‘Born Agains’ Backing Obama, Inconceivable
Inconceivable, but I know some born-again Christians who are planning to vote for Barack Obama.
According to this article, the polling firm Barna Group claims that nearly a third of the evangelical Christian community will vote for Obama, while nearly equal percentages of “born-again” Christians will support either Obama (43%) or McCain (45%).
Despite Barack Obama’s approval of abortion and homosexual activism, new polling by a prestigious Christian research group indicates that the Democratic presidential nominee is making significant inroads among voters who are classified as “born-again” Christians.
According to Dave Kinnaman, president of The Barna Group, born-again Christians voting for Obama say they are backing the Illinois senator because they believe he will do a better job restoring America’s reputation and handling the economy and agree with his stance on the Iraq War.
“People in their 20s or 30s who are born-again Christian are more likely to support Senator Obama than Senator McCain, compared to people who are older born-again Christians, who are more likely to support the Arizona senator,” he explains. “So, when you look at it, it’s a pretty complex set of reasons.”
Inconceivable.
While I can almost understand somebody under 30 falling for the change and hope claptrap, but grownups over the age of 40? You ought to know better. According to the Barma Group Christian young people are turning out for Obama.
There has been significant coverage this election cycle about the generational differences within the Christian community – that younger Christians are breaking ranks with their parents’ political persuasions. The Barna research confirms that born again voters are divided along age lines. Born again Christians in their forties and fifties prefer Sen. McCain by a five-point margin (48% versus 43%), while born again adults in their sixties and older favor the Arizona Republican by ten points (47% versus 37%). On the other hand, among the youngest born again voters – those in their twenties and thirties – Sen. Obama is a 13-point front-runner (51% to 39%).
There’s an old saying, if you’re not a liberal when you’re young you have no heart, but if you’re not conservative when you’re older you have no brain. But some things, at least for the Christian community, are not negotiable regardless of age. Abortion is one of those non-negotiables.
I cannot conceive how anyone who calls himself a follower of Christ can vote for a man who supports abortion, who thinks abortion should be legal, who has promised to sign the “Freedom of Choice Act,” codifying Roe vs Wade. I don’t understand how a Christian, born again, evangelical or whatever, can support a man who thinks babies who initially survive an abortion should not be given medical care to survive.
Let’s be plain. Barack Obama thinks it’s just fine for doctors to murder babies. Barack Obama thinks it’s just grand for a doctor to stick a pair of scissors into the skull of a partially born, full-term baby and murder it by scrambling its brains.
To my Christian brothers and sisters who are considering a vote for Obama, I humbly and sincerely ask, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
Obama supports this:
And this:
Have you forgotten the slaughter that occurs daily in every city of our nation? Have you become deaf to their cries. Does this no longer offend you? Have you made peace with this atrocity?
NO MAN OR WOMAN WHO THINKS KILLING BABIES IS GOOD SOCIAL POLICY DESERVES THE CHRISTIAN VOTE, PERIOD.
On this blog over the past several weeks, I’ve come up with a plethora of reasons not to vote for Obama. And I’ve said before that I am reluctantly voting for McCain. For all his faults, and there are many, the Arizona senator is at least pro-life and has always been so.
There are plenty of other issues — First Amendment freedoms, tax policy, Second Amendment rights, government control of the economy, the failure of government control of the economy, the war in Iraq and military strategy — on which Obama’s positions are not just ill conceived, but are outright wrong and dangerous.
So in some respects I am not a single-issue voter. But in another I am, and that issue is protecting the life of babies before they are born. That reason, and that reason alone, is sufficient cause to vote against Obama.
I urge you, I beg you, my brothers and sisters, to choose life on Tuesday. Vote for John McCain.
Even Nixon Wasn’t This Arrogant
Newspapers whose editorial boards have endorsed John McCain had their presidential campaign reporters kicked off the Obama plane. From Drudge:
The Obama campaign has decided to heave out three newspapers from its plane for the final days of its blitz across battleground states — and all three endorsed Sen. John McCain for president!
The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs — and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two black magazines, ESSENCE and JET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Some told the DRUDGE REPORT that the reporters are being ousted to bring on documentary film-makers to record the final days; others expect to see on board more sympathetic members of the media, including the NY TIMES’ Maureen Dowd, who once complained that she was barred from McCain’s Straight Talk Express airplane.
After a week of quiet but desperate behind-the-scenes negotiations, the reporters of the three papers heard last night that they were definitely off for the final swing. They are already planning how to cover the final days by flying commercial or driving from event to event.
The vindictiveness and arrogance of Obama is stunning. Wait until he’s in the White House. He claims he’s not a Marxist, but this is the same kind of brutish behavior you see in communist countries.
