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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 8, 2008 10:22:07 GMT -5
Grading the Second Presidential Debate By MARK HALPERIN / NASHVILLE Wed Oct 8, 4:15 AM ET Barack Obama Substance: Crisply specific on his economic platform, and personal and expository on the importance to regular Americans of the financial bailout. The Democratic nominee was manifestly familiar with the intricacies of the Federal Government, including the budget. But he still is not touting any signature policies in a manner that would burn them into the national consciousness or clarify his game plan once in office.
Grade: B+ Style: Neither nervous nor tentative in speech or manner. He was comfortable walking the stage and interacting with the questioners, although, as always, led with his head and not his heart. Less grim than in the first debate, he was still perhaps too antiseptic for some tastes, without generating passion or big moments.Grade: B+ Offense: For most of the evening, he firmly jabbed at McCain on some of his recent statements, but without much impact. He hit harder by citing some of McCain's foreign policy miscues, including his famous singing of "Bomb, Bomb Iran" - drawing a strained, rattled reply from his rival. Rigorously familiar with McCain's policy proposals and past statements, particularly on health care, he used that arsenal in his arguments. Seeded answers with mentions of "George Bush" whenever he could, which his campaign considers an automatic, all-purpose trump card.Grade: B+ Defense: Unruffled when McCain went after him, smiling softly while he waited to respond. And respond he did - following his clear rule to answer every charge McCain leveled at him (even when debate rules forbade a response). When faced with any attack, he kept to a pattern: showed little anger, spent minimal time batting away charges, clarified his position and then went on the offense or talked positively about his own views.Grade: B+ Overall: Played it typically cautious and safe and thus avoided major blunders, knowing if he commits no errors for the next 30 days, he will be the next President of the United States. The Illinois Senator used a coolly determined offense to keep McCain from building up a full head of steam when on the attack. Comfortably indicated a thorough grasp of his policies and agenda. It was not a dominating performance but a good enough one. Two debates down and one to go for the prohibitive favorite.Overall grade: B+ John McCain Substance: Delved only occasionally into specifics when describing his agenda, focusing on spending and tax cuts. He had a bit of trouble elucidating his health-care and energy policies and did little to close the gap with Obama on whom voters trust to deal with the economy.Grade: B- Style: Clearly more confident talking to voters in his cherished town-hall format than standing behind a podium. Authentically displayed feel-your-pain concern over the economy, in a smoother manner than usual. But while he held the audience's attention with his answers and theatrics, he distractingly and conspicuously scribbled notes when Obama had the floor. His errant reference to Obama as "that one" probably jarred some viewers. Bottom line: with his rival in the lead, the Republican nominee was forced into aggression and antagonism but often flirted with the desperate and negative.Grade: B Offense: Took some risks by hitting Obama for being liberal and for a range of other alleged offenses, but kept his tone appropriate for the format and avoided purely personal attacks. Occasionally stumbling over some of his sharper rehearsed lines, he muted their effectiveness. Didn't once fluster Obama, though he did lay down the foundation he needs to try to mount a comeback by sowing doubts about the Democrat. Pulled off his primary task more deftly than even his aides could have hoped.Grade: B+ Defense: Mostly ignored Obama's swipes, maintained his composure and rarely looked annoyed. Still, though he kept his focus cleanly on the issues, he oddly made little attempt to separate himself from President Bush when Obama linked the two. Did not engage Obama on a point-by-point rebuttal of detailed accusations.
Grade: B Overall: As promised, he was comfortable in a town-hall environment, directing his attention to the individual questioner and the crowd. The Arizona Senator was by turns aggressive, sensitive, conservative and conversational. Successfully presented a negative case against Obama with an upbeat, optimistic smile — but was unable to paint a truly d**ning portrait of an Obama presidency, especially on the economy. He exhibited a few physical and verbal tics that made him look his age, including a heavy reliance on his "my friends" crutch, and seemed nervously well aware of the high stakes. Without a solid win, he did not make up as much ground as he needed to, but lives to fight on.Overall grade: B Senator Barack Obama WON!!! the debate again..... It was interesting, the audience looked so boring, no expressing, no smile, not even a blink!!! but I loved the setting... they were able to walking around and speak to the ppl. Both was good, but Sen. McCain shown some anger in his body language and in the way he addressed Sen Obama as "that one" as if he was too angry to say his name. Sen. Obama has more self-control and he can take more heat than Sen. McCain and avoid any outward expression of angry, when being attack. |
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 8, 2008 11:00:53 GMT -5
And the winner is…Wed Oct 8, 10:03 AM ET
With no major gaffes, stumbles or snafus made by Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain during the second presidential debate, neither candidate won hands down.
