Posted on 07/01/2005 11:09:50 AM PDT by tyw
Friday, July 1, 2005 10:09 a.m. EDT
The Rev. Billy Graham said Friday that he didn't intend to endorse Hillary Clinton for president when he told her husband at a massive New York City revival meeting last weekend that she should "run the country."
His son Franklin Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, tells the Charlotte Observer:
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"For a long time, my father has refrained from endorsing political candidates and he certainly did not intend for his comments to be an endorsement for Senator Hillary Clinton." "My father, of course, was joking," the younger Graham said, when he hosted the Clintons onstage and told the crowd of 90,000, "They're a great couple. ... He should be an evangelist because he has all the gifts and he could leave his wife to run the country."
Although Billy Graham has called himself a Democrat, Franklin said that didn't mean he supported the former president, saying, "His political views, as well as mine, are quite different than the Clintons'."
The Clintons, however "remain good friends," he added.
The Rev. Graham felt compelled to issue the clarification after receiving more than 100 e-mails and calls of protest, the Observer said.
The Rev. Graham's words of praise for the former first couple prompted significant consternation among some of his most devoted followers.
National Clergy Council President Rev. Rob Schenck, for instance - who had traveled from Washington, D.C., to Queens, N.Y., just to hear his "role model" preach - walked out of the event after the Clintons were feted onstage.
"I was stunned and appalled," the Rev. Schenck told the Christian Wire Service.
"It was disturbing to watch Billy Graham, a man whom Ive admired for years, being used by evil to mislead countless Christians," complained the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, head of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny [BOND].
Jesus doesn't hate anyone, he has perfect forgiveness for all sinners. And it's the sinners who take the road to Hell, it's not Jesus who throws them down into the pit. Even the unrepentent are loved by Christ, and their souls are mourned when they choose the path of damnation. Would you hate your child, if he sinned, or would you mourn his chosen path, while still loving him?
The Reverend Graham is suppose to show Christs love, he will answer to God not you nit pickers here.
"I want you to listen to me.
I'm only gonna say this one time.
I-did-not-have-an endorsement of that man.
Not one time."
There should be term limits on all Federal judges as well. They did not live this long when the Constitution was written and now they do not age so well in the head ...
"And I didn't endorse his wife, either!"
Is there such a thing as Papal envy?
Dog Gone intersting isn;t it? I knew he had not endorsed her, but they figured he's to old to notice! Laughs on Clinton!
The problem is, MOVEON.ORG and the dem party have him on video WITH Hill and Bill, with him saying that...
You better believe they will use it for her campaign...
Did you hear that Hagel is trying to get MOVEON.ORG to take his statements against President Bush removed from their ads? LOL---too bad Hagel, too late, you are dead in the 2008 election...
Senate Years of Service: 1973-2003
Party: Republican
HELMS, Jesse, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Monroe, Union County, N.C., October 18, 1921; educated in the public schools of Monroe, Wingate Junior College, and Wake Forest College; served in the United States Navy 1942-1945; city editor, Raleigh Times; administrative assistant to United States Senators Willis Smith 1951-1953 and Alton Lennon 1953; executive director, North Carolina Bankers Association 1953-1960; member, Raleigh City Council 1957-1961; television and radio executive 1960-1972; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1972 and reelected in 1978, 1984, 1990 and again in 1996 and served from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 2003; not a candidate for reelection in 2002; chair, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (Ninety-seventh to Ninety-ninth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (One Hundred Fourth to One Hundred Sixth Congresses; One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 3, 2001; January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001]). ....
You would be hard pressed to find a more conservative Republican. He served as assistant to 2 Democrats,(administrative assistant to United States Senators Willis Smith 1951-1953 and Alton Lennon 1953) in the 50's, and was a radio commentator...
I know it stinks for us, Hagel: he gets what he gets for walking on the dark side! I hope the Pubbies have someone who is more dependable!
Aside: Thanks for finding me!
I concur.
Whilst Billy Graham goes on to his reward w/God.....
We'll be left to suffer through more years of clintonistas.
Matthew 9:10-12
10While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
12On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Please re-post your comment,someone posted the thread before I did. Hats off to the poster :)
1 Timothy 1:15-17
15Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinnersof whom I am the worst. 16But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. 17Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
7/98 Online Progressive Review ".When Clinton was inaugurated, Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker came to Washington to see his old boss sworn in. That left the state under the control of the president pro tem of the senate, Little Rock dentist Jerry Jewell. Jewell used his power as acting governor to issue a number of pardons, one of them for a convicted drug dealer, Tommy McIntosh. The pardons were a big subject of controversy in Arkansas and not the least of the questions was: how did McIntosh get included? Enter Robert "Say" McIntosh, father of Tommy, and a colorful political activist. According to the Washington Times, many in the state "say it was a political payoff, offered in exchange for dirty tricks Mr. McIntosh played on Clinton political opponents during the presidential campaign, or as a payoff for stopping his attacks on Mr. Clinton." It seems that the elder McIntosh had worked for Clinton in his last state campaign and, according to McIntosh in a 1991 lawsuit, the governor had agreed not only to pay him $25,000 but to help him market his recipe for sweet potato pie and to pardon his son. He also alleged that Clinton expected McIntosh's help in covering up a trail of sexual indiscretions. McIntosh dropped his lawsuit a month after Clinton was elected president and, he claims, after the president-elect agreed to get his son out of jail. . The younger McIntosh was released 18 years before he was eligible for parole. ."
Stick it, Hillary.
Amen! I appreciate your posts on this thread, Raycpa.
Exactly. It didn't sound like his arm was being twisted, nor did it seem as though he was being tricked into anything.
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