That as a brother in Christ, I love Barak Obama. Do I have fundamental differences with him? Yes. Do I feel at this point in time, he prepared to lead the country? No. I consider him more a babe in Christ at this point in his life. With great potential, but still learning.
One of the thing that the Bible does say.....is know evil. Do I consider Barak Obama evil. No. Do I consider him always walking in the spirit and ready to do the Holy Spirt will? No.
Way do I say that? Consider the Rev. Wright and Trinity Church issue. Had Rev. Wright truely lead Barak Obama to Christ. He not have justified Wright's behavior with a comment of little old white women. White's behavior in church is less than love. That is when the Holy Spirit condems us and makes it specific to the person failing to love. Barak has yet to learn that.
Wish another example? Tony Resko. Barak knew Resko for 16 years. Had attended parties given by the man. Bought properties. Now here Resko was on the hardest day of his life.....just being convicted of corruption. Barak neither defended him or sought mercy for him in the Press. Barak three answer to flood of reporters questions. He could had said some of the positives about the Resko relationship.....there positive to every human relationship....not matter how hard they might be.
Wish a third? Barak's brother George. They meet for the first time in many years. George is in stark proverty. Barak is with plenty. Yet when the meeting is done, George is just as poor. To leave his 1/2 brother in proverty....is not love. Nor would have been buying him a mansion. But leaving him with enough to change his living conditions would have an act of love.
Wish a fourth? His argued position on the death of the aborted fetus in the IL Senate. That a infant of 45 of life, whose life could be justified as a non person and could be allowed to die with out giving aid. Is not a position of love.
Barak is learning.....as we all are. We all make these mistakes to fail to love. Even McCain. And myself. Are McCain failures any worse than Baraks? Or mine? No. Not it the eyes of a Holy God. A Loving God.
Ship, Sky, and many others will blast me for this post. I suspect. But let us just say I was led by the Holy Spirit to write it.:-) With the tone of the race...many are going to this is an insincere post by a REP. It is not. In Christ, I can do all things.....including love Barak Obama.
That as a brother in Christ, I love Barak Obama. Do I have fundamental differences with him? Yes. Do I feel at this point in time, he prepared to lead the country? No. I consider him more a babe in Christ at this point in his life. With great potential, but still learning.
One of the thing that the Bible does say.....is know evil. Do I consider Barak Obama evil. No. Do I consider him always walking in the spirit and ready to do the Holy Spirt will? No.
Way do I say that? Consider the Rev. Wright and Trinity Church issue. Had Rev. Wright truely lead Barak Obama to Christ. He not have justified Wright's behavior with a comment of little old white women. White's behavior in church is less than love. That is when the Holy Spirit condems us and makes it specific to the person failing to love. Barak has yet to learn that.
Wish another example? Tony Resko. Barak knew Resko for 16 years. Had attended parties given by the man. Bought properties. Now here Resko was on the hardest day of his life.....just being convicted of corruption. Barak neither defended him or sought mercy for him in the Press. Barak three answer to flood of reporters questions. He could had said some of the positives about the Resko relationship.....there positive to every human relationship....not matter how hard they might be.
Wish a third? Barak's brother George. They meet for the first time in many years. George is in stark proverty. Barak is with plenty. Yet when the meeting is done, George is just as poor. To leave his 1/2 brother in proverty....is not love. Nor would have been buying him a mansion. But leaving him with enough to change his living conditions would have an act of love.
Wish a fourth? His argued position on the death of the aborted fetus in the IL Senate. That a infant of 45 of life, whose life could be justified as a non person and could be allowed to die with out giving aid. Is not a position of love.
Barak is learning.....as we all are. We all make these mistakes to fail to love. Even McCain. And myself. Are McCain failures any worse than Baraks? Or mine? No. Not it the eyes of a Holy God. A Loving God.
Ship, Sky, and many others will blast me for this post. I suspect. But let us just say I was led by the Holy Spirit to write it.:-) With the tone of the race...many are going to this is an insincere post by a REP. It is not. In Christ, I can do all things.....including love Barak Obama.
At least you spelled his name correctly! And didn't call him Hussein. I give you that.
mbcaseyNorth Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA16,449 posts
So your source about McCain's health is internet chatter?
If you feel so strongly about the issues, why not just debate them instead of bringing up McCain's mental illness (if he has one to begin with).
You lose any credibility with just conjecture on your side. And what's worse, is the conjecture is done only to seek and destroy someone personally. It's the height of cowardice and beneath any intelllectual discourse.
I don't know why anyone would answer your posts made here Dude....following my own words, this will be my last one to you.
