Posted on 06/07/2014 10:32:36 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen
Bacon gum.
Was the U.S. responsible for the D-Day interpretive dance?
Just this morning I awoke with that 1 Chronicles scripture in my mind about “His people who are called by His name” humbling themselves to pray and He would heal their nation, etc. and I prayed and said I was sorry for what we’ve become as a nation. We aren’t “His people” anymore, there are of course Christians left in America, praying for her daily, but that train has left the station, heading for a cliff. I prayed He come back soon and redeem us all.
In my memory, the most memorable and positive appearance by a U.S. president at D-Day commemorative ceremonies, was Reagan’s speech in 1984. Obama’s speech was very forgettable, in my opinion.
This may be the last major commemoration featuring veterans who were part of the Normandy invasion. The passage of time has taken most of them from us. The 75th anniversary in five years will be worth noting. But just wonder how many will still be around for that.
D-Day will always be worth the commemoration, but, just wonder how much longer participants will be with us.
From what they reported, the host country of France put on that show, not that your average Frenchman would like it any more than we would.
It was strictly by new world order elites for new world order elites, European Unions stars and all.
“EU Council” “President” Van Rompuy kept skulking around on the video, but the commentators only mentioned him one time that I heard.
Of course, all the other people were representing actual countries that existed at the time of WWII. So it was a little weird to point out him being there as if he was representing someone or something other than bankers.
I could see why actual people in the different countries of Europe have some strong anti-EU movements going. It’s sickening.
It makes one barf, just like the financial elites’ con game called the United Nations.
Obama obviously goes out of his way to insult America in general and the Military in particular. However, the gum chewing—almost certainly Nicorette—was more likely a result of his addictive-dysfunctional personality. You’d have to have spent a lot of time around a seriously addiction-dysfunctional person to know how bad it gets. They say Obama is playing golf at unprecedented levels. He’s partying—with abundant alcohol—in a similar measure. We don’t know about smoking, but odds are it’s up. There are rumors he spends enormous amounts of time watching ESPN. If we had more info, this list would doubtless be much longer.
Get Obama in a Normandy-beach setting, & he’s temporarily cut off from all his addictive outlets/props. The fact that he can’t go even that short period of time without a serious Nicorette fix is a window into how bad it’s gotten. This is an addictive-dysfunctional wreck careening down the highway toward a massive smash up.
Obama uses his addictions to separate himself from unpleasant realities. For some time now reality has been more and more unpleasant. He is unpopular & his polls stubbornly refuse to rebound. Criticism from his own party is intensifying. His Bergdahl blunder is evidence of desperation. He just had to get the news cycle off the VA scandal. But he’s so isolated & distracted that he had no idea of the firestorm he would provoke.
Yes, his gum chomping reflected badly on America, & certainly insulted the vets. But its primary function most likely was to get nicotine into his system. He is out of control. He’s living from golf game to golf game, party to party, drink to drink, etc. No matter how hard they try, his managers won’t be able to haul him unscathed to the end of this term. Addiction-dysfunction is a downward spiral. Obama is caught in it, & intensifying its severity over time. This will not end well.
Don’t forget imprecatory prayers; the Psalms have a lot of them which one can use to understand the concepts, as well as pray directly.
Pray that God will crush his enemies.
I recently started including this in my prayers more.
The Psalms are so wonderful. The Pilgrims and the Reformed of those days practiced exclusive Psalmody.
God’s own Psalms, divinely inspired, God-breathed.
Too bad, as I’d hoped my mother would see it. She adores Obama (blech!), but absolutely cannot stand GUM CHEWERS!
Watermelon?
Nicotine gum I bet
Great ! I’ll keep praying my imprecatory prayers that God destroy him unless he repent and mend his wicked ways.
And that goes for any political leader that demonstrates a wicked hatred of God and his Law Word, the Bible, and refuses to repent and seek salvation in Jesus Christ.
This includes most every politician we have, save a few, who do not appear to be complete hucksters, so it’s not so clear that they are wicked.
But those who flagrantly contradict the Bible, persecute Christians and do basically nothing but other wicked acts - God please destroy them, and place godly leaders over us ! Please God !
We repent from our wicked ways; help us, make us the Lord’s good and faithful servants ! We look only to Jesus Christ, only begotten Son of God, our Lord and Savior, for our salvation. Create in us a clean heart !
The Psalms are certainly inspired, but we have moved from the Old to the New Covenant. We no longer pray for the destruction of our enemies. Rather, as Jesus put it in Matthew 5:
“43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
Or to put it with even greater clarity, from Luke 6:
“27 “But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either.”
In this Covenant, we pray for God to bless our enemies. However, we are encouraged to pray to God to “deliver us from evil” - and I do so, every single day. (I.e.: you can pray that Obama & his family will be blessed, & even that they will know the greatest blessing of all, new life in Christ. It’s not inconsistent, however, to pray at the same time that God will deliver us from the evil Obama is inflicting. Both prayers can be answered, & are not mutually exclusive.)
It is absolutely true that he did it on purpose. He is showing his cronies and his screwed up ‘base’ that he doesn’t really give a damn about D-Day.
Republican politicians are, for the most part, silent in the matter.
Nobody wants to be a racist.
Might have been a Nicorette but nevertheless it was totally tasteless to do that during a public ceremony. Even ‘Weezie’ wouldn’t have let George do that.
When those veterans in the ceremony served as young men during WWII...
How many of them chewed gum while standing at attention, in any type of ceremony ?
Did their commanding officers chew gum during ceremonies ?
What if any of them did chew gum during a ceremony - during WWII - what would have happened ?
Any vets from WWII want to weigh in on this ?
When you were standing at attention for inspection, could you chew gum ? Did the officer doing the inspection ever chew gum ?
What would Patton have done ?
Now we have the Commander-in-Chief chewing gum at a ceremony to honor veterans.
I took more pride marching in the high school band than the US President shows at an international combat veterans ceremony.
IMHO...
All he cares about is his own comfort
The lapdog media would black out Obama defecating on the flag.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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