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Conservative Christian Columnist Doug Giles Endorses Barack Obama
Townhall.com ^ | August 31, 2008 | Doug Giles

Posted on 08/31/2008 5:35:35 AM PDT by Kaslin

. . . And in other news, Joan Rivers is slated to grace the cover of Playboy’s “All Natural Edition,” John Edwards is a lovely family man who has zero narcissistic bents, and the temperature in hell has just dropped below freezing.

Don’t worry, conservative Christian: I haven’t T. D. Jaked into the Obama corner. I’m just jacking with ya.

Having said that, there is a part of me that would love to endorse Barack and Biden. It’s the stupid part. It’s the same part that I listened to when I bought Ronco’s at home hair cut kit, said “yes, I’ll go to a Celine Dion concert,” and it is also the component that conned me into believing, once upon a time, that women love it when men cry.

Seriously though, I did get a Chris Matthews chill down my spine as I watched the Democratic National Convention. I couldn’t believe it. I shouted out loud, “Holy Spirit, is that you confirming to my soul that Obama is The One?”

It had to be a divine witness from God, I thought, because I was chilled to my core. I looked at my arms . . . goosebumps! I then looked down at my legs to see if they too were experiencing horripilation and suddenly realized that it wasn’t the witness of the Spirit stimulating my flesh but the cold beer I had spilled on my crotch.

So much for the Obama based afflatus.

I will give the Obama camp this: They do know how to hit us emotionally, don’t they? From Michelle’s sea foam dress and her new skinny Oprah persona makeover, to their darling girls being Kathy Lee’d out on stage, to Biden showcasing his grandkids and his cool old mama, I was getting—Lord forgive me—all verklempt! The only thing that Hallmark convention lacked was puppies, bunny rabbits and dancing candy canes running across the stage in a stadium filled with laughing gas.

What kept me from completely diving down the funnel and blowing off my conservative roots are these few ditties that Barack proposes for the future and also what he has done in the past, stuff like . . .

• Double the capital gain tax on stock and real estate sales

• Increase FICA taxes by 14 points on all income over $100,000

• Double taxes on dividends

• Expand the inheritance tax

• Weaken the PATRIOT Act

• Curb anti-terror wire tapping

• Extend health insurance benefits to illegal immigrants

• Give children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition at state universities

• Weaken education standards

• Enlarge health insurance so drastically that it forces us to ration medical care, particularly to granny

• Expand the welfare state, dividing America between makers and takers. Y’know, enacting some “economic justice.” I think his plan is something like, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Where have I heard that before?

• Enact a Global Poverty Act, which means you and I picking up the tab for Barack’s ba-roke brother in Africa. Yep, as I type he’s working on having us pay new “world” taxes (S.2433).

• “Voluntary Public Service” for young people. Or, as IBD likes to call B-HO’s proposal, national involuntary servitude.

• Downplaying of the terror threat. Terror threat, what terror threat? You see a terror threat? Not B-HO.

• A liberal out the wazoo anti-2nd Amendment voting record

• Abortion being available to mommy in all nine months of her pregnancy

• Parents not being notified when their 13-year-old girl goes in for an abortion.

• Opposing any and all bans on partial birth abortion. I don’t think the abortion issue means squat to some “evangelicals” anymore. Especially the “hip and groovy” dorks. Abortion to these twaddlers is so yesterday and so contentious that if they take a strong stand for life they might not be viewed as “cool” and “open” any longer, and they can’t have that. They and their cute Jesus live for public approval.

• Advancing the radical homosexual activist lobby and voting against the defense of traditional marriage.

• The creation of “special rights” for people who engage in homosexuality for the sole purpose of putting them at the front of the line on issues of employment, housing and litigation.

• The advancement of all “hate crimes” legislation, which ultimately could be used to silence pastors who believe—according to their own convictions—that homosexual behavior is . . . uh . . . wrong . . . and preach the same from biblical texts.

• The continued funding of Planned Parenthood clinics in our nation's inner cities, which are performing genocide against the populations of African Americans living there.

• Former 20 year track record of going to a church that propagates anti-white, anti-American and anti-Jewish blather, zany 9/11 “was our fault because we’re racists” rancor, and a “black value system,” all via a pastor who has hung out with Qaddafi and honors Louis Farrakhan.

• And last, but not least, his past (and close) associations with radical Marxists such as mentor Frank Marshall Davis, Gerald Kellman (a disciple of Saul “The Red” Alinsky), and terrorist Bill Ayers

I believe aside from all the above, Barack is like OMG totally awesome, as one bearded woman put it at the DNC. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to blow off the aforementioned facts amidst all the orchestrated love, children, confetti, firecrackers, gaudy-a$$ stage sets, over unctuous liberals spewing specious talking points, weepy testimonies, O’Biden’s hair plugs, MO’s pastel dresses and Sheryl Crow’s crooning. Oh well, at least I got to see some of the most amazing propagandists in US history, and that, my friends, truly gave me the chills


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008endorsements; giles; obama; satire
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1 posted on 08/31/2008 5:35:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Barack is like OMG totally awesome, as one bearded woman put it at the DNC.

