Posted on 08/16/2008 1:25:58 PM PDT by pissant
A new ad from the Matthew 25 Network, a liberal pastors' group that supports Barack Obama, commends him for being a good family man.
The impliciation is that John McCain -- who has admitted to cheating on his first wife with the blond mistress who became his second and current wife -- comes up short in this regard.
Among those featured in the ad is Kirbyjon Caldwell, the Houston pastor who is a family friend of George W. Bush. (He officiated at Jenna's wedding this spring.) Despite remaining close to the Bushes, Caldwell has endorsed Obama.
McCain is never mentioned in the ad, but at one point, Caldwell says, "Throughout his entire career, Sen. Obama has stood by familes."
Caldwell's wife, Suzette, seated next to him, responds: "Including his own."
Caldwell nods, smiles, and says, "Hmmmm."
Steven Waldman, the editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com, says the ad is to run during televised coverage of the two candidates' appearance tonight at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif.
(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...
I opt for
"Braaackback".
If that sounds sort of like a Bronx cheer, well, so be it.
Matthew 25 Network is a newly formed national Political Action Committee (PAC) being spearheaded by Mara Vanderslice, who was director of religious outreach for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004
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operative, Mara Vanderslice, and her 2-year-old consulting firm, Common Good Strategies
Mara Vanderslice, who formerly worked as religion outreach director for Democrat Howard Dean, was raised without any faith and didn’t become an evangelical Christian until she attended Earlham College, a Quaker school known for its
adherence to pacifism
“Vanderslice spoke at rallies organized by ACT-UP, an anti-Catholic group that disrupted Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989 and spit the Eucharist on the floor.”
New PAC Seeks to Court Christians for Obama
Mike McCurry, a former White House press secretary under President Clinton, is the most prominent name on the invitation
Mr. McCurry said the advantage of forming an outside group, which functions independently of the campaign, is the separation allows them to tailor their outreach to evangelicals specifically
Mike McCurry, a Democratic consultant and former spokesman for President Bill Clinton who worked with Ms. Vanderslice on the Kerry campaign.
Ms. Vanderslice and her business partner, Eric Sapp, pushed sometimes reluctant Democrats to speak publicly, early and in detail about the religious underpinnings of their policy views. They persuaded candidates to speak at conservative religious schools and to buy early commercials on Christian radio. They organized meetings and conference calls for candidates to speak privately with moderate and conservative members of the clergy.
In an interview, she said she told candidates not to use the phrase “separation of church and state,” which does not appear in the Constitution’s clauses forbidding the establishment or protecting the exercise of religion.
she still struggles with common evangelical ideas about abortion, homosexuality and the literal reading of Scripture.
She was baptized by full immersion in Rock Creek in Washington, D.C., while working with Sojourners, an evangelical antipoverty group. She entered politics by working with a group advocating debt relief for the developing world, once participating in a rally organized by a coalition that included the AIDS activist group Act Up.
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Mr. Sapp, 30, a Presbyterian minister’s son
Eric Sapp is Senior Partner at Common Good Strategies. Prior to joining CGS, Eric worked in Rep. David Price’s (NC-04) D.C. office, where he handled faith and politics, budget, tax, and homeland security issues
advising those who supported abortion rights to speak about reducing demand for the procedure
many liberal Christians, which is to argue that Jesus was interested only in social justice and not in sexual morality.
they told Democratic candidates not to try to fake it, advising those of non-Christian faiths or no faith at all to talk about the origins of their sense of ethics.
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Jul 2 2008: Eric Sapp:
Before George Bush corrupted it, the faith-based initiative was a valuable programme, and Barack Obama is right to support it
Apr 14 2008: Eric Sapp:
US elections 2008: At Sunday’s meeting between Obama, Clinton and religious leaders, hot-button issues like abortion were laid aside
Eric Sapp is the Senior Partner at Common Good Strategies. Prior to joining CGS, Eric worked for Senator Edward Kennedy and then for Representative David Price.
Founded in the summer of 2005, Common Good Strategies (CGS) is a political strategy firm dedicated to helping Democrats reclaim the debate on faith and values. CGS works with Democratic elected officials, candidates, and social justice-minded non-profits to develop and implement religious outreach programs that improve relationships and understanding with the religious community.
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ACT UP listed as the Top Ten
most influential social justice organizations in
the United States during the past thirty years
* The United States HIV Ban on Travel and Immigration
laws protecting Amerika’s ever-paranoid xenophobia.
* harsh remembrance
The legacy of this Pope is of a man who
watched millions die from AIDS while actively
preventing access to condoms which
could have saved their lives.
* Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. perpetuated the myth that AIDS can be spread by casual contact when he counseled President Ronald Reagan
ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger
and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.
We advise and inform. We demonstrate.
WE ARE NOT SILENT
Agitate! Resist!
“Living with AIDS in this country is like living through a war
that’s happening only for those people in the trenches.
.
“Every time a shell explodes you look around .
to discover that you’ve lost more of your friends.
But nobody else notices, it isn’t happening to them.”
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The history of Civil Disobedience is a long and international one.
ACT UP practices a form that comes from a variety of progressive movements.
