All Comments (20)

gary. we might both be geeks but i have to tell you, a willingness to take on al qaeda in pakistan IS middle of the road.

betty. if you watched the debate tonight, you heard obama talk openly about his jewish suppport. i'd take things you hear on rush limbaugh with a grain of salt--and definitely NOT kosher salt.

don't be disappointed in jews because one guy in florida reports that his family is racist. most jews i know are supporting obama. plain and simple.

Define middle of the road Andy he is already on record as saying we should consider attacking Pakistan. If that is middle of the road then I am a twenty something computer geek.

barbara, the ny sun recently did a story about obama's foreign policy team, which is quite middle of the road. and as the senator indicated today in ohio (see jta.org), he is solidly balanced in his views toward israel and clearly sees israel as one of america's most important allies. ironically, this may very well be what has motivated nader to run as a spoiler--that the presumptive democratic nominee is actually pro-israel!

Pagan you are in desperate need of a a few hours of actual history as opposed to the garbage you get in todays high schools and all too many colleges.

Government is at best a necessary evil. Any government able to do everything for you will, inspite of itself, wind up doing a great deal to you.

Obama is doing far more than talking about making the government work for you he is talking about the usual leftist redistribution schemes that over the long haul drive out jobs - the working man's true friend and leave all of us in a worse state than we were before. By the way the chief impediment to government is that there simply is far too much of it.

"Step Aside 'HEATHEN' , get behind Thee!"

"Step Aside PAGAN, get behind Thee!"

"Step Aside SATAN, get behind Thee!"

"Be Gone SEMiRAMiS, MOTHER OF HARLOTS!"

- By: "ShiLOH" (Dr. Harry W. Theriault) a/k/a, "The photon Bringer of the Apocalypse on S.pace-S.hip Momma Poppa "EARTH"!", aka the American-Born "MAETREYA", aka "MAHDi" aka "DELiVEROR", aka "BiSHOP Of TELLUS" and many names.

Note: Earth are a/k/a S.S. GAiA, aka S.S. GEOiD, S.S. TELLUSng something etc..

What is your reaction to the statement made by Ralph Nader saying the "as an Illinois senator, Barack Obama was strongly pro Palestinian but now has adjusted his position for the primaries" Do you trust a man, as a jewish leader, to protect Israel after not making any comment about his church honoring Farrahkan, a known jew hater. When are people going to vet this candidate and explore his positions on critical issues. I for one, as a Jew, am quite concerned about this. I am sick of hearing about his campaign for hope.

""Step Aside PAGAN, get behind Thee!"

Well, if you can't get behind yourself, who *can* you get behind?

I'll ask the neighbor's dog. :)

"Step Aside PAGAN, get behind Thee!"

'Step Aside SATAN, get behind Thee!"

Such inferior people indeed!

"Step Aside 'HEATHEN' , get behind Thee!"

- "ShiLOH" The photon Bringer of the Apocalypse on S.pace-S.hip Momma Poppa EARTH! a/k/a S.S. GAiA, aka S.S. GAiA, S.S. GEOiD, S.S. TELLUSng something!

"The ‘Stench of iSLAM’ is all over Borat OBAMA, et al!"

No, it's not. That's just something you snorted.

I mean, really, Gary, just cause Senator Obama talks about government working for *us* for a change doesn't mean he's talking 'Socialism.'

Frankly, I think if we keep slouching further into a mass-media plutocracy and some bizarre form of debt-feudalism, cause as the richest nation in the world we take care of our sick the *worst,* and the Republicans just *give big financial companies billions to 'bail them out' when people can't pay anymore...*

Well, somehow I think it's cold-comfort that no one with a religious burr up about public services can call it 'Commie.'

Seriously.

That's tired.

If unchecked profiteering by the wealthy few over hardworking people till they run out of business or their jobs go overseas, ...and the whole country is FUBARed, is what you think "God-ordained capitalism" is, I think I'll take some secular reality.

And someone who actually believes in *America,* ...we the people, and all that.

We can make this work. That's what this is.

" Garyd:

Only if one is deluded enough to find warmed over socialism hidden among many vague generalities to be an uplifting message."

Dude, the Red Scare is over.

We just want what we paid for.

And not to have the government screwing New Orleans while letting big corporations profiteer off the sick, then turn around and say, 'I told you big government didn't work... Let's divert more public wealth to my corporate buddies.'

You're so afraid of 'socialism,' you tell the big companies to build their own damn roads. Or better yet, *railroads.* Instead of filling my backyard with their fumes on roads *the people* paid for, so they can have a bigger profit margin on killing the future.

