Posted on 07/02/2010 6:07:29 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama has cast his role in the civil-rights movement as part of the “Joshua Generation” – those who were tapped to lead the movement after their elders journeyed to the Promised Land.
On ABC/Washington Post’s “Top Line” today, we asked Andrew Young -- a legendary civil rights leader who was a close aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- how that analogy holds up a year and a half into the Obama presidency.
“If you'll remember your Bible, when Joshua and Caleb crossed into the Promised Land, it was not easy,” said Young, a former UN ambassador, member of Congress, and mayor of Atlanta. “There were giants in that land that they had to confront. And there was more hell in the Promised Land in the early days than there had been wandering in the wilderness.
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I think Muhammad had a rough time too, until he slaughtered his first set of Jews.
Betcha Obama follows that example rather than anything out of the other book.
Unlike Obama, Joshua was a God fearing and righteous man.
Joshua? Didn’t he fit the battle of Calico? Calexico? Jellico? Mexico? Amoco? Jackie-O?
Zero’s keeping busy battling his handicap.
“Andrew Young”
You’ll have to cut Andrew some slack—he never was very bright and then he was dropped on his head by his Ma.
That is a stupid analogy.
First Joshua probably had a compass, a sextant and clock. Might have even had GPS for all I know. The Hebrews did invent it.
Barry can’t even show up on time with modern technologies and a whole team of assistants and suck ups.
Anyway, Joshua takes over where Moses left off and actually leads the Hebrews from the wilderness, they had been lost in, for 40 years. Probably because in their haste to escape Eqypt, the dummy that was responsible for getting the maps and navigating left the maps on the coffee table where the dogs spilled left over coffee and then they promptly tore it apart.
But you never hear about him do you?
No, but you do hear about a wild man who gave a vaunted position in the Pharoahs inner circle so he could become the leader of a lost people and get them to the promised land.
Sadly, Moses didn’t make it but his brother Joshua did, thanks to the discoveries of compass, clock, maybe GPS, again we don’t know and how to work out dead reckoning on a map they made after wandering around in circles in, a desert for 40 years.
These guys were tough and they had to hold a desperate people together, even through an entire generation as God would only allow the younger generation to enter the promised land.
Apparently, the younger people, had kept their covenant with God, while the old Codgers, I am guessing, had engaged in risky spiritually abhorrent behavior and could not be trusted to work a land that would seem impossible to anyone but a Hebrew who had the God of the Jews on their side.
I mean really, Barry is like some guys that wandered around a hot filthy dessert, eating grasshoppers and Manna(whatever that is) and wait out the old people, until they died off, so they could establish the kingdom of Judah?
How?
This is for Resty and Sandra
Why would anyone listen to Andrew ‘I worked with Carter to install Mugabe in Zimbabwe’ Young about anything.
This guy is an incompetent boob at best.
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