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.
Not only do the Democrats support abortion and the practice of homosexuality, but, at their 2012 Nation Convention, they booed the mention of God three times in succession.
RE: but, at their 2012 Nation Convention, they booed the mention of God three times in succession.
I thought they voted to put God back in their platform...
I agree it affects us, but I was saying it is between them and the Lord as to where they are going later.
No.
Do she think she will win in AR? I suspect she won’t campaign there. Maybe she wants to see how the sheeple react to her condescension of the Arkansans.
Democrats put their party over their faith.
I’d be content to ask, “Is Tony Campolo a Christian?”...
Someone who works hard to align himself with anti-Christian people and supports grossly anti-Christian positions will have a tough time convincing me his “fruits” demonstrate a repentant heart.
Still though without uninformed Arkansans there would have never been any clintoids.
Not at all, for Demos, their faith is their party! It goes back to Andy Jackson of SC and TN.
You’d be surprised how many elderly ladies who come to church every time the doors open and “pray without ceasing” remain die-hard Democrats. It’s for “the children” and the elderly in their minds.
A lot of it is the popular cult of popularity and celebrity among the under-40 voters.
Yep.
Good question. I know that people in AR voted for them to be president so that they would get the hell out of the state. Did that once, they don’t have to vote for her again.
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