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Should Christians Vote for Hillary Clinton?
National Review ^ | 04/16/2015 | David French

Posted on 04/16/2015 8:42:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Earlier this week, the Religion News Service asked liberal pastor Tony Campolo to make the Christian case for Hillary Clinton and asked me to make the case against. Campolo calls himself the “positive prophet of red letter Christianity” and is a personal friend of the Clintons.

Let’s just say we had starkly different assessments. Here’s Campolo:

Clinton also understands how Congress works — a needed skill since legislative gridlock has characterized Washington over the last several years. Amid dire problems, the last session of Congress proved to be one of the least productive of any in our nation’s history. It seemed like the White House and those in the Congress were not able to negotiate. But Clinton is a brilliant negotiator. When she was a senator, she demonstrated that she could work across party lines to forge progressive policies that made for a better America.

She was by no means perfect in making policy decisions. After all, she believed Dick Cheney when he told her that Saddam Hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction, and that led her to vote for the second Middle East war. She learned from that experience, and her future carefulness will keep her from making that kind of mistake again. She was, however, honest enough to admit that she regretted her vote, and honesty is something we need in Washington.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton demonstrated her ability to negotiate foreign policy. She joined the two female secretaries of state who held that position previously and–as those on both sides of the political aisle will admit–were outstanding voices representing America’s interests around the world.

Hillary Clinton modeled being a faithful wife and a loving, effective mother at a time when we needed such a model. Many people thought, in the midst of a crisis that would have destroyed most marriages, she showed that the promises she made to her husband on their wedding day were binding through better and worse, that she really meant it. We need a president who keeps her promises.

Here are my thoughts on Ms. Clinton’s competence:

But it’s as Secretary of State that she proved truly disastrous. The Russian “reset” is now a sad joke. Cold-War era tensions have flared again, Russian forces invaded Ukraine and threaten the Baltic states, and Russian jets are buzzing American air space and provoking our allies.

In the Middle East, Americans find themselves again fighting in Iraq after a botched and premature American withdrawal created an opening for ISIS, the world’s largest and deadliest jihadist army. Both Syria and Iraq are torn apart by civil war, and jihadists control more Middle Eastern territory than any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

And dare I mention Libya, a country where large sections are now under jihadist control? After the United States launched an undeclared air war to drive Muammar Gaddafi from power and so mismanaged the transition of power that the American ambassador and three other brave Americans were not only killed, but jihadists drove Americans from our embassy and later filmed themselves swimming in the ambassador’s pool.

These mistakes carry a tragic cost:

And we cannot — must not — forget that these foreign policy misadventures have led to human suffering on a vast, tragic scale, including Christian persecution so severe that it has verged on genocide. After clinging to the Middle East for 2,000 years — a period of time that included waves of Muslim conquest — the Christian presence has never been more precarious.

Then’s there’s the small matter of how she conducted herself:

Through it all, Clinton has conducted herself with the same evasiveness and lack of integrity that characterized her conduct as First Lady. Unreported foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation echo the bad old days of foreign fundraising in the Clinton White House. Her decision to conduct official business exclusively from an unsecure private email server—then turn over public records only as she deemed fit while deleting the rest—reflects spectacular disregard not only for the rules that govern federal employment but also for the public’s right to transparency from government officials.

Her brazen disregard for the truth reached its sad low in the aftermath of Benghazi attacks, when she continually and emphatically blamed a planned jihadist assault on a purely fictional spontaneous uprising due to a YouTube.

Clinton was a dishonest first lady, a middling senator, and a failed secretary of state. That is hardly the resume of a commander-in-chief. Clinton’s record should dismay Americans of all faiths, or no faith at all.

The Washington Post reprinted the entire exchange here. I invite your feedback.


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: christians; christianvote; clinton; evil; hillary; hillary2016; hitlery; kkklinton; religiousleft; tonycampolo; voting
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1 posted on 04/16/2015 8:42:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No.

No one should.


2 posted on 04/16/2015 8:44:11 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: SeekAndFind

Pro-abortion? pro-sodomy? I’m ready to vote.


3 posted on 04/16/2015 8:44:50 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No American should vote for that creature.


4 posted on 04/16/2015 8:45:44 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: SeekAndFind

ABH


5 posted on 04/16/2015 8:46:01 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (If Hillary was running against Satan, I'd probably abstain.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nobody should vote for Hillary. Religion has nothing to do with it.
America does not need another four years of Clinton corruption.


6 posted on 04/16/2015 8:46:49 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No. Save the babies.


7 posted on 04/16/2015 8:46:57 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (We need a conservative electable candidate in 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind
Nope. Hillary is a big-time pro-abort. She is a huge liar. She is smarmy. She uses everyone around her. She is a psychopath. She has a sense of entitlement that rivals any tyrant. She is a necromancer. Her best friends are new agers who believe that she is the incarnation of an Egyptian mother-goddess. She is also allergic to the Constitution.

So, no.

8 posted on 04/16/2015 8:49:29 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why on earth would we even want to vote for her?


9 posted on 04/16/2015 8:52:32 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

I see that 57 percent of the American people expect this “creature” to be picking out new White House drapes c. Jan. 21, 2017.


10 posted on 04/16/2015 8:52:59 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

... and your advice applies to nearly every Democrat.


11 posted on 04/16/2015 8:54:13 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: Genoa

Didn’t stop many from voting for Obama - twice.


12 posted on 04/16/2015 8:54:15 AM PDT by Obadiah (Israel had King Manasseh, America has Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Murder, sodomy and theft. Though shall not steal. I am not a Bible scholar nor do I play one on the internet. That said I know of no exemption for majority vote. We have become a nation of thieves.
No Christian should consider voting for an agenda of all sin all the time. Murder, theft, envy, sodomy and lies.


13 posted on 04/16/2015 9:04:29 AM PDT by all the best
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To: SeekAndFind; MeshugeMikey

Hell, No!!

14 posted on 04/16/2015 9:08:35 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: SeekAndFind

The real question is how does any Christian vote for any dimocrat


15 posted on 04/16/2015 9:10:28 AM PDT by Josa
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To: Josa

They are not real Christians in their heart would be my guess but that is between them and the Lord.


16 posted on 04/16/2015 9:14:48 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Slyfox
OH MY HEAVENS!!

the "honorable" Hillary BenGahazi Clinton....
17 posted on 04/16/2015 9:26:16 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SeekAndFind
I think tony, ..may have been sharing a few too many beers with Mrs Benghazi!!!




18 posted on 04/16/2015 9:27:52 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Looks like that “Honorable” could use a “Dis” in front of it.


19 posted on 04/16/2015 9:29:25 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: Resolute Conservative
They are not real Christians in their heart would be my guess but that is between them and the Lord.

If someone has no use for God, then they have no business swearing an oath which includes God.

To do so with no intention of fulfilling their oath draws upon them curses from God.

So, whether they do believe or not definitely affects us.

20 posted on 04/16/2015 9:32:55 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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