The expression is 'for want of Oxygen, a fire goes out". So it will be with the passion of the Tea Party and all of the gay and women and racial bashing we've seen. The thing is that right now the Average American if anything sees Mitt Romney to be slightly better at captaining the American economy than the President. On the Mc Laughlin group tonight they referred to all of this favorible economic news and government statistics as "Phoney statistics" and "for the American citizen, things just are not improving for them". That's what they said on the Chris Matthews show. The question is what sort of "vision" that Romney has for America. The President has stated his ideas but Romney hasn't other than repeal all the polution regulations and "drill, baby, drill" like that Republican said from Missouri this morning. The thing is that as President if he senses he is in real trouble with his poll numbers he can fix this in a minute by suspending various regulations and restrictions for instance, unclogging refinery pipelines and getting more gasoline to the consumer. Chris Matthews stated that if unemployment is below eight percent the President would win but if it were above where it is right now than Romney would win the election. All else would fade into insignificance, for instance in the three fall Debates. Whoever the economic statistics favor would be on offence, and whoever they didn't favor would be playing Defense the entire time.
However the President need not totally dispair because certain factors in new polls favor him. The President has a twelve percent margin with women, and an even larger margin with women under fifty. They said two thirds of the people have "made up their minds" but just as in baseball, that leaves the third of games in the middle that are in doubt. No losing candidate has gotten less than a third of the votes, and no victorious candidate has ever gotten two thirds of the vote. Obama is heavily favored by minorities. They won't even poll Blacks because it's such a slam dunk there. The President is leading almost two to one among the Latino voters. The President is leading with people under 35. Single women are the fastest growing demographic besides Latinos- - and that is very lopsided for the President. The President is also seen more likable and personable. Romney's lack of leadership is aknoledged by the Republicans themselves and insiders report a new gloom decending over the party stratigests. Grover Norquist has stated that we don't want an independant thinker or leader in the White House but merely someone who can take his marching orders from the Tea Party bosses. You know, to rubber stamp all their proposed bills, such as ones written by ALEC. American Legislative Executive Counsil. Also history tells us that the Optimist almost always wins the presidential race. Clearly the President is more optimistic in his overall persona and statements than is Romney. Also no sitting President has been turned out of office who had SOLID support in his own Party and the President has this. Bust 41, Carter, and Ford did not have the support of their own rank and file and so that's why they lost. 69% of the American people believe in Global Warming, and Mitt Romney is clearly on the wrong side of this issue. Women will never vote for any candidate that threatens their right to have an abortion, even if they personally never have one. It's a matter of principle with them. The President is weak with "white, male workers" but here again if the economy continues to improve, so will his vote with this segment. The secret service scandal is a non issue in this Campaign because Mitt Romney isn't raising it. And Pat Buchannon believes he shouldn't.
The tea party has always been held together with lies. The other day this Marc with a C guy was telling Marcia that "George Bush didn't start the Recession. The recession started because of problems in Europe in places like Greece". This is a rewrite of history. If you look at economic statistics they favor this President. Compare all the deficets run up by Republican presidents in the years between 1968 and 2008. Not add up all the deficets run up by Democratic Presidents and I think you'll be amazed. I would not be a bit surprised is the Republican tally were at least double the democrat's tally. You can look at the stock market for two years prior to Jan 20th 2009 and two years after Jan 20th 2009 if you want to do that. Look at corporate profits two years before this date for Bush and two years after this date for the President and do it that way. Have taxes for small businesses or "The Average American worker" the tea party professes to care so much about - - been more auspitious under Obama or Bush? Bush started two wars and the President ended one war and is wrapping up another. What period did Al Qaeda experiance most of its growth and propagation in? How does our oil import export balance stack up for the two administrations? I don't know how significant people like Ted Nugent will be in the republican campaign but for their sake I hope it wont be very much. Now the Army has moved to prevent Nugent from performing at a USO concert or whatever. How many countries have overthrown dictators under Obama as opposed to Bush? I'm not really sure what the Tea Party has to complain about. This like about "Class Warfare" is entirely bogus. The big issue is what policies should America institute to insure the best health of the American economy? Pat Buchannon seems to be the lone surviving Economic Nationalist out there - - - .
What is Jehovah God were on the ticket? Would you vote for him. Many Protestents with Marcionite leanings might not. For instance the idea of "Priests" in a religion was originally Jewish concept and not a Christian concept. The early Christians used this word very little. The word conoted the fact that man needed a "Pontiff" or bridge between himself and God to confess his sins to and make some sort of pennance or atonement. Other "Jewish" imigry persists in some sectors, like this choral introit some church use of "The Lord is in his Holy Temple - let us keep silence before him". The problem is that Christians believe there IS NO earthly "Temple" remaining on Earth. Also most good theologians don't believe that "God" can be localized in one place. However "Jehovah" often did exhibit "local" charistics and there are instances of Jehovah having to investigate things he did not know. There was some TV movie or something about some young wife married to a despotic husband. And one day the wife's pet horse was discovered Dead. And she said "you killed the horse because it was something I loved". The first use of the word LOVE in the Bible is an emotion which Separated man from God because Jehovah told Abraham to kill his son Isac in demonstration of - - "I want to see if you love Me more than you love your Son" or something. In a Beatle song John Lennon sings, "I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved". In Hebrews (one of the last books to be approved by the Church) there is talk about how he who loves his child will not spare the rod, and since the Lord loves us- - he won't spare the rod to discipline us. Jehovah killed Onan because he "pulled out" and would not empregnate his brother's wife but spilled his seed on the ground comitting "spirmicide" or something. So God killed him. Jehovah got really pissed at King Saul because he wouldn't commit mass genocide in innocent women and children wiping them all out. There is a scripture in Leviticus I'm told, where Jehovah says that handicapped people are loathsome to him and they cannot serve as Priests. So much for the Americans with disabilities act. People say there are Wars because of diverse cultures and languages. Yet Jehovah was displeased when men worked together with one accord to build the Tower of Babel, because God was afraid they would get to Heaven, and that would be awful. To semedy these problems you have Marcion. Marcion says that in essence "circumstances are of the Devil". We are ruled by "The Lord of this World". Satan is localized (Just as Jehovah was) the True God is omnipresent. Jehovah instituted The Law, which results in Death. The True God offers deliverance from The Law and Death. Marcion and Paul teach that not just the physical world, but the whole Cosmos as we know it, including "The Heavenlies" or the "Powers of the Air" (spirit) and even Angels themselves can be ministers of Satan. Calvary Chapel has never been big on Angels. They are more of a domain among the Catholics. At some point this entire idea of "share and share alike" and communal meals and working for free and a general disregard of the importance of Money - - all this went by the wayside in the course of time.
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