Political humor....and truth!!

Dear friends,
The two articles attached were taken from today's issue of Baptist Press News. The one about biblical guidelines by Pastor Ed Young, Jr. may arrive too late for you if you are voting by absentee ballot. The one on prayer for our nation by Pastor Johnny Hunt will always be on time. Both are well worth your time to read, especially if you are still wondering how you should vote.
God bless you all, and God bless America again!
Pastor Sam


Ed Young Jr.: Scripture is best voter guide
By Michael Foust
Oct 20, 2008

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)--Scripture provides guidance for Christians in deciding
which candidate to support on Election Day, Texas pastor Ed Young Jr. told his
congregation Oct. 19.

It was the second part in a sermon series Young has dubbed
"Politicked." The pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine gave five
categories believers should examine about each political candidate.

"Once we ask ourselves these five questions and
once we answer them, then
we'll be ready to vote for the right person," he said.

The five categories are:

-- Character.

"Everything begins with character," said Young, pointing to Proverbs
29:2: "... If we elect righteous leaders, our government will be righteous,
and if our government is righteous then the laws will be righteous."

Christians should take a political candidate's private conduct seriously,
Young said.

"Character can be defined as who you are when no one's looking,"
he said. " ... For a long, long time, people have said, 'Who you are in
private does not really affect who you area in public office.' ...
That's absolutely, friends, nuts, because who you are in private is who you
are. Who you are in private is who you are in public."

-- Conviction.

Reading from Proverbs 28:1 -- which says the "righteous are bold as a
lion" -- Young said, "We need to elect lionesses and lions in this day
-- people who are not politicians, but people who are statesmen, people who are
leaders." That conviction, he said, must be based on God's Word.

He mentioned the "gay agenda" as one area where society is moving
away from scriptural teachings.

"God has told us from cover to cover that there is only one context where
sex should be enjoyed and practiced and celebrated -- marriage.... The Bible
tells me and it tells you that during the end of time ... what is right wrong
and wrong right."



Referencing those who compare the homosexual movement to the civil rights
movement, Young said, "I've known a lot of former homosexuals but
I've never met a former African American."

-- Courage.

"Does this candidate display courage?" Young asked. "Can you
look at this candidate's life -- the history of him or her -- and say,
'You know what? He stood up for courage there. She stood up for
courage.' ... Courage is the God-given ability to stand.... Conviction is
belief. Courage is behavior."

Pointing to Proverbs 11:3, Young said, "The other day I heard a candidate
being interviewed, and here's the response the candidate made to a question
on morality, ... 'Well, for me as a Christian.' ... That was a
relativistic answer. … The relativist says, 'What's right for you is
true for you and what's true for you is true for you.'"

Giving an example of the absurdity of relativism, Young said someone could say,
as part of the relativistic worldview, "What's true for me is to fly
airliners into the sides of skyscrapers and kill hundreds and hundreds of
people."

-- Compassion.

Giving the biblical definition of compassion, Young read from Proverbs 31:8-9,
which says, "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the
rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of
the poor and needy." He also read from Proverbs 24:11, "Rescue those
being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward20slaughter."

Abortion, Young said, is an issue where a political candidate must show
compassion.

"We're taking the lives, of ... 3,200 babies a day -- taking the lives
of developing babies -- when you'll get thrown in prison and pay an
astronomical fine if you disturb the eggs of developing sea turtles," he
said. "What's right is wrong and wrong is right."

-- Constituency.

Young said examining who supports and opposes the candidate can help determine
who to support.

"I can meet your friends, without even meeting you, and tell you what kind
of a person you are," Young said. "Who applauds this potential
candidate and who opposes them? We better wake up and smell the coffee, here,
friends. If the mainstream secular media supports a candidate or an issue, there
is a great chance that something is sideways, you better look at that one very,
very closely. Who opposes them? Who is for them?"
--30--
Michael Foust is an assistant editor of Baptist Press. Young's sermon can
be viewed online at www.fellowshipchurch.com.

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email: bpress@sbc.netSBC President Johnny Hunt urges prayer for awakening
By Staff
Oct 20, 2008

WOODSTOCK, Ga. (BP)--Amid the nation's turmoil is "an opportunity for
a Great Awakening,"
two leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention said in
an open letter to Southern Baptists Oct. 20.

At "one of the greatest leadership challenges in our history," there
is "plain and simply an opportunity for the church to go to its knees and
seek the Lord for revival in our land," wrote SBC President Johnny Hunt,
pastor of the Atlanta-area First Baptist Church in Woodstock. Ed Litton,
president of the SBC Pastors' Conference, also signed the letter. Litton is
pastor of North Mobile Baptist Church in Alabama.

"We must do the one thing God requires of His people, which is to seek His
face," Hunt wrote. "Let me encourage pastors and leaders to follow the
promptings of the Holy Spirit in the particulars of how your church family
chooses to do this. But let us all set aside time to seek His face and repent of
our sins, believing God's Word that He will again come and heal our
land."

