The $1.5 million that Sam Brownback raised in the second quarter looks pretty good when you consider former GOP front-runner John McCain reportedly only has $2 million left. Still, Des Moines Register political columnist David Yepsen speculated Thursday that Brownback, Mike Huckabee or Tommy Thompson “might not be on the field come Aug. 12” — the day after the party’s Iowa straw poll. And as Brownback signed books earlier this week at an Ames, Iowa, store, he answered concern about his prospects this way: “Keep me in your prayers. You can get down about it some days, but prayer will keep you going.”
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Nope, “prayers” will not be enough, they NEVER are.
Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama also asked to be included in prayers.
So Rhonda, why not make a topic on that? :)
So what is the “Power of Prayer,” anyway?
“God” in His infinite and omnipotent wisdom is gonna do something until a bunch of faithful change His mind?!
I remember reading a sidebar several years ago about how the Rev. Richard Taylor of the Kansas United Dry Forces, as a guest preacher, gave a moving and inspirational prayer to the Kansas Senate opposing reform of the Kansas Private Club laws.
After reform passed, one Senator said something along the lines of, “Perhaps Dick Taylor should have given his prayer to *God* instead of to the Senate.”
If the prayers of the faithful really change the Will of God, then “God” isn’t up to the job requirement. Omnisceince and omnipotence means nothing if enough mere mortals on their knees can change His course of action.
Pull out your old Dylan album, or look up the lyrics to “With God on Our Side.” You’ll be reminded just how corrupt religionists are when they envoke “God” as a partisan political force.
Maybe Sam the Sham will be able to leverage his many days in Iowa into surviving the August straw poll. No doubt he’ll take it as “God” on his side.
But ultimately, if there really is an omniscient “God,” Sam Brownback doesn’t have a prayer.
Really, isn’t this whole presidential thing too insignificant for God to bother with? Sam, you want people to pray for you so you can become president? Well, Sam if you were a real Christian you would be asking them to pray to cure cancer.
Sam has been stirring up some unusual support at http://baptistsforbrown2008.wordpress.com/ and press in the Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com/popular/ci_6300545. He has my vote because he stands for the kind of values that are important to me. The liberal media is the only reason Brownback isn’t leading the polls right now. Yes, I will pray for Sam Brownback and that this country elects him as the next president.
Now look who’s being nic switched. LOL!
“Republican” said –
“The liberal media is the only reason Brownback isn’t leading the polls right now.”
Really?!
So it’s the “liberal media” that’s promoted the candidacies of Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney?! It’s the “liberal media” that’s derailed the “Straight Talk Express?”
Damn!
There’s the old saying, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
All you’ve got is the “Mainstream Media” meme!
C’mon, “Republican.” Get in touch with reality. Everything the Republic Party *said* it believed in has been revealed as a lie. Whatever happened to congressional term limits (as promised by Gingrich’s “Contract with America?” How’d that “Balanced Budget Amendment” work out back when the Republic Party dominated Congress?
You’ve got a great issue with your “Every Sperm is Sacred” diatribes, but after 12 years of Republic Party domination of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government, Roe v. Wade remains the law of the land. Were you lying to your voters or are you merely incompetent when the people put you in power?
Funny, isn’t it, that the only people who have prospered under Republic Party domination are the shareholders of Halliburton and the corporate-owned “mainstream media”?
Funny thing about the “mainstream media.” To keep some modicum of credibility, they sometimes have to insert a bit of reality into their equation.
So even Fox News praises Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” a film that graphically demonstrates the absurdity of making healthcare a for-profit enterprise. And Republic Party loyalists are, bit by bit, coming to the realization that George WMD Bush’s Iraqi adventure is misguided and doomed for failure.
Maybe — just maybe — the promises Americans believed the Republic Party might have been able to deliver after Newt Gingrich’s 1994 promise in the “Contract With America”… maybe that might have been a good thing. But when the Republics took power, they abused their mandate and abused their voters.
Republics turned Congress into a self-serving cash cow. They got it by blaming anyone who objected to Americans being sent to die in Iraq as “on the side of the terrorists.”
The Republic Party is pretty good at ginning up emotions before the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered years. That’s their only accomplishment in recent American politics.
How proud you must be.
“Republican” said –
“The liberal media is the only reason Brownback isn’t leading the polls right now.”Posted by: Long Time Poster, First Time Lurker | July 06, 2007 at 08:11 AM
Show me where I posted that LTPFTL.
Another lie told yet again by another lying Leftist Liberal.
Posters and people who think like LTPFTL are what is exactly wrong with the Democratic Party. That is, they actually believe their own made-up lies.
The difference between a Democrat believing the lies of the Democratic Party and a Republican believing the lies of the Republican party is what exactly?
Which lies you feel more comfortable with.
Sam needs to quit chasing windmills and go back to work for Kansas in the Senate. If I missed as much work as he has, I’D BE FIRED!!
Sam Brownback would make a great President – of Mexico!
“Keep me in your prayers. You can get down about it some days, but prayer will keep you going.”
Death rattles?
He has my vote because he stands for the kind of values that are important to me. The liberal media is the only reason Brownback isn’t leading the polls right now. Yes, I will pray for Sam Brownback and that this country elects him as the next president.
Posted by: Republican
The liberal press (if there is such a thing) is NOT the reason Brownback is not leading in the polls. That problem has to do with Brownback himself – he is a flip-flopper that will hide behind the American Flag and the Crucifix to get his votes. What a sad commentary to think people who consider themselves quite intelligent to fall for this snake oil salesman.
Prayers are equivalent to hopefulness and positive thinking. We all do it in one shape or form. People pray so much that eventually positive things will happen that match their prayer. Maybe it helps keep folks out of therapy, not sure.I could stand to pray given that I am a pessimistic soul.
My feeling is that the liberal label given to the media has more to do with human nature than it does purposeful bias. Journalists are by nature people who need to understand human nature and report on it.So much of unwelcome reporting, as expressed by the right, is ‘just’ journalists doing their job, and using the objective humanistic judgment. I think the war is the best example. Only the White House believes anything is going well, and they complain that no one else sees what they see, and the GOP loves to hate the media.
I’m waiting for Pat Robertson now to come out and say that God has told him that Sam Brownback is God’s boy for president. What a crock!
That may work in the Southern states where the intellect standards are not too high; but I do not think it will work in the rest of the country. The so-called Christian Right has lost their political power as of late. Too many sex scandals involving their top leaders. Too many of their top leaders have been shown to be hypocrits.
We’ll see who is blah blah blahing all the way to loser tank in 2008 when Republicans get their asses handed to them – again!
I pray that Sam Brownback will be the Republican nominee for 2008. It will assure a landslide for the Democrats and they won’t even have to run anyone particularly that great.
Go Sam go!
those with no logic always resort to what they know best – blah blah blah blah.
You’ve shown your intellect and what I said before has been proven by yourself cramit.
I will keep Borwnback in my prayers: Lord I PRAY that this man is NOT only never elected President of the United States of America but that he is voted out of the United States Senate and never put in any public office again. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen