Media Blackout on US President Chewing Gum During D-Day Ceremony

I'm still hearing coverage of the President being at the D-Day ceremony.

But not a peep about his gum-chewing.

Which was an intentional act, and its purpose was to show disrespect to the the US military and America, and thus be an insult to patriotic Americans.

Republican politicians are, for the most part, silent in the matter.

This is a great example of why the Republican party is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

What's needed is Christian dominion over all political parties, not over one, and allowing other political parties to be anti-Christ, with no internal Christian influence. That's like an army conceding certain parts of the battlefield to the enemy, then wondering why they can not attain full victory.

America needs a Christian revival of the TRUE GOSPEL, and to Covenant with God, and become a truly Covenanted Christian nation.

Until then, we will live under this tyranny that persecutes Christians, makes merchandise of the people, and mocks God. Until America turns back to God, in Spirit and in Truth, God will continue to curse America with wicked leadership.

Based on my readings, I've found that WWII was a banker's war, a horrible unjust criminal war purposely engineered by financial elites. But the men who fought and died in that war, and did not know any of what instigations went on in secret - they had no idea of such things. Those men were simply serving their country in wartime, and, accordingly, those men deserve respect from America. Every American President, as the leader of the nation, is obviously honor-bound to show that same respect.

Many of us can't help but feel the utmost of Christian love, honor and appreciation for combat veterans; a special bond of friendship that always remains with us. But those are our personal feelings, and we understand that not everyone has the same feelings we do. I think most of us, however, would harbor the hope that every American would take the time to learn at least the basics of history, and to consider the service of our veterans and at least have the sensibility to show a minimum of human decency and respect towards them.

For those who have questions on faith and perseverance, I humbly suggest that you consider some reading on those Pilgrims who came to America, their story and their faith.

A little Scripture reading is always good for increasing the Christian's wisdom, strength and courage:

The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, Chapter 8

"1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Thank you both. I got my experience the hard way: by living up close & personal with an addictive-dysfunctional personality. I see it writ large in Obama. This is a guy who never stayed long with any one job in the past. I believe three or four years was his limit? Now he’s stuck in the same job for five yrs & counting. He’s going nuts. He travels, he vacations, he parties, he drinks, he likely smokes & many suspect he does drugs. There are too many accounts of marathon ESPN sessions to write it off as mere rumor. Then there is likely some kind of personal hanky panky, & it has never, ever looked as if Michelle is the object of those affections. (Part of her anger is certainly race based, but I bet part of it is being married to a guy who doesn’t like having sex with her. He actually acts like a man who doesn’t enjoy her proximity. Hmm.)

I don’t mean to downplay the rude, classless, gauche, childish & reprehensible behavior Obama exhibited on Normandy Beach. I just see him as an addictive-dysfunctional wreck, unable to maintain a shred of personal dignity even for the short time he attended that ceremony. How long will his handlers be able to mask his issues? Not through the entire next two & a half yrs, that’s for sure.

‘WH advisors definitely thought this would ingratiate the WH with pro-defense people. When it blows up they sit looking stupit.

WH advisors are not too bright. Sneaky, so they do some clever tricks, but they also blunder in a big way. Too many lies on top of lies, I would guess, and Harvard types can’t figure that out. They think they’re smart enough to keep all the stories straight.’

Good analysis. None of them are very bright—& please put Obama at the top of that list. You just know he never anticipated the Benghazi backlash. As the situation was developing, you just know he had no idea it was anything special. It’s been said that he tossed off the comment, ‘Do what you can to help them’, or some such casual I-don’t-really-care-I’ve-got-better-things-to-do buck-passing remark. We don’t know what he did next. Perhaps he went to bed. Maybe he watched ESPN. Maybe he was enjoying a bit of ‘strange’, as they used to call adultery in the old days. All we know is that he was detached & likely didn’t see any problem with that.

Now, after enduring years of criticism, the shallow man feels he ‘understands the military’. I.e.: he grabbed hold of one phrase: ‘we leave no man behind’. So he figures he will win big by ‘rescuing’ Bergdahl. He’ll erase his horrible Benghazi PR by being a hero to a ‘captured’ soldier.

