Politics at the altar
Did this help any of you evangelicals pick a candidate?
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Did this help any of you evangelicals pick a candidate?
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NObama
Posted on August 17, 2008 12:07 AM
No Gain for McCain!
Shalom
Posted on August 18, 2008 7:42 AM
I noticed that none of the fair and balanced, newspapers have had anything to say about the Q&A session! Could it be McCain kicked the dog dung out of the liberal papers superstar.
I think the superstar answered the questions great. Ugh, oh, mmm. Looks like the critics were right, he can only perform, when it is scrip. No wonder he lied about, town forms, and being on Mr Bill program. Maybe McCain was good because he was listen in. That what I read in the liberal press. I can tell McCain won, Doug Clark, has disappeared on this. Ms. McLaughin, no I one should know more about religion, and politics than you. Black preachers are great for, taking those envelopes with pictures of presidents to endorse a candidate.
Posted on August 19, 2008 8:28 AM
Doug Johnson, would thee please rewrite the posting above so that it is comprehensible. I am unable to understand/comprehend what was written.
Shalom
Posted on August 19, 2008 9:44 AM
Well, I think it showed that McCain is a think-on-your-feet guy who has had a full plate of life experiences, knows his military stuff and is clear-headed about baby killing. (Although I grimace at the thought of his choosing a pro-death running mate) - go figure!
If I recoiled at all from his responses it was that it was a bit TOO demonstrative and off-the-cuff. Obama's answers had a more self-effacing, deliberative and introspective feel to them - wrong though many of them were, IMO. One would have felt just fine if this had been your typical academic diatribe, where speculation and non-commitment rule, and no one expects many final anwers.
McCain gave an almost flawless political performance, with a ring of depth-sincerity, authority and decisiveness: all popular presidential qualities. After all, in these troubled times, no one wants a hem-and-haw, ah . . . ., back-and-forth egghead for a president, a la Adelai Stevenson. Eisenhower’s military confidence blew him away. One felt assured, American and positive after a McCain answer; confused and what-did-he-say? after Obama’s.
Even with his natural bravado, McCain’s answers had a ring of intellectual thot-thru-ness and cogency about them. Here was a man of principle (as much as one can expect from a politician these days), who knows God and His Son, Jesus the Messiah, and wasn’t ashamed to say so. Perfection is not a requirement for the presidency, but confidence, lucidity, principle, character, and impassioned love of country ARE!
Neo-Marxist doubts about the historic America vision, socialist economics, and globalist sell-out definitely are NOT!
Yes, as a political confrontation, this was a sure-fire checkered flag for McCain. Let us pray earnestly that it translates into victory in November.
Posted on August 19, 2008 9:44 AM