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obama: 'We are God's partners in matters of life and death'
Posted on 08/20/2009 9:45:01 AM PDT by RED SOUTH
"We are God's partners in matters of life and death," Obama said, quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided "who shall live and who shall die." The president ended the call by wishing the rabbis "shanah tovah," or happy new year in reference to the High Holidays a month from now. A reader points out that President Obama's call with the rabbis today as recorded in Rabbi Jack Moline's and other clerics' Twitter feeds freights health care reform with a great deal of religious meaning, and veers into the blend of policy and faith that outraged liberals in the last administration.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhohealthcare; missinglink; obamaandgod; religiousleft
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To: RED SOUTH
Is this a sign that the Jews are accepting Obama as the Messiah? Or will they properly reject his claims to Deity as blasphemy? Obama’s demagoguery now reaches a new high water mark. Will religion continue to accommodate Obama’s claim to Deity? Will the Jews continue to be the government’s partner in matters of life an death? We know that the liberal fascists believe themselves to be God, and to have the right to play God in every aspect of human life, but they rarely admit it so proudly as Obama has done.
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posted on
08/20/2009 10:25:18 AM PDT
by
gorilla_warrior
(Metrosexual hairless RINOs for hopey-changey bipartisan-ness)
To: RED SOUTH
a lot of poppycock from a man who voted to kill babies who survive abortions
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posted on
08/20/2009 10:25:55 AM PDT
by
Citizen Soldier
(Just got up from Bedroomshire)
To: RED SOUTH
Oh so he is at GOD’s level now eh. What an a$$hole.
I am just waiting for God to smack his butt back to earth. I hope I get to witness THAT!
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posted on
08/20/2009 10:26:55 AM PDT
by
Danae
(- Conservative does not equal Republican. Conservative does not compromise.)
To: A_Former_Democrat
He quotes God only when its politically expedientYep, and it's disgusting, because we know he doesn't believe a word of it.
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posted on
08/20/2009 11:23:37 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: RED SOUTH
To: RED SOUTH
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posted on
08/20/2009 12:21:12 PM PDT
by
RoadTest
(The Truth shall make you free)
Spooky stuff coming from Obama right now. Bad timing; bad quote.
He really does have a tin ear.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:22:02 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
If you've never heard the "we are partners" phrase before that's because there is no such passage in the Torah. There is in Kiddushin 30b of the Talmud the statement approximately, "there are three partners in the formation of a person: the Holy One, Blessed be He, his father and his mother. How that morphed into BHO's little mashup with "life and death" I cannot say. I am however, dismayed that a large number of so-called rabbis didn't 1. spot the error and 2. proclaim that far from giving us the power of life and death in health care situations, we are expressly forbidden to cause death. For one discussion, see Rabbi Mordechai Biser's THE NEW IDEOLOGY IN HEALTH CARE AND HOW TO SURVIVE in the Jewish World Review in 2004 /5765. My dismay is magnified by the fact that this "telephone conference" occurred right before Rosh Chodesh Elul, that is the start of the 30 days before Rosh Hashanah. Rather more needs to be said on this, and I hope those with authority do so.
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posted on
08/21/2009 2:58:05 AM PDT
by
cycjec
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