Obama just came out with his program to get the economy going again.
-90 day foreclosure halt to banks that get bailout money -$3000 tax credit to small business that make a job for two years -Allow people to take up to $10,000 from thier 401K without penalties.
Obama and his economic advisors think that these three points are a 'jumb start' the economy with these....they are dreaming.
I can get more than that from my county economic developement council and a small business loan. Between the two....$2700 in tax credit for each job created, $120,000 in locating benefits, and a $5000 paid training program costs for each employee.
The 90 day foreclosure halt just delays in the invetible...if the homeowner does not have income to pay the mortgage and it is badly in default, it is still gone. He has lost his equity. McCain plan is to buy or loan at this level and solve the problem. People will keep the equity in thier homes. That will help to make the price increase.
About same for the three point Obama plan for the economy jump start, Ras.
People need to be reassured on thier equity in thier homes. Many have then partially or nearly paid off. Without something at the grass root level of lender and borrower......it will not work well.jmo
mbcasey: So your source about McCain's health is internet chatter?
If you feel so strongly about the issues, why not just debate them instead of bringing up McCain's mental illness (if he has one to begin with).
You lose any credibility with just conjecture on your side. And what's worse, is the conjecture is done only to seek and destroy someone personally. It's the height of cowardice and beneath any intelllectual discourse.
I don't know why anyone would answer your posts made here Dude....following my own words, this will be my last one to you.
mbcasey: So your source about McCain's health is internet chatter?
If you feel so strongly about the issues, why not just debate them instead of bringing up McCain's mental illness (if he has one to begin with).
You lose any credibility with just conjecture on your side. And what's worse, is the conjecture is done only to seek and destroy someone personally. It's the height of cowardice and beneath any intelllectual discourse.
I don't know why anyone would answer your posts made here Dude....following my own words, this will be my last one to you.
Good luck in life...
I respect you mb and with respect to Dude don't agree with all of the stuff he has said....though he does try to produce sources. However, before condemning his tactics you have to look at the stuff being thrown at him for months. It is beyond belief how he keeps his good humour.
Fallingman: Yes, I prefer a more subtle form of politics...
However, if one has to choose!!.
I'm with you Dude and the forces of optimism
Ditto fallingman!!!!!!!!!!
The time of endless Fear and endless suppression and endless killing of the inoncent and recession and endless killing of mother natur is soon going to end, and we will all being able to Smile back one more time!
The last Dinasour on Run is going to be defeated soon in the coming ameircan election and after that....... We will all Dance together with our american friends who we all miss dancing with since the Bushney,s unfortunatily took over in 2001!
The time of endless Fear and endless suppression and endless killing of the inoncent and recession and endless killing of mother natur is soon going to end, and we will all being able to Smile back one more time!
The last Dinasour on Run is going to be defeated soon in the coming ameircan election and after that....... We will all Dance together with our american friends who we all miss dancing with since the Bushney,s unfortunatily took over in 2001!
Following a Justice Department indictment last year, Chiquita admitted to illegally funding the paramilitaries and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. Chiquita's payments to the AUC began in 1997 and lasted seven years; roughly half of the funds came after the group was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 2001.
According to the Justice Department, the payments "were reviewed and approved by senior executives" of Chiquita, who knew by no later than September 2000 "that the AUC was a violent, paramilitary organization."
Late last week, Lindner co-hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for McCain and the Republican Party in the wealthy Indian Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The event raised about $2 million; Lindner also serves on McCain's Ohio Victory Team.
While Lindner was CEO of Chiquita, the company began sending money to the AUC through its shipping subsidiary Banadex. A report by the Organization of American States states that Banadex also engaged in arms trafficking, helping to deliver 3,000 Nicaraguan AK-47 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition to the AUC in 2001. According to federal prosecutors, when company officials realized the arrangement was illegal, they switched to making the payments in cash.
"We believe they saved people's lives," a Chiquita spokesman told Time magazine last year, alleging that the company was simply trying to avoid violence against their employees.
Chiquita's funding of violent paramilitaries does not end with the right-wing AUC. The fruit giant "had been making similar payments to the leftist FARC and ELN guerrillas" since 1989, also on Lindner's watch. Those payments ended in 1997 as "control of the company's banana-growing area shifted" to the AUC, according to the Associated Press.
McCain, who is currently visiting Colombia to promote free trade, has described FARC as "one of the worst" terrorist groups and accused his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, of being unwilling to support Colombian President Uribe's anti-terrorist efforts.
That the Arizona Republican is raising funds from a man whose company once paid that very same terrorist group seems likely to sully his charge.