Even Nixon wasn’t this arrogant.
Breaking News…
From ScrappleFace:
McCain Camp Mulls Whom to Blame if He Wins
(2008-10-30) – While unnamed sources inside John McCain’s presidential campaign have reportedly decided to blame running mate Sarah Palin if the GOP ticket loses next week, a vigorous high-level debate rages on about whom to blame if Sen. McCain should defeat his Democrat rival.
“If McCain’s victorious, we’re really in a jam,” said one anonymous campaign strategist. “We don’t yet have a contingency plan for that. There’s bound to be a lot of finger-pointing, but in the highly-unlikely event that McCain-Palin wins, the media will demand answers and someone’s got to take the fall.”
“A McCain-Palin triumph would undermine the foundations of a political process established on push polling and professional image management,” the source said. “It would present the ominous specter that average Americans can do whatever they please in the privacy of the voting booth.”
More Anti-First Amendment Thuggery
Another example of free speech intimidation, this one from Unfair Doctrine:
Here’s the letter that was sent to some student journalists who uncovered actual Ohio voter fraud:From: Rosenberg, Thomas
Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Subject: At least in today’s blog you spelled my last name right
To: tiffanyIn other words, I am going to read what you write and watch what you say. Hopefully you will be fair and impartial as you told me you would be.
Thomas L. Rosenberg
Roetzel & Andress, LPAColumbus, OH 43215
trosenberg@ralaw.comThe lawyer who sent this has since apologized and said that she didn’t intend to intimidate. Read the whole thing and judge for yourself.
And So It Begins…
At the behest of House Democrats, the Federal Communications Commission sent letters to military analysts who commented favorably on Bush administration military strategy and the war.
The FCC has sent letters to some of the nation’s most prominent military analysts — some of them pro-President Bush and pro-war — suggesting they may have broken the law when they appeared on television stations to comment on and explain the war on terrorism.
The FCC letters came at the behest of two House Democrats, who say the analysts parroted on air the private briefings they received at the Pentagon. This may have broken the law, the lawmakers said.
According to Human Events, the letters have sent a chill through the ranks of military commentators who go on TV to comment on military and war issues.
“We are seeing the dawn of a new era of the current Democratic leadership trying to muzzle free speech and the First Amendment,” retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney, a Fox News analyst, told HUMAN EVENTS. “It may be the most invasive intrusion that we have seen in our history. There will be more of these tactics to follow.”
Yea buddy, and that’s just the beginning, expect to see your favorite radio talker frog marched off to prison for some bogus thought crime.
Republican Rockers
With all the Hollywood celebs and rock stars endorsing Barack Obama, Joe Perry of Aerosmith decided to come out of the closet in favor of John McCain.
Michelle Malkin this afternoon references a Boston Herald article on Perry:
Aerosmith has generally left the politics to bands like U2 and the Dixie Chicks, but axeman Joe Perry says national security and economic woes have prompted him to split from the rest of the entertainment world and throw his support behind John McCain.
“We pretty much stay out of it, but seeing so many people come out for Obama, I just felt like ‘What the hell, I might as well raise my hand for this side,” Perry said from his Duxbury home.
The Bay State rockers have done a few fund-raisers for the Kennedy family over the years, but Perry’s endorsement of McCain marks a first for the platinum-selling guitarist/songwriter.
…”I’ve been a hardcore Republican my whole life,” he told the Herald. “My mother and father drilled into me from the very start that if you work hard and be positive, you’ll get what you’re working for. I guess I’m living proof of that.”
…”I’m an optimist. It ain’t over till its over,” he said. “I think that he’s got a chance.”
Joe Perry plays lead guitar in this video.
America as the Last Man Standing
Back in March I posted a video entitled, “Fitna,” by a Dutch politician named Geert Wilders. The post was called “Fitna: Watch While You Can,” because the good folks of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage (ROPO) were threatening Internet service providers who allowed the 16 minute video to air. Some ISPs actually took the video down.
Wilders was in the U.S. a month ago and gave a speech entitled “America as the Last Man Standing,” wherein he talks about the Islamization of Europe.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The danger I see looming is the scenario of America as the last man standing.
His message is simple. The Europe of tourist destinations like the Eiffel Tower, Brandenburg Gate, Trafalgar Square is changing through Muslim mass migration into a parellel society where Western traditions of rule of law, freedom of speech and justice no longer exist.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighbourhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It’s the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corner. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighbourhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, city by city.
The following are some highlights from the speech:
In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighbourhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan. Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II.
