Barack Obama Gives Bishop TD Jakes Goose Bumps—Which Makes My Skin Crawl

Townhall.com ^ | 21 June 2008 | Doug Giles

[K-oneTexas]

Barack Obama Gives Bishop TD Jakes Goose Bumps—Which Makes My Skin Crawl
By Doug Giles

You’re familiar with the icky chills, aren’t ‘cha? It’s that weird, tangible, frightening freeze you get when you wake up to the demon ghost of Leona Helmsley hovering over your bed in a Victoria’s Secret teddy at 3 AM or when you accidentally drink from the beer can your dipping buddy has been using for a spit cup. That’s the kind of tingly feeling I got when I read Jakes’ Barack goose bump bumbling gaffe.

Goose bumps, Mr. Jakes? Please. Isn’t all this “Barack gives me goose flesh” coming from male journalists, basketball team owners and now you, a bishop, a tad tweed?

Goose bumps? Have ministers and pundits been reduced to giggly fourteen year-old girls who discern Mr. Right based upon horripilation? If so, then I’m voting for 7/11’s giant cherry slurpee for president because not only did it give me severe chicken skin the other day when I was wailing on it, but I also had a 30 second brain-freezing drooling moment that was simply awesome.

Ah, the divining wand of goose bumps.

I remember an acquaintance of mine who married a whacked girl three years ago, much to his friends’, pastor’s and family’s disapproval. I asked him why the heck he was going to plow ahead and marry this chick even though all his closest friends didn’t dig her, and he said, “I can’t help it, she’s magnetic, bewitching, and she gives me goose bumps.”

Yep, it was because of this vixen’s voodoo that he “knew, just knew” that she was “God’s will for his life.” Well, 36 months later not only did she give him goose bumps but she also gave him Chlamydia, panic attacks and a whopping credit card debt, along with a little heart ache when she left him for a 19 year-old multi-tattooed girl from Starbucks.

Exactly what are we, the unenlightened cattle, to deduce from the reflex erection of the hairs on Jakes’ arm while he was watching the Obama pep rally? I tell you, heathen, what you’re supposed to construe: As a Christian who has been a part of charismatic church, when the pilomotor reflexes start popping during a church service, or a meeting, or while watching TBN, that feeling is a “sign” of the Holy Spirit’s presence, and thus God’s approval (never mind the fact that both the flesh and demons can counterfeit such a sensory experience).

As a Christian who takes the Scripture seriously, I don’t care what an accomplishment it is for Barack to win his party’s nod. In addition, I don’t give flip how great a speaker the uber-liberal junior state senator from Chi-town is, either. Nor do I care whether or not he says he’s “filled with the holy ghost and fire,” loves Jesus, babies, kittens and candy canes. What I care about is his incessant anti-Scripture/traditional American values voting record, such as . . .

1. Abortion being available to mommy in all nine months of her pregnancy (how goose bumpy, eh? Except of course for the innocent kid that gets snuffed. No goose bumps for them).

2. Parents not being notified when their 13 year-old girl goes in for an abortion (this, too, is such a goose bumpy little ditty. What progress! It’s what we’ve all been longing for, right Bishop Jakes)?

3. Opposing any and all bans on partial birth abortion, an act that includes delivery of the baby up to the head, the crushing of the baby's skull, the vacuuming of the brain matter and then completed delivery of the child's deflated cranium (chilling. How a minister can stand by a candidate who supports this is way, way beyond me. But who am I to judge? I’m a critical white Calvinist male who doesn’t have a megachurch and who is, according to the secularists and the ministers who support them, stuck in a time warp).

4. Advancing the radical homosexual activist lobby in their pursuit to destroy traditional marriage and voting against the defense of traditional marriage (sassy goose bumpages on this one, eh padre?)

5. 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.

6. 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 (be careful what kind of “change” you’re hoping for and supporting, Mr. Jakes).

7. 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 (y’all feelin’ the chills on this one?).

8. And last but not least, the goose bump generating, now well-known revelation of Obama attending a church for the last 20 years (until shamed into leaving) 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 hung out with Qaddafi and honors Louis Farrakhan (I’m getting goose bumps, howzabout you?).

Finally, I have a couple of questions for all the ministers/ministries that look to or follow Jakes as a source of biblical and political inspiration: What are you going to do now that your good bishop has wandered off the scriptural path by giving mad props to Obama, who has the most liberal (anti-biblical) voting record of all U.S. senators? Do you agree with Jakes’ take that he’s the man? Do you also get goose bumps when you hear Obama speak? Do you disagree with Jakes? If so, are you going to say or do something about it, or are you just going to sit there like a good boy and say nada?

[ChiMark]

Obama does’nt give me goose bumps but he does make my gut move...