The full text of the open letter follows:

October 20, 2008

Dear Southern Baptist,

We are standing at a historic moment in America. This may be one of the
greatest leadership challenges in our history and certainly in our lifetime.
Every sector of American life is feeling the powerful effect of the breakdown in
leadership character. A whirlwind of problems reveals that our moral
infrastructure has been taken for granted far too long and now is exposed to be
weak and incapable of withstanding the pressures. This is plain and simply an
oppo
rtunity for the church to go to its knees and seek the Lord for revival in
our land. Things are bad and may get worse, yet make no mistake about it; this
is an opportunity for a Great Awakening. God created and preserved this nation,
and the future is dependent upon a humble church seeking His face for renewal,
revival and refreshing. We are not the handmaidens of political forces; we are
the people of God. We must do the one thing God requires of His people, which is
to seek His face.

Let me encourage pastors and leaders to follow the promptings of the Holy
Spirit in the particulars of how your church family chooses to do this. But let
us all set aside time to seek His face and repent of our sins, believing
God's Word that He will again come and heal our land.

2 Chronicles 7:14 says that "if my people, who are called by my name, will
humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their
land."

We stand at the door of a great opportunity! History will one day reveal if we
stepped through this great door or not.

Dr. Johnny M. Hunt

President, Southern Baptist Convention

Dr. Ed Litton

President, Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference 2009
--30--

The following is a down-home example of how our tax system works:



Bar Stool Economics

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers, he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes, so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so: The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings)
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better o ff than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant the men began to compare their savings.

'I only got a dollar out of the $20,'declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'

'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!'

'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'

'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Georgia

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Let's pass this on to every person of voting age that we know.



A Humble Plea To Obama Supporters:



Dear friends,



I am truly astonished by the ignorance Obama supporters have displayed in their quest to get someone - ANYONE - into the White House. Now, wait a minute. I can well understand your dislike or even hatred of our clown, GWB, but he is not the root cause of all of our problems. Our Congress is. And a change there would be welcomed by all. You ain't gonna get it done with Obama. You gotta fire the whole damnable crooked Congress. (Read my book, "BERNIE'S WAR!").



Perhaps I'm looking at all of this from a different perspective than you because my life experiences have been so different from yours. I'm 80-years old and have traveled the world where I've seen a great deal. I spent five years on active duty as a fighter pilot in the USAF and another seven years flying with the Air National Guard in California and Texas as well as a few years flying in the USAF Reserve. I spent three years on active duty in Germany flying Czech border patrol with "cold guns" in aircraft inferior to the MIG during the Korean "Police Action" when it was thought that Korea was a diversion for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.



I lived abroad for a total of 28 years. Three years in Germany, twenty years in Switzerland and five years in Great Britain where I was based doing "spook" work for the U.S. behind the Iron Curtain before it fell. During that era of the Cold War I ventured to Moscow, Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest, Peshawar, Pakistan and Bulgaria posing as a Swiss French-speaking arms dealer purchasing weapons we surreptitiously supplied to the Afghani Mujahadeen in their successful fight against the Soviets - all of which came back to haunt us.



I've been there and done that and have had close associations with top government people in Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain. I've had more foreign affair experience than Obama could ever dream of and, yet, wouldn't have the temerity to deign myself "Presidential" material; although I feel eminently more qualified to judge who would NOT be best for our country. My long-time world experience should count for something in my plea to you to abandon this miscreant flake. You will only be doing yourself and our country an enormous disservice if you persist in your support of this flash-in-the-pan opportunist. On this, you MUST trust me.



I've associated closely with European royalty and African politicians. I've traveled to the Far East to observe their cultures. My point is that Obama, although formally well educated and a brilliant orator, is a neophyte when it comes to understanding the world and is uniquely unqualified for the job as President of these great United States. His knowledge of economics is nil and his tax proposals absurd and life-threatening to the U.S. not only in economic terms but in preserving our national security as well. I don't want a "citizen of the world" to be President, I want a citizen of the good old USA to be President. Screw the rest of the world as they have well and truly screwed us. The time has come for us to awaken and start looking after ourselves. Now THAT would be CHANGE if that's what you're looking for.



While McCain has abstained from playing "the race-card", Obama is playing it to the hilt even though he's technically not an African-American. To qualify for this distinction you must be at least one-sixth black. Obama is only one-eighth. His father would be, as he was one-sixth. No, Obama is more Muslim than black yet he trades on his blackness.



The larger question I have about him is that we really don't know much about him other than what HE tells us, what we read on blogs and from some serious non-partisan investigators whose factual reports are, unfortunately, generally ignored and which receive precious little media exposure.



I, as a registered Independent, a military veteran and a patriot, beseech you to put aside party considerations and vote for the lesser of the two evils. Yes, I am NOT a McCain supporter, but he is, at least, not a flake, doesn't carry Muslim baggage and is a PROVEN hero and patriot WITH experience. It's not a party issue. It's all about electing the best we can trust with what we've got to work with. Mr. Obama is NOT that guy.



