Comment: I have 3 children all under 10 years old, and they know Sundays are church days and get dresses up for the occasion. The best way to campaign was to attend sevral different churchs through out the week, and none of them were his? This isn't a Christian, this is a poser. Very scary!!
Comment: his man professes to be a Christian which in fact in greek means a follower of Christ its funy i read a article 3 days ago that stated. That obama makes comments like not believing in buying his children Christmas and birthday gifts this is a practice muslims make i being a minister anf ordained know this to be true i have a few muslim friends and we discuss custom this is 1 that came up now i read that this man who is everything to every1 who ever he is talking to makes a statment like this check it out its on the internet in a small cnn article gee i wonderwhy lol
in Him
Rev Mike
Comment: Deeds and works are not enough. More important than those is showing mercy. What this would mean for a president imo is that he would think about enacting laws that do not show more compassion for criminals than they do for potential victims. Putting restrictions on women's rights to abortion are not laws which show compassion. To show compassion for people you need to treat them with dignity not like animals or slaves.
Comment: IRAQ IS DISTRACTING FROM EVERY OTHER THREAT AND OBAMA PLAYING THE RACE CARD ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER CRAP LIKE RESKO, REV WRIGHT, AYERS, MARXIST, THE COVER OF THE NEW YORKER, THE FIST BUMP, WHAT RELIGION HE IS, THE DEMOCRATS HOUSING DEALS, ALL OF THESE THINGS AND MORE ARE DISTRACTING THE VOTERS FROM THE REAL ISSUES LIKE OBAMA'S VOTING RECORD, OR HIS CHANGES ON THE ISSUES HE LIKES ALL THIS NEGITIVE PUBICITY BECAUSE IF THE VOTERS FOCUS ON THIS THEN THEY WILL NOT SEE THAT HE IS IN FACT UNABLE TO RUN THE COUNTRY !! IT???S JUST A DIFFERENT FLAVOR OF KOOL AID!
Comment: Obama you will Win Twice the elections
Comment: My vote is for the man who believe in peace not in war.
Comment: Obama, just trust in God and you will win the elections.
Comment: Only A man with good intentions to his country and God will win his battles.
Comment: A man with a good faith in God / Jesus and also and his country will win the elections.
Comment: I am believer of the faith in God. Obama have to continue in faith in God. He will win the electiions.Let God decide your future if you have good intentiopns for this country you will win.
Comment: The idea abut God is great and if Obama continue trusting in God everything will be just fine.
Comment: To Fatjoy, I'm just curious to know why this country would not elect a black or female president?
Comment: because we as a nation are way to prejudical?!?! we're no way near ready!!! to think otherwise is NAIVE!
Comment: someone tell the democrats a good strategy is to try to win the election? they gave up with geraldine ferraro and they gave up with obama,now i respect what they're trying to do but why not just go mainstream with a white male president and vice president and actually try to win the election? you can do more good in the white house but you have to get there first,going female or black is stupid? THIS COUNTRY WILL NOT ELECT A BLACK PRESIDENT!!!
Comment: This country and his people will elect a good black president.
Comment: It is very important that everybody understands that religion is only one of the factors necessary to guarantee God's favor on Judgement Day. You cannot be a murderer and profess religion or delude yourself through aceptance of Jesus Christ and expect God's favors in his Judgement. Doubt as expressed by Barrack Obama is a good factor of faith as nobody has returned from the dead to confirm he has found God's favor and Judgement Day is yet to come. In His plan God also ensured that everyone will return to him and then He will give his Judgements without undeser ved favor.
Comment: but i thought your god was ALL FORGIVING? I mean he even forgave the men who killed him? so why not raise hell,in the end you'll be forgiven anyway, right?
Comment: You need to know that God is Holy, Soveriegn, and perfect in every way. You cannot acheive this without accepting his son Jesus Christ. The bible says we all have sinned and com short of the glory of God. We are all ok in each others sight but not in Gods. His standards are infinitely higher. In order to reach that standard we must accept his Son Jesus Christ and his sacrifice on Calveries cross. For without the shedding of blood the is no remission of sin. God doesn't forgive everyone only those that accept His Son Jesus Christ's sacrifice, repent of there sins and are born agian. Christianity is not a one time announcement of acceptance but a total surrender to a new life and life style in Chriast. In this new life I am tking off the old sinful ways and surrendering my whole being to His new ways. The bible says old things have passed away behold all things are new. It also says we can't continue to live in sin if we are forgiven by Jesus and have the power to live and overcome sin in our lives onva daily basis
Comment: Just for balance, if anyone is interested there is a video on the McCain web site where he talks about his captivity in Vietnam. In about the middle of the video McCain talks about being bound with a rope. Particularily if you are Christian you might find McCain's account of this particular event touching. It speaks to the universality of Christian faith that is not bound by nationality.
But before I get flamed again by someone claiming they know better than me who I will vote for...I get e-mails from all 3 candidates (including Hillary-I find hers the most comical) and I go to the campaign sites for all 3 as well. First lesson in business...know what the competition is doing.