Then calling half the country 'Commies' for saying it doesn't have to be this way.

Yah.

Who pays for your paranoia about 'Godless socialism,' while you claim only Christians are 'moral' enough to exploit the workers and tell them they're evil if they stand up for their own earnings?

We all pay. America pays. Our children and our descendants will pay.

Enough. It's a capitalist country, already. Public services, however, do *not* have to be primarily accountable to fatcat shareholders.

Better management in the *people's* interest is not the 'sin' of 'socialism.'

It's what our representative democracy is supposed to be serving.

The Red Scare is over. Let it rest.

I enjoyed your article. I too believe the message is about community and hope. One feels that people of all religions are welcome and valued. His message is a refreshing change!

ann and mark b

thanks for your warm and honest comments.

In the Washington Post’s report on this week’s blog, it compares Mike Huckabee’s use of “faith” to gain political advantage with that of the other presidential candidates of both parties. Juxtaposed to this report is a story that inquires whether human tragedy is a matter of divine intervention or merely bad luck. The story has quotes from those who see God in the determination of death or survival, and those who see God in the human response to tragedy.

Both of these stories point to the problem of how we talk about religion. For some, profound belief in a supernatural being who is active in the world must manifest itself in a code, like the OT, NT or Koran, and by extension it must be manifested in the doctrines and creeds of a formal religion. In many cases for these believers, if you are a non-believer, you are either wrong, an infidel, evil, to be converted, to be demonized, or some combination of these and others.

What this point of view misses is the original essence of religion and human spirituality. If you consider the Latin root of the word religion, ligio, it means to bind, as in ligature or ligament. The essence of human spirituality is compassion and what religion should seek to accomplish is the re-binding of the human community after either natural or manmade tragedy tears it apart. I strongly believe that every religion – but also art, poetry, science and all other regenerative forms of human expression – starts with this basic human spirituality and compassion. Where it goes wrong is when people create rules (i.e., doctrines and creeds) to follow, and when the self righteous condemn those who only too humanly fail to perfectly abide by these rules, or worse, when the rules are manipulated by the powerful to inflict harm, then religion becomes antithetical to its own original sensibility. Unfortunately, so much of the suffering we see in the world today can be attributed to irreligious human acts, very frequently in the name of religion.

The stories in today’s Washington Post raise some things to consider in our presidential election. Mike Huckabee is on record as denying evolution (presumably because he believes in a supernatural God that created Earth as it presently is and who had the ability to codify that in Genesis) and calling himself a “Christian Leader.” He has said that he wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to be in line with unspecified parts of the Bible. He has a point of view, likely derived from his theological training, that he believes should be codified for all Americans.

Now take Barack Obama. The reason he is gaining so much support is because people sense that he is the opposite of divisive. (Personally, I think he is extraordinarily authentic. I first heard him on the radio in Chicago in a Democratic primary debate to become the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate, and I was impressed then by his welcoming and inclusive personality.) I believe that people all over the world, but certainly here in the U.S., want a sense of higher, common purpose, and this is, at its root, spiritual and religious in a very human sense. Most people want to care about something larger than themselves, and Obama gives the sense to the widest group of people that he is genuine in his desire to transcend partisan politics. Many so-called religious conservatives find him appealing, even though he would likely govern as a liberal. Again, I would say that the quality so many people see in Obama is his ability to re-bind our national community and world community, and this sense comes from a fundamentally human spiritual impulse; religious and other conservatives have a sense that they’d have a seat at the table with Obama.

What I find disappointing in the Post’s and the main stream media’s coverage of “faith” is that they define it as believers (often believers in a supernatural) and non-believers (often atheists). Indeed, the political right describes Democrats as “secular liberals,” which I understand is an attempt to set them apart from “believers.” In other words, the right tries to pigeonhole Democrats as the party of non-believers, and indeed, are the party of no faith, and perhaps even the party of atheists. All I’ll say about that is that it is a silly caricature that no one should ever take seriously.

I write this as a person of deep faith in the ability of true religious values, as manifested in the kind and compassionate acts of humans toward other humans, to transcend ego and self-interestedness; I believe that all religions, at their original core, are beautiful and good. But I also believe many of them have lost sight of what is truly meaningful. I am a religious humanist who believes deeply that the universe is perfect in and of itself, and only humans make it imperfect by unskillfull responses to natural events and unskillfull actions toward each other. We can choose to do better, and meditation, prayer, and visual thinking and analysis all can help us do better. I am a non-believer in any supernatural force that has a plan for our lives or consciously acts in the world, but I do believe that the belief in a supernatural inevitably leads codifying its will in divisive ways. To some, this would make me an atheist. So be it - while I don't believe in a God that fathered Jesus or created the planet, I don’t deny the existence of your God for you; I merely ask to consider whether your God would have created religion for the purpose of creating division and bloodshed, or whether he would have given you an essentially spiritual and compassionate nature in order to build bonds with one another. How would Jesus answer that question?