Please, please rethink your voting position.



Thanks for reading my innermost thoughts. I care about all of you, but I care more about our country. Please help me to do both.



William P. (Bill) Lear, Jr.

*What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?*
> >
> > *Detroit**, MI** *(1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
> >
> >*Buffalo**, NY* (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;
> >
> > *Cincinnati**, OH** *(3rd)...since 1984;
> >
> > *Cleveland**, OH* (4th)...since 1989;
> >
> > *Miami**, FL** *(5th) has never had a Republican mayor;
> >
> > *St. Louis**, MO* (6th)....since 1949;
> >
> > *El Paso**, TX* (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;
> >
> > *Milwaukee**, WI* (8th)...since 1908;
> >
> > *Philadelphia**, PA* (9th)...since 1952;
> >
> > *Newark**, NJ** *(10th)...since 1907.
> >
> > Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is
> > doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
> >
> > It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats --- yet they are
> > still disadvantaged.
> >
> > THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT IN THE NEXT
> > ELECTION!!!
> >

This current financial crisis all started with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. Look it up. This was social engineering at its worst, brought to us by Jimmy Carter. And then, as if it weren't bad enough already, Bill Clinton in 1995 had to stick his liberal 2-cents into it as well by mandating that people who could not afford to buy a house, would be entitled to own one anyway. (look it up). Never mind that those persons were not able to re-pay their mortgage loans. Again, Social Engineering at its worst.

Because of the Clinton revisions, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were allowed to hold just 2.5% of capital to back investments, verses the standard 10% for banks. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were charged with promoting that lenders (that they were backing), should make money easier to come by, specifically so that under-qualified borrowers could buy houses that they simply could not afford. Fact: Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were two of the prominent politicians who forced the issue. For over 40 years, house prices pretty closely tracked inflation, until Barney & Chris and Bubba socially engineered things. Then money got cheap, and house prices spiked.

Like it or not, seeing the writing on the wall by 2003, FACT: George W. Bush tried to change it in 2003. (look it up). Bush's attempted imposition of oversight over Fannie & Freddie would have been timely considering when the actual bubble started to inflate. Even the New York Times (no friend to the Bush administration), wrote on Sept. 11, 2003, "The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago."

Guess who stopped the Bush plan…. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Oh, now there's a surprise. Barney Frank then had the go-nads to publically state: "the more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing." (that's a quote – you can look that up too). Today, 'ole Barney is quick to proclaim that the sky is falling, but he is equally quick to state that he was nowhere near the cause of the problem. Bull____!

But the Bush attempt to fix the problem was not the last. Another fact: (look it up) On May 25, 2006, John McCain stood up on the floor of the Senate and said: "For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs--and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO's report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay. I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation. Like it or not, this guy had it nailed in 2006.

Ok, so if the Bush plan wasn't enough to alert the population that this time-bomb was coming, then John McCain's urging should have. But what happened in 2006? The Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 was killed by the democrats.

I'm not making this stuff up, folks, I'm just reporting it. You can look all this stuff up.

So when we sit around and hold George Bush at a 28% approval rating, … and when we even have to pause to consider whether we should vote for John McCain or Barack Obama, I have to question our collective sanity. This shouldn't even be a horse race.

How long are we going to allow this politically correct bull____ to govern our lives? Make no mistake about it – we are where we are today because the bleeding hearts who want everything to be good and kind and fair and strong and proper basic and equal, have attempted to "shame" us into thinking that if we do not take part in the political correct fanfare, we are not among the enlightened thinkers. Well, listen, with a college degree, half of a masters, and all of a juris doctorate degree behind me, I'm about as "enlightened" as I need to be. But even so, I can still see deep, messy bulls___ when I see it, and I am not afraid to call it what it is. It stinks like hell, and I for one am not going to shut up about it any longer.

Carl Spagnuolo

(This email is from Rosemary Dupras, whose daughter is on Govenor Palin's staff. Regardless of your political persuasion, these words are straight from Scripture and can be prayed over anyone or any situation. Rosanne and Rosemary are asking for your intercession for Governor Sarah Palin according to Psalm 27. I challenge you to read this entire chapter in your Bibles each day before you pray.)

Hi -
Sarah Palin is a born-again, Spirit-filled, godly person who said "yes" when asked recently to serve her country. Since then, Govenor Palin asked my daughter Rosanne, who is part of her staff in Anchorage , for prayer, and so over the weekend Rosanne and I put together the attached "Psalm for Sarah for 66." It's intercessory prayer using Psalm 27 for the 66 days between the date of Sarah's accepting McCain's offer and Election Day, November 4; it's not about who wins the election or about politics or your voting choice. We've sent it to a number of Christians across the county so would you also pray for Govenor Palin in this Esther-like* time of her life? You might also pass it along or copy any one who might pray. If this request is offensive to you, I apologize.
Rosemary Dupras (I challenge you to read the entire Book of Esther and see the comparisons. Note especially Esther 4:14 “And who knows whether you have been born into the kingdom for such a time as this?") Amazingly, Beth Moore has a new Bible study coming out in November on Esther. Great timing!