There were no fireworks, no major water cooler moments. Even though the debaters traded testy jabs over the economy, the Drudge Report went so far as to label the debate "boring." At first glance, it might seem this duel was a draw.
A snap shot of the Drudge Report.
Nevertheless, there is a growing consensus among the pundits that McCain lost the debate, not because of what he did but because of what he didn't do: He didn't create the game-changing moment his campaign needed to alter the trajectory of the race.
With McCain lagging in the polls, Politico's Alexander Burns sums up why Obama gets the "W" next to his name:
Obama didn't deliver a knockout punch tonight. But he denied his opponent the chance to rescramble the campaign, and that was enough. The day goes to him.
The Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post all concur, in their own way. This snoozefest created a winner because no one won at all.
There were a few in the media who focused more on the apparent tie. Mark Halperin at Time gave McCain a B and Obama a B+. Of McCain, he wrote:
The Republican nominee was by turns aggressive, sensitive, conservative and conversational. Successfully presented a negative case against Obama with an upbeat, optimistic smile.
Ultimately though, Halperin echoed the general consensus:
[Obama] played it typically cautious and safe, and thus avoided major blunders, knowing if he commits no errors for the next 30 days, he will be the next president of the United States.
Even if you don't put much stock in the talking heads, consider what non-media types said. Each candidate stood his ground, looking comfortable in the town-hall setting, yet the insta-polls showed the same opinion: Obama won.
In the CBS poll, 40 percent of uncommitted voters said Obama won. Twenty-six percent said John McCain won, while 34 percent said it was a tie.
Over at CNN, Obama fared even better in the poll: 54 percent said he did a better job, 30 percent gave it to McCain.
Despite those numbers, this isn't all bad news for McCain. The CBS poll did have a silver lining -- respondents still see McCain as more prepared for the job (83 percent to 58 percent).
The other good news for the Arizona senator: there is about a month left in the campaign. That's enough time for him to find the game-changer he is looking for.
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 9, 2008 12:30:20 GMT -5
SECOND DEBATE, McSAME RESULTby Darryl M. Bell on Oct 8, 2008 urbanthoughtcollective.com/2008/10/08/second-debate-mcsame-result/#commentsThe second Presidential debate came the same week as did some of the most negative campaign ads and stump speeches from Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama. It also came after Congress passed and inflated bailout bill that swelled to over 800 billion once it was padded with earmark projects. That set the stage for yet another highly anticipated debate, where most people expected fireworks. I didn’t, and there weren’t any. Bottom line, Sen. Obama wins again. Sen. McCain went astray on the third question. When asked how the bailout plan will help average Americans, Sen. McCain began talking about Washington excess, Wall Street greed, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and how Sen. Obama received campaign contributions from both. He also said that the African American gentleman, named Oliver Clark, who asked the question had probably never heard of either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac before the bailout. I don’t know which was worse, Sen. McCain ignoring the question and giving a stock answer or his presumptive condescension about the man’s knowledge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Sen. Obama was solid on the same question, explaining that the credit freeze would not allow small businesses to borrow capital to cover payrolls which could be put companies out of business and cost jobs. He went further to explain we need government regulation for a 21st century world. In