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Title: Obama's 'Big Cross' Flier Hits Kentucky
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Christian Post
URL Source: http://www.christianpost.com/articl ... Cross'_Flier_Hits_Kentucky.htm
Published: May 19, 2008
Author: Michelle A. Vu
Post Date: 2008-05-19 18:33:40 by FOH
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“Faith. Hope. Change,” reads the bold printed words at the top of the flier. Then below the picture of the glowing cross is a message from Obama about his Christian faith. “My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want,” Obama is quoted on the flier. “But I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work.” The flier is the latest push by the likely Democratic presidential nominee to court religious voters. The faith flier coupled with TV and radio ads that began running in Kentucky last week seek to emphasize that Obama is Christian. “We want people to know what is important to him, and a large part of that is his Christian faith,” said Obama spokesman Clark Stevens, to Kentucky-based The Courier-Journal newspaper. However, some pundits commented that the effort has deeper purposes: of assuring American voters that Obama is a normal Christian after the recent controversy with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who had made anti-American remarks; of quelling rumors that he is a closet Muslim; and to prepare for the November general election against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. “They believe they can compete with McCain and the Republicans on the faith vote,” said David Brody, a senior correspondent with the Christian Broadcasting Network, to Fox News. “McCain doesn’t want to talk about his faith all that much,” Brody said. “Barack Obama is comfortable talking about that. … He’s speaking evangelical talk, so to speak, and that resonates.” Brody says Obama is trying to woo moderate evangelical voters away from McCain. He noted that Obama is not going after the old-guard evangelicals, but younger, more moderate evangelicals that will not automatically reject him because of his support for abortion and gay rights. Obama was endorsed by a major pro-choice group last week, and his campaign says he “respects” the California Supreme Court decision to overturn the state’s ban on gay “marriage,” according to Fox News. Looking ahead to the general election, John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, said the Kentucky faith outreach will serve as "an interesting taste test to see how well the campaign's efforts are working," particularly among white, working-class voters in key swing states, according to the Wall Street Journal. A Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey released this year found that 85 percent of Kentuckians identified themselves as Christians. A Courier-Journal Bluegrass Poll in 2007 found that 49.8 percent of those surveyed were self-described evangelicals or born-again Christians. On Sunday, Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential candidate, commented on Obama’s cross ad while on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He took case with the media’s different response to Obama’s cross ad versus his famous Christmas ad, in which the edges of white bookcases in the background formed what looked like a cross. “I think it’s interesting that nobody’s jumping on Obama for this very blatant cross in his ad. And I took grief for months,” Huckabee said. “I’m still taking it, over something that wasn’t even a cross. It was a bookshelf, for heaven’s sake.” The ex-Arkansas governor criticized the double standard that exists for Republicans and Democrats who speak about their faith in campaigns. “If Republicans even get near a church, we are accused of embracing it,” he said. Nevertheless, he praised Obama as a “person of faith.” Past faith outreaches by the Obama campaign include a Gospel concert tour in South Carolina, meeting with evangelical Hispanic leaders, and participating in faith forums.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama turned up the heat on his faith outreach in Kentucky, which holds its primary on Tuesday, by distributing fliers of him speaking in front of a big illuminated cross.
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#1. To: FOH (#0)
A marxist/leninist quoted about doing god's will?? BWAHAHAHAHA!
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx He is trampling out the vintage The U.S. Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.--PJ O'Rourke
Vote for God.
"HOLODOMOR" is Ukrainian word for "FAMINE-GENOCIDE"
His church of choice for 20, was quite color oriented in what, God, was and was not. God was only God for the oppressed, and so one must define oppressed, and so on and so on..
First, let's hear what he defines as God's work, and yes, let's decide if it is up to Government to act as such. Some take liberty with 'Gods Work', and enact law that undermines the Word. So before we all GO THERE... let's have a talk about definitions, and what Government is actually for. We are not a theocracy, but we are no doubt tools for one.
Whoah, Gays don't have rights? Since when? Support for Abortion and the pushing of the gay agenda is not Christian at all. The Bible says "thou shall not kill" and those that practice homosexuality are "worthy of death."
God is always good!
Huckabee is not too bright is he? Why praise someone for being a person of faith? Everyone that is alive has to have faith in something because we don't know it all.
God is always good!
"faith outreach"? Is his campaign being run by my employer's HR department? There's a familiar vacuity to all this.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
After seven years of rockin' ... I stand with God whether I'm paid or whether I'm cryin' broke If you will go along with me we'll travel with the tide Corrected: Vote for God./s
"HOLODOMOR" is Ukrainian word for "FAMINE-GENOCIDE"
No but he's quite the "preacher".
"HOLODOMOR" is Ukrainian word for "FAMINE-GENOCIDE"
Fake spiritualism.
"HOLODOMOR" is Ukrainian word for "FAMINE-GENOCIDE"
OH. Got it.
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#2. To: FOH (#0)
“My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want,” Obama is quoted on the flier. “But I won’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work.”
Where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning
Of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
#3. To: FOH (#0)
#4. To: IndieTX (#1)
A marxist/leninist quoted about doing god's will?? BWAHAHAHAHA!
#5. To: angle (#3)
Vote for God.
#6. To: FOH (#0)
He noted that Obama is not going after the old-guard evangelicals, but younger, more moderate evangelicals that will not automatically reject him because of his support for abortion and gay rights.
#7. To: FOH (#0)
Nevertheless, he praised Obama as a “person of faith.”
#8. To: FOH (#0)
Past faith outreaches by the Obama campaign include a Gospel concert tour in South Carolina, meeting with evangelical Hispanic leaders, and participating in faith forums.
#9. To: FOH (#0)
How do you rate me?
Poorly or greatly?
Everybody seems to be goin' for their's lately
Yo mad heads be needin' money
So listen very close as I conduct this little study
See it's, funny to me, you can watch TV
And give up your life trying to be all you can be
In the Army
Not knowin' your history
You either fight and die or come back home in misery
Yo get with me, I deal with reality
Loosen your mind to the truth, and don't get mad at me
No politican can give you peace
If you trust Jesus, why do you vote for a beast?
Emancipation is long over due
So overcome procrastination
Because freedom is within you
For some reason we think we're free
So we'll never be
Because we haven't recognized slavery
You're still a slave, look at how you behave
Debatin' on where and when and how and what Massa gave
You wanna know how we screwed up from the beginning?
We accepted our oppressor's religion
I like to ask these politicans would Jesus vote?
The way we view God is a freakin' shame
Church is to blame
We trust God, but bomb Hussein
We simply lovin' the scripture
Same scripture that whipped 'cha
Sooner it'll hit 'cha
Religion's gettin' richer
With that European version of Christ made into a picture
Our society's gettin' sicker, and sicker, and sicker...
Like liquor, we are God-Intoxicated
Not to the true God, but the one the government created
The same governments tellin' people to vote
I pray to God because the people have lost hope
You either vote for the mumps or the measels
Whether you vote for the lesser of two evils, you vote for evil
Politics and God are not equal
But the education if you don't guard, is really lethal
And I will always keep you on the sheltered side
#10. To: Peppa (#5)
Vote for God.
#11. To: RickyJ (#7)
Huckabee is not too bright is he?
#12. To: Dakmar (#8)
There's a familiar vacuity to all this.
#13. To: angle (#10)
Corrected: Vote for God./s
#14. To: Peppa (#13)
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