the numbers of crossovers in Florida in Op. Chaos-reverse? Could/should Mitt and Huckabee and Fred soldiered on longer, so that combined they and their delegates had some clout with McCain? Could the Republican nomination have been stretched out until the convention, or just longer?

If any/some of this had happened, we might have gotten a McCain who was more beholden to conservatives. So even if your thesis is correct, that McCain is the right candidate for this election, it’s the wrong McCain.

JiangxiDad on June 4, 2008 at 5:54 AM

Thank you, JiangxiDad. People need to understand how McCain is giving the finger to conservatives. Look at what McCain did here. If McCain had not had CNN cancel the February 28th debate, and refused to accept the invitation to the replacement debate set up by the Values Voter coalition for March 3, you can bet that McCain would have been put on the spot about quite a number of issues, not the least of which would have been immigration.

McCain would have been forced to take a more conservative stand on any issue discussed in the debate. That is why McCain refused to debate.

I believe McCain is a Crypto-Marxist, just like Clinton and Obama are. That is why none of those three can be our next President.

Red Pill on June 4, 2008 at 6:12 AM

McCain is a giving conservatives the finger in a “Triple-A” way:

1) Amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens, who would immediately add to the Socialist voting population.

2) Anthropogenic Global Warming Socialist taxation.

3) Anti-ANWR Drilling, to keep us dependent on OIC countries (including Russia) for oil.

Intellectually Bankrupt Justices

The 2000 election, in which Mr Bush eventually prevailed in pivotal Florida by just 537 votes, remains a potent source of discontent for Democrats. Last month, Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said that the election had been stolen by “five intellectually bankrupt judges“.

Well, well, well. I think today’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller shows that those five justices are the ones who are intellectually sound, and it is the four Justices who were in the minority both in 2000 and today that are “intellectually bankrupt“.

Today’s 5-4 ruling on the Second Amendment should have been 9-0. The fact that it wasn’t reveals that there are four Socialists on the Supreme Court, who desparately want to take away most if not all of your God-given rights that are supposed to be protected by the Constitution and its Amendments, primarily the first 10 that were ratified as the Bill of Rights.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voted against the nominations of both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. We cannot permit either one of them to become President and nominate more Socialists to the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

The problem is that Justice Souter was put on the court by George H. W. Bush, who I believe was an undercover Socialist, and John McCain has shown himself sympathetic to three of the top Socialist causes:

1) Amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens, who would immediately add to the Socialist voting population.

2) Anthropogenic Global Warming Socialist taxation.

3) Anti-ANWR Drilling, to keep us dependent on OIC countries (including Russia) for oil.

Socialists want to weaken the United States of America. They are trying to do so in every way possible. They control academia. They are only 1 Justice shy of controlling the Supreme Court. They control the Democrat Party. They have influence within the Republican party (with John McCain being the poster child).

We cannot trust John McCain to appoint more Justices like Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito. He would much more likely appoint another Souter, just like George H. W. Bush did.

“Is Obama pro-gay?”

See for yourself: pride.barackobama.com

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And yet, a surprising number of voters are still unaware of Barack’s support for GLBT issues. A simple question like “Is Obama pro-gay?” could be met with a hearty “yes!”, but some of those who stopped at our table — particularly those who are still transitioning from Clinton support — want some more specificity. I found it helpful to relate Senator Obama’s sponsorship of the Matthew Shepard Act, or his call to repeal both DOMA and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” or his longstanding support in the Illinois State Legislature. Solid facts can go a long way in reassuring nervous [GLBT] voters.

Am I homophobic? Far from it. I do not fear homosexuals. God did give me a spirit of fear. I love what God says to love (people) and stand against what God says to stand against (sin). I have been friends with homosexuals for decades, but I do not condone homosexuality. Obama claims to be a “committed Christian”, but let him show us the Bible passages about homosexuality and what God says about that…

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