Comment: the biggest problem we have is that we allow the nah sayers to have us take god out ! out of our schools out of our courts out of our pledge we as americans got so worried about offeding others that we turned our backs on god and he allowed us to do this the bib le says we shall reap what we sow if we continue to try to run this country without got thats what we will have a country without god !! look around you 25 yrs ago if you went to the store around christmas you would hear merry christmas from everywhere now its happy holidays before we had the pledge in school and 1 minute of prayer now we don't and there is a school shooting about once a year ! but now there are other faiths here in the united states and they demand time for prayer or they will sue ( muslim) and even though they don't believ in gog atheist are a form of religion and the demand we don't do that in front of them because it offends them ! we will reap all of this or we can fight for the right of our faith and demand that we have prayer in school and allow GOD in our lifes homes and schools and court rooms because without him there is no hope for us we will just keep falling deeper and deeper till we reach the point where GOD is outlawed and we will be lost do a little research and see if you can figure out where this all started and you will find that about 20 yrs ago we started to push GOD aside for the sake of so few !!
Comment: I'm remidned of the tale of "How to have a funeral for a Texan?" Kick the crap out of him and bury him in a matchbox. Our Obama is an empty suit held together by many special interests. The least of which is
BIG CORN. This interest is guiding his opposition to expaning our petroleum exploration.
Comment: Reaganite: Ronald Regan approved abortion legislation in California, then flip-flopped for political reasons when running for President. Pres. Bush also flip-flopped. Will McCain flip-flop "again" on the abortion issue?
Comment: as a WHIte MALE what interests could obama possibly have for me? NONE! SO WHY WOULD I VOTE FOR HIM?
Comment: Your right! Why would he care about a neanderthal like you in the first place..hell this man is a Senator and a Harvard graduate...you on the other hard are the last of a diseased-dying breed. he doesnt need your vote or want your vote. Isnt America great!!!!
Comment: Great reply, this THING shows up periodically.
Comment: it doesn't matter who wins the presidency, because the democrats and republicans are all liars out to get their hands on all of our money. politicians and lawmakers are the reason why we are on the verge of economic collapse. in the next five years AMERICA will no longer be. our economy will collapse, as well as all of the military and national guard and all police forces will fail. then you will have every nationality over here fighting for control of the good ole U.S.A. if we don't get rid of the politics in this country, we will cease to exist as a country. the roman empire thought that it would last forever, where are they now. gone, because their government imploded on itself, the same thing that our government is doing right now. be warned, WW3 is just around the corner. stock up on ammo now and prepare for the inevitable.
Comment: Someone made a shoe eating commenting and I hope they use mustard or some other topping because Obama will win in a landslide!! MLK's dream is being lived out for so many, judgement on the content of character not the color of the skin, this is the American dream, unless your are Native American we are all immigrants!
Comment: What were the natives called before america got a name and where did they come from??
Comment: thats called a pipe dream!
Comment: What were the natives called before america got a name and where did they come from??
Comment: Obama! Obama! We can change the world...
Comment: I would like to say Senator Obamma comes across as a real honest guy.
I hope he is elected . Maybe just maybe we can move beyond the "fatjoe's"
Comment: one thing about obama, if he is a muslim, then everything that he is saying to us is a lie, because the muslim faith teaches them that you can lie to everybody that is not a muslim and they still can go to heaven. think about it.
Comment: ironmule: Give me a break. Do you have a religious faith? Christians are not supposed to gossip, they are supposed to love their neighbor as themselves, let the first without sin throw the first rock.
Comment: Here's one more story about "honest" Obama. According to the LA Timest, even though Illinois ethics disclosure forms are designed to reveal possible financial conflicts by lawmakers, on disclosure forms for 2001 and 2002, Obama did not specify that one company (EKI, owned by Blackwell) that provided him with the bulk of the private-sector compensation he received. Instead, he hid that fact by attaching a multi-page list of all the law firm's clients, which included EKI among hundreds. Illinois law does not require more specific disclosure.
Stanley Brand, a Washington lawyer who counsels members of Congress and others on ethics rules, said he would have advised a lawmaker in Obama's circumstances to separately disclose such a singularly important client and not simply include it on a list of hundreds of firm clients, even if the law does not explicitly require it. "I would say you should disclose that to protect and insulate yourself against the charge that you are concealing it," Brand said.
Obama's tax returns show that he made no money from his law practice in 2000, the year of his unsuccessful run for a congressional seat. But that changed in 2001, when Obama reported $98,158 income for providing legal services. Of that, $80,000 was from Blackwell's company.
In 2002, the state senator reported $34,491 from legal services and speeches. Of that, $32,000 came from the EKI legal assignment, which ended in April 2002 by mutual agreement, as Obama ceased the practice of law and looked ahead to the possibility of running for the U.S. Senate. .
Obama's spokesman said that listing all clients was appropriate and that doing so allowed the public to see any and all potential conflicts for Obama and his law firm colleagues. "He was especially mindful of this responsibility as a leader of ethics reform," said Gibbs, his chief campaign spokesman.
A few months after receiving his final payment from Blackwell's company, EKI, Obama sent a request on state Senate letterhead urging Illinois officials to provide a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to another Blackwell company, Killerspin.
Though Obama's formal efforts consisted of writing a letter and a proclamation, the nitty-gritty of obtaining state grants fell to a former state Senate and campaign aide to Obama, Dan Shomon.
Shomon, working part time for Obama's campaign and for Killerspin, helped prepare Killerspin's initial grant application in 2002. Still working part time with Obama, Shomon helped Killerspin secure a $200,000 grant for its 2003 tournament and a $100,000 grant for its 2004 tournament.
Nice return on Blackwell's "investment" in Obama. So much for Obama's sense of ethics and transparency.
Comment: Here's another story about "honest" Obama.
