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Noon eastern time, Angels will sing, God will open the heavens and appear in DC and speak in all tongues and Bless Obama ! Peace and Harmony will begin in the World ! Winter will turn into Summer ! Wars will end ! Diseases will be gone ! Poverty will end ! Terrorists will fanish and be in the bowls of the Earth wilth the Devil ! All Evil will disapear !
All will be rich and famous and live the American Dream ! Just right and positive things will go on ! No more
storms of any kind ! Horn of Plenty will be for all !! Earth will be a Heaven !! Cats and Dogs living in peace !
Chickens for all pots ! Every one will drive new Cars ! No black or white just a rainbow of colors !

Oh yee of such enormous faith !!! OBAMA CAN''T FIX ALL THE WORLDS HELL !!!
HE IS JUST A MAN !! STOP DREAMING AND WISHING AND GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR BUTTS !!

MY HUSBANC WAS JUST DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER AND NEEDS ONE OF MANY MEDICINES FOR HIS TREATMENT AND WE ARE TOLD THAT ONE OF THE MEDICINES WILL COST OVER 5,000.00 PER MONTH. THAT IS MORE THAN OUR COMBINED INCOME. TELL BARACK OBAMA TO CLOSE THE SO--CALLED DO-NUT WHOLE IN THE MEDICARE PROGRAM AND TO MAKE SURE ALL OF US ARE COVERED WITH WHATEVER MEDCINES WE NEED. WE WILL GO BANKRUPT WITH THIS KIND OF NON HEALTH CARE LET ALONE THE MISERY OF COPING WITH THIS MONSTER. PLEASE DO NOT POST MY FULL NAME AS NO ONE IN OUR FAMILY KNOWS OF THIS YET. USE JUST DH AS A NAME IF YOU NEED ONE. THANK YOU I HOPE THIS IS REFERRED TO THE FUTURE PRESIDENT.

I AM REALLY FOND OF THIS MAGAZINE ,AND I LIKE FAREED ZAKARIA 's style too much.

I DO BELIEVE THAT PRESIDENT G.W.BUSH TO BE THE UNCOMPATIBL PRESIDENT FOR THE U.S.A.FOR MANY REASONS.ACTUALLY ,HIS ERA WAS AFIASCO.LOOK AROUD.THERE ARE WARS AND CONFLICTS WHICH WERE CREATED IN HUS PRESIDENCY.HE HAS NO ESPRIT OF NEGOTIATION.HE USED THE AMERICAN FORCE LAVISHLY.FINALLY ,I HOPE THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL SAVE THIS WORL BY HIS WISDIM.

I consider President Bush to be the worse president ever! Very little accomplished during his presidency.

I agree with everything. So, let´s read this *** magazine!

"GOD IS LOVE, LOVE IS LIFE AND LIVE IS GOD." MAKE PEACE NEVER EVER A WAR WHICH IS SELF DESTRUCTIVE AND DEGRADING TO ANY HUMAN BEING CREATED BY GOD AS IT LEADS TO ABUSE OF WEALTH, POWER, SIN.

How is it that the homosexual community can voice their opinions but a reverend can't? They want equal rights by taking the rights of others. That is like taking the right shoe and putting it on the left foot. The reverend has the right to the first ammendment as well . He is a reverend of the Christian religion and his beliefs are based off of the Bible. If he doesn't say or represents what the Bible says, than he would be a hypocrite. He should be respected for staying true to his beliefs.

Re: soldiers in the militsary being open about there sexuality
Making your sexuality known in the military ishould not be considered. The military needs to be uniformed and the only thing that needs to stand out is rank so that you know your chain of command. A soldiers personal opinions,sexual preference etc.. is no longer considered when you sign your name on the contract. Once you sign the contract, you are the property of the United States Government, your name is soldier and your opinions are the governments opinions. The military is not a club and you don't get to vote. If you want to express yourself then wait until you become a civilian. Opening the door to expressing sexual orientation will lead to more issues that will have to be addressed. Heterosexual soldiers are not asking to express themselves as heterosexual. Are differnt ethnicities going to want to express themselves to by wearing cultural garb. Let's get real. The government/military must have uniformity and be consistent.

