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Obama says his policies are extension of his faith
NewsDay ^ | Feb. 2, 2012 | JULIE PACE

Posted on 02/02/2012 8:05:09 PM PST by DogByte6RER

Edited on 02/02/2012 8:17:16 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Obama says his policies are extension of his faith

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Blending politics and religion, President Barack Obama said his Christian faith is a driving force behind his economic policies, from Wall Street reform to his calls for the wealthy to pay higher taxes.

Obama's remarks Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast were his most explicit account of how his personal religious beliefs factor into his decision-making on the nation's pressing problems. The comments came amid election-year criticism from Catholic groups and some Republicans that the president is waging a war on religion following his decision to require church-affiliated institutions to cover free birth control for employees.

Speaking to more than 3,000 people at the annual breakfast, Obama said "faith and values" should play as much as role in tackling the nation's challenges as sound decision-making and smart policies.

He said, for example, that his own call for fairness in the tax code — a central tenet of his State of the Union address and his 2012 campaign — is both economically sound and consistent with the teachings of Jesus. [snip]


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012election; barackhusseinobama; bho; faith; obama; potus; religion
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1 posted on 02/02/2012 8:05:14 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER

Faith in who or what?


2 posted on 02/02/2012 8:06:34 PM PST by hope_dies_last
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3 posted on 02/02/2012 8:06:36 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: DogByte6RER

Faith in who or what?


4 posted on 02/02/2012 8:06:48 PM PST by hope_dies_last
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To: DogByte6RER

So... He IS indeed the ‘AntiChrist’ after all..... lol


5 posted on 02/02/2012 8:07:07 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: DogByte6RER

barrys faith to Satan, yes, I can believe it.


6 posted on 02/02/2012 8:07:33 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: DogByte6RER
"Obama said when he found himself at that moment not knowing what to say, the Holy Spirit interceded."

I don't think that was the Holy Spirit talking to ya.

7 posted on 02/02/2012 8:09:07 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Looks like he’s convinced that GOPe and MSM will deliver Romney to him.

Obama is a murtad fitri, since his dad was a Muslim, and Obama studied the Koran in Indonesia.

I bet he’s photographed going to church in DC< carrying a Bible!


8 posted on 02/02/2012 8:10:15 PM PST by DBrow
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To: DogByte6RER

While I cannot claim to read minds, nor divine the true spirit in another’s heart, I think this could have used a “(Baaarf Alert!)” after the title.


9 posted on 02/02/2012 8:11:32 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: DogByte6RER

10 posted on 02/02/2012 8:12:07 PM PST by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else (Maybe Tim Thomas))
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To: DogByte6RER

Judas, priest.

Someone tell him he’s free to re-distribute his own growing wealth...


11 posted on 02/02/2012 8:12:11 PM PST by KitJ (Shall not be infringed)
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...are extension of his faith...”My muslim faith”
12 posted on 02/02/2012 8:15:28 PM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: nhwingut

You hit the nail on the head — liberation theology - aka Black ethnocentric Marxism.


13 posted on 02/02/2012 8:16:27 PM PST by JimSEA
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I saw his speech...total projectile vomit alert. He wants you to believe he and his Homeys pray every second he is off camera.
14 posted on 02/02/2012 8:16:36 PM PST by DAC21
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To: DogByte6RER

No Shiite, Sherlock.


15 posted on 02/02/2012 8:22:28 PM PST by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: DogByte6RER

Yeah, an extension of his faith in marxist socialism. No kidding. We’ve been saying that since before he was elected. No surprising those of us who knew what you were Barry.


16 posted on 02/02/2012 8:23:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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re: “Obama said he believed in a “biblical call” to care for the poor and to follow “the responsibility we’re given in Proverbs to ‘Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.’”

Except the Biblical call to care for the poor was a responsibility put upon the church and the Christian believers, and even here, it was to be given freely, not by coerecion by the government. In fact, it is outside the role of the government.

I have to vomit when he says he has to follow “the responsibility we’re given in Proverbs to ‘Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.’ - yeah, right - like the unborn children he advocates for murdering??

What a fraud and liar he is. How blatant and arrogant. God help us - yet on the other hand, if our nation does not repent of it’s own decadance, killing of the unborn, and rebellion against God and His Word - how can we expect to escape His judgment as a people. God would have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah if He allows us to go unscathed. I remember the quotation on Thomas Jefferson’s statue in the Jefferson Memorial that says, “I tremble for my nation, when I remember that God is just.”


17 posted on 02/02/2012 8:32:04 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: DogByte6RER

Sharia?


18 posted on 02/02/2012 8:33:39 PM PST by matthew fuller (My replacement for Drudge-http://www.webcommentary.com/links.php)
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To: DogByte6RER

they are. he’s an atheist.


19 posted on 02/02/2012 8:37:54 PM PST by 4buttons
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To: matthew fuller

Talked to some guys at my watering hole today that actually watched him. Overall they said, what did he say? Goblity Gook. They had no clue. I didn’t see it.


20 posted on 02/02/2012 8:38:10 PM PST by AGreatPer (Obama has NEVER given a speech where he did not lie!!!)
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