Like they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The warrior mindset is so alien to him, he couldn’t grasp it if he spent a decade embedded with the troops. His Bergdahl antic blew up like a live g r e n a d e, rolling across the floor to its unintended target. & Obama has learned nothing. He’s just angry [I should say, ‘even angrier’] at the troops for not realizing he ‘left no man behind’. He really is that thick.

Exactly. Except that in place of ‘mad’ I would put ‘furious’. You don’t challenge a Malignant Narcissist. Not one who rides around on AF1, certainly. The ‘folks’ are supposed to admire him, not ‘second guess’ him. So you are right; he is hissy-fit mad.

But what will he do? Normally when the ‘folks’ provoke him, he punishes us. I.e.: he executive orders something we hate. Thus he gets even & has the last laugh.

Except that now the Dems are turning on him because they can see him making it impossible for them to even survive, much less gain seats, in Nov. & they are also looking ahead to ‘16. Obama is poisoning the electoral well, & finally some of the true believers are figuring it out.

So if Obama lashes out at us, he further alienates Dem pols, who (unlike Obama) have to face the ‘folks’ in Nov. If Obama doesn’t lash out, his fury will eat him alive.

He’s in a classic Catch-22. This can only further unhinge him, & force even more disastrous decisions/moves. It is not a fun time to be a Dem up for reelection, that’s for sure.

I already have despised both gum chewing and Obummer or many years now. When i was growing up, 2 family members tormented me with their disdusgusting habit.... they'd chew open-mouthed, as loudly as they could.

I can stomach neither the sound, the look, nor the stench of gum chewing.

This is one reason why I avoid, at all costs, any kind of public transportation, up to and including flying.

I also have despised, for a long time, the extra-loud and extra-disgusting ways blacks chew gum.

This is just one more reason to despise them all...

Do you have a New Testament passage, or better yet, a quote from Jesus Himself, that we are to pray destruction on our enemies?

There are many verses from the Old Testament that Jesus did not quote. One can't infer from that, however, that without Jesus reiterating a verse from the Old Testament that he was implicitly deleting it in his own teaching. In fact, in his preaching in Matthew 5 our Lord reveals quite the opposite stance:

"17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."

Jesus thus specifically says he is not abrogating "the law" and then goes on to actually clarify the teaching of several Old Testament moral laws, explaining that the then current wide understanding of those laws was more in the letter of the law than the spirit (in the present-day legal sense of spirit, meaning intent) of the law, that the law was actually more demanding than was commonly understood. This shows that he was preaching that yes, the law still applies, it was being interpreted too liberally such that there is legal guilt under the law that people needed to be reminded of.

Jesus never specifically mentioned bestiality in the New Testament, but because we know that he did not come to destroy the law, but fulfill it, we know that he was not preaching that bestiality was no longer a sin, God forbid.

If you imagine Christians live under the Law you have huge, big, massive problems. From Galatians 5:

5 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

2 Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. 4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

Interesting. I know some addicts/alcoholics up close and personal too, but haven’t seen those symptoms in Obma because I NEVER watch him.

Not sure about the short-term jobs as a symptom of addiction, though. Can you say more about that? I rather think others saw the potential in him and kept him moving upward, probably faster than he could actually digest. Which would contribute to his insecurity/arrogance dichotomy.

He’d be an interesting character in fiction. (Which is why I call him Obma.) Speaking of which, I’m reading Leon Uris’s THE HAJ, which explains a lot about Arabs, Muslims, and the situation we’re in today. They’re NEVER going to go away. Or even improve. Perhaps Obma’s muslim beliefs are bringing about a great deal of his discomfort, contributing to dysfunctional/addictive patterns of behavior. A lot of pressures on him, perhaps he will break before the end of his term.

Bestiality, moral law, not abrogated.

Circumcision, ceremonial law, abrogated.

The Law consists of both ceremonial (specific to ancient Israel) and moral law (this is in regard to sin).

Continuing farther in Galatians 5:

"18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."

Galatians 5:21 "...they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."

Thus, God's Law, the Old Testament moral law, is eternal. God's rules have not changed. Sin is not now acceptable to God.

Which agrees with Jesus saying:

Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

If you imagine Christians live under the Law you have huge, big, massive problems.

No, believing Christians who are not deceived are fully aware of God's Law. They know the Bible tells them they should be joyfully obedient, they should delight in God's Law. Not the animal sacrifices, the moral laws.

This is explained in the New Testament very specifically.