&nbs p; A Psalm for Sarah for 66

Sixty-six Days of Intercession for Governor Sarah Palin according to Psalm 27. Pray for Sarah, husband Todd, sons Track, baby Trig, daughters Bristol , Willow , Piper, from August 29 through November 4.
Pray for:
Singleness of Vision, Moral Clarity
Psalm 27:1a - The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?

Fearlessness, Boldness
Psalm 27:1b - The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread?& nbsp;

Protection from Libel, Slander, Hatred, Persecution
Psalm 27:2 - When [not "if"] evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Confidence in Christ, a Guarded Heart
Psalm 27:3 - Though a host encamp against me, My heart will not fear; Though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident.

Priorities, Devotions, Rest, Balance
Psalm 27:4 - One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to meditate in His temple.

Deliverance, Favor
Psalm 27:5 - For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.

An Overcoming Spirit, a Higher Perspective
Psalm 27:6 - And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

Direction, Wisdom, Surefootedness
Psalm 27:7, 11 - Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice, and be gracious to me and answer me. . . Teach me Thy way, O Lord and lead me in a level path because of my foes.

A Release of Faith, an Expectancy of Good,
Psalm 27:13 - I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Strength, Courage, Endurance,
Psalm 27:14 - Wait for the Lord; be strong and let y our heart take courage. Yes, wait for the Lord. And let Your kingdom come and let Your will be done

OUR SISTER SARAH PALIN'S ANTI-ELITIST CHARM

New York Post - September 20, 2008

I KNOW Sarah Palin, and so does my wife.

Neither of us ever actually met the governor of Alaska, but we grew up with her - in the small-town America despised by the leftwing elite.

One gal-pal classmate of my wife's has even traveled from New York's Finger Lakes to Alaska to hunt moose with her husband. (Got one, too.) And no, Ms. Streisand, she isn't a redneck missing half her teeth - she's a lawyer.

The sneering elites and their mediacrat fellow travelers just don't get it: How on earth could anyone vote for someone who didn't attend an Ivy League school? And having more than 1.7 children marks any woman as a rube. (If Palin had any taste, her teenage daughter would've had a quiet abortion in a discreet facility.)

And what kind of retro-Barbie would stay happily married to her high-school sweetheart? Ugh. She even kills animals and eats them. (The meat and fish served in the upscale bistros patronized by Obama supporters appears by magic - it didn't really come from living things. .)

Palin has that hick accent, too. And that busy-mom beehive 'do. Double ugh! Bet she hasn't even read Ian McEwan's latest novel and can't explain Frank Gehry's vision for a new architecture. She and her blue-collar (triple ugh!) husband don't even own a McMansion, let alone an inherited family compound on the Cape.

And she wants to be vice president?

The opinion-maker elites see Sarah Palin clearly every time they look up from another sneering article in The New Yorker: She's a country-bumpkin chumpette from a hick state with low latte availability. She's not one of them and never will be. That's the real disqualifier in this race.

Now let me tell you what those postmodern bigots with their multiple vacation homes and their disappointing trust-fund kids don't see:

Sarah Palin's one of us. She actually represents the American people.

When The New York Times, CNN, the NBC basket of basket cases and all the barking blog dogs insult Palin, they're insulting us. When they smear her, they're smearing every American who actually works for a living, who doesn't expect a handout, who doesn't have a full-time accountant to parse the family taxes, who believes in the Pledge of Allegiance and who thinks a church is more than just a tedious stop on daughter Emily's 100K wedding day.

Go ahead, faux feminists and Hollywood deep thinkers: Snicker at Sarah America's degree from the University of Idaho, but remember that most Americans didn't attend Harvard or Princeton as a legacy after daddy donated enough to buy his kid's way in.

Go ahead, campaign strategists: Mock Americans who go to church and actually pray. But you might want to run the Census numbers first.

And go right ahead: Dismiss all of us who remember how, on the first day of deer season, our high school classrooms were half empty (not a problem at Andover or Exeter).

That rube accent of Palin's? It's a howler. But she sounds a lot more like the rest of us than a Harvard man or a Smithie ever will.

Why does Sarah Palin energize all of us who don't belong to the gilded leftwing circle? Because she's us. We sat beside her in class. We hung out after school (might've even shared a backseat combat zone on prom night). And now she lives next door, raising her kids.

For the first time since Ronald Reagan, our last great president, we, the people, see a chance that one of us might have a voice in governing our country.

Speaking of Reagan (Eureka College, Illinois), every chief executive we've had since the Gipper snapped his final salute as president has had the imprimatur of an Ivy League university. And we've gone from bad to worse:

* George Herbert Walker Bush: Yale.

* William Jefferson Clinton: Georgetown, Oxford, Yale Law.

