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Posing the moral questions facing the next American president.

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  • Posted By: educationpastor @ 12/13/2008 6:42:39 PM

    Very good questions to be considered! I only wish they would have taken a more prominent role in the campaign.

  • Posted By: DHFabian @ 11/28/2008 3:15:00 PM

    Where is the discussion about US poverty? The talk stops at "middle class". Our economic disparities are not the result of people being "lazy". Poverty is hard, distressing, painful, sometimes fatal -- not a "lifestyle choice"! Not everyone is employable, and there aren't jobs for all who can work. We provide billions of dollars of aid for our rich, in the form of "tax relief", etc., but only spit on ":the least of these" in America.

  • Posted By: MegaDeath @ 10/17/2008 11:01:17 AM

    2008 is only the begining of the "Prophecy of Doom". Nostradamus (1503-1566) was an French apothecary who was 96% accurate in his ability to fore see and predict the future(500 Years ahead of his time). In his last quatrain he predicted that between 2008-2012 would be the start of the end of civilization. He fore seen the down fall of Western countries through various events leading up to World War lll (A Nuclear War) by 2012, which will start in the Middle East. With the problems we are having in the current economic mess, this could be the first sign.

  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 1:01:30 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: brajs @ 10/15/2008 10:17:48 PM

    why is a resident alien entitled to medicaid but a usa citizen collection 960 per month social security is not...

  • Posted By: MsPepper @ 10/14/2008 3:47:58 PM

    We are always helping the foreign countries with desasters, medical, money, food but it really bothers me that the U.Sl is suppost to be the richest countries in the world but none of our politicans, presidential candidates ever say or promise to help the thousands of homeless people in the streets with no food, clothes or creating rehab programs. Why?

  • Posted By: DianaRo @ 10/13/2008 2:53:40 PM

    "I wish the candidate would discuss global poverty more. According to The Borgen Project:
    $30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
    $540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget."

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/12/2008 8:33:20 PM

    THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CANDIDATE!

    NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY HAS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEEN GIVEN SUCH A FREE PASS BY THE PRESS AND JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!

    I AM WAITING FOR A BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO MAKE IT ON HIS OWN MERIT.

    COLIN POWELL COMES TO MIND!

  • Posted By: sieg6529 @ 10/10/2008 4:46:08 PM

    wouldn't it be so nice to live in a world without superstition/religion? We would be accountable for our own actions and experiences, and not chalk everything up to a divine design or infernal interference. As for me, I will wait patiently and peacefully as mankind outgrows primitive beliefs.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:25:35 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: neocon @ 10/09/2008 9:44:58 AM

    Will MSM Report on Obama Membership in Socialist New Party?
    The mainstream media thought that the membership of Todd Palin, who is not a candidate for any office, in the Alaska Independence Party important enough to report in such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and the New York Times, among others. So now that Barack Obama's membership in the far left New Party has been unearthed, will they report his membership in that Socialist organization?

    In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as the Chicago "New Party". The 'New Party' was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards.

    The DSA and 'New Party' then systematically attempted to cover up any ties between Obama and the Socialist Organizations. However, it now appears that Barack Obama was indeed a certified and acknowledged member of the DSA's New Party.

    http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng47.html

    NP's '96 Political Program has been enormously successful with 3 of 4 endorsed candidates winning electoral primaries. All four candidates attended the NP membership meeting on April 11th to express their gratitude. Barack Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District, encouraged NPers to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration.


    The NP's political strategy is to support progressive candidates in elections only if they have a concrete chance to "win". This has resulted in a winning ratio of 77 of 110 elections. Candidates must be approved via a NP political committee. Once approved, candidates must sign a contract with the NP. The contract mandates that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP.

    http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html#anchor792932

    So Obama signed a contract with the New Party? Verrrry interesting.

  • Posted By: izme @ 10/09/2008 12:53:47 AM

    VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE
    The upcoming election is the most critical election in the history of our nation. The very future of our nation???s foundation is at stake. Every person will be affected. If the liberals win, then our foundation will no longer be based on traditional morality. It will gradually but assuredly be based on an ever shifting, ever moving foundation. If the liberals win, the damage can???t be stopped with elections two, four or forty years from now. America will forever be changed. We will keep seeing a gradual and growing hostility toward people of faith. The morals of our nation will continue to decline. Our children and grandchildren will pay the price.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/08/2008 11:31:16 PM

    "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

    "Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

    'Rank snobbery'

    Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

    "The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

    "The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."

  • Posted By: whoiamnow @ 10/08/2008 10:31:01 PM

    Beauty and the Beast unleashed their inner pit bulls and are attacking Obama with their same old tricks- character assassination, lies and distortion. But Joe Six Pack isn't fooled.

    This is a quote from foxnews.com:

    "The analysis also concluded that in the latest period, nearly 100 percent of the McCain's ads were negative, compared to 34 percent of Obama's ads."

    McCain has nothing good to say about himself. How pathetic.