In a campaign influenced by Walmart, instead of backing the pro-labor candidate, Obama backed a "Walmart tool."
There was little surprising about Obama's endorsement given his self-interested allegiances to the politically powerful City Hall regime of Chicago's Mayor Daley, with whom Obama shares the same big money campaign super-consultant (David Axlerod) and numerous big money sponsors.
For the first time Mayor Daley had vetoed an ordinance by his normally obedient City Council, a measure widely supported by citizens, community organizations, and labor unions in Chicago's black, Latino, and working-class wards, and he did not want the council to bring the measure up again. It was originally passed by the council under pressure from a remarkable grassroots campaign, and would have required giant retail corporations like Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes, and Home Depot to pay workers a modest minimum wage of ten dollars an hour by 2010.
Wal-Mart and Target announced that they were putting a number of "big box" retail developments on hold in Chicago, and launched a preemptive public relations strike, threatening to disinvest in the city unless a "favorable business climate" was restored. Daley made a special point of wrapping his veto in the flag of racial justice, claiming it was required to permit the flowering of economic development in the city's abandoned ghetto neighborhoods.
Pat Dowell, the recipient of significant support from the Service Employees' International Union (SEIU), was running against Tillman, and Dowell had strongly criticized Tillman for siding with Daley and Wal-Mart.
Obama needed the support of the powerful campaign finance magnet Daley, and endorsed Tillman, over labor-backed Dowell.
Obama's wife Michelle then received $51,200 in 2006 for attending a few board meetings of TreeHouse Foods, a giant firm that relied heavily on its close business relationship with Wal-Mart. The granting of high-pay/do-little board posts to the spouses of politicians is a longstanding tool of the "old," corporate-dominated politics that Senator Obama claims to reject. This is not like Clinton's placement on the board of Walmart as the result of an effort to address sex discrimination in Walmart's employment practices.
Mrs. Obama resigned from her position with TreeHouse in the summer of 2007, citing "increased demands on her time" in connection with her husband's presidential campaign.
It isn't surprising that she cut her politically damaging ties to a notoriously anti-labor company that her husband was attacking Clinton about in his speeches.
Comment: Real honest?
He's a Chicago trained pay to play politician.
One of Obama's top supporters, James Crown, serves on the board of General Dynamics, a military contractor. Crown is a member of Obama's campaign finance committee and a big superbundler for Obama. He is also on Obama's Illinois campaign committee.
Obama secured $1.3 million of an $8 million earmark request in 2006 for a program that was overseen by General Dynamics.Obama also secured $750,000 of a $3 million request for renovation of a space center named for Crown's grandfather, Henry Crown, at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
Obama also secured several million dollars for a project at Chicago State University. Emil Jones Jr., the president of the Illinois State Senate and an early and powerful political benefactor of Obama's, has been a dogged champion of Chicago State, and one of Senator Obama's closest friends.
Obama also requested a million dollar earmark for the hospital where his wife works and which gave his wife a huge raise.
How is any of that honest? The taxpayers wouldn't even know about it if it weren't for John McCain's work to make sure these earmarks are public information. McCain has never requested earmarks, because he thinks all requests for taxpayer money must be processed the same way, not given special secret treatment to keep the taxpayers in the dark.
Comment: NIXON CAME ACROSS AS A "REAL HONEST GUY",DO SOME RESEARCH IDIOT?
Comment: power corrupts.
Comment: don't blame me,i'm just telling a fact,are the democrats naive? you have to be NAIVE to believe we're ready to vote for a black president! LOOKS LIKE 4 MORE FOR THE REPUBLICANS! ITS JUST BAD STRATEGY!
Comment: if this country elects a black man president i will eat my shoe!! AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!
Comment: The biggest problem we have is that we allow the nah sayers to have us take GOD out! Out of our schools out of our courts out of our pledge we as Americans got so worried about offending others that we turned our backs on GOD and he allowed us to do this the bible says we shall reap what we sow if we continue to try to run this country without GOD that???s what we will have a country without GOD! Look around you 25 yrs ago if you went to the store around Christmas you would hear merry Christmas from everywhere now its happy holidays before we had the pledge in school and 1 minute of prayer now we don't and there is a school shooting about once a year! But now there are other faiths here in the united states and they demand time for prayer or they will sue (Muslim) and even though they don't believe in GOD atheist are a form of religion and the demand we don't have prayer in front of them because it offends them! We will reap all of this or we can fight for the right of our faith and demand that we have prayer in school and allow GOD in our lives homes and schools and court rooms because without him there is no hope for us we will just keep falling deeper and deeper till we reach the point where GOD is outlawed and we will be lost do a little research and see if you can figure out where this all started and you will find that about 20 yrs ago we started to push GOD aside for the sake of so few! In the early 70???s we did not have abortion clinics
Comment:
This is willnotvoteforobama's comment regarding the New Yorker's cover showing Obama and his wife as terrorists burning the US flag. You are a great example of Christian Love!!
Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/14/2008 12:43:43 PM
Comment: i'm buying a copy and blowing it up to 3x3ft and making a election sign out of it hehehe i live next door to the polling place !!
Comment: THATS TO SHOW THE VOTERS WHO THEY MIGHT VOTE FOR !!
Comment: Any God that accepts worshipers like you is a vile, deseased and disgusting entity. You are an evil, racist, judgemental and hateful individual.
Comment: you are lost and need to rethink your comments p.s. there is only 1 GOD AND I'M GLAD HE IS WITH ME !!