* George W. Bush: Yale and Harvard Business School.

The first lacked the sense to finish the job in Desert Storm; the second lacked the guts to go after al Qaeda when it was just a startup - and the third, well, let's just say he disappointed our low expectations.

Now we have the Ivy League elite's "he's not only like us but he's a minority and we're so wonderful to support him" candidate, Sen. Barack Obama <http://www.nypost.com/news/p/obama_barack/obama_barack.htm> (Columbia and Harvard Law).

Our country can't afford another one of these clowns. Harvard isn't the answer - Harvard's the problem.

So here's the message Palin is sending on behalf of the rest of us (the down-market masses Dems love at election time and ignore once the voting's done): The rule of the snobs is over. It's time to give one of us a chance to lead.

Sen. John McCain <http://www.nypost.com/news/p/mccain_john/mccain_john.htm> 's one of us, too. He raised hell at Annapolis (quadruple ugh: military!), and he'll raise the right kind of hell in Washington.

McCain's so dumb he really loves his country.

Sarah Palin's dumb that way, too. How terribly unfashionable.

Ralph Peters' latest book is "Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World."

<http://www.nypost.com/seven/09202008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/our_sister_sarah_palins_anti_elitist_cha_129908.htm?page=0>


------ End of Forwarded Message

Do You Know the Real Barack Obama?
Carol Platt Liebau
Monday, October 06, 2008
As the 2008 presidential campaign hurtles into its final days, John McCain confronts a choice: He can either start telling the public about the real Barack Obama, or he can lose. For much of his career, McCain has been a media darling. He could count on the press to carry his water as long as he was a “maverick” Republican, driving more conservative members of his party crazy. But as he surely knows by now, when it comes to Barack Obama and the press, all bets are off. In covering Obama, the press has adopted a “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy designed to boost the least-vetted, least-known candidate ever to seek the presidency. It isn’t by accident that the media has denied all less-than-glowing stories about Obama the kind of consistent, sustained coverage that allows them to penetrate public consciousness. If McCain is going to have a chance at winning, he must make sure that the public becomes thoroughly acquainted with the real Barack Obama – the most radical presidential nominee ever. And because the press evidently intends to abdicate its responsibility to acquaint voters with the less-popular parts of Obama’s record, he’ll have to rely on paid advertising to do it. For starters, McCain should consider running a series of “Did You Know” ads about Barack Obama. He should ask voters, “Did you know that: Barack Obama has multiple ties to those responsible for the present economic crisis?:
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Franklin Raines, the immediate past CEO of Fannie Mae – who has collected a $90 million golden parachute while driving Fannie into the ground – has advised Obama on housing issues. Jim Johnson, yet another former Fannie Mae CEO, resigned from Obama’s vice presidential search team when it was revealed he had received a sweetheart home mortgage deal. Despite serving in the Senate for only four years, Obama himself has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac largesse in the entire Congress, ahead even of former presidential candidate John Kerry, who’s spent two decades in the Senate? Obama’s long-time political ally, radical group ACORN, played a key role in pressuring banks to offer loans to those who were unlikely to be able to pay them back. ACORN has taken credit for pressuring banks to accept undocumented income as a basis for offering loans, for offering loans without using credit scores, and for making 100% financed loans available to low-income people.



</BLOCKQUOTE>There is more, of course. Do voters know:
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">That, in apparent defiance of federal election law, the Obama campaign refuses to identify individual donors who have provided almost half the funds for his campaign, including obvious fakes like “Mr. Good Will” and “Mr. Doodad Pro”? And that 11,500 donations to his campaign – totaling almost $34 million – may have come from overseas? Or that two Palestinians living in a Hamas-controlled refugee camp spent $31,300 in Obama’s online store? Who are all these people, and why won’t the Obama campaign obey the law and identify them? That Jeremiah Wright wasn’t Obama’s first radical mentor? As a young man in Hawaii, Obama had a quasi-filial relationship with radical Frank Marshall Davis – an avowed member of the Communist Party of the USA. In fact, in his memoirs, Obama concedes that he attended “socialist conferences” and encountered Marxist literature. (Now imagine the outcry if a Republican presidential candidate had such ties to a Nazi). That the People's Weekly World – the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the USA – has rhapsodized about Obama’s presidential campaign, calling it a "transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term"? (Think about how the press would react if a fascist newspaper heaped such praise on McCain.) That Obama has routinely tried to intimidate his critics into silence? His political organization spearheaded a massive campaign against a Chicago radio show that invited one of his critics to appear – even after being asked (and refusing) to send a representative to balance the program, hosted by a non-partisan University of Chicago psychology professor. Worse, his campaign sought to chill free speech by establishing a “truth squad” of Missouri prosecutors and sheriffs, which threatened a “vigorous response” to any ad presenting information about Obama that they deemed to be “inaccurate.” And there are other examples. That even as America struggles to “bail out” our own struggling economy, Obama backs a global bailout? His Global Poverty Initiative would assess $2500 per taxpayer, according to Investor’s Business Daily, to fund a global war on poverty administered by the UN and its agencies. That despite touting his academic credentials as a rationale for initiating a campaign for president just two years after leaving the Illinois state legislature, Obama refuses to release either his college or his law school transcripts – just as he sought to keep records of his working relationship with former terrorist Bill Ayers on The Annenberg Challenge (a left-wing educational foundation) safely under wraps? What is it that he doesn’t want voters to know?





