RSS Feed MenuIn February of 2008, while attending the birthday party of a couple from our church, a huddle of middle-aged men discussed how to defeat Barack Obama. One man spoke up: while marking himself personally as racially impartial, he urged that the GOP get out the vote of every “redneck and KKK member.”
Religious conservatives should fear Obama’s agenda. But our religion also obliges us to accept certain limits on our advocacy. We should not stir racial tension. And we must accept that persuasion is most effective and enduring when it is true.
The emails that circulated during the 2008 election, claiming that Senator Obama was a Muslim with close association to domestic radicals proved for some religious conservatives that half-truths continued to hold sway. The ends justified the means. Obama should be stopped at all costs, right?
As an ally in the wider-movement of American conservatism, religious conservatives are at a point of maturation. Awaiting a long-needed growth spurt, conservatives have rallied around the healthcare discussion as a catalyst to the movement’s momentum.
But religious conservatives must lay claim to a renewed sense of principled engagement, not fiery rhetoric that fills up email accounts and heats up the conversation around the coffee pot at one’s local church. Stop talking of “death panels,” or “killing Grandma” and return to principled debate representing the same concerns of the past: liberty and rights, not baseless rhetoric.
Jim // Sep 10, 2009 at 11:31 am
On health care, let me just say this; I am unemployed. I am on unemployment. Unemployment barely pays me enough to live on. I do not have health coverage (since I was fired, ya know…), but I take reasaonably good care or myself. I DO NOT WANT TO PAY ONE MORE RED CENT IN TAXES THAN I ALREADY AM. PERIOD. I would (and will vote) against any, any, any proposal which will raise my taxes, now or in the future, one red cent. If the liberals want to provide subsidized/free healthcare for the illegals, then they should pay Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc directly. If DC wants me to pay a mandatory health insurance premium, I WILL SEND DC CLOTHES AND SHOES OUT OF MY CLOSET, ‘CAUSE THAT’S ALL I HAVE LEFT!
MSheridan // Sep 10, 2009 at 3:21 pm
You know, Jim, I was actually buying your schtick until the last post. I think you kind of overplayed your hand there. I’ve got to admit it was funny, though.
Henry Massingale // Mar 14, 2010 at 5:39 pm
There is a unity lost between Governing Parties that is needed to help the people feel secure. The moral building block for Health Care.
To see the true Health Care Tax forum you must stop thinking in 3-D,This multi tax forum is against a $100 Trillion Dollar system.. …
To force pay into another system of failures within Health Care Insurance Groups.
This economy will not balance with this concept of a tax forum against the Health Care System. The issue of how to force pay into this system of Health Care may have worked but I am still troubled over the progressive tax forum within this Bill. It covers so many items and Countries that it only forces the system to adjust itself. In some areas, increases against the people and the troubled economy, and in other areas, less effects will be felt.
But this is my big problem, Government Officials seek help and they are to proud to ask us, “the true working force of Government.” It is understandable they have failed the People and within the United States Of America all we ask is to see us as who we are and not try to bring us into this world of the intellectual. I guess our Prime Directive is that of Star Trek, so it must be understood that for millions of people we are just as happy as can be making $13.00 per hour and we have no interest in this world of politics, and how to be a Enstine. Government Officials must understand that there is a level of people within different parts of this Country, that seek to be only that they find to make them happy.
As for this economy well, it is said that the U.S.A. Arms Division has created enough arsenal to destroy every last creature in the world 2 times over,built with tax dollars. This would be funny if not for the irony of it. And now as time has passed Government Officials keep failing. Before 9/11 all the way to today.
As it is in a world of a system, when employees continue to fail, one or two things happen, one; you get fired, two; if you see into a person a good, then it is political correct to implement a penalty or roll back in pay. But this implement of penalty is more favored in the course of action in the Federal Employment World. So how to fix the economy and unite it with the Health Care issue. It would be in the Countries best interest to implement a 10% per cent penalty against every State, County and Government Official within this Matrix of failures. Hey what is that old saying, what is good for the Goose is good for the Gander. I am serous about this, it is past due to show that our Government Officials they have failed, their system failure reaches into this world of warnings that they brush aside as if the information is not worthy noting. From Pearl Harbor to 9/11/2001 to 3/07/2010 of our tax system and Health Care Reform. This 10% per cent penalty should go into the Health Care Forum.
The big problem that Government Officials have is that they have no street credit. President Obama still has some but if he does not take his family and step away from these dueling Parties, that fight over this Health Care Dollar, and stand with Us he will lose all credit from the streets to the county.
President Obama, I would say to you, you have one last chance to regain the hopes and dreams of the American People. To reach out in a concept that states, if there is 250 million people in trouble because of these failures, I would give all my money to them and then I would say to all that I gave money to, “I have no money left, would you all please give me $1.00 back and then I would have $250. million dollars to start all over again.”
As for this $100,trillion dollar in site………….
Results 1 – 10 of about 685,000 for net worth of medicine development industry
Just to show how deep this Health Care Tax split petition reaches. The term split petition is used because of the Tax factor plan that is not seen because of the intent not to show a capital Taxing of close to a $100 trillion dollar package, a yearly system income, not profit…..
Some have stated that I clam to have spiritual in site or something of the sort. I assure you this is not true, so when I state that I asked God to help, it is my way of saying hey Bobby show me how to work on theses Chevy engines. But I do thank you for the consideration. Consider me a cross of Jethro Bodine from the Beverly Hill Billies with my 10th. Grade education and Vin Diesel from the move Pitch Black.
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