Posted on 11/01/2004 3:43:50 AM PST by SkyPilot
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct 31 (AFP) - Democratic nominee John Kerry on Sunday pledged to heal America's "wounds" as he preached to African American worshippers in the crucial swing state of Ohio, two days before the toss-up US election.
Kerry, at the altar of the Shiloh Baptist church, tempered his raw meat political message with lessons from the Bible, to chide the social and economic policies of his opponent, President George W. Bush.
"As the scripture teaches us, those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength and they will soar on wings like eagles and they will run and not grow weary and they will walk and not grow faint," Kerry said whipping up cheers from the congregation.
"That's what we are going to do over these next two days and once we have done that job, for the next four years we are going to work out what we need to do to heal the wounds of this country, to be one America," Kerry said.
"We are going to get this done, let's make it happen, let's walk in the footsteps of the Lord."
Kerry implied that Bush's policies on health care, unemployment benefits and overtime pay, did not square with the president's overt Christianity and preference for faith-based social services.
Before arriving at the Baptist church, Kerry took communion at a Dayton Roman Catholic church.
While most worshippers applauded him, one unidentified woman stood up, collected her husband and walked out, muttering, "I won't spend a moment with that man," testimony to the divisions cleaving America before the election.
Kerry fired up his campaign Sunday for a last 48-hour dash through the battlegrounds of his bitter, polarising wrestle for the White House with Bush.
His appearance in church fit with his strategy of pressing for a high turnout among African Americans who vote overwhelmingly Democratic, but according to some evidence have yet to be inspired by his campaign.
Kerry's schedule next took him to New Hampshire, another battleground state, before he was due to make his last stand in Florida, which as in the besmirched 2000 election, could dictate the destiny of the White House.
Kerry was to stump on election eve Monday in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
This man say he believes life begins at conception YET supports partial birth abortion.
Can anybody believe this THING has any REAL moral convictions whatsoever?
Who does he think he is kidding? All this scripture quoting and hymn quoting (Amazing Grace) is an outrage.
Hi...SkyPilot,
KERRY THE FLIP-FLOPPIN LIAR can call upon The Name of The LORD all day and night...GOD can Not be Mocked.
WHAT Lord is he calling upon?
He is certainly NOT calling upon The LIVING GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
KERRY and his Ilk would NOT know THE LORD if they fell right over HIM.
KERRY THE LIAR...has quoted Scripture out of context a few times during the campaign.
Too bad that THE LORD didn't send a Lightening Bolt from Heaven to Really Enlighten KERRY.
The ALMIGHTY LIVING GOD, THE HOLY ONE of ISRAEL said to the prophet Isaiah... "WOE to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes, to those who say, "Let God hurry, let him hasten his work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come, so we may know it." WOE to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." (ISAIAH 5:18 - 20).
Amen ~ and ~ Amen.
Amen!
i'm surprised that man hasn't gotten struck down by lightening yet...
AMEN!!!
I really have begun to hate that yellow barn coat. As if he ever worked in a barn. What an elitist fraud!
The Pretender is an embarassment to true Catholics.
EMA 11:2.
...see it? ;^)
...mybad.
Not yet...I flipped thru each of the CDs looking fer songs I was familiar with first and am only now listening to the CDs in their entirety to find the undiscovered nuggets like those I pointed out on Black...MUD
Just be sure to remember the subject of this thread when you listen to EMA 11:2, y'hear??
When you do hear it it'll all become crystal clear.
...what I was up to. ;^)
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