</BLOCKQUOTE>Repeatedly, we’ve heard the media denounce the “rumors” about Barack Obama that are, supposedly, circulated on the internet exclusively by the bigoted and the ignorant. But Americans sense that there is more to Barack Obama than they’ve been told. Having witnessed the media’s own bias and favoritism, they’ve come to suspect – reasonably – that even if any of the rumors were true, the press might choose to conceal them until the election is safely over. What’s more, they wonder: What else is the press not telling us? Certainly, it would be terribly wrong for John McCain to traffic in rumors. But he doesn’t need to. The truth is more than enough. There are facts that the American people deserve to know – and which the press isn’t telling them. By filling in the gaps that the media has left unmentioned, John McCain isn’t just doing himself a service. He’s doing journalists’ job for them, and allowing Americans to make an informed decision when they head to the polls next month.

Quote of the Century








'My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it.'



-- Barack Obama

"DRILL BABY DRILL"

Ever heard of the Bakken Formation?

GOOGLE it or follow this link. It will blow your mind. http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) that only scientists and oilmen knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since '95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota; western South Dakota; and extreme eastern Montana ... check THIS out:

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable... at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.

'When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.' says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyst.

'This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years,' reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette. It's a f ormation known as theWilliston Basin, but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' And it stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada. For years, U.S.oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago. However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's massive reserves... and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!

That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight.

2. [And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from TWO YEARS AGO, people!]

U.S.Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World!
Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006 Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush
mandated its extraction.

They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

-8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
-18-times as much oil a s Iraq
-21-times as much oil as Kuwait
-22-times as much oil as Iran
-500 -times as much oil as Yemen- and it's all right here in the

Western United States.

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this!? Because the democrats, environmentalists and left wing republicans have blocked all efforts to help Americabecome independent of foreign oil.

James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East -more than 2 TRILLION barrels. Untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post.

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Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price - even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, - it has to.
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[Got your attention/ire up yet? Hope so! Now, while you're thinking about it ... and hopefully P.O'd, do this:

3. Take 10 minutes and compose an e-mail; fax or good old-fashioned letter to all your friends and associates. Alert them to the fact that democrats and "liberal" republicans have been and will continue to obstruct all plans to make America independent of foreign oil. The only solution is to vote all democrats and Marxist oriented republicans out of office.

If you don't take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you want to complain about gas prices .. because by doing NOTHING, you've forfeited your right to complain.
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Glenn T Swindle

Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of you sent this to every one in your address book.

what??

It's an email about America doing it's own drilling and exploration of oil to become less dependent on foreign sources who have us by the yeng yang!

Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago:

"Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops die in unarmored Humvees"
"Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times"
"Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft"

Headlines Today:

"Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million"
"Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party"
"Everyman Obama shows America how to celebrate"
"Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration"


Hmmmm......my how our perspective changes huh.....could it be the media is biased???? Imagine that!!!!