a global economy our current lack of regulation in our financial markets is antiquated and we’re paying the price. Sen. McCain continued to hammer away at his favorite subject, pork barrel spending. The problem is that isn’t resonating with voters. It is also a glaring contradiction considering Sen. McCain wants to take credit for suspending his campaign and coming back to Washington to get a bailout deal. However, the deal that passed cost tax payers more than 100 billion additional dollars because of pork barrel projects. He hasn’t said a word about it and voted for it! Sen. Obama received huge favorable responses when he compared our need to develop new sources of energy to the computer boom. That connects in a very tangible way with all Americans because we all know how much different our lives are thanks to Silicon Valley and computers. If the same venture capital, brain power and man power were directed at eliminating our dependence on foreign oil, that’s a goal we all can envision. Sen. McCain chastised Sen. Obama for broadcasting his plans to go into Afghanistan to kill Osama Bin Laden if we had good intelligence. Sen. McCain tried to paint Sen. Obama as “green” and lacking the proper posture as President. Sen. Obama pushed right back reminding Sen. McCain of his “joke” to “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb, Iran”. Sen. McCain looked visibly deflated and aggravated, neither of which he can afford. The biggest gaff to me was Sen. McCain referring to Sen. Obama as “that one”. That is as close to “those people”, “your kind” or any other potentially explosive comment. It further showed his disdain for Sen. Obama and made him look petty. The most interesting thing to me was after the debate on Fox News, the McCain Campaign was taking credit for the remark as if it was a great moment and a new sound bite they intended to use. Conversely on CNN all of the pundits, Republicans included, thought it could be a problem. To me it was another sign of the cultural divide in our country. Only in a time where Sarah Palin could be a serious Vice Presidential candidate and a chant “drill baby drill” is perceived as a substantive statement in light of the war and our financial crisis could the same people react positively to calling your political opponent “that one”. Add to that, Sen. McCain ignoring Sen. Obama’s extended hand after the debate and allowing his wife Cindy to shake hands further demonstrated a pettiness voters don’t like. Sen. Obama’s lead in the polls continues to widen as independents go his way. If Sen. McCain loses the race for the White House, when it’s all said and done, I wonder in these final days of campaigning, if he will not have lost something much more important. Darryl Bell is an actor and Chicago native, best known for his role in classic TV series “A Different World” and Spike Lee’s “School Daze.” His unique television commentary is exclusive to Urban Thought Collective. ================================================================== What is your thought? AT |
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Post by kitty on Oct 10, 2008 10:09:40 GMT -5
At this point the economy is going to do al of the work for Obama...
With the bail out not being as successful as they hoped we have nothing to do but realize that another Republican president is not the way to go regardless of who he is...
Kitty
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Post by stillfocused on Oct 10, 2008 20:42:44 GMT -5
I live in AZ and I see more bumper stickers supporting Obama and Bidden than I do McCain and Palin. It's small world Obama has a relative that lives in a city near where I live..it looks like he has alot of supporters and could possibly win the state of Arizona..and to me that's very interesting..
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Post by stillfocused on Oct 10, 2008 20:43:23 GMT -5
Ya'll keep mentioning the bailout...I say bail out the people who really need it the most.
