Obama's Record

"Your actions speak so loud i can't hear a word you're saying."
Obama might have co-authored the Bill on Transparency but there are two things one may want to check out:
1. In the Senate deliberations, check the transcriptions on the Committee as well as the floor as to how he participated in it? Did he passionately pushed for it, was he actively pushing for it or was he merely there on a ride with a more senior Senator? Am not sure. There were over 10 other bills that he co-authored not initiated. Bandwagon effect.

2. During the primaries, Clinton, Obama and Edwards were all asked to submit documents about their activities in the Senate to put flesh into the "Transparency" issue. Clinton and Edwards obliged, Obama did not, giving as an excuse that there were many activities he was involved in to give details. Really? Hillary Clinton had submitted over 50,000 pages of documents. If one has nothing to hide and is efficient enough to document one's track records, this should not be any issue at all.

Also, this is Obama's 2nd term and for the past two years, all he did was campaign. Sometimes, ad administrator who runs the day-to-day affairs of a department or state is more effective than a demagogue or a Senator who is rich in rhetorics poor in actual experience.

This issue has been raised time and again in many surveys by independent pollsters about ordinary, working people across the nation. How do you respond to that?

Much more troubling is the fact that his wife declared in national TV when Obama was nominated that it was the one day that she was proud to be an American. Is this not racial prejudice?

Obama has not come clear nor convincingly honest about his Islamic ties. He could very well be the first Muslim president of the United States, in addition to being the first African-American president. As a matter of fact, he has raised more questions than answer some with his affiliations, including his book Audacity of Hope, which this author read.

As an American writer once said, "These are the times that try men's souls."

In his autobiography, ?Dreams From My Father,? Obama mentions studying the Quran. He was enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim. His teacher Tine Hahiyary said that she remembered that he had studied ?mengaji? (recitation of the Quran).? Classmate Rony Amiris described Obama as being a very devout Muslim, saying, ?Barry was previously quite religious in Islam.? Another classmate, Emirsyah Satar, now the CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was quoted as saying, ?He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a ?sarong.??
?Obama?s grandfather was a Muslim. Obama?s father was a Muslim. Obama?s stepfather was a Muslim. His African relatives are Muslims. What was he for the 27 years before his alleged conversion if he wasn?t a Muslim?
If Obama has always been a Christian, why was he enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim?

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What if?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Forget that little part? It's what lets you worship freely too.

The religion implies the core of values. And if Obama was influenced by the Islam how it will impact on America?

In other words, [SIZE="3"]"America are you ready for Barak Hussein Obama?"[/SIZE]

You could be correct. I'm just hoping that we are not too rushing "for a change" and forgetting about all other criteria that usually would be taken into consideration.

True, the Constitution guarantees religious freedom. It did not foresee: the 9/11 bombing of the Twin Towers by Islamic extremists, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and the many other Islamic places in the world that Americans, even without religious affiliation, are dying in and shedding their blood for.
Religious freedom has been used as a shield by humanists without conscience to exercise and flaunt their repugnance against faith while trampling on the rights of those who freely practice their faith.

"I may disagree with what you say, but i will defend to death your right to say it."- Voltaire
This is the same guy who said about 200 years ago, that in 200 years, Christianity would be wiped out in the face of the earth. Well, Christianity is not only alive, well and kicking, it is far robust than it ever was before.
Again, historicity.

Being offended is different from being blown to bits and pieces by people who believe piloting an airplane into buildings to kill "infidels" is martyrdom. And it is not a matter of having the government protect your feelings because even as early as the 1st century AD under the Roman caesars (Nero, Domitian, etc.), people of Christian faith were thrown alive into lions, etc...

burned at stake as torches in the Imperial gardens, fed into ravenous wolves as entertainment for the Roman elite, beheaded and crucified upside down in crosses all over the Roman Way. Check them out. These are documented facts, not rantings of a rabid religionist.

Oftentimes, in our loss of the historical and cultural context of our identity and where we are standing, we forget that the soil we are standing on had been irrigated by the blood of our ancestors and forebears. We are here and we stand speaking out our ideas today because many have laid down their lives and shed their precious blood for the freedom we so enjoy. Ancestors and forebears who crossed the Atlantic so they can exercise their freedom after, you guessed it, being persecuted for their faith in England.

No respect, man. We just diss our elders, bro.

And it is not a matter of "oversensitivity" either. Many African-Americans in our midst who have been for centuries maligned, mistreated and generally made to suffer life and indignity found solace in the hope of their Christian faith. Go to the Deep South and witness how strong the Negro spirituals and Gospel music are amongst the poor, destitute and disenfranchised "colored" of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.

You still see it today among professional athletes, beyond the veneer and facade of athleticism and pride and self-glory, there is the acknowledgment that there is one sovereign God who is not nowhere, but is NOW HERE.

It is not religious freedom,

"I may disagree with what you say, but i will defend to death your right to say it."- Voltaire
This is the same guy who said about 200 years ago, that in 200 years, Christianity would be wiped out in the face of the earth. Well, Christianity is not only alive, well and kicking, it is far robust than it ever was before.
Again, historicity.
Being offended is different from being blown to bits and pieces by people who believe piloting an airplane into buildings to kill "infidels" is martyrdom. And it is not a matter of having the government protect your feelings because even as early as the 1st century AD under the Roman caesars (Nero, Domitian, etc.), people of Christian faith were thrown alive into lions, burned at stake as torches in the Imperial gardens, fed into ravenous wolves as entertainment for the Roman elite, beheaded and crucified upside down in crosses all over the Roman Way. Check them out. These are documented facts, not rantings of a rabid religionist.
Oftentimes, in our loss of the historical and cultural context of our identity and where we are standing, we forget that the soil we are standing on had been irrigated by the blood of our ancestors and forebears. We are here and we stand speaking out our ideas today because many have laid down their lives and shed their precious blood for the freedom we so enjoy. Ancestors and forebears who crossed the Atlantic so they can exercise their freedom after, you guessed it, being persecuted for their faith in England.
No respect, man. We just diss our elders, bro.
Also, our own opinionated ravings are inexorably colored by our own insatiable desires, prejudices, idiosyncracies, preferences and what-have-you. We are children of our times and we grow up as adults of our culture.
And it is not a matter of "oversensitivity" either. Many African-Americans in our midst who have been for centuries maligned, mistreated and generally made to suffer life and indignity found solace in the hope of their Christian faith. Go to the Deep South and witness how strong the Negro spirituals and Gospel music are amongst the poor, destitute and disenfranchised "colored" of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.
You still see it today among professional athletes, beyond the veneer and facade of athleticism and pride and self-glory, there is the acknowledgment that there is one sovereign God who is not nowhere, but is NOW HERE.
It is not religious freedom, it is rather experential, efficacious, practical faith in the God who "so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life."
Christianity was not established by the taking of lives but by the giving of that One Precious Sacred Life, the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us.
TEDEUM LAUDAMUS!

If you believe that then why are you still voting for Hussein?

burned at stake as torches in the Imperial gardens, fed into ravenous wolves as entertainment for the Roman elite, beheaded and crucified upside down in crosses all over the Roman Way. Check them out. These are documented facts, not rantings of a rabid religionist.

Quote:

The hands of Christians are not without blood on them

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Forget that little part? It's what lets you worship freely too.