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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">Please read and if you do not want to, atleast read the last one.... Hows that hope and change now? He's had a busy 100 days pushing his liberal, left-wing, radical, socialist agenda. I know this will anger you, it should ALL of us!!! Bush may not have been the best President, but B.O. is going to change this country all right, and we aren't going to like it!!!! ...but, by God, let's vote for CHANGE! You can verify all of this at the end of the info. We had better get on our knees and start praying. Good explanation of what has happened to our country that we used to know and love. And look what our tax payer money is paying for now (see end of this article). The first 100 days that the Mainstream Media=2 0does not focus on. Is this good for America and protecting our Rights and Freedoms! This is what's happened in 100 days, what do you think will happen in the next 100???? Absolutely devastating! Undermining Our Values 1. Calling for the repe al of the Defense of Marriage Act on the White House website. 2. Calling on the White House website for the expansion of federal hate crimes to include homosexual behavior. 3. Calling on the White House website for policies like the “Fairness Doctri ne” that could silence conservative and Christian talk radio. 4. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of human embryonic stem cell research. 5. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding o f abortions overseas. 6. Pledging $50 million to the United Nation’s Population Fund, which supports China ’s draconian one-child policy. 7. Proposing new rules to gut conscience clause protections for pro-life doctors and other medical personnel who don’t want to be forced to perform abortions or other procedures that violate their values. 8. Proposing increased funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. 9. Calling on the White House website for “a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year,” (mandatory volunteerism). 10. Inviting homosexual families to the White House Easter Egg Roll. 11. A llowing his attorney general to call for the reinstatement of Clinton-era restrictions on the Second Amendment. 12. Breaking his promise not to appoint lobbyists to his administration. He hired 17 in his first two weeks. 13. Breaking his promise to sign legislation only after a five-day period of public comments. 14. Asking that the monogram for Jesus Christ be covered up during a televised speech at a Catholic university in which Obama quotes the Sermon on the Mount. Undermining Our Nat ional Security 15. Apologizing for America in Europe and Latin America . 16. Bowing before the Muslim king of Saudi Arabia . 17 . Pledging to base America ’s foreign policy toward Iran on “mutual respect” in a video to the Iranian people and Iran ’s Holocaust-denying dictator. 18. Returning the bust of Winston Churchill given to George Bush after 9/11 by our British allies. 19. Giving British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the leader of America ’s most loyal ally, a box of DVDs that don’t work in British DVD players. 20. Ordering Guantanamo Bay closed without any idea of where to send the terrorist suspects held there. 21. Suggesting that some of those terrorists now at GITMO may kill again, but may also be released onto U.S. soil and set up with welfare benefits. 22. Caving to communist Cuba by relaxing travel restrictions and remittances for Cuban Americans before any Cuban political prisoners have been releas ed. 23. Shaking hands with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. 24. Sitting silently though a 50-minute anti-American diatribe by Nicaragua ’s communist president, Daniel Ortega. 25. Releasing Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the suspected20of masterminding the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. 26. Releasing classified CIA memos outlining our interrogation techniques. 27. Telling our CIA agents not to be discouraged when he acknowledges their “mistakes.” 28. Declaring a new ope nness to “truth commissions” and prosecuting intelligence officials involved in enhanced interrogations of terrorists. 29. Proposing t o send a $900 million foreign aid package to Palestinians in Gaza . 30. Asking Congress to relax the law so that some of that money could go to the terrorist organization Hamas. 31. Calling for the U.S. to eliminate its nuclear weapons. 32. Telling Russian President Demitri Medvedev that America ’s commitment to missile defense is negotiable. 33. Dropping the term “enemy combatants” for GITMO detainees. 34. Dropping the term “terrorism” for “man-made disaster.” 35. Dropping the term “Global War on Terror” for “overseas contingency operations.” 36. Giving his first interview as president to the Arab language network Al-Arabiya. 37. Telling the Muslim world that his “job” was to communicate “that the Americans are not your enemy,” when it’s Mu slim extremists who have declared war on us. 38. Proposing that military veterans use private insurance for the cost of a service-related injury before they would be eligible for coverage through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.20 Undermining Free Enterprise 39. Signing the trillion-dollar plus so-called “stimulus” bill, wh ich the Congressional Budget Office said would actually hurt long-term economic growth. 40. Saying Caterpillar wouldn’t lay off workers if his trillion-dollar stimulus bill passed Congress. Obama signed the bill on Feb. 17th. On March 17th, Caterpillar laid off nearly 2,500 workers. 41. Hosting a “Fiscal Responsibility Summit” one week after signing the trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill. 42. Railing against “outrageous recklessness and greed” of AIG bonuses that were legally protected in the so-called “stimulus” bill he signed four days after it passed, not five as he promised. 43. Breaking his promise on earmark reform by signing the $410 billion “omnibus” spending bill with billions in earmarks. 44. Proposing a $3.6 trillion budget that doubles the national debt in five years and triples it in ten years. 45. Proposing a “carbon cap and trade” scheme that will raise energy taxes by hundreds of billions, even trillions, of dollars. 46. Burning more than 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly to Iowa for Earth Day to promote “win d power.” < br> 47. Proposing $634 billion in higher taxes for socialized health care. 48. Proposing to raise taxes on small business owners. 49. Saying the White House is open to the idea of taxing employer-sponsored health care benefits as income. 50.20Signing a massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, calling it20“a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American.” 51. Establishing the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research to give bureaucrats the power to ration health care and tell your doctors what care you can and cannot have. 52. Signing the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act, which the Sierra Club praised specifically because it “will safeguard millions of acres … from oil and gas leasing.” 53. Suggesting he has found $1.5 trillion in bogus “savings” by not spending money in Iraq that we were not planning to spend years from now. 54. Ordering his Cabinet to “cut” $100 million in spending in 90 days, after proposing nearly $5 trillion in spending in his first 90 days. 55. Proposing to limit tax deductions for home mortgage interest. 