Comment: Right on brother - The devil is laughing & clapping and we are dancing to his tune.Enter Your Comment
Comment: Willnotvoteobama: Sorry, but I don't want your god in my schools, court rooms or my home - your god is a god of exclusion and fear. And because I live in America, no one's god - especially not yours - gets forced down my throat.
But you are welcome to share my god with me, if you so chose - she is one of peace, hope and inclusion.
Comment: my god is real he is not all mercy and kindness he is also wrath and justice and the people that support murder of babies ( my god loves babies ) will see his wrath and furious anger and he will cast them into hell with all of those in which he is not pleased with !!!
Comment: he will remember that when you see him !! please do try and explain how you support the abortion canidate and yet poke me in the eye for saying that GOD WAS KICKED OUT BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU hope i could be there for that one !!
Comment: Great Reply I don't know for sure if "The Higher Power' is a man or a woman but i agree with everything else in your reply.
Comment: if god were a woman, don't you think that she would have made eve first?
Comment: likely, yes.
Comment: THATS BECAUSE THERE IS NO GOD? YOU'RE JUST WEAKMINDED AND SCARED,WE'RE ALONE HERE,DEAL WITH IT!!
Comment: if there weren't a god, you wouldn't be here idiot!!!!
Comment: "But then I started campaigning for the United States Senate, and at that point I was in church every Sunday, maybe two, three churches a Sunday, but they weren't Trinity???because that was one of the most effective ways for us to campaign and reach out to people"
Well, that says it all for me. Religion is nothing more than a political tool for Obama, a way to reach people. That's pretty much what he said in the faith forum too. He didn't talk about his faith, he talked about the importance of talking about faith for politicians.
Comment: how do you know this? are you god himself? god did not call us to be judge,jury,lawyers or executioner but to be witnesses. the only person that really know what obama believe is god.leave it to him. get into your prayer closet and pray for your leaders whether they are godly or ungodly.
Comment: collymore: right on!! all the people judging Obama are hypocrites
Comment: The biggest problem we have is that we allow the nah sayers to have us take GOD out! Out of our schools out of our courts out of our pledge we as Americans got so worried about offending others that we turned our backs on GOD and he allowed us to do this the bible says we shall reap what we sow if we continue to try to run this country without GOD that???s what we will have a country without GOD! Look around you 25 yrs ago if you went to the store around Christmas you would hear merry Christmas from everywhere now its happy holidays before we had the pledge in school and 1 minute of prayer now we don't and there is a school shooting about once a year! But now there are other faiths here in the united states and they demand time for prayer or they will sue (Muslim) and even though they don't believe in GOD atheist are a form of religion and the demand we don't have prayer in front of them because it offends them! We will reap all of this or we can fight for the right of our faith and demand that we have prayer in school and allow GOD in our lives homes and schools and court rooms because without him there is no hope for us we will just keep falling deeper and deeper till we reach the point where GOD is outlawed and we will be lost do a little research and see if you can figure out where this all started and you will find that about 20 yrs ago we started to push GOD aside for the sake of so few! In the early 70???s we did not have abortion clinics
Comment: This is willnotvoteforobama's comment regarding the New Yorker's cover showing Obama and his wife as terrorists burning the US flag. You are a great example of Christian Love!!
Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/14/2008 12:43:43 PM
Comment: i'm buying a copy and blowing it up to 3x3ft and making a election sign out of it hehehe i live next door to the polling place !!
Comment: SO WHAT NOW I'M NOT ENTITLED TO MY OPINION !!
Comment: THATS TO SHOW VOTERS WHO THEY MAY VOTE FOR !!
Comment: No, I am not God. I am simply quoting Obama's own words. They speak for themselves.
Comment: how do you know this? are you god himself? god did not call us to be judge,jury,lawyers or executioner but to be witnesses. the only person that really know what obama believe is god.leave it to him. get into your prayer closet and pray for your leaders whether they are godly or ungodly.
Comment: his stance on abortion is proof enough for me but i'll let god decide his fate !!
Comment: Since the 1970s, Republicans never delivered many promised abortion law change. Why does anyone think John McCain will make any changes in the abortion law?
As a Christian, I believe abortion and the death penalty are wrong; however, I can remember the back-alley abortions. Changing the law will not stop abortions; it will only result in the unsafe abortion before Rove v. Wade. Families with money will still be able to find doctors for performing safe abortions. There were plenty of abortions before Rove v. Wade
I believe the conservative right has not placed the needed emphasis on Matthew 25. It is my opinion that is past time to stop making abortion a one-issue decision for choosing a President. It is time to focus on the economy, Iraq war, gas prices, health care???the things that matter to everyone, except the wealthy that want a President that will make them richer.
A good article written by a doctor that treated the results of bad abortions: Repairing the Damage, Before Roe By Waldo L. Fielding, M.D.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/views/03essa.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=%22roe%20v.%20wade%22&st=cse&oref=slogin
"Almost any implement you can imagine had been and was used to start an abortion ???darning needles, crochet hooks, cut-glass salt shakers, soda bottles, sometimes intact, sometimes with the top broken off. "
Comment: DO ALL THE GOOD DEEDS AND WORKS YOU LIKE THEY WILL NOT GET YOU INTO HEAVEN THE ONLY WAY IS THROUGH THE SON ! SEE JOHN 3.3 AND 3.16 AND 3.5 AND OBAMA SEEMS TO THINK THERE ARE MANY PATHS TO HEAVEN !!