The future of Europe is dark:
It is very difficult to be an optimist in the face of the growing Islamization of Europe. All the tides are against us. On all fronts we are losing. Demographically the momentum is with Islam. Muslim immigration is even a source of pride within ruling liberal parties. Academia, the arts, the media, trade unions, the churches, the business world, the entire political establishment have all converted to the suicidal theory of multiculturalism. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a ‘right-wing extremists’ or ‘racists’. The entire establishment has sided with our enemy. Leftists, liberals and Christian-Democrats are now all in bed with Islam.
Civilization under attack:
This is not the first time our civilization is under threat. We have seen dangers before. We have been betrayed by our elites before. They have sided with our enemies before. And yet, then, freedom prevailed.
These are not times in which to take lessons from appeasement, capitulation, giving away, giving up or giving in. These are not times in which to draw lessons from Mr. Chamberlain. These are times calling us to draw lessons from Mr. Churchill and the words he spoke in 1942:
“Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy”.
Time for a Conservative Party
Politico has a column about prominent conservative Republicans planning a top secret meeting in the Northern Virginian home of some big deal conservative to talk about the future of the conservative movement during the next administration, whether McCain or Obama.
The decision to waste no time in plotting their moves in the post-Bush era reflects the widely-held view among many on the right, and elsewhere, that the GOP is heading toward major losses next week.
One of the topics of discussion will be how to fashion a “national grassroots political and policy coalition similar to the out Reagan years,” said the attendee, a reference to the development of the so-called New Right apparatus following Jimmy Carter’s 1976 victory and Reagan’s election four years later.
“There’s a sense that the Republican Party is broken, but the conservative movement is not,” said this source, suggesting that it was the betrayal of some conservative principles by Bush and congressional leaders that led to the party’s decline.
George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bob Dole and John McCain, all non-conservative Republican presidents or president wannabes have been the death of the Republican Party. Joining them in driving the party into obscurity are the moderate to liberal senators like Sen. John Warner and just about every other Republican popinjay in the Senate.
Here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the old blue blood Republicans consistently sabotage any authentic conservative who tries to run for statewide office. Their treachery during the Oliver North, Mike Farris and George Allen campaigns is legendary.
Likewise the Republican Party of Virginia is pretty much useless. Just look at the Jim Gilmore for Senate campaign. Oh, you mean there’s a Republican running for Senate this year? Gilmore, you say? No car tax, huge budget deficit, that Gilmore? Now there’s a winner.
I gave up on the Va. Republican Party years ago when liberals in the county cheated me out of my committee seat. At the time I was told I lost by one vote, 11 to 10. Tough luck. Two years later I learned that there were 20 votes cast by the time the polls closed, 10 for me, 10 for my opponent.
The deciding vote materialized after the counting was done and was cast by my opponent’s daughter, who happened to live in another county. (Yes, in case you’re wondering, that is one of the reaons I so dispise vote fraud.)
As I’ve said before I wasn’t even going to vote in this current election because of McCain, a guy who got the REPUBLICAN nomination by getting non-Republicans to vote for him in the REPUBLICAN primaries. Although McCain isn’t nearly as loathsome as Barack Obama, it wasn’t until he chose a real conservative as his running mate that I decided to vote for him.
So now a bunch of conservative Republican bigwigs are going to plot the future of the conservative movement in exile. I hope that future has less to do with the Republican Party and is more focused on creating an alternative party.
The American Conservative Party is becoming the more attractive alternative. Check them out here.
Washed Up Gigantrex Hates Palin
If your career is going nowhere and you’ve launched a new album that no one will be listening to AND you want a little free publicity, do the time honored PR stunt of criticizing someone who IS incredibly popular so as to gain a tad bit of her limelight.
From Breitbart.com:
Jamaican-born disco diva Grace Jones said she was sorry Hillary Clinton had failed to make the cut in the US election and that she “can’t stand” folksy vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
The 1980s style icon, now 60, told German magazine TV Spielfilm Wednesday that Palin stood for a backward vision of America laden with government restrictions of sexuality and social behaviour.
“I would have loved it if Hillary Clinton had pulled it off,” Jones said, in an interview published in German marking the release of her new album.
“I can’t stand Sarah Palin. I bet a woman like that has no sense of humour.”
Hmmm, I don’t think Jones has had a chart topping hit since maybe 1977, and even then she wasn’t all that much. As far as disco divas go, she’s sort of a less feminine version of David Bowie.
Still Undecided?
Left Is Poised to Take Over U.S. Courts
I was going to head this post “Why I Opposes Obama (Part Umteeneleven),” but I’m getting worn out on that headline, and all five of my regular readers know I oppose the Democrat presidential candidate anyway.
The Wall Street Journal this morning has a piece by Steven Calabresi describing what we can expect in terms of Obama judicial nominations. Suffice it to say, if you care about babies in the womb, think abortion is an atrocity and care anything at all about the rule of law, you better think twice before pulling the lever next Tuesday for Obama.
