Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun
[/align]It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first front-running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first.[/align][/align]We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics. [/align][/align]The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts. [/align][/align]Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost. [/align]Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant.. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this superficial "beauty."[/align][/align]Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.[/align][/align]Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on "the rich." How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck. [/align][/align]Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, H ollywood, and San Francis co values, not Middle America values.[/align][/align]The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of "bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs. [/align][/align]But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.[/align][/align]It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.
Subject: Kind of scary, wouldn't you think Remember--God is good, and is in time, on time, every time.[/align]
According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is:
The anti-christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything. Is it OBAMA??
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I do not know the source, but whomever the author of this happens to be, I agree with him.
Don't know about the anti-Christ but it's an interesting twist. I'm gonna say that anybody who
works for a living and does not want to pay taxes thru the nose SHOULD consider him the
anti-Christ.
We are in dangerous times, and flirting with dangerous ideas under the false guise of change.
What this slimeball has succeeded in doing, is to mobilize the 'have-nots' with promises of 'free money'
for lack of a better term. The sad sad thing about it is that these have-nots are buying into the socialist
trend and support it. They do not understand that they will not be elevated to the level of the 'rich', but rather the so-called rich will be cast down to the level of the poor which will mean that nobody has anything,
and all will need to struggle evermore to survive in a collapsed socialist republic. Except, of course,
those ersatz democrats weilding power.
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I don't give him a chance based on face value but at election time I bet there will be a program initiated by the Dems to go through every inner city project all across America, get the minorities registered and they will blindly vote for their black candidate.
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"We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.'
A question DD why did you feel it important to post the race of the person that wrote the article?
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You proably got the bottom part from some e-mail but I have another question.
How could revelations say it was going to be someone of Muslim decent? There was no Islamicreligion when revelations was written.
First of all in revelaton, it speaks of 'the beast' and 'the false prophet,' refering to the anti-christ and he that would speak for him.
Revelation 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Where did you find your facts?
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Very interesting and everyone should read it... except the part about the anti-christ, that goes way too far and off topic. A statement like that will totally invalidate what the rest of the article sayse fora lot of people.[:@]
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Charlie with all due respect ... I am from the south and although I do not wish any harm on ANYONE because of the color of their skin it does not mean I have to trust or socialize with them or visa versa ..thats one of the beautys of being an American ...I just happen to be honest about my feelings ....race is now and ALWAYS WILL be an issue in this country and world wideand if you dont think so my friendyou live in a pipe dream in my opinion ...race has and is an issue in the midddle east always has been and always will be ...it is a human charcteristic ...some say they overcome it and they have no predudice...but I think deep down all have a prejudice one way or another ... some don't like fat people ..some dont like short people ...some don't like geeks ..some don't like bikers ..it goes on and on ....however to answer your question I posted this because I can ...and because I found it interesting ...now tell ME why you read it when you KNEW what the subject matter was? ...as for the Anti Christstatement it was attacthed to the email however I found it interesting as well ...I never said I agreed with it but it was interesting ...if my memory serves me Revolations said that he would be of middle eastern decent ...
[b]Charlie with all due respect ... I am from the south and although I do not wish any harm on ANYONE because of the color of their skin it does not mean I have to trust or socialize with them or visa versa ..thats one of the beautys of being an American ...I just happen to be honest about my feelings ....race is now and ALWAYS WILL be an issue in this country and world wideÂ*and if you dont think so my friendÂ*you live in a pipe dream in my opinion ...race has and is an issue in the midddle east always has been and always will be ...it is a human charcteristic ...some say they overcome it and they have no predudiceÂ*...but I think deep down all have a prejudice one way or another ... some don't like fat people ..some dont like short people ...some don't like geeks ..some don't like bikers ..it goes on and on ....however to answer your question I posted this because I can ...and because I found it interesting ...now tell ME why you read it when you KNEW what the subject matter was? ...as for the Anti ChristÂ*statement it was attacthed to the email however I found it interesting as well ...I never said I agreed with it but it was interesting ...if my memory serves me Revolations said that he would be of middle eastern decent
No offense, but if I were going to be so narrow-minded, I'd hope to at least have enough common sense not to talk about it on a discussion forum.
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