Comment: Willnot voteobama,
Read you bible again and see that doing good and looking out for your fellowman along with a strong faith WILL GET YOU INTO GOD'S KINGDOM.
Comment: WITH ALL DUE RESPECT YOU ARE BEING MISLEAD OPEN YOUR BIBLE AND READ THE GOSPELS AND YOU WILL SEE THAT THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO HEAVEN IS THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST !! ( YOU WILL ALSO HAVE TO REPENT YOUR SINS AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE BUT HE WILL HELP YOU DO ALL JUST CALL UPON HIM AND HE WILL BE THERE !!!)
Comment: Nope, Jesus is the way. Sinners do not earn their way into heaven. They do good works because the love God and want to glorify him, not because they are trying to get something for themselves.
Comment: AMEN
Comment: would you all like the Bible verses about judging, malicious gossip, loving your Bible. The Bible most definitely says you have to do work to get into heaven, Jesus says in Matthew 25, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." What have each of you done to help the least of these? Obama has dedicated his life to helping people in need. Is judging Obama's Christianity in accordance with the Bible teaching about let the first without sin throw the first rock, do not gossip, and love your neighbor as yourself?
Comment: I absolutely agree to Senator Barack Obama on his believe in God and accepted Jesus Christ as our savoir and theson of God. I once 'saw' him during my 'separation' times. I pray to God for blessings to my lovely girls age 9&6 Andrea&Arlette, I pray for Sen.Obama's success as President of U.S.A. He is very smart and inspiring and I wish to God one day I wll meet him to hear my 'life'story. Amen. Anne Fuziah Milstead
Comment: i absolutely agree and have the same concept of religion towards Christianity and I believe in God, I accepted Jesus Christ as I was 'saw' Him in my difficult separation days. I wish to God one day I will meet Senator Barack Obanam as I can relate to him my 'life' story. Please I pray for blessings from God to my two lovely girls Andrea & Arlette age 9&6 and to Senator Obama for the hard word he has done .Anne Fuziah Milstead.
Comment: As a fellow Christian, I relate to what Senator Obama has said in this article. Seeking God's guidance through prayer and fulfilling His purpose for our lives on earth is the best we can do. When we humble ourselves and consult with Christ on big and little things, He is faithful to guide us through the Holy Spirit. I am confident that as long as Senator Obama continues to use God's word as his plumb line, he will make wise decisions and use sound judgment for our Nation. Under the current circumstances, being President of the United States of America will be no "bed of roses" over the next four years. It will be more like a forest of thorns. Senator Obama has no magic wand to wave and make it all go away. What he does have is intelligence, faith, hope and God to guide him. All we can ask is that he do his best as President and to be mindful of the impact of his decisions on the people of our Nation. This is a good time for people of faith to lift Senator Obama and his family up in prayer for God's guidance, His protection, and His mercy on our floundering Nation. We are in so much trouble with the economy, the environment, healthcare, food and gas prices, a declining education system, corrupt politicans and the list goes on. We've really lost our way! I don't want to leave my grandchildren and great-grandchildren the mess that we've created. We have to fix it! Obama 08.
Comment: the biggest problem we have is that we allow the nah sayers to have us take god out ! out of our schools out of our courts out of our pledge we as americans got so worried about offeding others that we turned our backs on god and he allowed us to do this the bib le says we shall reap what we sow if we continue to try to run this country without got thats what we will have a country without god !! look around you 25 yrs ago if you went to the store around christmas you would hear merry christmas from everywhere now its happy holidays before we had the pledge in school and 1 minute of prayer now we don't and there is a school shooting about once a year ! but now there are other faiths here in the united states and they demand time for prayer or they will sue ( muslim) and even though they don't believ in gog atheist are a form of religion and the demand we don't do that in front of them because it offends them ! we will reap all of this or we can fight for the right of our faith and demand that we have prayer in school and allow GOD in our lifes homes and schools and court rooms because without him there is no hope for us we will just keep falling deeper and deeper till we reach the point where GOD is outlawed and we will be lost do a little research and see if you can figure out where this all started and you will find that about 20 yrs ago we started to push GOD aside for the sake of so few !!
Comment: Yes, but he doesn't use God's word as his plumb line, he uses it to reach voters, which was why he started attending church, joined a church, and the only reason he began to attend church regularly when he was running for the Senate. And now, he isn't attending church because he doesn't want to get any flack for whatever preacher he might pick as his spiritual leader.
He'd rather have a spiritual committee he can consult to figure out how to reach the religious right than actually be a Christian, professing that Christ is the way, with all that implies about heaven and hell .
Comment: point blank if he were white and running for president would all this matter for some of the other candidates were not fully investigated as much so just move on ''''''''
Comment: nothing better to do huh faith and religous has been disscused enough already maybe you should check yourself yourself for if you are religous you would know this '''
Comment: How can Barry or Michelle have a discussion about religion and faith and fail to mention the man that Barry described in his own words as his 'spiritual adviser'... Reverend Wright????
Comment: Perhaps the authors would be willing to do a follow up interview and ask those questions.
