Posted on 02/11/2015 9:30:31 AM PST by Kaslin
Confession is good for the soul, said Mark Twain, but its bad for the reputation. Candidate Barack Obama in 2008 confessed to his top advisor, David Axelrod, Im just not very good at bull____ing. Actually, he was very good at it. He told millions of Americans that he believed marriage was a sacred union between a man and a woman. He answered about marriage in Rick Warrens question famed Civic Forum, going even further to say that God is in the mix.
Four years later, he claimed he had evolved. Weve all seen those Darwin fish with feet bumper devices. Evolutionary biologists assure us that it took eons for those finny friends to develop into land roving quadrupeds. Not so, liberal politicians. They can shed old convictions and promises quicker than fishes can shed their scales.
TIME magazine provides this enlightening comment on David Axelrods new memoir, Believer.
Axelrod writes that he knew Obama was in favor of same-sex marriages during the first presidential campaign, even Obama publicly said he only supported civil unions, not full marriages. Axelrod also admits to counseling Obama to conceal that position for political reasons. Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a sacred union.'"
The insiders account provides the clearest look yet at Obamas long-established flip-flop, one of the blemishes on his record as a progressive. The admission of Obamas embrace of deception also calls into question the Presidents stated embrace of a new kind of politics in 2008, when he promised to be unlike other politicians who change their views to match the political winds. Having prided himself on forthrightness, though, Obama never felt comfortable with his compromise and, no doubt, compromised position, Axelrod writes. He routinely stumbled over the question when it came up in debates or interviews.
As a state senate candidate in 1996, Obama filled out a questionnaire saying I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages. But 12 years later as a candidate for president, Obama told Rick Warrens Saddleback Church that marriage could only extend to heterosexual couples. I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman, Obama said at the time. Now, for me as a Christian for me for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. Gods in the mix.
Here is TIME, even that unwavering champion of all things liberal, expressing more than a little chagrin at Axelrods revelation of that bit of campaign lying by Barack Obama in 2008.
No wonder even liberals are expressing dismay with the Obama presidency. No wonder that Barbara Walters now moans: We thought he was going to be the Messiah. No wonder that Chris Matthews leg doesnt tingle any more. No wonder even Barack Obamas own coat carriers dont call him Black Jesus any more.
To be fair, there was dissatisfaction among conservatives at this point in the Ronald Reagan presidency, too. Reagan also faced a Congress dominated by his political opponents in the last two years of his second term.
Then, however, conservatives cried out: Let Reagan be Reagan. They knew, or thought they knew, what Reagan would do if he could overrule his circle of pragmatic advisers.
Overrrule them he did. He went to West Berlin in 1987. [Yes, my young friends, there was a West and an East Berlin then. And you could be murdered if you tried to escape from the Workers Paradise in Communist East Berlin.]
Reagans top advisers sent back to the White House the speech drafted by young Peter Robinson. Take out that line: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Three times, the State Department and the National Security staff tried to tear down that speech. Three times Ronald Reagan sent it back with the world-changing line still in the text.
And the presiodent went to West Berlin and delivered that speech with that powerful line intact. No one had to let Reagan be Reagan. Reagan was Reagan.
Today, no one says: Let Obama be Obama. That because no one knowseven his closest advisers dont knowwhat might result. But this much is clear: When he says
God is in the mix, everything is in the mix. Like some vast primordial stew.
And the man who promised Americans if you like your plan, you can keep your plan and if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor is exposed as a serial misleader.
No wonder he is now cheering on the overturn of marriage. No wonder, having been safely re-elected to a final term, he can afford to stiff-arm millions of his black supporters in and out of churches around the country. He is saying to these disappointed folks: If you like your God, you can keep your God, but I am moving on; I have evolved.
resident Obama was wrong to confess what he is not good at. It turns out, he was very good at bull____ing. And his top adviser, Axelrod, is a very informative writer. He has written a Book of Revelations. Its almost biblical. But Axelrod should change his title. Instead of Believer, Id suggest he call it Deceiver.
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And anyone is surprised by this?
If Jug Ears told the truth about anything he believed in, he would have been lost like Michael Dukakis.
If you genuinely want to understand the TRUE, VIOLENT, DUALISTIC, SCHIZOPHRENIC nature of ISLAM in order to become part of a solution instead of part of the problem that spells doom for Western Civilization (and, NO, that’s not too extreme a statement), you need to spend 40 minutes with Dr. Bill Warner here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBDDC4wVxk
And this is ESPECIALLY for any antisemites who view the “Jewish Conspiracy” as the primary threat to your existence and are put off because the video was posted by a Jewish group. Try to think of any nations conquered by violent, bloody Jewish jihad and send me their names.
After watching this presentation, if you STILL believe that Bush was correct when he called islam a “religion of peace” (it’s not a religion and it ain’t peaceful) and Obama was right when he recently declared islam morally equivalent or superior to the Christian Crusades, you are DEFINITELY a BIG part of the problem.
Gang, this is a WAR and it is one we dare not lose!
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