  • Posted By: neocon @ 10/08/2008 4:53:19 PM

    Do you wonder, as I do, how people got the idea that this relative newcomer to national politics has the credentials, experience, and other requisites for cleaning up after George W. Bush? Saying so is a sure recipe, as I???ve found, for getting called a fool, a racist, a moron, an idiot, amoral, brain-washed, a republican shill, a tool of the McCain establishment, and a tool.
    If I raise questions (because the questions are definitely are out there), I???m accused of ???stirring the mud??? (as if you could stir mud if it the mud wasn???t there in the first place) or of ???innuendo.??? Obama supporters seem to think that it???s unfair to bring up allegations that are out there if I can???t personally prove they are true. Of course, my point isn???t that they are true, but that they are out there. So far the media???s given him the same sort of pass they used to give to George Bush. What happens when the honeymoon ends?
    Meanwhile, not one supporter has risen to the challenge of telling me???if I???m stuck with Obama, I really need to know???what superior or equivalent credentials or experience they can cite to indicate that he is currently better qualified than McCain to be the Chief Executive of the United States.
    Most of them try to lecture me with a sublime disregard for logic, common sense, or the facts, that his qualifications and experience aren???t any greater than Obama???s, or not enough greater to matter, in light of his ???charisma??? and his (their faith in him ensures) pure, untarnished record.
    Most say they don???t care about credentials or think his credentials are sufficient. They like Obama; and that???s all that matters. I like him too, or till recently I did, but they???LIKE him like him???, as my pre teen says. And if you say you don???t, they???re all up in your face, demanding that you step outside so they can administer a moral drubbing.
    Moreover, they don???t think his voting record in Illinois or in the senate shows anything important about him, such as an alleged unwillingness to take a clear position on hard issues that might render him less, you know, ???electable.???

  • Posted By: think4yourself @ 10/08/2008 4:02:07 PM

    It is up to the Media and American Citizens to find out if Obama Ever sent a letter about the Bailout. There is evidence according to C-Span that he DID NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Finally Good news! You cant stop the truth!

    After much protesting - Hulu.com brought back the Saturday Night Live Congress Bailout skit back. CHECK IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/38041/saturday-night-live-washington-approves-the-bailout#s-p1-st-i1

  • Posted By: neocon @ 10/08/2008 12:22:25 PM

    Barack Obama???s old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are at it again.

    On Monday, the two groups announced the wrap-up of a 21-state voter-registration drive targeting low-income people and minorities in such battleground states as Ohio, Pennyslvania, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Wisconsin.
    The two groups are inextricably linked - and at their nexus is Barack Obama. Despite his denials of any association with the group, Obama's political DNA is encoded with the ACORN agenda.
    Obama trained ACORN members in Chicago. In turn, ACORN volunteers worked on his Illinois campaigns and ACORN's PAC endorsed him in this year's Democratic primaries back in February.
    Obama was hired in 1992 to lead Project Vote efforts in Illinois. The effort's motto: "It's a Power Thing." Today, the Obama campaign's "Vote for Change" registration drive is running in parallel with ACORN/Project Vote.
    Quantity over quality. That's the ACORN way - and the fraud allegations keep piling up:
    * Yesterday, Nevada officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names. Among the bogus monikers: names of former Dallas Cowboys players.
    * Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected thousands of registration forms ACORN had turned in from its drives this summer. 11,000 of the applications were no good - tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.
    In what seems to be ACORN's standard operating procedure, vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from phone books and forged signatures. According to a local paper (the Northwest Indiana and Illionois Times), "Large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants include dead people and underage kids.
    * In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple, copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. The Miami Herald reports: "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."
    Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices months ago. But it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats - a fifth of all new voters in that region.
    * In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people got free van and bus rides to register. One homeless woman who said ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."

  • Posted By: glimps @ 10/08/2008 1:19:53 AM

    McCain wouldn't forgot., his name, his opponents name, how many houses he has, and where he was; the economic issues effecting the ppl, his policy on cutting Medi-Care for the elderly, the last good movie he watched, why his V.P. is not going on T.V. networks to support the issues,. Dementia effects old people that way.

  • Posted By: DianaRo @ 10/07/2008 12:39:36 PM

    "I wish the candidate would discuss global poverty more. According to The Borgen Project:
    $30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
    $540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget."

    • Posted By: jiml1956 @ 10/08/2008 12:05:00 AM

      Unfortunately, I don't believe these numbers. When we tried to help in Somalia, the war lords took control of the relief aid. It's not as simple as throwing dollars at the problem and shipping food. I wish it was.

  • Posted By: izme @ 10/07/2008 2:35:55 PM

    I would like to ask Obama if he is sorry he started his political career in the living room of Bill Ayers and if he had to do it over, would he do it again? and Does he admit that it was bad judgement?

    • Posted By: neocon @ 10/07/2008 3:11:52 PM

      I would like to know also why he won't release any of his college information from Columbia or Harvard. His is the only one not public record.

      • Posted By: jiml1956 @ 10/07/2008 11:59:32 PM

        Enter Your CommentWhat was Sarah's GPA at all 5 or 6 of her colleges?

      • Posted By: raddave @ 10/07/2008 5:17:07 PM

        He has released his college information from Columbia and Harvard. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a B.A. in political science with a specialization in International relations. He graduated Maga *** Laude from Harvard Law school in 1991, earning a Juris Doctor. What else needs to be released?

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