[spacejunkie01]

this is unfortunate...I actually used to like to watch Jakes. No more. I wouldn’t give him a minute of my time with poor judgement such as his. Voting for someone JUST because they’re black is ridiculous. He threw every bit of the bible’s doctrine out the window just to support someone for skin color.

Pathetic.

[Cicero]

Home page of Bishop TD Jakes:

http://www.thepottershouse.org/v2/content/view/14/28/

[dennisw]

To bad about Jakes. He’s one of the best TV preachers. But 95% of Blacks are voting Obama so what do you expect?

[Jeff Head]

Obama's ardent followers (including the MSM) are not swayed by logic, reason, or truth, and regardless of his positions, his gaffes, his past, or his associations, he is an idol and they the idolaters.

Nothing you can say or do will convince these people otherwise...


Because I am the one they and I have been waiting for...and I am lovin' it.

Those wild-eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the propaganda they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.

You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.

Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black, not caring to hear or look at his actual positions.

Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.

The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lennin for the dupes he got to support him.

Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans, of all races and creeds, who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.

Finally, understand that this is not the first time in history that rock-star, messianic status has been conferred on a populist, charismatic individual in order to hand them the reigns of power. Although there are many critical differences, still it is important when you consider the danger that this candidate poses to American foreign policy, our economy, our social fabric, and to the war we are fighting against fanatical Islamic Jihad terrorists, to note the following comparison:

A populsitic, charismatic, self-serving individual has a way of mesmerizing foolish people looking for an idol...then and now.

Simply put, Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.

THE AUDACTIY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[GWMcClintock]

I expect that a learned man of the Word Of God called to preach, should uphold that Word without regard to consequence...that’s what I expect. It’s called character, and unfortunately, I thought T D Jakes had more discernment than this. He WILL face His God one day, whether he answers to Obama or not.

[nikos1121]

Let me get it straight. Jakes is supporting OBama or is it just the euphoria of a black man winning the nomination.

I’ve listened to JAKes. I like him alot, but if he is supporting Obama not only will I stop listening to him, but I am going to send back his CDs.

nick

[AnAmericanMother]

Who made him a bishop?

[Rca2000]

I STILL fear that BHO may indeed be the antichrist.

as for TBN.. Nowdays about 2/3 of the ones they have on there are fakes anymore. Clifton Davis, TD Jakes, Benny Hinn...ALL of then openly support the antichrist.

[Cicero]

Good question. I don’t think those Megachurches believe in the Apostolic Succession.

I was interested to learn that Mitt Romney is a bishop, too, and that it means something pretty different from the Anglican or Catholic models.

[taraytarah]

3. Opposing any and all bans on partial birth abortion, an act that includes delivery of the baby up to the head, the crushing of the baby's skull, the vacuuming of the brain matter (read BRAIN) and then completed delivery of the child's deflated cranium...

As an Illinois state Senator, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion.

[lilylangtree]

Freakin’ Osama Hussein gives me the heebee jeebees with his toothy grin. I get the same heebee jeebees when I see the character “Rev. Kane” smiling in “Poltergeist II: The Other Side.” Not good at all.

[Gotterdammerung]

Obama gives me the hee-bee-jee-bees.

[spacejunkie01]

thanks...I just posted a prayer request that Satan would lose his stronghold on the black community and they wouldn’t vote for the antichrist.

[Ben Reyes]

‘Goose bumps.’

That’s a pre-requisite to learning how to goose-step.

[em2vn]

“Barack gives me goose flesh”
Setting a night ambush gave me goose bumps, but I can’t say that would suggest I should support someone because of the color of his skin.
I once enjoyed hearing Jakes. Now I think of him as a black Elmer Gantry with a busy tailor.
What he suggests is David Duke country if said by a white man. Jake’s has moved into Stokely Carmichael country.

[TheBattman]

The hair on the back of my neck often stands up when I find myself in the presence of real evil... Maybe Jakes’ reaction is similar...

[Beowulf9]

Those pictures give me the chills.

I work with a young girl who is white but lovessss blacks. MTV has done it’s work on the next generation.

She constantly chases the black male workers, swears Obama is her ‘man’ and thinks like a fish in a group.

Scary.

[truthguy]

Awesome. The 2 photographs size by size says more than what 10,000 words could say. 1930’s Germany and United States in 2008 comparism is right on the money. I wish that the kind of people who are holding the Obama signs could realize the significance of what you are trying to say but I doubt any of these stupid girls could possibly understand the point you are trying to make. I would serious doubt that any of these people know the history of Germany in the 1920’s and 1930’s. I would be willing to bet my next months pay these these creatures are products of the public school system or are in one of the many higher (joke)educational schools where you go for 4 years and come out knowing nothing.