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April  , 2008 - Character Questions

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Upfront - Character Questions By Brian Fitzpatrick - Critics are saying ABC should have focused on the “issues,” by which they mean Clinton’s and Obama’s policy proposals. Of course the policy proposals are important. That’s why ABC devoted the second half of the debate to them. But character, values and judgment ought to outweigh the “issues” when we’re electing a president. For one thing, the personal character of a president affects his job performance and the moral example he sets for the nation. For example, Bill Clinton – enough said.

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"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of unexceptionable characters. The public cannot be too curious concerning the character of public men." Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry Alonzo Cushing, editor (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907), Vol. III, p. 236-237, to James Warren on November 4, 1775.

"Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation." ..."The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches." John Witherspoon, The Works of John Witherspoon (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), Vol. IV, p. 266,267.

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Tell the FCC to keep FREE SPEECH FREE and not to tamper with Christian and religious programming! The FCC is taking comments on these proposals. You can add your comments to the record. The FCC can only make rule changes based on evidence – and the evidence you submit can make a difference! Although not directed specifically at those using the airwaves to disseminate the Good News of the Gospel, potential rule changes could put Christian Broadcasters in an untenable position. If enacted, the proposals could force Christian radio programmers to either compromise their messages by including input from those who don’t share the same values, or to run the risk of costly, long and potentially ruinous government inquiries.

Contact your Representative to put a five-year ban on unfair cell phone taxes. (NTU)

Christian Teachers and Students in Public Schools Across America Should Bring Bibles to Class -- Immediately -- by the Millions Persecution of Ohio teacher for Bible on desk is opportunity to stand for truth and justice. - "The nationwide righteous anger over the persecution of Mount Vernon, Ohio public school teacher John Freshwater for daring to have a Bible on his desk should inspire millions of Christians in America's public schools to bring in their own Bibles," says Bob Pawson, National Coordinator of the Scriptures in Schools Project. "Teachers, students, and support staff should immediately flood America's public schools with Bibles. Keep Bibles in class for the remainder of the school year. Find creative ways to use Bible references to complete some homework and in-class assignments each week," says Pawson, a Trenton, NJ public school teacher.

American Family Association Public Schools Poll - If there were an alternative to public schools that I could afford (such as private schools, Christian schools or home schooling), I would take my children out of public schools.

File an indecency Complaint with the FCC against NBC's My Name is Earl.  (Parents Television Council)

Also, included below, see letter to sign to Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME magazine.

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Netanyahu Warns World of a Nuclear Iran "Their goals are unlimited. Whatever successes they have had so far, they don't intend to stop. The militant Shiites in Iran are openly boasting that they are racing to develop nuclear weapons with the explicit announced goal of wiping Israel off the face of the map, and of reestablishing the caliphate, of course under militant Iranian rule."

Hamas Cleric: We Will Conquer America and Europe - Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal: "I believe that our children or our grandchildren will inherit our Jihad and our sacrifices, and Allah willing, the commanders of the conquest will come from among them. Today, we instill these good tidings in their souls, and by means of the mosques and the Koran books, and the history of our Prophets, his companions, and the great leaders, we prepare them for the mission of saving humanity from the hellfire on the brink of which they stand...."

“Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago [and more than $26,000 in 2007] to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend?... This contextual analysis of Wright’s venom, this extenuation of black hate speech as a product of white racism, is not new. It’s the Jesse Jackson politics of racial grievance, expressed in Ivy League diction and Harvard Law nuance. That’s why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It bathed them in racial guilt while flattering their intellectual pretensions. An unbeatable combination.” - Charles Krauthammer

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Obama's Head Condescending Remarks Reveal Obama’s True Feelings About Faith, Firearms and Working-Class Voters - Remember Herman’s Head, the Fox sitcom that ran from 1991 to 1994?

Obama's 'small town' comments perpetuate liberal myth, says observer A former deputy assistant to President Bush says during a recent private fundraiser in California, Barack Obama demonstrated his liberal elitism when he accused small-town Americans of being bitter and bigoted.