Finally, comparing homosexuality with being a person that is Black is absurd . It is an insult to the Black community and their continous struggle. People who are other than white do not have the option of waking up in the morning and saying I think I will wear my white skin today or maybe I will go with off white. They are Black all the time, all day, good days and bad days. When they go for job interviews, the first thing that an average person will notice is Black and then they consider the other obvious things like he is wearing clothes etc... Homosexual orientation does not get profiled by the police. Homosexuals are not being followed in stores in effort to catch somone stealing. Homosexuals don't have to work twice as hard to get half as far. I think You get my point but I also hope you notice that I stopped sayng sexual orientation and changed to homosexuals as though there was such a group of people. There is no such thing as a homosexual. You are a person who's

sexual orientation is of the same gender and that does not give you extra rights or equal rights. Sexual orientation does not allow anyone extra rights or equal rights to any one thing.

dump them,

send them home in pig fat

Who are we trying to impress here and who has been anointed to determine what is proper dress? As a young professional male with two postgraduate degrees, my fanny pack and backpack are regular companions. They are practical...duh. I get a chuckle on those rare occasions I watch network news and see the anchors dressed for a wedding or funeral. What is the purpose of a tie for heavens sakes...to soak up your soup when you dribble? You all go and dress the latest trend. I will dress casual, comfortable and practical.

Excellent!

Also try broadly to move the medical industry, especially doctors and drug companies to curative and away from palliative treatments. Doctor's and drug companies have a basic conflict of interest in that their revenue streams, left unregulated, grow significantly more from palliative, than from curative treatments.

For example, if I have to take Lipitor daily for the rest of my life to keep my cholesterol in check, in spite of diet and exercise, that creates more revenue over my life for the drug company than if they develop a genetic cure for whatever is wrong with my body that creates the excess cholesterol. Obviously, barring complications, if I have a choice, I'll take the cure, so I won't have to take Lipitor my entire life. On the other hand, if the drug company has a choice, just like street drug pushers, they will choose to have me take Lipitor my entire life, rather than spend the R&D money to develop a cure that will remove my Lipitor "addition" and also their Lipitor revenue stream. Similarly, my doctor???s revenue is significantly enhanced, if I have to take Lipitor forever, because my doctor requires me to pay for periodic office visits and blood tests, in order for me to get prescription refills.

yes. i agree.

I am tired of trusted writers and leaders lying about what the Bible does and does not contain. I would encourage all readers to read the Bible themselves, in context, and come to their own conclusions rather than blindly believe what such leaders claim it does and doesn't say. Miller wrote that the Bible doesn't mention lesbianism, then she went on to refer to Romans 1, a passage that clearly DOES mention lesbianism as well as homosexuality as unnatural and sinful, the result of false conceptions of God and worshiping and serving His creatures rather than Him. Of these, verses 26-27says: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women (in the Greek, "females") did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men (in the Greek, "males"), leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet." And contrary to what Miller claims, the list of other sins that follows includes more than violence. The mention of violent sins does not cancel out the mention of nonviolent ones. God DOES care what we do in the bedroom; He cares what we do everywhere, for everything we do affects everything else. I personally don't know WHY homosexuality is wrong, although I have some ideas. I am one who believes the Bible is inspired by God. Lisa Miller is free to disagree with what it says, but not to lie about what it says. This is an example of one more person stooping to any level to sway the public with an opinion.

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Martin Braun 12/16/2008
NY, NY
USA

yes, ok

How come President Chaney and Vice President Bush have not recently issued support to dissolve Social Security, and let the income earners gamble their retirement in an unregulated stock market? Regulations are the consequences of unregulated actions that fail. All that I can express to the worst President in the history of the United States, and his administration, is good riddance.

great i agree

Good for Newsweek for having the guts to run this piece!!
Many years ago, I became a Christian, and was so turned off by the narrowness and refusal of individuals to do their own thinking, that I spent several years, part-time, in a mainline seminary, studying Hebrew and Greek and the rest, so that I could better dig out the answers to my deepest questions. (I'm proud to say that two decades later, my son did the same thing. Neither of us is a "Christian" today, but I think that both of us had a need to dig profoundly into matters of the spirit.)

I am so glad to see that in the nearly 72 years I've lived, opportunities for living fuller lives have opened up for so many people: women, people of color, and now at last the homosexual community. It gives me hope. It gives me hope to see that the USA has actually elected a black man to the presidency -- when I was little I lived in a Jim Crow southern state, and to see this change in my lifetime is magnificent.

Hang in there, my gay brothers and sisters. I don't think it will take that long for your turn at equality to arrive; progress and change tend to gather speed as they come into being. This country needs more and more loving unions, stable families, loved children, happy homes. And we all need practice at accepting and valuing one another.