How we handle differences in our values is crucial question. Rather than defend and fight and demean, the compassionate way is to discuss and understand and to seek ways to build bridges and resolve differences as best we can. No one has a lock on truth, but when we act as though we do, this is when we have problems. Religion should serve as a means to bridge these differences, not deepen them. Our faith should be in each other; we should use our religious values to truly love through constructive engagement and listening and reconciliation, not to hate by insisting that our position represents the one and only truth.

Seems to me this is an attempt to associate Obama with Muslims. That is death to his candidacy for president. It's not so.

No candidate before him has ever been so non religious or non God. He does not call for supernatural help but rather help from the only possible source, people. He does not include heavy references to religion in his speeches or end them with the customary calls for God's blessings.

Obama knows religion is the enemy of democracy and therefore the enemy of a sound economy, justice, peace, and the survival of America. It's sad when a candidate must express religious beliefs, faith if you must, all that is opposed to democracy, a sound economy, justice, peace and our very survival is a requirement to be president.

http://www.hoax-buster.org/sellyoursoul says it all. One must sell one's soul to be president in the face of devil worshipers deemed to be the social crust.

The great thing about the Jewish culture, as opposed to most others, is that wisdom can be found in both its secular and religious aspects.

Only if one is deluded enough to find warmed over socialism hidden among many vague generalities to be an uplifting message. Obama's message isn't hope its the same old message of class warfare, greed, and envy hidden among flowery words to confuse the unwary.

Senator Barack Obama’s Nation Of Islam Connection Exposed!:
U.S. President Bush and the NAACP
During the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign, the NAACP's National Voter Fund ran a television ad against then Texas Governor and Republican Party nominee George W. Bush.

The ad featured the daughter of James Byrd, a black man dragged to death by three white men in a pickup truck, blaming Bush for refusing her pleas for a hate-crime law when he was Texas governor.

The ad also depicted a truck with chains dragging behind it, and was criticized by some for trying to connect Bush with the lynching.

In 2004, President George W. Bush (2001—) became the first sitting U.S. president since Herbert Hoover (1929–1933) not to address the NAACP when he declined an invitation to speak.[6] The White House originally said the president had a scheduling conflict with the NAACP convention,[7] slated for July 10-15, 2004. On July 10, 2004, however, Bush's spokesperson said that Bush had declined the invitation to speak to the NAACP because of harsh statements about him by its leaders.[7] In an interview, Bush said, "I would describe my relationship with the current leadership as basically nonexistent. You've heard the rhetoric and the names they've called me."[7] Bush also mentioned his admiration for some members of the NAACP and said he would seek to work with them "in other ways."[7]

On July 20, 2006, after having declined the civil rights group's invitations for five years, Bush addressed the NAACP convention, making a bid for increasing support at the polls for Republicans by African Americans, in the midst of a heated midterm election.[8]

--- Shame Shame NAACP for conspiring with OPRAH's "The-Secret" ARMY!

---

February 5, 2008 – Syndicated columnist Debbie Schlussel broke a story on January 30, on Senator Barack Obama’s close ties with the Nation of Islam (NOI), headed by black racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

Schlussel interviewed a former Obama insider on the condition of anonymity and learned that contrary to Obama’s recent statements distancing himself from Farrakhan and his anti-Jewish views, the Senator actually has staff members who are NOI members.

According to Schlussel, “… a former Obama insider says that Obama’s sudden aversion to NOI and Farrakhan is belied by the fact that Obama employed and continues to employ several Farrakhan acolytes in high positions on his Illinois and U.S. Senate campaign and office staffs.”

SHAMe SHAMe Stupid Materialistic White Woman & their Husband & or Boyfiends & NaiveKids via Oprah Winfrey's brainwashed "THE-SECRET" Army, and especially letting themselves get MEZZMERIZED via Obama's $million Dollar Plgerizing BARATONE-VOiCE! et al!

---

As a Matter of Fact, after now realiozing that Obama is not Self Made nor an original or self thinker, that "i" made a Mistake, back early summer, on This Blogg, were he appeared by Proxy, to have given Obama his Leadership Tips & how to Sell Himself Via that BARATONE $Million Dollar Voice!