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Post by giantsdodie on Oct 11, 2008 8:28:46 GMT -5
Ya'll keep mentioning the bailout...I say bail out the people who really need it the most. Ok lets say we bail out people... Thats good... but businesses collapse and banks continue to fail and credit markets continue to be strangled.. then what ?? and these moves CAN help people in the long run... Lets take a small example... Banks are already cutting back on loans and shifting interest rates... My WaMu credit card rate increased susbstantially a few months ago.. so much so that I transfered the balance which I almost never do because there is usually a fee to transfer the balance. That showed me that WaMu was having some trouble somewhere to raise rates that much in a short time... Imagine that happening with banks all over the country.. that means that everything you buy on credit costs MORE.... Banks cut back on loans.. that means that people that want to but cars either CANT get financing or have to pay higher interest... so GM as a result begins to shut down plants.. ( which just happened to my wife's brother and cousin )... more people out of work because no one is buing new cars... I am getting my real estate lisence. Right now is one of the WORST times for real estate. No one is buying houses. banks are requiring huge down payments ( some as much as 20% of the value of the home ) There are plenty of houses for sale.. but very little buying going on right now... Thats a whole industry being affected.. Its not as simple as buying out a whole bunch of fat cats on Wall Street.. Personally I believe the Govt has already decided who they are gonna bail out and who they are going to let fail... Lehman Brothers didnt get any help... AIG got help right away.. why.. because AIG is the largest insurance company in America. They not only insure regular people but they insure govt projects and businesses here and abroad.. You cannot have workers uninsured and building projects uninsured and companies here and overseas uninsured... Unfortunately most people just look at the Dow going down.. the Dow started at under 700 points yesterday.. climbed to over 430 points and fell back down again by the end of the day.. yes it closed down again but it came back at the end of the day... Why/.. because many people are panicking..and removing their monety and selling off and placing it in Tbills and other lower interest investments that are less secure... YET if I had 10,000 right now I would be buying stocks like crazy... prices are low.. There were MORE millionaires after the Great Depression than there were before it happened... these things take TIME to correct.. its not gonna happen overnight... For the average american.. be smart.. shop and spend wisely.. the BEST thing you can do right now is reduce your debt to credit ratio.... IE.. GET OUT OF DEBT....Pay down you Credit Cards.. DONT pay the minimum.. Dont buy things you DONT need.. dont buy Make Me Feel Good stuff like that big screen TV or that Burberry Purse... Save,, even its its a little bit every month... and DONT PANIC... |
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 11, 2008 9:01:40 GMT -5
I like what Whoopi said, If bank forgive 25% of the loan and make it affordable so the ppl don't have to loose their home .... it will keep cash flowing into those lending institutes.... It is better than receiving nothing at all.
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 12, 2008 17:41:26 GMT -5
The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html?ref=opinionBy FRANK RICH Published: October 11, 2008 IF you think way back to the start of this marathon campaign, back when it seemed preposterous that any black man could be a serious presidential contender, then you remember the biggest fear about Barack Obama: a crazy person might take a shot at him. "Many of us who had looked to John McCain to restore some semblance of sensible conservatism to the Republican Party have been dismayed and disappointed... " Some voters told reporters that they didn’t want Obama to run, let alone win, should his very presence unleash the demons who have stalked America from Lincoln to King. After consultation with Congress, Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, gave Obama a Secret Service detail earlier than any presidential candidate in our history — in May 2007, some eight months before the first Democratic primaries. “I’ve got the best protection in the world, so stop worrying,” Obama reassured his supporters. Eventually the country got conditioned to his appearing in large arenas without incident (though I confess that the first loud burst of fireworks at the end of his convention stadium speech gave me a start). In America, nothing does succeed like success. The fear receded. Until now. At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of “Treason!” and “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets, are actually something new in a campaign that has seen almost every conceivable twist. They are alarms. Doing nothing is not an option. All’s fair in politics. John McCain and Sarah Palin have every right to bring up William Ayers, even if his connection to Obama is minor, even if Ayers’s Weather Underground history dates back to Obama’s childhood, even if establishment Republicans and Democrats alike have collaborated with the present-day Ayers in educational reform. But it’s not just the old Joe McCarthyesque guilt-by-association game, however spurious, that’s going on here. Don’t for an instant believe the many mindlessly “even-handed” journalists who keep saying that the McCain campaign’s use of Ayers is the moral or political equivalent of the Obama campaign’s hammering on Charles Keating. What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists” (note the plural noun). Obama is “not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops. By the time McCain asks the crowd “Who is the real Barack Obama?” it’s no surprise that someone cries out “Terrorist!” The rhetorical conflation of Obama with terrorism is complete. It is stoked further by the repeated invocation of Obama’s middle name by surrogates introducing McCain and Palin at these rallies. This sleight of hand at once synchronizes with the poisonous Obama-is-a-Muslim e-mail blasts and shifts the brand of terrorism from Ayers’s Vietnam-era variety to the radical