Finding His Faith

THere ar e lots of things I question about him. I just don't feel he is being honest. All these changes ....impossible to make all these changes so quickly and some of us are so eager for change we will do just about anything to bring it on, including not even really knowing what Osama, oh, excuse me, Obama is really all about.

Know why McCain wants to distance himself from former Senator Phil Gramm? It 's not because of Gramm's obnoxious remarks calling Americans "a nation of whiners" who are in "a mental recession." Those remarks were so ascerbic that they may have been made just to give McCain an excuse for distancing himself from Gramm. This issue is a lot deeper than it looks on the surface.

When Gramm was a Senator he was Chairman of the Banking Committee. He pushed through the legislation now known as the "Enron Loophole." This loophole allowed US investment banks to bypass Federal regulations governing futures trading, and is the reason why the investment banks were able to falsely inflate the prices of oil, wheat, corn and other commodities through massive futures trading, causing your costs of gas, heating oil and food to go through the roof.

Gramm also created the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, which got rid of the laws that seperate banking, insurance and brokerage activities in America. The Gramm Act was touted as a new way to protect consumer privacy, but the real meat on the Act's bones was banking deregulation. Essentially, this Act did away with the laws written after the Great Depression to protect us from another Wall Street/Banking Industry collapse. That's right, Gramm stripped the system of it's safe guards nine years ago, and guess what? The value of the dollar has nose-dived, four major economic institutions have failed, Wall Street is unstable, and we are in a worsening recession.

Notably, the US investment banks that gained the most from the Enron Loophole and from the Gramm Act contributed more than a million dollars to Gramm's campaign.

Currently Gramm is Vice Chairman of UBS, the Swiss Bank that came up with the idea of "death bonds." Worse, though, UBS is involved in a scam where they sold auction rate securities to American customers. Auction rate securities are supposed to be as safe as cash, but the way UBS did it, the fees garnished by their in-house investment bankers were intentionally higher than the return on the securities, ripping off their American customers. The Massachusetts Attorney General has already filed charges against UBS, and private brokers world-wide have dropped UBS stock. UBS is forecasted to lose 82.91% of it's value in 2008. We are talking about the corporate bank where Gramm is Vice Chairman. Looking at his track record there and on the havoc he has wrought on the US economy through the Senate Banking Committee, it is clear that either Gramm is a criminal, or grossly incompetent.

Now McCain wants nothing to do with Gramm, wants us to forget Gramm has been a key player on McCain's team. Gramm was McCain's campaign CO-CHAIR and LEADING ECONOMIC ADVISOR. Previously, McCain had said that he planned to appoint Gramm as SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

With Gramm as McCain's leading economic advisor, now you know why economists and analysts say that McCain's economic policy plans ar

Hi armymom - you seem like a good Christian -

Maybe you could explain to me on what Christian path was McCain taking when he abandoned his disabled wife and 3 kids for a younger, richer beer heiress and then abandoned her when she had a stroke...leaving her to learn to walk on her own.

Hey Hope -- tell us about your sins - the ones you commit hourly. Wow. So maybe instead of praying for Obama and McCain and the rest of us Americans - maybe you should concentrate those prayers on yourself. You'll need them if McCain is our next president. He doesn't care about you. He cares about himself. Not very Christian, is it?

Newsweek started this conversation trying to get Obama some true Christian votes. Yes , people will talk. That is blog. If you don't want to hear the truth probabaly Newsweek shouldn't have tried this.

Wow Hope -- you would abandon a disabled mate and your family to marry a younger, richer beer heiress...and then abandon that partner after they had a stroke to learn to walk on their own.

Wow - as a person of any faith (and I happen to be Christian) I wouldn't dream of doing that. And if I had - I'd spend the rest of my life repenting it...not asking to be the leader of the free world - so I could sell us down the river to the next greedier corporation.

No sirreee - as a Christian I would not do that. Would you?

Hi Hope -- first thank you for thinking I'm smart. I'm just asking the questions we all need to ask. So I'll ask another one:

Who is more Christian? McCain who abandoned his disabled wife and 3 kids for a younger, richer beer heiress and then abandoned her in her time of need...leaving her to walk on her own in her time of need. And then swapped up for the richer corporations who ultimately screw all of us in the end?

Or...the guy who cares about us regular Americans...the one who understands that we need to defend our country against greed - we're kinda drowning here...based on the policies of the last eight years - to be continued by McCain.

It has everything to do with who is more Christian.

Hi RCgirl -- I bring up McCain's character because it has everything to do with whom he's in bed with.

McCain is always swapping up for the richer relationship. He's in bed with Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater, and Big Oil. They will do everything to get and keep him in office. Because McCain will keep us in Iraq. Iraq was about business - not protecting our great country. McCain is used to being a kept man. His character has everything to do with you and me and your son who is going off to war.

Please for the sake of us regular Americans who want to save our great country from greedy corporations and the war machine -- please understand this.

Ahh religion... nothing seems to devide us like religion. I find it sad that Republicans are so angered by any religion not perfectly in line with their own. Remember Mitt Romney? They rejected him solely on the fact that he is a Mormon. He would have been a much better candidate than that decrepid dinosaur McCain.

As for Obama.. Muslim? What are you stupid?? Get real. Republicans can't play the religion card this year and that's why they are squirming and attacking Obama for his beliefs.

I am simply appalled at the shamelessly BIASED reporting and coverage in favor of Obama carried on by Newsweek and NBC/MSNBC. Hell, as a matter of fact, there's really JUST one outlet for "news" that even BOTHERS to try to make things truly balanced; ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, HNN, major newspapers, and all the major news magazines, BIASED for the DEM side. WHO ever tought these people that THIS type of reporting serves the nation? I guess most all of the UNIVERSITIES must also be full of liberal-leaning professors who indoctrinate the up-and-coming Journalism majors to also lean left. ROBOTS! Faith teaches ANYONE that the system of this world is only evil continually, and we must eschew it entirely. Therefore, Obamas words ring HOLLOW to those who devote their faith to the LORD GOD, and NOT their religion. Wanna call that a nonsensical dichotomy? Not so! Religion is this, the ones who participate in organized belief in a set of principles, morals, behaviors, creeds, etc. to the exclusion of others; usually these will live as though "holier-than-thou", and demonstrate ANYTHING BUT humility. They are NOT true followers of Christ, nor God, but playing the RELIGION game, and in the final analysis, they will stand unjustified before a HOLY GOD and be found guilty of the greivous sins of pride and self-love. Yes, that means ALSO, bound for HELL.
We saw a candidate who did show some humility, Mike Huckabee, and he should not have been seen as unfit for the office of President for that; but these same non-believers, plus those who embrace RELIGION, they want nothing of that. Thus, we have a choice which is truly no choice at all, for someone to truly take a lead in guiding this Nation toward Gods highest blessings. Shame on those of us who allow such evil to be chosen for filling such an important office. This is how we end up with the wanton destruction of millions of tiny innocent human lives, for the sake of convenience. WAKE UP, America! Lets try PRAYER, for the Holy Spirit can and will bring TRUTH and blessings to those who trust and do believe. If I have offended any Dems out there, I don't apologize; for HIS true people cannot support the type of evil that the Dem Party espouses. Ya really gotta choose, between what seems best to the mnd and what IS best for the nation. As for Obama, he doesn't fool me; his bid to wrap religion over his campaign is nothing but the cloak over the wolf. He is Muslim, and will give the best of this nation to THAT religion, regardless of how evil they are in spite of their religious fervency.