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Billy Graham: Hillary's Solace (Bill should "become an evangelist, because he had all the gifts")
Time/CNN ^ | 8-8-07 | Mancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

Posted on 08/08/2007 8:15:12 AM PDT by Bladerunnuh

Both Bill and Hillary Clinton were sitting with him on stage in Flushing Meadows when Graham greeted them as his "wonderful friends of many years." "I told him," Graham said of President Clinton, "when he left the presidency, he should become an evangelist, because he had all the gifts." Graham paused, and added with a smile, "And he could [let] his wife run the country."

That remark caused such a furor in some quarters that Graham's evangelist son Franklin had to explain that it was meant as a joke.

But Graham had praised and defended both Clintons before. And in a new interview, Hillary

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KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; adultery; billygraham; clinton; dnctalkingpoints; elmergantry; graham; jimmyswaggertagrees; timelieswarner
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To: Mrs_Stokke

If Rev. Bill used my bathroom-- I'd have to get a new bathroom...

21 posted on 08/08/2007 8:36:00 AM PDT by Bladerunnuh
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To: Proverbs 3-5
On the weekend before the 2000 election, amidst roiling charges about a buried drunk driving citation,

It was an October suprise and it wasn't a "buried" citation, not like the hidden Clinton documents. That October surprise certainly cost GWBush some votes. If that amounted to as little as 0.51% of the voters then it cost him the popular vote that Al Gore Junior loves to brag about.

22 posted on 08/08/2007 8:36:06 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
It might as well be, if it's not.

What IS that, a hairdo, or an animal nest?

Cordially,

23 posted on 08/08/2007 8:36:53 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: Proverbs 3-5

Of course he would have to love the sinner but hate the sin. I think however it is very dangerous to join at the hip with such powerful people that can do so much harm to the moral climate of this country. Maybe being in the limelight colors one’s vision and causes one not to want to fall out of favor with the powerful.


24 posted on 08/08/2007 8:39:04 AM PDT by mimaw
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To: netmilsmom

I think that sometimes very saintly people are so good that they can be deceived by the extremely polished and wicked among us. When you are good, you do not think ill of anyone. Reverend Graham has been deceived by these professional liars as many another good person has been. It doesn’t mean that the Devil was in him, just that he is old, gentle, and perhaps easier to fool now.


25 posted on 08/08/2007 8:40:07 AM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: Bladerunnuh

Clinton does have “gifts”. But he chose to use them for himself.


26 posted on 08/08/2007 8:41:39 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead)
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To: Bladerunnuh

Well, there’s a certain truth in it.

Bill clinton was gifted with extraordinary abilities as a speaker, communicator, and persuader. All he lacks, apparently, to be a gifted evangelist is the Spirit.

Flannery O’Connor would have said that he would be absolutely perfect preaching from the pulpit of the Church of Christ Without Christ.


27 posted on 08/08/2007 8:44:14 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Jesus didn’t hang out with just the religious. He was a witness to the sinners as well.
28 posted on 08/08/2007 8:45:31 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
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To: Bladerunnuh

"Dear Lord, please help Hillary find those tweezers for her eyebrows. Amen".

29 posted on 08/08/2007 8:45:55 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Cicero

“All he lacks, apparently, to be a gifted evangelist is the Spirit.”

Does being an evangelist require character? If so, then he also lacks that.


31 posted on 08/08/2007 8:46:23 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: Fairview

I think you may be right.
My sister is a habitual liar. When she hears something she assumes it is a lie.
I don’t lie. I assume that the things I hear are the truth. Those of us who try to live a good life have a hard time imagining that someone is not good at heart.


32 posted on 08/08/2007 8:46:33 AM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time .)
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To: Cicero
You know, Billy didn't specify which "god" Bill would be evangelizing for. Bill could get people "right with Osiris", for example....


33 posted on 08/08/2007 8:48:31 AM PDT by Bladerunnuh
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To: Bladerunnuh

The truth about these hucksters is difficult to face until they’re indicted!


34 posted on 08/08/2007 8:50:25 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: DJ MacWoW
What gifts are we talking about? The one Bill gave to Monica? Being a BS artist is not the kind of gifts the Bible had in mind when it says some have the gift of evangelism. Ephesians 4:11
35 posted on 08/08/2007 8:51:08 AM PDT by street_lawyer (Conservative Defender of the Faith)
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To: reagan_fanatic
I love and respect Billy Graham immensely, but for the life of me I cannot understand his chumminess with two examples of the worst that humanity has to offer.

Well it is all well and good I suppose to love and respect, but this preacher does NOT know his Bible. There is nothing about OLD Bill Clinton that makes him a representative of giving Bible instructions. And further the anointing of Hillry Clinton as the first woman after already serving 8 years as co-president without ever taking responsibility for one act she made happen, demonstrates this preacher, well I let whom ever fill in the blank, but the preacher did not get the instruction from the Bible or from the Heavenly Father.

36 posted on 08/08/2007 8:51:57 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Mrs_Stokke

That was a good one.


37 posted on 08/08/2007 8:52:47 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Bladerunnuh
Hillry Clinton is counting upon the Rev to get her elected and there is a movement afoot, by his followers, apparently unbeknownst to the majority to dress her up is a ‘godly’ dress. Old Hillry spewed some of her ‘ungodliness’ when she accused the Republicans before they lost control of the House, that they if they could would make Jesus illegal.

His followers LOVED old bjclinton and they have been given marching orders to elect his in-name-only wife.

38 posted on 08/08/2007 8:58:39 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Rightly Biased
Jesus didn’t hang out with just the religious. He was a witness to the sinners as well.

Exactly my dilemma. I understand the only way to truly represent Christianity is to witness to the sinner - I just find it hard to believe that either Bill or Hillary will ever change who they really are at their core and become actual Christians.

Stranger things have happened, I guess.
39 posted on 08/08/2007 8:58:47 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Stop that!)
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To: Right Brother

Billy: "Dear Lord..."

Hellery: "I'll just pretend I believe in God..."

Bubba: "I wrote down Monica's phone number somewh...oh, there it is."

40 posted on 08/08/2007 8:58:53 AM PDT by quark
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