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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Crazy For You - Obama's Supporters Overboard
Barak Obama's supporters are absolutely crazy.
To see just how crazy, go to this blog: http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
To see just how crazy, go to this blog: http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
Saturday, July 26, 2008
RFK's Words and Some Thoughts of One's Own
The 60s were disturbing, turbulent years.
One solace we have in the world are words given to comfort, or to move us uncomfortably ahead, words spoken simply and eloquently, given in heartfelt depths of sincerity, to bind up our brokenness, and to give us courage.
To you who speak from a lectern, a pulpit or a dais - speak comfort to us, give harsh admonishment, but give us hope.
Tell us the hard things. That this battle is not yet won. That as we would look homeward for the angel of our own well-being, remember too that the Iraqi looks homeward for his peace.
And we are there for that peace, not for conquest do we stay, not for gold, riches, or oil .
But for Freedom! For all Peoples, do we stay!
For the countless number of unclaimed dead in Saddam's mass graves, do we stay! For them to be uncovered and revealed in a Day of Peace that was not theirs - but shall be for their children's children - do we stay!
We stay to complete Our Mission, and the Mission of Our Brethren and Sisters in the Field!
For when we stand where they have fallen, we stand on hallowed ground.
And we will not early abandon the hope that is theirs that they shall not have died in vain.
For this cause have they gone into the World.
Not to conquer.
But to lift the hands that hang,
to bind up the wounded heart,
to care for the widowed and their child
for those who have born the burden of this conflict,
both here at home
and there among those
Our
Iraqi brothers.
We have a hard work ahead.
God give us Grace
And Strength to not Shrink
In these days to come!
College Students Should Tap Into the Young America's Foundation
During my undergraduate work at the University of Utah, I could not wait to get out into the real world where very successful, credentialed men and women freely spoke of God, and their belief in His Son.
My professors were unrelenting in their attacks on religion. Which, as I look back on it, wasn't an attack on my deeply held conviction that God would somehow manifest Himself to me, reach out to me, and send messengers of His love for me.
That He did.
I've never needed "religion." But the fellowship of the Saints, who are no more strangers, who are members of the Body of Christ - that is a different matter.
Truly, though, those professors could never touch my core of spirituality - my sense of a larger reality than even they were aware of.
For a metaphor of what I mean, turn to the film Contact. The film stars Jody Foster as the hard-core scientist butting up against, and loving the Matthew Macoughany (sp?) character who believes in God and understands faith as having evidence - evidence of things not seen, but experienced at a very profound personal level - very real.
At the end of the Congressional inquisition, and not being able to communicate what she knows to others, she finds herself utterly alone, except for him.
And after a moving scene in which she attempts to tell the world what she knows and cannot utter well, she, as the embodiment of science, and he, the embodiment of faith, embrace.
And so should we all! Knowing that without love of our neighbor as we love ourselves, this world is a sterile promontory!
Without this love, even for the generations gone on, the Earth would be utterly wasted.
So, why the YAF? An oasis in a large unending desert.
Drink deeply!
Get involved today, call 1-800-USA-1776 or go to http://www.yaf.org/
My professors were unrelenting in their attacks on religion. Which, as I look back on it, wasn't an attack on my deeply held conviction that God would somehow manifest Himself to me, reach out to me, and send messengers of His love for me.
That He did.
I've never needed "religion." But the fellowship of the Saints, who are no more strangers, who are members of the Body of Christ - that is a different matter.
Truly, though, those professors could never touch my core of spirituality - my sense of a larger reality than even they were aware of.
For a metaphor of what I mean, turn to the film Contact. The film stars Jody Foster as the hard-core scientist butting up against, and loving the Matthew Macoughany (sp?) character who believes in God and understands faith as having evidence - evidence of things not seen, but experienced at a very profound personal level - very real.
At the end of the Congressional inquisition, and not being able to communicate what she knows to others, she finds herself utterly alone, except for him.
And after a moving scene in which she attempts to tell the world what she knows and cannot utter well, she, as the embodiment of science, and he, the embodiment of faith, embrace.
And so should we all! Knowing that without love of our neighbor as we love ourselves, this world is a sterile promontory!
Without this love, even for the generations gone on, the Earth would be utterly wasted.
So, why the YAF? An oasis in a large unending desert.
Drink deeply!