According to Calabresi, the next president will have the opportunity to appoint several federal court judges, including judges at the appellant court level. Also, six of the nine current U.S. Supreme Court justices are more than 70 years old. The next president will likely report up to four justices.
These numbers ought to raise serious concern because of Mr. Obama’s extreme left-wing views about the role of judges. He believes — and he is quite open about this — that judges ought to decide cases in light of the empathy they ought to feel for the little guy in any lawsuit.
Speaking in July 2007 at a conference of Planned Parenthood, he said: “[W]e need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”
On this view, plaintiffs should usually win against defendants in civil cases; criminals in cases against the police; consumers, employees and stockholders in suits brought against corporations; and citizens in suits brought against the government. Empathy, not justice, ought to be the mission of the federal courts, and the redistribution of wealth should be their mantra.
The left stands to gain both houses of Congress, a frightening enough prospect in itself, as well as the White Houses and all the executive branch federal agencies. Actions taken by those two branches aren’t as long lasting and can be reversed in the next election cycle. But federal judges serve for life and it has taken nearly a generation to bring balance to the Supreme Court. With Obama, we may have a severe leftward tilt to the court that could take multiple generations to reverse.
Just think about that between now and Tuesday.
The Zombie Party
What About Refrigerator Boxes?
The zany Ohioans are at it again on the vote fraud front. Today a federal judge in Columbus ruled that Buckeye State counties have to allow bums, uh I mean, homeless people to list park benches and other non-building locations as their addresses for voter registration.
Presumably steam grates and large appliance boxes also qualify as domiciles in Ohio. Who knew?
According to the Columbus Dispatch, U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus weighed in on the 200,000 fraudulent ballot issue, ruling that provisional ballots cannot be tossed because of poll worker errors.
The Ayers Revolution Through An FBI Informant’s Eyes
Beating a dead horse, I know, but here’s some more on Bill Ayers, the Barack Obama buddy, former domestic terrorist, and radical education reformer.
Pajamas Media conducted an interview with Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant in the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers organization for the overthrow of the U.S. government. Here’s a snippet of the interview:
Pajamas Media: Scattered news accounts on the Internet note that you were instrumental in foiling Weather Underground attacks in February of 1970, in Detroit. The Weathermen built two bombs targeting the Detroit Police Officers’ Association (DPOA) building and the 13th Precinct. Were the goals of these attacks symbolic property damage as were some other Weathermen attacks, or were these targets selected to kill police officers?
Larry Grathwohl: The instructions I received from Billy Ayers was that the bombs to be used in Detroit must have shrapnel (fence staples, specifically) and fire potential (propane bottles). The intention was to kill police officers.
Pajamas Media: One of the Detroit bombs was to be placed on the side of the DPOA building, and the blast was likely to cause damage to the adjacent Red Barn Restaurant, which had mostly African-American customers. Who ordered the attack, and what did he say when you told him that innocent civilians would be killed?
Larry Grathwohl: When I objected to Billy Ayers that more innocent people would be killed in the restaurant, he replied, “Innocent people have to die in a revolution.” Billy also acknowledged during a criticism session in Buffalo that Bernadine placed the bomb at the Park Police Station which resulted in the death of Police Officer McDonnell.
Pajamas Media: Bill Ayers came out of hiding around 1980, became an college professor, and has served on numerous boards and foundations. Do you think he’s changed in his radicalism?
Larry Grathwohl: Has Billy changed? I hardly think so.
You can read the whole thing here, but the concluding paragraph quoting Grathwohl pretty much sums up why the Ayers/Obama connection matters.
Have you seen the [Bill] O’Reilly attempts to interview Billy? He called the police to ‘protect’ him! Doesn’t surprise me a bit: Billy needs others to stand up, not him. He’s too important! Do you think his new book [Race Course Against White Supremacy, co-author Bernardine Dohrn] has something to do with his position? I bet we hear a lot from Billy and Bernardine after the election. Especially if Obama wins.
Financial Crisis Timeline
American Thinker has a good chronology of the housing crisis that has sparked the global financial meltdown.
Obama’s economic narrative of the mortgage crisis ignores the facts. He has put free-market capitalism at the root of the current mortgage industry debacle, denying the real history of government interference in that market.
Contrary to the Obama narrative, however, it is not free-market capitalism at the root of the current mortgage industry crisis, but rather the very socialism Obama hawks. The historical record makes this fact unmistakably clear.
The chronology covers the creeping socialism in the U.S. from the 1930′s to present day and illustrates how the housing debacle is not the result of out of control free markets. Read the whole thing here.
And again for those of you tempted to vote for “change,” remember; the recession we are in was caused by Democrat economic policy.
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