‘Common Good Strategies’ Featured In ‘Atlantic Monthly’ Piece
February 8, 2007 – Mara Vanderslice’s leftist public relations firm has recently benefited from a piece on it by Hanna Rosin in the January/February 2007 Atlantic Monthly.
Last week, TVC exposed the far left background of Vanderslice and her effort to help Democrats use “God talk” in their campaign speeches.
The article notes that Vanderslice worked with seven candidates and all seven won their elections in 2006
The Atlantic Monthly article reveals even more about Vanderslice’s strategies to encourage Democrats to use deceitful words in discussing such topics as abortion. According to Rosin, Vanderslice helped candidates “create a new language to use in talking about faith and values, aimed in part at neutralizing hot-button issues.”
Vanderslice and her staffers “banned the word choice and pushed reduction, going one step further with Clinton’s idea that abortion should be ‘safe, legal, and rare.’”
“When anti-gay-marriage amendments came up, for example, they expanded the issue and talked about how many marriages were disintegrating because of financial stress, which they name as the No. 1 cause of divorce in America,” said Rosin.
Vanderslice advised her candidates to talk about serving others; promoting the common good; protecting the environment as God’s creation, and alleviating poverty.
Vanderslice says she learned about the importance of religion in the public square because “she grew up in Colorado, in the shadow of what she calls the ‘hateful rhetoric’ of the religious right.” (Colorado Springs is the home of hundreds of Christian ministries.)
Vanderslice grew up in Boulder, a hotbed of leftist activity. She was a member of the Earlham Socialist Alliance in college.)
Vanderslice worked as an intern for Jim Wallis’ Sojourners organization shortly after leaving college. Wallis was apparently an effective mentor for her – and her organization is getting free publicity through liberal publications and media outlets.
TVC’s report on Jim Wallis reveals his leftist agenda.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/jim_wallis.pdf
Wallis is also a darling of
the liberal media. He is often
quoted in articles critical of
conservative Christians or of
President Bush’s faith.
For example, in October
2004, Wallis published a commentary in his magazine,
Sojourners, claiming that the “The Religious
Right Era Is Over.”
While Wallis was in seminary, he founded an anticapitalist
magazine called Post-American. In it, Wallis
called for the redistribution of wealth and governmentmanaged
economies. This anti-capitalist worldview is
expressed in religious terms as a quest for “social justice.”
In 1971, Wallis moved his Post-American operation to
Washington, DC and renamed it Sojourners.
During the 2006 elections, Common Good Strategies recruited liberal pastors to write editorials for her candidate clients and encouraged candidates to purchase ads on Christian radio stations.
In Michigan, Common Good met with more than 500 conservative to moderate ministers to convince them to support Democrat candidates.
“Christian voters must be alert to the deceitful tactics being used by Vanderslice to create candidates who appear to be committed ‘Christians’ but who are actually wolves in sheep’s clothing,” said TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. “Vanderslice is urging candidates to use manipulative wording to fool Christians into voting for them. Once in office they will impose a liberal agenda on us.”
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3003
A real "family" man and pastor. Supports the murder of live black babies.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
Of course, it is not; but with questions the 'same'; it is clear he will not be asked how Black Liberation Theology has informed/influenced him; all these years he has embraced this 'faith' so shared at Trinity United Church of Christ.
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
When did McCain admit that? I guess this is aimed towards the author in the liberal Dallas paper, but if you know, please jump in. ;)
Are you directing this at me. I’ve never piled on McCain for whatever happened to his 1st marriage. I could not care less. But I am keenly interested if a sitting state Senator from Illinois was engaging in homo sex while smoking crack in 1999.
The latest by obambi is :
BARACKOBAMA.COM SENDING OUT EMAILS CLAIMING TO BE LARRY SINCLAIR AND APOLOGIZING
She probably has an arsenal of weapons hidden in her underwear drawer. “You be good now, Barry.”
If the pastor thinks he’s helping Obama or Blacks by endorsing the One, he is wrong. He simply reinforced the perception that most Blacks, when it comes to politics, prefer somebody else that share their pigment color.
"Oh honey, I'm a very good boy. What? Oh no, I have never even thought of another woman's breasts. Really. Well, OK, once. But not for very long and it was a very long time ago. Oh Michelle, please not again. I'll try to do better, really . . . "
Latest from Larry Sinclair - he’s going to visit obambi’s new office in Minnesota!
ANYONE LIVING IN THE NORTHLANDS OF MINNESOTA’S IRON RANGE THAT WANTS TO JOIN ME IN VIRGINIA ON TUESDAY AUGUST 19, 2008 TO PROTEST THE OBAMA CAMPAIGNS OPENING OF ITS OFFICES IN VIRGINA CONTACT ME AT LWS022737@AOL.COM.
I AM MAKING PROTEST POSTERS NOW TO DEMAND THAT THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND BE REQUIRED TO ANSWER TO THE CHARGES OF HIS GAY EXTRA MARITAL AFFAIRS WITH ME AND DONALD YOUNG AND HIS CRACK COCAINE USE IN 1999., AS WELL AS OBAMA’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE MURDER OF DONALD YOUNG.
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