Islamic threats of today. That’s a far cry from simply accusing Obama of being a guilty-by-association radical leftist. Obama is being branded as a potential killer and an accessory to past attempts at murder. “Barack Obama’s friend tried to kill my family” was how a McCain press release last week packaged the remembrance of a Weather Underground incident from 1970 — when Obama was 8. We all know what punishment fits the crime of murder, or even potential murder, if the security of post-9/11 America is at stake. We all know how self-appointed “patriotic” martyrs always justify taking the law into their own hands. Obama can hardly be held accountable for Ayers’s behavior 40 years ago, but at least McCain and Palin can try to take some responsibility for the behavior of their own supporters in 2008. What’s troubling here is not only the candidates’ loose inflammatory talk but also their refusal to step in promptly and strongly when someone responds to it with bloodthirsty threats in a crowded arena. Joe Biden had it exactly right when he expressed concern last week that “a leading American politician who might be vice president of the United States would not just stop midsentence and turn and condemn that.” To stay silent is to pour gas on the fires. It wasn’t always thus with McCain. In February he loudly disassociated himself from a speaker who brayed “Barack Hussein Obama” when introducing him at a rally in Ohio. Now McCain either backpedals with tardy, pro forma expressions of respect for his opponent or lets second-tier campaign underlings release boilerplate disavowals after ugly incidents like the chilling Jim Crow-era flashback last week when a Florida sheriff ranted about “Barack Hussein Obama” at a Palin rally while in full uniform. From the start, there have always been two separate but equal questions about race in this election. Is there still enough racism in America to prevent a black man from being elected president no matter what? And, will Republicans play the race card? The jury is out on the first question until Nov. 4. But we now have the unambiguous answer to the second: Yes. McCain, who is no racist, turned to this desperate strategy only as Obama started to pull ahead. The tone was set at the Republican convention, with Rudy Giuliani’s mocking dismissal of Obama as an “only in America” affirmative-action baby. We also learned then that the McCain campaign had recruited as a Palin handler none other than Tucker Eskew, the South Carolina consultant who had worked for George W. Bush in the notorious 2000 G.O.P. primary battle where the McCains and their adopted Bangladeshi daughter were slimed by vicious racist rumors. No less disconcerting was a still-unexplained passage of Palin’s convention speech: Her use of an unattributed quote praising small-town America (as opposed to, say, Chicago and its community organizers) from Westbrook Pegler, the mid-century Hearst columnist famous for his anti-Semitism, racism and violent rhetorical excess. After an assassin tried to kill F.D.R. at a Florida rally and murdered Chicago’s mayor instead in 1933, Pegler wrote that it was “regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara shot the wrong man.” In the ’60s, Pegler had a wish for Bobby Kennedy: “Some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow falls.” This is the writer who found his way into a speech by a potential vice president at a national political convention. It’s astonishing there’s been no demand for a public accounting from the McCain campaign. Imagine if Obama had quoted a Black Panther or Louis Farrakhan — or William Ayers — in Denver. The operatives who would have Palin quote Pegler have been at it ever since. A key indicator came two weeks after the convention, when the McCain campaign ran its first ad tying Obama to the mortgage giant Fannie Mae. Rather than make its case by using a legitimate link between Fannie and Obama (or other Democratic leaders), the McCain forces chose a former Fannie executive who had no real tie to Obama or his campaign but did have a black face that could dominate the ad’s visuals. There are no black faces high in the McCain hierarchy to object to these tactics. There hasn’t been a single black Republican governor, senator or House member in six years. This is a campaign where Palin can repeatedly declare that Alaska is “a microcosm of America” without anyone even wondering how that might be so for a state whose tiny black and Hispanic populations are each roughly one-third the national average. There are indeed so few people of color at McCain events that a black senior writer from The Tallahassee Democrat was mistakenly ejected by the Secret Service from a campaign rally in Panama City in August, even though he was standing with other reporters and showed his credentials. His only apparent infraction was to look glaringly out of place. Could the old racial politics still be determinative? I’ve long been skeptical of the incessant press prognostications (and liberal panic) that this election will be decided by racist white men in the Rust Belt. Now even the dimmest bloviators have figured out that Americans are riveted by the color green, not black — as in money, not energy. Voters are looking for a leader who might help rescue them, not a reckless gambler whose lurching responses to the economic meltdown (a campaign “suspension,” a mortgage-buyout stunt that changes daily) are as unhinged as his wanderings around the debate stage. To see how fast the tide is moving, just look at North Carolina. On July 4 this year — the day that the godfather of modern G.O.P. racial politics, Jesse Helms, died — The Charlotte Observer reported that strategists of both parties agreed Obama’s chances to win the state fell “between slim and none.” Today, as Charlotte reels from the implosion of Wachovia, the McCain-Obama race is a dead heat in North Carolina and Helms’s Republican successor in the Senate, Elizabeth Dole, is looking like a goner. But we’re not at Election Day yet, and if voters are to have their final say, both America and Obama have to get there safely. The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder. The onus is on the man who says he puts his country first to call off the dogs, pit bulls and otherwise. |
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Post by kitty on Oct 22, 2008 10:07:12 GMT -5
Down to 2 weeks people!
