Posted on 11/12/2012 5:17:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Editor’s Note: This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison.
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to his fourth term, Kansas editor William Allen White, a staunch Republican, wrote: "We who hate your gaudy guts salute you." President Obama: We have never hated your gaudy guts. And we acknowledge that a majority of our fellow citizens of this Great Republic have saluted you and conferred upon you for the second time the office of President of the United States. We thank God that more than 120 million Americans voted in a peaceful and orderly election. That alone is a wonder of the world. (You will pardon us, Sir, if we also thank Heaven for the Twenty-second Amendment, another legacy from FDR.)
Our favorite portrait of you is the inaugural cover of The New Yorker.] Over the past four years, we have written more than 600 columns singly and together about your administration’s policies. Throughout those years, we have kept the high promise of that Inaugural Portrait in mind. We have endeavored always to remember that you hold the office held by Washington and Lincoln. We believe that office deserves respect.
We also recall the amazing spectacle of millions of Americans attending your first Inauguration. We feel deeply what your taking the presidential oath must mean, especially to our fellow citizens whose ancestors survived the horrors of the Middle Passage. Those forebears came here in chains. For our fellow citizens of African descent, your rise to the presidency holds profound spiritual and historical meaning. With our fellow Christians, we share a belief in the redemptive value of suffering.
We must in all candor admit that we have opposed most of your policies. We believe your administration daily fails to recognize the God-given right to life. We assert that what was wrong in slavery, what was wrong in segregation, is what is wrong in abortion. It treats millions of humans as less than human. TIME’s Joe Klein admits that ultra-sound makes it “impossible to deny that that thing in the womb is a human being.” Mr. President, your administration denies this reality every day. Abraham Lincoln said it well: “Nothing stamped in the divine image was sent into the world to be trod upon.” President Obama: Are not unborn children so stamped?
We have also opposed your administration’s policy of refusing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. One of these laws, the Defense of Marriage Act, you have flouted from the first days of your presidency. Now, we have seen voters in four states decide to permit same sex couplings to be recognized as marriages. Thirty-two states have voted to preserve true marriage. We will see what some call “marriage equality” only when Zero equals One. We are not surprised that some today hail Tuesday’s results as proving that Four is greater than Thirty-two.
True marriage benefits all and bashes none. It is the foundation of society.
The moving story of 10,000 more marriages being recorded in Tennessee in 1866 should be more widely known. Recently freed black couples came to Tennessee that year to have their slave marriages legally recognized. That’s how strong was the desire to preserve family life then. That’s how important marriage was for the black community. The breakdown of marriage among blacks, Hispanics, and whites has caused untold heartbreak for the nation. If you are against traditional marriage, Mr. President, you cannot have a successful administration. We will fight for this ideal with or without your support.
Your administration is paying billions to tormentors of Christians in a number of Muslim majority lands. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said that Christianity is the most persecuted religion on earth. You were received with joy and admiration in Germany, Mr. President. We appeal to you to change your policies in your second term. Those who oppress neighbors who worship differently will never enjoy democracy. This must stop. You must cease taxing us to support treacherous allies who shoot us in the back.
We doubt you will be moved by our appeal. In your first term, you proved deaf to the cries of the oppressed of many lands. American blood has been shed and American treasure sunk in foreign entanglements that will result in neither freedom nor peace. And today, our strongest ally in the Middle East, Israel, is in mortal peril. No president had been as hostile to Israel’s survival needs as you have been.
For the sake of our beloved country, we urge you to reverse your Mideast policy. Embracing regimens which have vowed to eradicate Israel, will bring nothing but blood and dishonor.
Finally, we pray for you, President Obama. We hope you and your family are kept safe from all harm. We believe that as we pray for you and for all those in authority, we are following God’s Word.
We pray, too, that you will remember President Washington’s words to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport. Washington wanted to see an America “where each shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May that be our America, too, Barack Obama.
Every revolution begins with a minority of the population.
I’m thinking ‘the bigger the caliber, the more the respect’.
Ken is a stand up guy and a staunch conservative. He needs to be part of a greater consultative team to take back the country and has a great understanding of what it would take to get 5-10% of the black vote. Boy I wish he were president instead.
I truly consider this government to be a usurpation, illegitimate, a tyrany.
