tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post8279005440524458620..comments2023-11-03T06:35:48.003-05:00Comments on Shark and Shepherd: How did Obama do?Rick Esenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-36544010774583498782008-03-10T16:40:00.000-05:002008-03-10T16:40:00.000-05:00Rick: I am a fan of yours who would like to commen...Rick: <BR/><BR/>I am a fan of yours who would like to comment on this from you:<BR/><BR/>"For almost 45 years, people have made JFK into whatever they want him to be except the one thing that he undeniably was - a fierce cold warrior. They have been able to do this because, tragically, he was killed before he became whatever he would be as President."<BR/><BR/>As a lawyer, I hope you appreciate this observation: whether "tragically" or not (and I agree it was so), one is always killed or dies before they could become "whatever [they might] be as President" or housewife or husband or lawyer, etc.<BR/><BR/>The important thing to consider and accept, then, is the fact that in the case of JFK, he did not die before he had become what he was at the time of his death.<BR/><BR/>We are not here to "dream things that never were" in the life of a particular person, but to see things as they were and/or are.<BR/><BR/>Imagine, then, JFK claiming to be unashamedly Catholic (as he did) and also having his local priest publish a magazine that proclaimed Malcolm X and Adolph Hitler friends of Christians and Jews. And for JFK to also say that he gets all of his spiritual inspiration and wrote books whose titles came from that priests own lips and to bestow upon such men life achievement awards for "integrity" and blah, blah, blah...<BR/><BR/>Fine... pick whatever bedfellows you want in politics. Open your arms to people of other faiths, if you choose...<BR/><BR/>But to call yourself a Christian, to claim that Islam is equally "true" and to ignore the fact that it was Jesus Himself who said that "there is no way to the Father in heaven except through me" is to ignore AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: that Christianity and Islam are mutually exclusive faiths and both cannot be "true" or the true way to the true God or the true heaven.<BR/><BR/>I am not looking to elect a pastor or pope or start any sort of theocracy!<BR/><BR/>But I also want as the leader of my nation a man whose thought processes and intellectual reasoning abilities and ability to speak the truth about his own views are absolutely solid.<BR/><BR/>Suffice it to say, I could imagine electing a Muslim who was in all other ways excellent and qualified. But if he were to then say that Islam and Christianity were both legitimate ways to God and heaven, I would know that he does not even believe or subscribe to the tenets of his own self-proclaimed faith as a Muslim!<BR/><BR/>Such a claim reveals that the speaker is either extremely confused, unstable, a liar or fraud!<BR/><BR/>Haven't we had enough of such things in our world, let alone in our "leaders"?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02560839505809140701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-11815703770170435042008-01-28T22:51:00.000-06:002008-01-28T22:51:00.000-06:00The more the Clinton's attack him, and the more he...The more the Clinton's attack him, and the more he deflects the attacks the clearer he becomes defined as the candidate that can stay above the fray. It could be a winning strategy. With every attack he can just turn and say "I am different, I am what they are not".<BR/><BR/>I don't understand how anyone could take a hard look at the shenanigans the Clinton's have been up to in the past few weeks and say "Yes, that is my candidate, these are the kind of politics that are going to move my country forward".3rd Wayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05241089655906051240noreply@blogger.com