Comment: There are so many openly racist on this blog, it amazes me how most of yall have all these opininons about obama, but have done no research at all, i find most of yall disgusting . mcbush is a complete idiot and he doesn't even know how to read, or give an informed or articulate opinion on anythign that his advisers don't tell him. (i.e. Viagra v. birth control) we have been through a devesating eight years and if your racially biased voters could see past yourt non-sense disguided as facts. How dare yall question someone's christianity, you guys need to decide on your talking points is h a muslim or a christian? Make up your mind. And there are people talking about ABOURTION AND GAY RIGHTS, you talk those to wedge issues how about being pro-life after the kid is born no you idiots don't want to fund gfood public school, or have equal pay for equal work, ec etc, you right wing christians, are hypocrits and as a fellow chriatian i resent you guys hogging god and qewing him yo your twisted vie. I pray to god senator obama wins b/c our country can not aford another dumbass like mcbush.
Comment: Was your school underfunded?
Schools for the most part are well funded but my experience lately has been that students don't want to sit in classes that are boring and don't want to do homework because it's boring and would rather be texting each other while the teacher is presenting learning material. School is boring because the teacher isn't as entertaining as a rock video. Homework can't compete with Grand Theft Auto and MTV. There are some very good students out there but I suspect this person wasn't one of them.
Comment: I appreciate Senator Obama;s openness and honesty, and Newsweek sharing with readers. What concerns me is whether everything about Senator Obama that is not conventional will be revamped by Republicans as a negative difference that we should fear. I hope Newsweek solicits and prints equally personal stories from Senator McCain.
Comment: Christian_Patriot: You sound like a individual with issues. I will pray for you.
Comment: Christian_Patriot . . . you have issues!
Comment: To Sweethome:
You seem to miss the point of what was being said. You say to talk about the issues. Well, the possibility that the next president of this country could be anti-American, anti-white, and against all that we stand for as a nation IS an issue and a VERY SIGNIFICANT issue. As for getting on with affordable health care and so on, as you mentioned, do you really think that a man who is offering everything to everyone is doing anything other than just trying to con you into voting for him? And do you really think he can somehow magically give everyone all that he has promised? The "affordable" health care that he wants to give us is SOCIALISTIC health care, which has proven time and again to be way more expensive (think TAXES, TAXES, TAXES), to result in a much poorer quality of health care (no payoff results in no incentive for improvement, for invention, for trying harder), and to result in RATIONED health care. To briefly explain what rationed health care is: It means that, if you are too old, too ill, too "damaged" (mentally retarded, for example), you will not get treatment, because there will not be enough to go around. The treatment that could save your life will go to the people who can "offer more to society" or who have a better chance of living a productive life. That's the way it works. And that's the way everything works in a socialist society. As for Obama being part white and part black, clearly his black side is the one he favors, and clearly he has an anti-white attitude. He attended a church for 20 years where anti-white, bigoted, anti-American, Marxist beliefs were the order of the day. How could you possibly continue to attend for that long, and count the racist pastor as your closest mentor, of you didn't agree with the basic, continually spoken teachings and beliefs of the church? You also should seriously study the evidence that Obama is a communist. There is a very extensive amount of evidence that shows his past and present communist associations, mentors, helpers, etc. Also, why would our enemies (Iran, Al-Qaeda, etc.) be so eager for him to be elected, unless they, at least, thought he would be a push-over to deal with, and., at worst, considered him to be more on their side than on ours? These terrorist leaders study our news, our candidates, and our elections in great depth. They know what this man, Obama, is all about. I only hope and pray that America will wake up before he leads us into a ruined nation, with no freedoms, a ruined economy, and attacks that will make 911 look like a picnic. And, by the way, he is definitely NOT a Christian, and he is most likely simply faking that he is one. The first tenet of Christianity, essential for anyone to ever become a born-again Christian, is that Christ is the ONLY way to God. Jesus Christ Himself said that. And Obama denies that, saying that there are many ways to God.
Comment: Obama's promises for so many programs that will be "free" and then tax breaks to others (like 50% tax breaks to businesses) reminds me of a lesson I learned gorwing up. My parents gave me for my birthday a "FREE" old, used car. They told me it was now my responsibility. The free car didn't run unless I filled it with gas, it was used and needed repairs and maintenance, it needed insurance, etc. What did I learn? 1. to take care of my own responsiblilities. 2. plan ahead for unforseen expenses so save a little for emergencies.
3. Nothing in life is really FREE.
Comment: To Sweethome:
You seem to miss the point of what was being said. You say to talk about the issues. Wel, the possibility that the next president of this country could be anti-American, anti-white, and against all that we stand for as a nation IS an issue and a VERY SIGNIFICANT issue. As for getting on with affordable health care and so on, as you mentioned, do you really think that a man who is offering everything to everyone os doing anything other than just trying to con you into voting for him? And do you really think he can somehow magically give everyone all that he has promised? The "affordable" health care that he wants to give us is SOCIALISTIC health care, which has proven time and again to be way more expensive (think TAXES, TAXES, TAXES), to result in a much pooer quality of health care (no payoff results in no incentive for improvement, for invention, for trying harder), and to result in RATIONED health care. To briefly explain what rationed health care is: It means that, if you are too old, too ill, too "damaged" (mentally retarded, for example), you will not get treatment, because there will not be enough to go around. The treatment that could save your life will go to the people who can "offer more to society" or who have a better chance of living a productive life. That's the way it works. And that's the way eveyrthing works in a socialist society. As for Obama being part white and part black, clearly his black side is the one he favors, and clearly he has an anti-white attitude. He attended a church for 20 years where anti-white, biggoted, anti-American, marxist beliefs were the order of the day. How could yopu possibly continue to attend for that long, and count the racist pastor as your closest mentor, of you didn't agree with the basic, continually spoken teachings and beliefs of the church? You also should seriously study the evidence that Obama is a communist. There is a very extensive amount of evidence that shows his past and present communist associations, mentors, helpers, etc. Also, why would our enemies (Iran, Al-Quaida, etc.) be so eager for him to be elected, unless they, at least, thought he would be a push-over to deal with, and., at worst, comnsided him to be more on their side than on ours? These terrorist leaders study our news, our candidates, and our elections in great depth. They know what this man, Obama, is all about. I only hope and pray that America will wake up before he leads us into a ruined nation, with no freedoms, a ruined economy, and attacks that will make 911 look like a picnic. And, by the way, he is definitely NOT a Christian, and he is most likely simply faking that he is one. The first tenet of Christianity, essential for anyone to ever become a born-again Christian, is that Christ is the ONLY way to God. Jesus Christ Himself said that. And Obama denies that, saying that there are many ways to God.