I myself do not have the means by which to fight it,
but they can’t make me give them my best to support them.
Every “resistor” will withhold his best, even under the “whip”.
There is no respect here for Obama - for his ideals, his government nor for his plans for this country.
You cannot reason to a maniac’s logic, because there is none. He is a perversion of all that I have worked for and believed my whole life, and no appeasing conservative’s plaint to resurrect a semblance of the pathetic do-gooder approach to dealing with evil will work. They lie, they cheat, they undermine, they discriminate, and they hate.
Hate is all they’ll get back from me.
Yes, I pray too, for the removal of this man from power by the hand of God...
Respect is a losing strategy
Total disdain must be the course forward.
The disdain is not only for the President but your neighbor, the guys at work, your relatives.
They deserve no respect at all
“Total disdain must be the course forward.
The disdain is not only for the President but your neighbor, the guys at work, your relatives.”
I’m practicing it already. F*ck all of them.
ravaged by VOTER FRAUD
resistance with respect? respect for who or what. A system that has been compromised by criminals. A rival party that has committed crimes against the people, a neutered party that looses the election to voter fraud but immediately begs for forgiveness blames the conservatives and crawls on thier hands and knees to kiss the ring of the fraudulent winner? We have been had not only by the party we expected but by the party we thought had our backs
ravaged by VOTER FRAUD
resistance with respect? respect for who or what. A system that has been compromised by criminals. A rival party that has committed crimes against the people, a neutered party that looses the election to voter fraud but immediately begs for forgiveness blames the conservatives and crawls on thier hands and knees to kiss the ring of the fraudulent winner? We have been had not only by the party we expected but by the party we thought had our backs
Wouldn’t want this guy beside me in the trenches.
Acting with respect towards those who deserve no respect is what has emasculated any for of “resistance”.
“President Obama: We have never hated your gaudy guts.”
Speak for yourself.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
This know also, and keep it in mind, that in the last days of the administration of the mystery, perilous times shall come for the professing church, or what is called Christendom.
For religious men and leaders of the time shall be lovers of their own selves seeking all kinds of publicity and praise of men, covetous in that they will be lovers of money and will stoop to most any methods in obtaining it, boasters of all their accomplishments in the world, seeking to outdo all others, proud of their works in the flesh and of their false humility before the people they profess to serve, blasphemers in that they call themselves ministers of the Most High God, but promote racial disturbances, civil disobedience, and rioting for hire by a foreign country, disobedient to parents and all other constituted authority, including colleges and universities, lawless and unthankful, taking charity of society and the blessings of God with no thought of the donors, and with their uncouth appearance and bad manners they have not only repudiated all goodness, but have come to the place that like dogs they return to their own vomit, or like the sow which returns to the mire, they have become most unholy,
And in their lust to others of the same sex, they are without natural affection, coming to the place that they can no longer tell the truth, they have become trucebreakers, and in this condition coupled with their covetousness, they have become false accusers, for they, in their vain imaginations think that others are as low and selfish in their ambitions as they are, and being lovers of their own selves and their consciences seared and no longer having a feeling of sin, they have become incontinent practicing fornication and adultery, making provision for the flesh with all kinds contraceptives they also have become fierce and have lost all the gentleness they may have learned of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; and in their lusts they have also become despisers of those that are good, with the argument that everybody is doing it and are as bad as they are;
Traitors to fellow Christians, to their own kin, and even to their own government, heady or determined to have their own way with no regard to the rights of others and their claims, highminded or puffed up so that they have no compassion for the less fortunate, and having so fed and nourished the flesh or old nature, they have come to the place that they are the lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
And in these last days we see on every hand the vain and empty religions having a form of godliness, a ritual in their self-worship which pretends to be a worship of God, sensual, just a social gathering of caste and class in their costly temples and shrines by the wayside, but denying the power thereof: for Christendom today is powerless spiritually in the world, being forced to turn to lobbying and following a social gospel which is in no way Christian, just a fraternity of do-gooders, and the Word is explicit in warning us of these things and further commands us; from such turn away.
My precinct went 91.4% for Obama, which is outrageous, it was only 86% in 2008.
If a tornado or something hit I’d be glad as long as it spared my place.
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