We’ve all been in “desperate” places before and I know I sure have felt “saved” when someone…

“What is your notion of why so many Americans seem not to want to hear the full Monty — they don’t want to seem to acknowledge that a nation capable of greatness is also capable of cruelty?”

“You preached that sermon on the Sunday after 9-11, almost seven years ago. When people saw the sound bites from it this year, they were upset because you seemed to be blaming America. Did you somehow fail to communicate?”

As an editor at the only major local newspaper in Wichita, Phillip Brownlee should have the moral courage to criticize this fluff masquerading as journalism.

-Anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic bigoted white pastors who endorse white Republicans = Wingnuts approve

-Racially inflammatory African-American pastors who minister to African-American Democrats = Wingnuts disapprove

Here’s Pastor John Hagee describing the Roman Church, represented as the whore of Babylon, riding the “anti-Christ system.”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uViQ0hVV57Q

I eagerly await another installment of “who are you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?” brought to us by outlander.

I know some Obama supporters could use some of that sorta spirit just now.

In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)

The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy’s premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief’s medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation.

What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.

While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.

Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?

I have no data to back it up, but my gut tells me the reason for Hillary’s surge has less to do with Wright or Harvard or his being black, and more to do with the fact the many Democrats are seeing Hillary when she’s in full fightin’ mode.

You get the feeling watching her that anybody want a piece of her, she’d take over in that alley over there and let’s go. Bring out the knives? Cool, she’d be down with that (figuratively) (should go without saying, but hey).

You see a lot of that kind of fight in Obama, too, but you see more of it in Hillary right now.

Americans love to see their leaders relish a fight.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352945,00.html

Memo to Rev. Wright: Do Souls Have Colors?
Monday, April 28, 2008

By John Moody

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April 28: Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington.

I’m white.

I’m American.

I’m Christian.

I’m not a racist.

And I’m offended by Jeremiah Wright. The Trinity United Church’s former pastor put on nearly an hour of smug mugging for the cameras at the National Press Club in Washington. Among other things, he repeated with a kind of glee that the attacks on 9/11 were retribution for America’s sins. He tried to distinguish African-influenced Christian churches in the United States from those that are not. He said, in part, that his recent plunge into the limelight “just might mean that the reality of the African-American church will no longer be invisible.”

What reality is that, reverend? How is reality visible or invisible? Is it a different reality from my church? Who says so? God? Or just you? What the heck, to be polite, are you talking about?

Let’s be clear: Reverend Wright has the right to say what he wants; that is the beauty of this country that he believes has so wronged him. His remarks are protected, even if they offend me, which they do. I, too, have rights, including the right to offend the Reverend, which I expect this will do.

I attend a Roman Catholic church where the pastor and most of the congregation are white. Yet my pastor would no more speak of white America, or the white church, or the hardships imposed on white people by the U.S. government because of affirmative action, than he would say “Goddamn America”. This does not mean that there is uniformity of opinion in my church. I know that my pastor and I disagree on issues of politics. I know that because we have talked outside the church, not because he preaches his politics from the pulpit. I would find it impossible to attend if he did this, because that would be an abuse of his position. His job is to help me in my quest for eternal salvation, not to tell me the kind of world he wants to live in until he and I achieve that goal.

He does not preach in order to divide. He preaches to bring comfort and hope to those in the Lord’s House.

Wright speaks about white racism while espousing the kind of hateful, bitter (yes, I know that word’s been used before) division between white and black that is the essence of racism. Do I know what goes on inside his head? No. But neither does he know what thoughts I secretly harbor.

“Be not deceived, God is not mocked,” Wright said, quoting Galatians 6:7. Reverend Wright, who dislikes being judged by sound bites, omitted the first passages of that biblical book. “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own burden.”

Whose burden were you bearing when you spoke, Reverend? If Americans have sinned, are you ministering to them in the spirit of meekness? You speak of the black church, yes. But what of the white church? Do churches have colors? Do souls? Are you and your church superior to mine? Allow me to tell you: you and it are not.

Your words, reverend, were an affront to me, but of far more importance, to the Almighty. You can still atone, but remember, God is not mocked.

John Moody is Executive Vice President, News Editorial for FOX News

Really?

This is a non-story, non-issue.

Sooner or later, Max and the Americans will chime in, but their opinions are also meaningless.

The more important issue is what does Obama think and that has been noted over and over again.

Unfortunately, it would seem that America is not ready for hope and bipartisanship.

But McCluer, Fred and Grm prove that every day.

“The scab covered MonkeyHock can’t help itself. Pus pockets forming on brain prevent him making intelligent discourse.”

Yeah. Nothing demonstrates “intelligent discourse” like name-calling (“…scab covered MonkeyHock…”)and “Pus pockets forming on brain….”

And they say irony is dead.

“…MonkeyHock, at least I listened to all of the sermon…”

Which, of course is diametrically opposed to his previous post:

“I watched all the sermon that Fox News offered….”

Pick one lie, “Regular,” and stick with it for once.

I AM NOT RUDE! I am mean and I hope Sean DOES mind waking up with a horse head in bed with him. To the sound of the rest of us hitting our tambourines and singing chants! But quietly, we would not want to wake the entire neighborhood… That would be just rude.

Even if “Regular” listened to “…all the sermon that Fox News offered…,” he missed a lot, wgat with the Faux Noise Channel being a wholly-owned whore subsidiary of the Republic Party.
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They were unedited other than breaking them up into easily downloadable parts.

Oh and MonkeyHock, at least I listened to all of the sermon, which is more than you have.

I am informed; and you MonkeyHock are well…clueless as usual. Making up stuff as you go along.

http://althouse.blogspot.com/search?q=john+hagee