Aides to the Senator did not return request for comment, though they have repeatedly argued that the campaign does not have direct connections to companies represented by such fundraisers or advisers and, as such, should not be held accountable for their actions or presumed to be persuaded by their interests.
However, in the past, McCain has done favors on Lindner's behalf. Last May, the Washington Post reported that in the late 1990s, McCain "promoted a deal in Arizona's Tonto National Forest involving property part-owned by Great American Life Insurance, a company run by billionaire Carl H. Lindner Jr., a prolific contributor to national political parties and presidential candidates."
Moreover, McCain's chief political adviser, Charlie Black, lobbied for Chiquita on two separate occasions in 2001. According to records, Black was paid $80,000 to work on foreign trade issues.
Black, as the Huffington Post reported on Tuesday, has represented other controversial clients with operations in Colombia. From 2001 through 2007, his work brought his firm more than $1.6 million in lobbying fees from Occidental Petroleum, a company whose security arm was accused of bombing a Colombian village and killing 17 civilians in 1998.
6. Ties to backers who funded terrorist groups......
So if we're gonna talk ties...whose are worse and whose judgment should be called into question more????
Hugz_n_Kissez: Following a Justice Department indictment last year, Chiquita admitted to illegally funding the paramilitaries and agreed to pay a $25 million fine. Chiquita's payments to the AUC began in 1997 and lasted seven years; roughly half of the funds came after the group was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department in 2001.
According to the Justice Department, the payments "were reviewed and approved by senior executives" of Chiquita, who knew by no later than September 2000 "that the AUC was a violent, paramilitary organization."
Late last week, Lindner co-hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for McCain and the Republican Party in the wealthy Indian Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The event raised about $2 million; Lindner also serves on McCain's Ohio Victory Team.
While Lindner was CEO of Chiquita, the company began sending money to the AUC through its shipping subsidiary Banadex. A report by the Organization of American States states that Banadex also engaged in arms trafficking, helping to deliver 3,000 Nicaraguan AK-47 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition to the AUC in 2001. According to federal prosecutors, when company officials realized the arrangement was illegal, they switched to making the payments in cash.
"We believe they saved people's lives," a Chiquita spokesman told Time magazine last year, alleging that the company was simply trying to avoid violence against their employees.
Chiquita's funding of violent paramilitaries does not end with the right-wing AUC. The fruit giant "had been making similar payments to the leftist FARC and ELN guerrillas" since 1989, also on Lindner's watch. Those payments ended in 1997 as "control of the company's banana-growing area shifted" to the AUC, according to the Associated Press.
McCain, who is currently visiting Colombia to promote free trade, has described FARC as "one of the worst" terrorist groups and accused his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, of being unwilling to support Colombian President Uribe's anti-terrorist efforts.
That the Arizona Republican is raising funds from a man whose company once paid that very same terrorist group seems likely to sully his charge.
Aides to the Senator did not return request for comment, though they have repeatedly argued that the campaign does not have direct connections to companies represented by such fundraisers or advisers and, as such, should not be held accountable for their actions or presumed to be persuaded by their interests.
However, in the past, McCain has done favors on Lindner's behalf. Last May, the Washington Post reported that in the late 1990s, McCain "promoted a deal in Arizona's Tonto National Forest involving property part-owned by Great American Life Insurance, a company run by billionaire Carl H. Lindner Jr., a prolific contributor to national political parties and presidential candidates."
Moreover, McCain's chief political adviser, Charlie Black, lobbied for Chiquita on two separate occasions in 2001. According to records, Black was paid $80,000 to work on foreign trade issues.
Black, as the Huffington Post reported on Tuesday, has represented other controversial clients with operations in Colombia. From 2001 through 2007, his work brought his firm more than $1.6 million in lobbying fees from Occidental Petroleum, a company whose security arm was accused of bombing a Colombian village and killing 17 civilians in 1998.6. Ties to backers who funded terrorist groups......So if we're gonna talk ties...whose are worse and whose judgment should be called into question more????
The time of endless Fear and endless suppression and endless killing of the inoncent and recession and endless killing of mother natur is soon going to end, and we will all being able to Smile back one more time!
The last Dinasour on Run is going to be defeated soon in the coming ameircan election and after that....... We will all Dance together with our american friends who we all miss dancing with since the Bushney,s unfortunatily took over in 2001!
hey!! i just figured out how to have fun reading ''dudes'' post's....read them with a lisp its really funny
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Looks Great ind eed!
49 procent for Obama and 41 procent for McCain!
OBAMA ROCKS, McCAIN SUCKS!!!!!!!!