:-D

2 posted on 08/31/2008 5:37:45 AM PDT by impeachedrapist (All hail the empty toga!)
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bump


3 posted on 08/31/2008 5:38:40 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Kaslin

If he endorses Obama he is no Conservative and probably is not a Christian either.


4 posted on 08/31/2008 5:41:22 AM PDT by sport
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To: Kaslin
Barack is like OMG totally awesome, as one bearded woman put it at the DNC.

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(Pounding keyboard laughting)

5 posted on 08/31/2008 5:44:01 AM PDT by tbpiper (Obama/Biden: Instead of Ebony and Ivory, we have Arrogance and Insolence.)
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To: Kaslin

He’s preaching to the congregation that wasn’t voting Obama to begin with...so how does anything he wrote bring over the dissed Hilary nuts that McCain needs like a baby needs its mother to win this election...?


6 posted on 08/31/2008 5:44:43 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Kaslin
excellent overview by Giles...

unfortunate that others did not read beyond the first paragraph... then they would have known that this is great satire...

7 posted on 08/31/2008 5:49:04 AM PDT by xtinct (Suicide Hotline... !! "Obama here" --> Please Hold...)
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To: Kaslin

So who dreamed up this headline? This posting doesn’t look to me like an endorsement. Instead it looks like a litany of reasons to avoid the guy we cheered for beating Hillary.


8 posted on 08/31/2008 5:49:55 AM PDT by svxdave (Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
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To: sport

I believe he’s being sarcastic. Did you read the article, cause that’s the feeling I got.


9 posted on 08/31/2008 5:51:55 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Kaslin
" ... I shouted out loud, “Holy Spirit, is that you confirming to my soul that Obama is The One?”

It had to be a divine witness from God, I thought, because I was chilled to my core. I looked at my arms . . . goosebumps! I then looked down at my legs to see if they too were experiencing horripilation and suddenly realized that it wasn’t the witness of the Spirit stimulating my flesh but the cold beer I had spilled on my crotch ...
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I don't care who you are ... That's funny right there.

10 posted on 08/31/2008 5:53:53 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: sport

“If he endorses Obama he is no Conservative and probably is no Christian either”

I agree. I can’t imagine any Christian endorsing infanticide which is one of Obamas claims to fame.


11 posted on 08/31/2008 5:53:56 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: sport

Read the article. He DOESN’T.


12 posted on 08/31/2008 5:57:30 AM PDT by Purrcival (Go, PUMA, GO! Your job isn't over yet! You may think it is, but it's not.)
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To: Kaslin
Weaken the PATRIOT Act

I disagree. An Obama/Biden administration would strengthen the PATRIOT Act IMO. It will just be used against all of us domestic type folks.
13 posted on 08/31/2008 5:57:57 AM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: freeangel; sport

“If he endorses Obama he is no Conservative and probably is no Christian either”

I agree. I can’t imagine any Christian endorsing infanticide which is one of Obamas claims to fame.

Thank you graduates of the "post a comment before reading the article academy"...

14 posted on 08/31/2008 5:59:50 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Computers: Once you go Mac, you'll never look back. :))
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To: freeangel; sport

Please read the whole article and not just the headline.

He is not endorsing Obama.


15 posted on 08/31/2008 6:02:36 AM PDT by Mrs.Nooseman (Proudly supporting our Troops and Allies!!!!)
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To: Purrcival

With all respect, the title of this posting is stupid and, if the author is promoting such a title to trick us into reading his article, he has no integrity unless, of course his definition of himself as being a Conservation is also a joke.


16 posted on 08/31/2008 6:02:45 AM PDT by svxdave (Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
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To: sport
If he endorses Obama he is no Conservative and probably is not a Christian either.

If you read on, you will find he isn't endorsing Obama. The first part of the article is satire.

17 posted on 08/31/2008 6:03:12 AM PDT by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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To: Mrs.Nooseman

(Excuse the previous typo)

With all respect, the title of this posting is stupid and, if the author is promoting such a title to trick us into reading his article, he has no integrity unless, of course his definition of himself as being a Christian Conservative is also a joke.


18 posted on 08/31/2008 6:05:04 AM PDT by svxdave (Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
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To: sport

RTFA


19 posted on 08/31/2008 6:05:07 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: tbpiper

That one needs bookmarking. It is most definately the best line of the day. Can’t you just see it??!!


20 posted on 08/31/2008 6:09:15 AM PDT by dusttoyou
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