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By: Obama cliche alert « Bookworm Room

Obama cliche alert « Bookworm Room — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:08:31 +0000

[...] cliche alert As you know, I agree with Ann Coulter, who considers Obama a singularly uninspiring orator. She thinks he’s given a pass because [...]

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:01:00 +0000

Thanks for clarifying, Jack.

By: expreacherman

expreacherman — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:41:12 +0000

Zhombre,

Good question about Romney — Mormon, Catholic or Jew.

The question can best be answered by saying that it is important to know and understand how a person’s religion would affect the way he would govern our Republic.

Romney’s religion evidently did not affect his earlier political decisions to support abortion and some homosexual agendas.

The honest character of the candidate is of utmost importance to me.

The primary election is the time to separate the chaff from the wheat. Right now, I don’t see anyone that I could support. Time will tell.

However, if it came down to a general election and a narrower choice say, between Billary (”Methodist Protestant Christian”) and Romney (Mormon), I would not hesitate to cast my vote for Romney, even though his “value switching” does bother me.

I would never vote for a Liberal Jew nor a Liberal Catholic. Character matters and the label “Liberal” does not exude character in my book..

Conservative Catholics and Conservative Jews hold many values to which I subscribe… even many Biblical values which I find important.

ExP(Jack)

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:36:31 +0000

Preacherman, you’ve said on your blog you can’t support Romney because of his Mormon beliefs. Could you vote for a Jew or Catholic for office? How stringent are the religious tests you apply?

By: expreacherman

expreacherman — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:23:02 +0000

Book,

Interesting discussion..

Obama is not just an empty suit.. but a dangerous neophyte empty suit.

Marguerite correctly says that Obama is a “Christian” but I question with his credentials.

I look at him from a Conservative Christian point of view and wrote a post some time ago.. I have been pilloried by the left in the comments.. but it is worth your time to investigate — and read the comments.. Some of them are better than the post.. and more threatening.

http://expreacherman.wordpress.com/2006/06/29/barak-obama-dangerous-neophyte/

ExP(Jack)

By: Laer

Laer — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:44:26 +0000

I’m guilty of thinking better of the Obama campaign announcement than it deserved — 100% the result of low expectations. After Shrillary and Kerry and Dean, the mere fact that he didn’t raise his voice in a nasal whine, didn’t drone and didn’t grab opponents by the rhetorical throat and shake them until dead made him look pretty darn good.

No Lincoln or Churchill to be sure, but it’s been a long, long time since someone with that ability to use words has been on the scene — they are slipping into Shakespearean time realms.

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:48:34 +0000

And in fairness, it has to be kept in mind (came as a gigantic shock to most of the media) that in the wake of his death many of Reagan’s papers have been published and archived, and it seems as though he did a fair old amount of his own writing. A lot of his eloquence came squarely from him. Peggy Noonan polished, but the final edits were always him. (As, also in fairness, she always said - but few believed, until the notes and drafts became available.)

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:35:59 +0000

” …what glazes my eyes over as empty hot air, however, rings all the right bells and pushes all the right buttons for Democrat … ” The Stepford Democrats: like the inmates at the Hotel California, they are programmed to receive, starting when they wake up to NPR. As for Webb, he is an accomplished writer and novelist, thus he has a greater facility with language than his peers.

By: Zabrina

Zabrina — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:38:09 +0000

Webb of Virginia is an exception. As a Democrat, he’s a straight speaker, quite forthright about what he wants to say, and evidently writes his own speeches. I disagree violently with his opinions, but it is remarkable to find a Democrat actually articulating a point without hiding behind platitudes.

By: Zabrina

Zabrina — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:34:56 +0000

I always thought Reagan was a good speech writer and deliverer too. Personally, I am impressed that both he and George W. Bush as speakers actually deliver words that mean something, make a point, and flow in relatively clear, declarative sentences.

On the other hand, I usually hear just blah-blah platitudes and generalities whenever a Democrat gives a speech. Buzzwords: Soak the evil rich, give the little guy a fair deal, piece of the pie to all identity groups, a chicken in everyone’s pot, sweetness and light, etc. Clinton’s stemwinder State of the Unions were excruciating for being empty rhetoric and platitudes meaning big-government lollipops for all. My husband maintains that what glazes my eyes over as empty hot air, however, rings all the right bells and pushes all the right buttons for Democrats. Go figure.