False Christian pastors and scholars who are deceivers promote the idea that Christians can break Old Testament moral laws habitually and still find salvation in Christ, which, of course, is a lie.

Then, when the pastor is caught committing adultery, his whole flock is much more likely to stay with him ANYWAY. Because he's planted the seeds of thought in their mind all along that The Ten Commandments do not apply to Christians.

Ephesians 5

"2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them."

This is serious - Paul said wrath of God. Such a term is dead serious, not an allegory, it can't be explained away.

It was only when I realized just how FAR I fell short of God's glory that I became convicted of my own sin, that I knew just HOW MUCH I NEEDED Christ's atoning sacrifice.

Prior to that, I really didn't get it. I actually had forgotten things that I had done that were sinful, but I had always viewed as simply normal modern life. The more I remembered, the worse it got ! And if given the opportunity again, I knew how I would be prone to do the same things all over again. When I started adding it all up, THEN I really understood that I was in a mess concerning "did I merit salvation on my own". Only when you become convicted of your own sin do you really come to Christ in a humbled state, where you can begin to understand that you are "bought with a price".

Thanks for your interesting reply. My understanding of Obama is primarily as a Malignant Narcissist. But since Malignant Narcissists are also addictive-dysfunctional, there’s a lot of overlap. The inability to stay with any one job for long, though, is entirely a function of Malignant Narcissism. The two main drivers of MN are the need to deny fundamental reality & the obsessive need for praise & admiration. There is also a near-obsessive restlessness that prevents any kind of settled-in normalcy. They are tremendously driven by a need for a ‘change of scenery’ & also for fresh people to con & impress. The MN’s act gets stale over time, so moving on to a different setting is of fundamental importance.

Obama’s childhood said he wasn’t worth much. His dad abandoned him completely, & his mother was a psychological mess. She turned him over to a tranny nanny in Indonesia, & according to him, Turdi, she ignored Obama’s screams & wails—assuming, again according to Turdi, that if he had physically struck Obama, Obama must have deserved it.

Yet even with the tranny nanny, Mom couldn’t wait to be shed of her son. She shuffled him off onto the grandparents at the first opportunity. All of which said to Obama, ‘Nobody wants me; I must be worthless’.

MN takes this childish misery/conclusion & runs in the opposite direction. I.e.: it constructs a make-believe world where the MN is the smartest, the most amazing, the most singular, the most unique & stellar human ever to draw breath. From there it relies on unhealthy coping mechanisms [denial, projection, & sly, dishonest intellectual games], heavy-duty manipulation & addiction-dysfunction to maintain the self-delusion.

What it boils down to is that Obama is engaged in a full-time psychological & social marathon to maintain his wildly inflated/inaccurate self-image. It wears him out, so that he needs vast amounts of golf, travel, vacations, parties, booze, easily manipulated sycophants & other props just to get him by. Even with all that, however, it’s a highly unstable situation. It’s built on a lie by an emotionally damaged human being. Sooner or later it hits critical mass, & the chips fall where they may.

Personally, I believe Obama is an atheist with strong Islamic sympathies. He certainly invests more of his identity in Islam than in Christianity [that’s an understatement] but he is not strictly speaking a Muslim. If he were, ‘Allah’ could make demands on his personal behavior, & Obama wouldn’t stand for that. It goes way beyond taquia. It’s more a function of Obama being his own ‘god’, & taking orders from no one. At least that’s how it seems to me. Ymmv.

Sounds like an interesting book you’re reading. Does the author believe Obma is a true Muslim?

The Old Testament is the book of faith & practice for Jews. It prepared the way for the Christ. The New Testament is the manual of faith & practice for Christians. No one is arguing that Christians are to be immoral. Just the opposite. The moral demands on Christians far outweigh those on Jews, as Jesus made clear in the Sermon on the Mount.

The issue is whether Christians are free to pray for our enemies’ destruction. We are not. The old moral code that allowed for such hatred has been superseded. We now pray blessings on our enemies. This is a New Covenant command, no wiggle room. As I said originally, we are encouraged to pray for deliverance from evil. We are not at liberty to pray for other people’s destruction. That era ended with the New Commandment. We now must love as Jesus loved—and He NEVER prayed for the destruction of his enemies. Even on the cross He prayed for their forgiveness, and He is our role model.

1 John 4:8

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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