Comment: cHRISTIAN pATRIOT, YOU ARE THAT IN NAME ONLY, YOU ARE ONE SICK PERSON WHO HAS DONE no RESEARCH, ALL YOU BELIEVE IS LIES AND SMEARS, i FEL SO SORRY FOR YOU. ALL YOU ARE DOING IS SPEWING NON-SENSE, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SENATOR OBAMA, NO FACTS AT ALL, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND VOTE FOR SONG-BIRD, ADULTERER, MCBUSH, NO MATTER WHAT OBMA SAYS, YOU HAVE CLOSED YOU MIND. YOU TRULY ARE DISGUSTING AND I FEEL EXTREMELY SAD FOR YOU, IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT VOTED FOR DUMB ASS BUSH THAT IS WHY WE ARE IN THIS MESS, YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH EIGHT YEASR OF HELL, AND IF YOU CAN SEE PAST YOUR RACISM AND FOOLISHISHNESS YOU WILL WAKE UP AND REALIZE JOHN MCBUSH IS THE SECOND COMING OF BUSH, FOR YOU THAT MAY BE A GREAT THING BUT FOR THE REST OF AMERCIANS WHO ARE SUFFERING IT IS NOT. IT IS POPE LIKE YOU THAT MAKE ME SICK, YOU BASE ALL YOUR ARGUMENTS NOT ON FACTS BUT NON-SENSE , IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT MAKE ME WONDER HOW FAR WE HAVE TRULY COME IN THIS COUNTRY, IT SENATT OBAMA WIN IT WILL TRULY BE GOD, B/C WE HAVE IDIOTS LIKE YOU. OH YEH BY THE WAY DECIDE WHICH TALKING POINTS YOU WANT TO GO BY, IS HE A MUSKIM OR A CHRISTIAN, AND FYI, HE IS A CHRISTIAN ADN HE HAS SAID NUREOUS TIMES THAT THE ONLY WAY TO GOD IS THROUGH JESUS, MAY BE YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ DREAMS OF MY FATHER A BOOK HE WROTE 10 YEARS AGO, BEFORE HE WAS FAMOUS YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY GET REAL FACTS. AMERICA PLEASE WAKE UP, WE CAN NOT LET RACISM AND NON-SENSE GET IN THE WAY OF THIS ELECTION, TOO MUCH IS AT STAKE.
Comment: Better a former adulterer than a former cocaine addict.
Comment: You mean like Mr. Bush?
Comment: Obama is a phony and we should not believe a word he says..,The truth is that he was in a radical racist church for twenty years..His assosicaition with Anti-Americans speeks volums and that is all we need to know..that he denouced all this is a big bs..He denounced for self serving political reasons, so that he believes and he does and he prays and he is a christian is alll a bunch of bs...for the type of christian church he supported for twenty years was a radcia racist andti-Americah church along with his friend, mentor, uncld like, advisor is also a radical racist anti-American...so what is Obama? HE IS A RADICAL RACIST ANTI AMERICAN SUPPORTER AND THAT IS NOT THE QUALIFICATIONS WE NEED FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THE MOST POWERFUL POSITION...PLEASE PEOPLE NO MONEY AND NO VOTE FOR OBAMA...
Comment: you complete idiot, you don't even know what racism is and how can the oppressed be racist,t hey can have justified and unjustified prejudice, but any way you wouldn't know anything about that b/c as a white american, you don't ever have to think about things lke that. you just don't get why a man of pastor wright age would be be that resentful and I bet you never took the time to view the WHOLE video, b.c if you did you wold find out that it was not what it seemd, but wait you don't work off facts, you work of ignorance and that is why people like you voted for bush and that is why we are in this mess, we should blame voters like you!! DUMBASS, when you start working off facts then maybe your stupid opinions might, may be might be heard!!! NOT!!!
Comment: Talk about the issues. You probably are not going to vote for him anyway. You just need an excuse not to vote for him. You look at his pastor and other things beside the issues. Let's get on with affordable health care, home foreclosures, job loss, and proper care of our veterans. You say he's a racist. What's interesting to me you only see his black skin color. Yet he is half white and half black. How can you call him a racist when he comes from both sides. He's experienced both sides. My question is what side are you looking from. Chech yourself .