We're not bitter, Obama, just a little frustrated Barbara Anderson - Columnist Stephen Moore in the March 24 Weekly Standard writes "As California taxpayers wake up to the enormous future tax increases they and their children face to pay the expansive promises to city, county, and state workers, they're wondering, 'How did they get these sweet deals?'" He notes that "some of the highest paid state workers are walking away with lifetime annual pensions and health benefits of $300,000 a year. ... Nationally, public employees now receive (on average) $39.50 an hour in wages and benefits, according to 2007 Bureau of Labor Statistics..." So listen up, Obama-Phenoma, while I speak for myself and, I think, many other Americans who are wondering, frustrated, ticked, outraged even. Despite what you and your moonbat friends think, it has nothing to do with being either religious or a gun owner, or the things you equate with these — bigotry, anti-immigrant or anti-trade. We are angry about the privileged political and union classes, about ILLEGAL immigration, about UNFAIR trade agreements. ...I'm not beyond anger yet, myself. I left small-town Pennsylvania long ago, do not cling to religion or guns, but share my friends' feelings on illegal immigration and unfair trade. I admit to antipathy toward people who are not like me — not people of different race, creed or country, Obama, just smug, superior liberals like you and your San Francisco elitist supporters.

To understand Obama, read Sowell Michael Gaynor - The reality is that Obama is a secular extremist who disdains religion, which James Madison defined as "the duty owned the creator," as an expression of economic frustration, while historically the American people overwhelmingly are a religious people who believe that America is "one Nation, under God" and put their trust in God (as noted on America's currency and coin). ...Mr. Sowell: "It is understandable that young people are so strongly attracted to Obama. Youth is another name for inexperience — and experience is what is most needed when dealing with skillful and charismatic demagogues."

08-17 Digest PatriotPost.us (Mark Alexander) - Barack Obama is the most radical Leftist to ever make it this far in a presidential primary. In Part 2 of this series, “Disciple of Hate,” I summarized the influence of his religious mentor for the last two decades, black supremacist Jeremiah Wright. This week’s essay will provide insight into Obama’s political mentors, all protagonists of Marxist-inspired anti-American movements. If a man can be judged by the company he keeps, Obama should be judged harshly. He may be a “closet smoker,” but as more of his mentors are smoked out of his closet, it becomes increasingly clear that Obama is just another traitorous Leftist posing as an all-American. ...A more in-depth look at Obama reveals he may indeed be a “hard-core academic Marxist” as accused by his 2004 Senate campaign opponent, and sacrificial lamb, Alan Keyes. Obama admits to having attended “socialist conferences” as a “community organizer” in Chicago in the late 1980s, where he broke bread with Democratic Socialists of America lefties—also with full-circle connections to William Ayers. But that is hardly the extent of Obama’s fascination with Marxist ideology. According to my colleague, Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media editor and president of the UN watchdog group America’s Survival, Obama was mentored for most of his formative years by black radical Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA member. Obama had “a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis,” writes Kincaid. ...Obama’s record speaks for itself. In 2006, Senator Obama campaigned for the re-election of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who openly lists his party affiliation as “Socialist.” Sanders applauded freshman Sen. Obama as “one of the great leaders of the United States Senate,” and understandably so. Last year, National Journal, which rates members of Congress strictly by their voting records, ranked Obama as the single most liberal member of the Senate—a remarkable “achievement,” given the Socialist bona fides of the aforementioned Sanders.

James Madison to America: This is what we warned you about Jerry Bowyer - “James Madison wrote a pro-constitution editorial (known to history as Federalist 10), that described in prescient terms precisely why political factions are dangerous. When there is liberty, he argued, some men will create more wealth than others. Property and class factions are the result. Members of these different economic classes are tempted to pass laws which help themselves at the expense of the overall public good... Ambitious men with rhetorical skill exploit these factions, rising through them to positions of power. In fact, these ambitious men need factions in order to gain what they want. Groups of politically alienated voters are ideally suited to a demagogue’s desire for power and prestige. The narcissists and the fanatics feed one another... Washington, following Madison’s lead, warned us in his Farewell Address that the power of party (his word for faction) tends to create convulsion and ‘false alarms’; that is social unrest and bizarre warnings about phantom dangers. According to Madison, eventually factions can gain so much power that they are able to promote laws which destroy the liberty of other citizens. For instance (and these examples are his, not mine) they may erasing debt obligations, or impose trade restrictions in order to protect certain interest groups from foreign competition, or perhaps impose special taxes on the numerically small propertied classes. Both Madison and Washington also warned future generations about the role of foreign powers in this process. Faction leaders often identify less with America than they do with their country of origin. For all of these reason, factions should be discouraged, and their effects minimized, said the men who met in Philadelphia. As I write this, I’m less and less clear whether I’m writing about Philadelphia in 1788 (when the constitution was implemented) or Philadelphia in 2008 (as I see it shredded). You probably are too.”