I think we are about to see our first Black president!
Now I know that everyone isn't for Obama or being a democrat... but I will say that for me this is a spiritual moment...
Not because Obama is going to be more of a Christian president than any other...
But because I never thought I would live to see a Black President of the United States...
And it is only through the grace, power and mercy of God that this is occuring...
Kitty
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Post by Nikkol on Oct 22, 2008 11:21:20 GMT -5
Kitty:
You know it's not over till it's over... either way, we must continue to pray for all our government leaders just as much (if not more than) our spiritual leaders. For whoever gets there is there because that is what God has chosen.
1 Timothy 2
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I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
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For kings, and for all that are in authority; [/color]that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
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For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
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Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
While thinking about this, I was also reminded of the importance for us to be very watchful of what we say about leaders...not just in church but our governmental leaders. I'm not sure if I said anything bad concerning Obama..... but if I did, I apologize to you (general) as well as to God because no matter who's there, we know that it's what God has chosen and I shouldn't bad mouth (ie call names) to any of them.....
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 22, 2008 12:17:13 GMT -5
Please pray for Mrs. Madelyn Dunham, Sen. Obama's Grandmother... I think it is improtant to her and Sen. Obama that she live to see her grandson elected... She is gravely ill and he will spend a little time with her this weekend... Pray for healing and strength
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Oct 22, 2008 15:21:19 GMT -5
Kitty: You know it's not over till it's over... either way, we must continue to pray for all our government leaders just as much (if not more than) our spiritual leaders. For whoever gets there is there because that is what God has chosen. 1 Timothy 2 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; [/color]that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. While thinking about this, I was also reminded of the importance for us to be very watchful of what we say about leaders...not just in church but our governmental leaders. I'm not sure if I said anything bad concerning Obama..... but if I did, I apologize to you (general) as well as to God because no matter who's there, we know that it's what God has chosen and I shouldn't bad mouth (ie call names) to any of them.....[/quote] Great post Nikkol, I have also been sharing this message with many others and I have also repented to the Lord for any ill words I have spoken as it concerns Senator Obama. Whether it is the Obama/Biden ticket or the McCain/Palin ticket that entres the White House, serious prayer will be needed. Though Obama does not have my vote and to this day I am not sure if I am going to vote - should he enter office (and I am beginning to believe that he will - though as Nikkol said, it ain't over yet) I will pray for him just as I would if it was someone I voted for (if not moreso). Blessings! |
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Post by And Such Were Some Of You on Oct 22, 2008 15:29:20 GMT -5
Oh yeah, one more thing....
I have been called a racist, as well as some other things because I have stated that Senator Obama is not getting my vote. It amazes me that because I choose not to vote simply on race then I am a racist. I believe I would do Senator Obama a disservice if I decide to vote based on race alone. IMO he is more than "just a black man running for president."
Having said that, I will go on record to say that I am more than happy that we have made history. I am thrilled at the fact that he can draw such larger crowds - larger than any other presidential candidate.
It is amazing.
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 22, 2008 18:18:29 GMT -5
Most ppl are not voting for Obama because he is black.... There are many republicans and independance voting for him because he is the best person for the job. Colin Powell have listed his reason.... After the republican rallie.... Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin show how racist they are.... it was a trun off to many white republican and black....
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