Note: "i" used to train 'Telemarketers' & Face to face marketers & Bank-Card industry folk etc..on the "ART OF PERSUATION" or art of 'GOOD-SELLiNG"! not just "Good G-D Hunting"!

Secret: The best salemen/Woman are the Musicians, Actors & Artists! If ye want good to excellent Sale Forces, then Hire and or work with the Criterians mentioned above.

---

Please see this NATION of ISLAM wiki-linko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam

and read about how the Similarity's of Top-Gun's TOM CRUISE Scientology , so called Pre-Apocalyptic Religions, have their connection with FLYING SAUCERS, MOTHER SHIPS, PLANETARY VOYAGES et al with the NATION OF ISLAM & other SuperStupidStitious SPACE ALIENS beliefs!!!!????????

SHAMe Baratone Milliondollarrs Sale-pitch voice & Word Merchant OBAMA!

SHAMe On Billionairess OPRAH who abused the FCC Regulations to brainwash & Bribe her Audience.

SHAME on Dr. PHiL Mcg whom has Major stock ownership with that Pre-Apocalyptic THE-SECRET!

SHAME Top-Gun CRUiSE & His $cientology Army, who is conspired with Dr. Phil to Promote Obama!

SHAME on NAACP for Disrespecting Mr. Bush et al & conspiring to play the Religious & not religio Card!!

SHAME on NOI & their Flying Saucers Story's & WHITE MAN IS SATAn & WHITE WOMAN as DEViLS!!

SHAME on Jesse JACKSON, friend of Al Sharptin et al!

SHAME on ENGLAND for 'Illegfally' allowing BON JOVi to secretly Bribe Americans via false hopes & promises thomas's & TEE-SHIRTS & Hats & material Things (Free) Oprah's Materialistic WICCA/PAGAN/THE-SECRET Audiences as ARMY!!

SHAME On SAUDI arabia wahabbee's, for illegally & By Proxy supporting an Islamic OBAMA!

Each person named above & their Followers are not Voting PRINCIPLE nor American ; so they are all Conspiring to vote BLACK Roots, not White!

Heck; OPRAH WiNFREY has already DNA'd her "ROOTS" to a African SHAMAN/VOODO Chieftan!

PS: As of Yesterday "i" have discovered that MORACK O' BAMA has again 'Plagerized' his BOOK "THE AUDACiTY OF HOPE" , keeping silent, until Caught in the un-original ideas, by not giving credit where & when credit is Due, this time from his Honorable Now retired JERIMIAH WRiGHT.

Note: "Obama's [anti-white] connection to Wright first drew attention in a February 2007 Rolling Stone article which described a speech in which Wright forcefully spoke about racism against African-Americans....." And so;

--- V*O*T*E

MRS & MR. UNCLE S*A*M:

{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}}}{}}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}}
< ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +)
< ?: +) http:/// VOTO http:///\ < ?: +)
< ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +)
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
< ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +)
< ?: +) http:/// VOTE http:///\ < ?: +)
< ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +)
{}{}{}{}}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}}{}{}{}{}
< ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +)
< ?: +) http:/// VOTO http:///\ < ?: +)
< ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +) < ?: +)
[][][][][]][][]][]][]]][]][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
PEACE, PAZ, SALAAM, SHOLOM:........___________________
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton ACTiON, EXPERiENCE:

I find this article very interesting. I'm a Southern born and raised Baptist Baby Boomer. I remember in the 50's when a Catholic Church was built in my home town and the controversy that created.

I was in my 30's before I met my first Jew. I also remember the what friends and co-workers had to say about this person. I also remember what the neighbors had to say about my mother in the 60's and early 70's. She was called a N--Lover because when she picked up the housekeeper/nanny to my sister at the bus stop she did not make her sit in the back seat.

In the mid 80's and to this date I have been blessed with meeting many people of different races, religious affiliations and from many parts of the glove. I have had the opportunity to be invited into many of their homes and to attend many of their different celebrations. I have been amazed not by the differences but by the similarities that occur in many of these celebrations.

In the past 7 years it has disturbed me greatly how on segment of religion has gained so much power in America. Power that is coming close to having a full majority on the Supreme Court.

The thing that I admire about Obama is that he is a listener. He is about finding what people have in common rather that excluding them for their differences.

Fearing our neighbors and groups of people reminds me very much of of life in Mississippi in the 50's and 60's. It reminds me of how your on color can demean you because you look at what is inside of someone instead of the physical exterior.

Hope is a good four letter word. Thank you for the article.