08-17 Brief PatriotPost.us - “Before government hijacked charity in the form of the New Deal and Great Society, compassion and charity began at home. People were to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit prisoners, care for widows and orphans and love their enemies. Those were biblical commands to individuals, not government. Democratic politicians see things differently. Apparently believing there aren’t enough caring people, they want compassion to originate in Washington, depriving it of its true meaning. They define compassion as big and ever-growing government and a guaranteed check forever with no expectation—or requirement—the recipient will ever better his or her circumstances. Traditionally, Republican compassion has encouraged private charity with government picking up the leftovers of what religious and other charitable institutions were unable to do. President Bush, through his ‘faith-based initiative,’ took this one step further by subsidizing religious groups with federal money. This removes the responsibility and privilege from individuals and turns it over to government. When that happens, religious organizations become one more constituency in the never-ending campaign for political support. Once, evangelicals ‘prayed it in’ when they needed money. Now too many of them ask government to ‘send it in’.” Cal Thomas

A new Heritage map makes this clear the facts on the mortgage mess. Heritage experts broke down the data and found that the mortgage crisis isn’t as widespread as some media reports and politicians suggest. Instead, the problem is concentrated in a handful of states. Just 13 states, led by Minnesota, Ohio and Michigan, have a sub-prime foreclosure rate of more than 10 percent. Congressional efforts to “do something” about mortgages may actually make things worse and prevent economic recovery.

Violent chickens roost on candidates' shoulders: exploring the liberal/Marxist nexus Last week's Clinton/Obama debate opened a new door on an old coalition: What is it about Marxists (violent or otherwise) that attracts liberals (well-meaning or otherwise) to their defense? What is their common goal (to the extent that they have one)?

Union Corruption Update (National Legal and Policy Center)

08-17 Digest PatriotPost.us - “The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.’ On this Earth Day, and every day, let us honor the earth and our future generations with a commitment to fight climate change.” Or so said Nancy Pelosi in her Earth Day news release. The trouble is, the Bible doesn’t tell us that. Neither the quote nor a close paraphrase can be found in Scripture—Old or New Testaments. This isn’t the first time Pelosi has peddled her eco-theology either. December 2005 and February, April and October 2007 all found her using the same “quote” supposedly from the book of Isaiah. Her principle of putting the earth above Man, for whom the world was made, is a bit backwards to begin with. Not to mention a lie. We suspect Pelosi is reading the AAGV Bible—the Albert Arnold Gore Version.

08-17 Chronicle PatriotPost.us - “We never cease to be amazed by the inability of the left to feel shame and its lack of reverence for America and those who defend its freedoms, including the right to be stupid. The cover of the April 21 issue of Time, taking the famous Joe Rosenthal photo of Marines planting our flag on the blood-soaked island of Iwo Jima and replacing our flag with a tree, qualifies for obscenity of the year. It echoes the greenie theme first advanced by Al Gore in his book Earth In The Balance that the internal combustion engine is the greatest threat in the history of mankind. Gore and Bill Clinton have both said that global warming is ultimately a greater threat than terrorism... This trivializing of the sacrifice of American blood and treasure to defend freedom ignores the fact that in World War II we faced a real enemy with a terrible agenda. The bombs that fell on Pearl Harbor were quite real, not the output of some badly fed computer model. ‘Global warming may or may not be a significant threat to the United States,’ Tim Holbert, a spokesman for the American Veterans Center, [said]: ‘The Japanese Empire on February 1945, however, certainly was, and this photo trivializes the most recognizable moment of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history’.” - Investor’s Business Daily

Sign letter to Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME magazine - Brent Bozell has just drafted a very strong letter to Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME magazine in which he calls the cover "appalling, and offensive to the veterans of the battle of Iwo Jima, the United States Marine Corps, all members of our Armed Services and every American who understands and reveres the sacrifice of those Marines who fought and died to raise our flag atop Mount Suribachi."

“The big irony here is that while Obama has done extremely well for himself in our very unique free-market economy, he has the ‘audacity’ to demonize others who have done well for themselves, and to propose economic policies that, if implemented, would radically change our nation into something more akin to a Western European socialist state.” - Austin Hill

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