May I just interject here...
Posted By: Observer on 2008-02-23
In Reply to: Can I be honest here? sm - Not a racist
you act as if there are only white racists (who I agree are deplorable). There are also black racists and have been forever (Black Panthers in the past, Nation of Islam today...and many, many other groups) and they are just as dangerous as white racists. They hate whites, they hate Jews...hate pretty much anyone who is not black and even hate blacks who do not ascribe to their radical notions). It is pretty naive to think that all racists are white. Racism comes in ALL colors...all so-called religions and all walks of life. And friend...America is not predujiced as a country...but she certainly has a lot of predjudiced individuals and they are NOT all white.
As for Mr. Obama...he chooses to align himself with a church who supports Louis Farrakhan. Do some research on that church and its pastor, Mr. Obama's self-confessed mentor and hero. I cannot reconcile myself to the fact that that does not have some impact on who Obama is and what is core beliefs are and wwon't affect how he governs. And to me that is a matter of concern.
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May I interject? sm
King David, by today's standards, is not what one would call a Godly man. He committed adultery with the wife of a key officer in his army and then tried to cover it up by giving the man furlough to come home to visit his wife in the hopes that it would be believed the baby was his and he would not discover the infidelity. When the Uriah refused, David sent him to the front lines so that he would be killed and David would be free to marry the widow. That is the stuff of movies these days! Yet, he was a man after God's own heart. He reached out to God, sought God's forgiveness, and God did bless him in many ways.
My point is that, while McCain may not be considered a Godly man because of his past adultery and the way he divorced his first wife and even the way he disrespected his present wife not too may days ago, McCain's sins are between him and God and it is not up to us to judge him on whether he has sought forgiveness. Look at the way his first wife speaks of him. She could be bitter and hateful and really sell her story to the National Inquirer (inquiring minds want to know, ya know), but she has not spoken harshly of him.
Like sbMT, I believe that McCain is more in line with God based on what I have seen than Obama. Could Obama be a persecuted man? Maybe, but I am not willing to risk the next 4 years finding out for sure. I am not willing to risk the FOCA being signed into law so that more babies than ever can be killed and/or left to die in a dirty laundry closet. I am not willing to risk letting him pass legislation that would allow gay marriages nationwide. I am not willing to allow him to allow Bush's tax cuts to expire, even though I probably would, at my income level, get a check each month off the backs of those fortunate enough to make over $_________ a year (I can't keep up with the figure as it seems to change from day to day and person to person). I am not willing for him to impose high penalty rates on coal energy plants who will in turn have to pass those expenses down to the consumer and cause our electricty rates to go through the roof until they find a way to afford the technology to be able to build "clean coal" plants. As a single parent with a mortgage and the ever-present quandary of how to feed 2 teenage boys, I cannot run the risk of not being able to work because of being unable to afford the electricity to power my computer. I just cannot risk these things.
And, as a final side thought, that preacher in the pulpit you mentioned will be sorely and acutely aware of where everyone has gone and why he didn't get to go with them. He will know and he will feel the pain of the knowledge that he didn't tell others about it before it was too late.
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