Comment: These comments scare me as a young American. I feel we have become so consumed with painting politicians what they arent ,that we never actually see them for what they are. My generation yerns for a president not tied down by his own religous beliefs , but accepting and understanding that they will be running a nation consumed of many. My generation yerns for a whole country not divided by race, gender , age and other exterior characteristics, but embraces that these are the people we see in our clasrooms everyday in many parts of the U.S. If as a voter you disagree with the way he will run this country, that is understandable. But as a person treat him with the respect you would want if in his situation. Many of you will write this off as a comment from a young person who obviously supports Obama because i have " drank the kool-aid". But know that we support a tollerant nation that is as diverse as our classrooms. There are alot of big progressive promises in this election and there is only one of the two remaining candidates willing to try and help them to come to fruition.
Future Headline of 2008 election:
Youth finally take control of there own future.
God Bless all of you, and the country we all love. (regardless of who you support)
Comment: *yearns
Comment: You beat me to it. I think either he/she wasn't doing the homework or the school system was too busy teaching them how to put a condem on properly that they didn't have time for English. There vs their.
Tolerant not tollerant.
I have a problem with school systems shoving Spanish down kid's throats when they can't even read and write in English.
Comment: Get as many as your generation to vote in this election. Have your words heard by your vote.
Believe me, many of us older voters have been waiting for this change as well.
Comment: WHAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS?
OBAMA IS A BIG BELIEVER IN HIMSELF - BIG WORDS - LOT'S OF BIG WORDS.
WHERE'S THE BEEF?
OBAMA - TELL US YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
NONE OF OBAMA SUPPORTERS CAN CTATE EVEN ONE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF OBAMA.
Comment: you are so full of bul crap maybe if you did soem research before you start spewing your non-sense where do I begin in the state leggilsater or iojn the Us senate. I will go to the us stae siense you wanna spill non-sens. obama has workedon an sponser bills involving loose nukes, ethcs reform, veterans issues, energy, lead paint issues comign form china, etc,etc, shall I keep going or do you want more
Comment: Obama has claimed credit for other people's work to pad his resume. He can't point to any accomplishment of his own, just to stuff he "worked on" whether he actually worked on it or not, all we know is that he got his name on it as a co-sponsor or supporter.
Do the research, If you need some help.I'll post links to the news articles. Chris Dodd even called him out on this.
Comment: Yeshuaz girl, Who are you to question anyone's acceptance on Jesus Christ. You look at the speck's in your eyes before you look at someone elses. You remind me of the Pharisee's in the Bible. You point to particular things like abortion. You are not perfect work on yourself. It's thing's you do in your life that are not of God. You cannot judge anyone only God can. Ye without sin cast the first stone. I'ts not good to question other people's faith. I pray you learn not to judge or you shall be judged.
Comment: he is definitely NOT a Christian, and he is most likely simply faking that he is one. The first tenet of Christianity, essential for anyone to ever become a born-again Christian, is that Christ is the ONLY way to God. Jesus Christ Himself said that. And Obama denies that, saying that there are many ways to God.
Comment: Yeshuaz girl it's not up to you to judge anybody's walk with God. First work on the specks in your eyes before you work on somebody elses. Only God can judge and I know for a fact you are not God. You remind me of the Pharisee's in the Bible. Once you begin to know you're not perfect and work on you then you can help others. If you are truly in love with don't just point out one thing in the Bible because we all fall short in many different ways. Ye without sin cast the first stone. Who are you to question a person's acceptance of Christ.
Comment: Here, Here!!!
Comment: IF YOU OBAMA ACCEPTED JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR,,I LOVE YOU ENOUGH TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR BELIEFS AND WALK RIGHT NOW IN YOUR LIFE, DO NOT SHOW ME THAT.
I PRAY THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL CONVICT YOU OF CONDONING ABORTION(THE KILLING OF GODS CHILDREN BEING BORN FOR HIM). CONDONING HOMOSEXUAL LIFE-STYLE WHICH IS NOT (IF U READ THE SCRIPTURES)OF GOD CREATION AND PLAN FOR HIS PEOPLE. THE ONLY WAY TO BE BORN AGAIN AND TRULT HAVE CHRIST JESUS, OBAMA, IS TO ALLOW TH HOLY SCRIPTURE TO REGENERATE YOUR LIFE. REPENT OF YOUR SINS....TURN FROM THEM..HATE THEM....DO NOT HATE PEOPLE...HATE SIN....AND BE BAPTISED IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER SON AND HOLY SPIRIT,
GOD BLEES YOU.
IF YOU ARE TRULY IN LOVE WITH JESUS,,,,THEN SHOW IT
THOSE WHO LOVE ME WILL "DO" MY COMMANDS
Comment: Maybe you should try reading the Holy Scriptures before man got his hands on them and change them for what they wanted them to say to the people. Compare the original Hebrew Text to King James you'll see what I mean.
There has been so many translations from Hebrew to Latin to English to King James words. The true meaning of the texts have been lost, because the translaters did not know what the words were; or they wanted to put their own history into the Hebrew history; or, as far as King James is concern, he did not like a curtern part of the population, and wanted them destoryed. (Gays)
Comment: Jesus said he didn't come to replace the law, but to fulfill it. He went to hell for us.
Obama doesn't believe in hell, but I bet he mouths the words of the Apostle's Creed He will say anything that will get him elected.
Comment: you dumb idiot, jesus didn't go to hell when he died on the cross, he went up to heaven to sit at the right hand of the father.
Comment: The Apostle's Creed....He descended into hell.
I realize not all Christian denominations use the Apostle's creed but this person's might.
Since none of us are Jesus Christ can we really say he did/or didn't?
