Posted on 09/20/2001 7:32:15 PM PDT by Howlin
It's just that lawyer talk and laws tend to be so easily twisted to the wrong agenda.
If that's the case, Bill is probably not too thrilled either. Blech!!!Yuck!!! I can't think of the 2-headed beast...Puke!!</font size>
Sounds like a good parody of a familiar song from the Gulf War
They are giving the President extremely high marks.......terms such as Churchillian are being tossed about.
To be honest....I'm stunned at their comments....not that their praise is not valid, but, rather, that they are actually uttering these platitudes, out loud, live, on air.
I did have one thought. Through that entire miserable month after the election, we learned to persevere, even when it looked like we might have the election stolen. Through all of that President Bush was calm, and as the days went by we got braver and bolder. By the time he was finally declared the winner we learned what it was like to stick with something and gain a worthy victory.
We needed to learn that, for the battles that face us now. God does move in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform.
(APPLAUSE)
Americans are asking ``Why do they hate us?''
They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.
They want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. They want to drive Israel out of the Middle East. They want to drive Christians and Jews out of vast regions of Asia and Africa.
These terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us because we stand in their way.
We're not deceived by their pretenses to piety.
We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.
(APPLAUSE)
He blew me away with this section. He hit the nail on the head, and implicitly identified the Taliban as Nazis to boot!
France & Italy, capice???
This MASTERFUL & IMPECCABLE speech was the "verbal coda" of its death knell.
Bush has been called by DESTINY to lead the Nation & the World at this HOUR!
I recommend reading some history on the etymology of the phrase Separation of Church and State. See how far back you can follow its derivation and apply those meanings to the founding fathers of American political thought. Hint: Faith is distinct in its meaning from religion. The issues I speak about regard a relationship every person is afforded to have with God. If a person doesn't respect the Son, he doesn't respect the Father. If a faith doesn't respect the Son, it fails to respect the Father. If a person respects all faiths which fail to respect the Son, then that person fails to respect the Father. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom. The Lord is always just.
I am so glad that Bush is President rather than you. Who are you to say who does and who does not "respect the Father"? Your attitude is precisely the kind that motivated those who persecuted and killed my ancestors. Perhaps you can share with us what role if any you think Jews and other non-Christians would be permitted to have in your theocracy.
The issue is not one of which rights they have. The issue raised by Bush is that he respects their faith equally as he respects any faith. If they fail to honor the Son, they do not honor the Father. This honor is based upon faith. If one respects another faith then one lacks faith in the Son hence lacks honor of the Father.
Now if Bush lacks the courage to stand for a faith in God by the Son, simply so he doesn't incur dissent, why would he now make an ultimatum that all who oppose us will be treated as terrorists?
If he is righteous, then wouldn't he first be equally as resolute regarding faith in God?
Nailed. She hates it. And she HATES having to actually work with so very many uncelebrated, relatively powerless people. My hubby commented that even the firemen she met while touring the disaster site seemed to pull away from her, in disgust. My bet-she was sending out a cold signal-I find her to be absolutely ruthless, uncivil and very immature.
I am a Jew. I believe that Jesus was just a man. I love, honor and worship God alone. I obviously do not believe that one must honor Jesus in order to honor God. What your sentences here say is that anyone who fails to acknowledge Jesus as God lacks faith in and dishonors God the Father. You further seem to believe that the President elected by the people, and serving as the head of the executive branch of our government, should favor your religion over mine. Tell you what. You refrain from imposing your religious beliefs on me, and I will return the favor.
Did I miss something? :-)
I was out with other conservatives at a pizza parlor. They had it on there so I caught most of it. The first half or so I heard on the radio.
Glad you didn't forget about lil' ol' me :-)
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