Get involved today, call 1-800-USA-1776 or go to http://www.yaf.org/
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Lessons From Kennedy
Already people want to draw parallels between Obama and Robert F. Kennedy.
Such similarities can prove either grand stature or mere mimicry.
You judge.
Such similarities can prove either grand stature or mere mimicry.
You judge.
People Want Poetry in Their Politics
Nixon said it best: People want poetry in their politics.
That is why we so admire Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King.
That is why there is a ground swell of support for Barak Obama. His New Hampshire speech evoked our desire for someone to tell us who we are.
And to do it with poetic eloquence.
For McCain to score essential points, he must, in his no nonsense way, create an eloquence like unto Churchill, or Shakepeare's King Henry V, or Lincoln.
People voted for Lincoln and FDR in times of war, and will vote for McCain at this time, if the case for our continued action is well-stated.
We must begin to see the war from the soldier's point of view, state that view forcefully and eloquently, then enlist the continued sacrifice of the People.
That is why we so admire Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King.
That is why there is a ground swell of support for Barak Obama. His New Hampshire speech evoked our desire for someone to tell us who we are.
And to do it with poetic eloquence.
For McCain to score essential points, he must, in his no nonsense way, create an eloquence like unto Churchill, or Shakepeare's King Henry V, or Lincoln.
People voted for Lincoln and FDR in times of war, and will vote for McCain at this time, if the case for our continued action is well-stated.
We must begin to see the war from the soldier's point of view, state that view forcefully and eloquently, then enlist the continued sacrifice of the People.
Speech Elements to Help John McCain
The Poet once wrote "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more..." Now is not a time to retreat or shrink from our duty to the brave soldiers serving in Iraq.
We cannot abandon our posts. We must summon the spirit of our better angels. For the ship is not yet safely into harbor! Iraq is yet in peril.
We remember that peril ourselves.
We have experienced it many times in our history, when in the cold of winter, leading a tattered army, a tall silver-haired general knelt in the snow and petitioned the God of Nations for the survival of this American revolution.
We remember the peril, when after four years of the bloodiest war in our history, just as the ship of our state was nearing safe harbor, fanatics of an insurgency gunned down our Captain - lying cold upon the deck, in Ford's Theater.
We remember the peril on a bleak day in Dallas.
Will the work of uncovering the mass graves continue after we have fled our duty?
Shall the murderous work of kill and conceal continue in Iraq? If we leave too soon will we then return to uncover newly dug mass graves?
Now is the time to "stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood," and complete the mission.
In peace nothing so becomes a man and woman as modest stillness and humility.
But when the bell tolls for an assertive defence, let us take to the field and stand between our homes and the war's desolation!
We, at home, cannot abandon our soldiers in the field and stand idly by. Ladies and gentlemen may cry Peace, Peace! But there is no peace with the fanatic terrorist.
For when we lower our guard, as we did in the years prior to the attack on our Twin Towers, the forces of evil gather strength, and pour war upon all nations. Save only for good men and women to stand and do something, dictators will continue their works of death.
[Still a work in progress.]
We cannot abandon our posts. We must summon the spirit of our better angels. For the ship is not yet safely into harbor! Iraq is yet in peril.
We remember that peril ourselves.
We have experienced it many times in our history, when in the cold of winter, leading a tattered army, a tall silver-haired general knelt in the snow and petitioned the God of Nations for the survival of this American revolution.
We remember the peril, when after four years of the bloodiest war in our history, just as the ship of our state was nearing safe harbor, fanatics of an insurgency gunned down our Captain - lying cold upon the deck, in Ford's Theater.
We remember the peril on a bleak day in Dallas.
Will the work of uncovering the mass graves continue after we have fled our duty?
Shall the murderous work of kill and conceal continue in Iraq? If we leave too soon will we then return to uncover newly dug mass graves?
Now is the time to "stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood," and complete the mission.
In peace nothing so becomes a man and woman as modest stillness and humility.
But when the bell tolls for an assertive defence, let us take to the field and stand between our homes and the war's desolation!
We, at home, cannot abandon our soldiers in the field and stand idly by. Ladies and gentlemen may cry Peace, Peace! But there is no peace with the fanatic terrorist.
For when we lower our guard, as we did in the years prior to the attack on our Twin Towers, the forces of evil gather strength, and pour war upon all nations. Save only for good men and women to stand and do something, dictators will continue their works of death.
[Still a work in progress.]
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