56. Proposing to limit tax deductions for charitable donations. 57. Refusing to allow banks to repay TARP money. 58. Bailing out AMTRAK with a 10% increase in its taxpayer subsidies. 59. Bailing out the United Auto Workers Union with billions of taxpayer dollars to GM and Chrysler, wh ile the debtors20and stockholders get nothing. 60. Bailing out the United Auto Workers by giving it a majority ownership stake in Chrysler. Yes, the union will own the company. 61. Bailing out Big Labor by issuing an executive order mandating that infrastructure p rojects paid for with “stimulus” funds must use union l abor, guaranteeing higher costs for the taxpayer. 62. Bailing out Big Labor again by repealing regulations requiring the disclosure of how union dues are spent. So much for “transparency.” 63. Saying, “The United States government has no interest in running GM,” then vowing that the government will back auto warranties. 64. Saying, “The United States government has no interest in running GM,” then firing the CEO of General Motors. 65. Allowing states to set their own fuel efficiency and emissions standards, making it harder for struggling auto makers to compete. Personnel Is Policy 66. Nominating Timothy “The Turbo Tax Evader” Geithner as Treasury Secretary to oversee the IRS. 67. Nominating as attorney general Eric Holder, who urged Bill Clinton to pardon tax evader Marc Rich and 8 FALN terrorists. 68. Nominating David Ogden, a prominent attorney for the pornography industry, to be Deputy Attorney General. 69. Nominating Tom Daschle, who owed more than $140,000 in back=2 0taxes, as Health and Human Services Secretary. 70. Nominating Kathleen Sebelius, who is ardently pro-abortion and=2 0owed $8,000 in back taxes, to be HHS Secretary. 71. Nominating Janet Napolitano, who said, “crossing the border is not a crime per se,” as Homeland Security Secretary. 72. No minating Steven Chu as Energy Secretary. Last September, Chu said, “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe ,” which at that time were roughly $8.00 a gallon. 73. Nominating Ron Kirk, who owed more than $6,000 in back taxes, as Trade Representative. 74. Nominating Bill Richardson, who was embroiled in an ethics scandal, as Secretary of Commerce. 75. Nominating Nancy Killefer, who also owed back taxes, to be the government’s “Efficiency Czar.” 76. Nominating Rosa Brooks, a leftwing acolyte of George Soros, as an advisor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. 77. Nominating Harold Koh, an ardent supporter of using international law in the interpretation of our Constitution, to be the top legal advisor to the State Department. 78. Nominating Carol Browner, who was a member of the Socialist International, to be “Climate and Energy Czar.” 79. Nominating John Holdren, an environmental extremist and advocate of population control, as the White House Science Advisor. 80. Nominating Dawn Johnsen, who is so pro-abortion she once compared pregnancy to slavery, to to direct the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department. 81. Nominating Charles Freeman, an anti-Israel, pro-Arab apologist, to=2 0be head of the National Intelligence Council. 82. Nominating Tony West, who represented American Taliban John Walker Lindh and exposed the Bush Administration s terrorist s urveillance program, to the Justice Department’s Civil Division. 83. Nominating Annette Nazareth to be Deputy Treasury Secretary, who withdrew after a month-long probe into her taxes. 84. Trying to nominate pro-abortion Catholics to be ambassador to the Vatican , a move even John Kerry opposed. 85. Appointing Ellen Moran of the pro-abortion group Emily’s List as his White House communications director. 86. Appointing Melody Barnes, a board member of Emily’s List and Planned Parenthood, as his director of the Domestic Policy Council. 87. Appointing Harry Knox of the Human Rights Campaign (the largest homosexual rights lobbying group) to the White House’s Faith Based Advisory Council. 88. Appointing Adolfo Carrion as Director of White House Office of Urban Affairs, even though he is under investigation for kickbacks in a scandal nearly identical to one that cost GOP Senator Ted Stevens his election. 89. Nominating David Hamilton as his first appointment to a federal appeals court. Judge Hamilton has issued a number of controversial rulings, including prohibiting the Indiana House of Representatives from opening sessions with prayers in the name of Jesus. Other Obama Outrages 90. Telling congressional Republicans to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. 91. Coordinating atta cks on Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Ji m Cramer out of the White House. 92. Hosting weekly parties at the White House, serving up $100-a-pound Waygu beef during what Obama called, “the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” 93. Laughing it up on 60 Minutes as the country is mired in a recession. 94. Allowing Air Force One to buzz the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan , creating panic in New York City . 95. Disparaging Special Olympians on the Tonight Show. 96. Allowing his Department of Homeland Security to issue a report accusing pro-life, smaller government conservatives and returning Iraq/Afghanistan veterans of being “rightwing extremists.” 97. Promising to push for comprehensive immigration reform, i.e., amnesty. 98. Killing the school voucher program in the District of Columbia , while sending his two daughters to an elite private school, rather than D.C.’s public schools. 99. Moving the Census out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House. 100. Denying that the 1000's of Tea Party's were meaningful enough to be given any consideration ************* AND ONE MORE: Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen. Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA=2200. This is the news that didn't make the headlines... By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in=2 0"migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza . The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States , was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4. Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006. Let's review...itemized list of some of Barack Obama's most recent actions since his inauguration: His first call to any head of state, as president, was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory. His first one-on-one television interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television. His first executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just here within the U. S. , but within the world, using U. S. tax payer funds He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted. He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed. He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and the "terror attack" on 9/11. Now we learn20that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense. These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding bail-outs and "stimulation" packages. Doubtful? To verify this for yourself: www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488 </BLOCKQUOTE>

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