Posted on 02/20/2012 8:01:45 AM PST by cleghornboy
Who has really gone "well over the line," Rick Santorum or Barack Obama?
Former White House Press Secretary and current campaign adviser Robert Gibbs is alleging that GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum went "well over the line" when he questioned Obama's Christian values. Gibbs told ABC's "This Week" that it's time to get rid of this mindset in our politics that, if we disagree, we have to question character and faith." See here.
If Robert Gibbs really believes that Rick Santorum went "well over the line" by merely questioning Obama's so-called "Christian virtues," he must then concede that Barack Obama obliterated that line when he said that Christians, Jews, Muslims and others who are opposed to homosexuality on moral grounds are clinging to "worn arguments and old attitudes." See here.
Where was Mr. Gibbs when Barack Obama said, "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them.." If we are not supposed to question character or faith, why was Mr. Obama questioning the character and faith of average Americans who live in "a lot of small towns in the Midwest"?
I've noted before at this Blog that Barack Obama imposes a standard on others which he refuses to live up to himself. See here. And it would seem that Robert Gibbs would also hold others to a higher standard than he expects from his boss. Mr. Gibbs should reflect very carefully on what the philosopher Plato had to say in Book I of his Laws (635a): "We invite you to criticize our institutions without reserve. One is not insulted by being informed of something amiss, but rather gets an opportunity for amendment, if the information is taken in good part, without resentment."
In the meantime, I would like an explanation as to how Barack Obama may be considered a Christian when he has rejected the teaching of Sacred Scripture. I would really like to hear Mr. Gibbs' explain that one. I just love creative fiction.
For people like Obama there is no line exterior to themselves to which they must hew. They believe the only line that is valid is the one they set for themselves and that depends on wherever they need it to be at the time.
Didn’t Obama recently try to use Jesus as an excuse for his developing the socialist Obamacare?
Fact is...we don’t know much about Obama’s “christianity” because his life before the White House has been put off limits by the press.
Now...why would that be?
Think The One might have a few skeltons in his closet?
It’s only a “culture war” when the Christians resist the humanists.
Oh p*ss up a rope, Gibbs. Lying leftwing clowns like you may have the news media toads doing the Park Avenue Shuffle but the rest of the country recognizes a ridiculous double standard when they hear it.
The Left already crossed the line when they accused Santorum of “playing” with his dead infant son.
I agree with Santorum. When I heard Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, I wondered “Where did he learn that intrepretation of the Gospels of Jesus?” It was a near social justice and secular humanist versions of what Jesus said. He spoke of Jesus as a radical social reformer, seeking to change the power structure in ancient Israel. That he was focused purely on physical things of this world and not spiritual things of the next world. Obama does not, in those words, shows that he understands or knows that Jesus came to save our souls and take us (our true selves, our souls, not these physical bodies) back to heaven to be with our Father.
The gospel that Obama learned is that of humanism and communism that he learned from his grandparents, Frank Davis, and “the reverend” Jeremiah Wright.
The truth is out on the table about the Great Deceiver, The One, The Zer0. Such Christian heresies as Social Justice and Liberation Theology as embraced by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity
United Church of Christ, must be opposed by every Christian.
For a good treatise on Liberation Theology, read Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s analysis:
http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/ratzinger/liberationtheol.htm
Finally, a candidate who will take it to our Marxist in residence.
The democrats would understand that there s no line anymore they destroyed it long ago.....
Gibbs is one of those dolls with a string hanging out his back with a ring on the end. You grab the ring, pull the string, and he says something 100% predictable, every time.
Santorum just pulled his string.
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