Dear Friends,
Commentaries. This week’s commentaries are on the subjects of appeasement as Obama defense policy and the celebration of Biden’s profane remark after the passage of the healthcare bill. They’ve put it on a Tee shirt and they’re selling them for $25. Not only has this President done terrible damage to our country, but he has denigrated the office of President of the United States. That honorable position has been held by the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and yes, more recently, Ronald Reagan. Now we have in that office a man who seems to hold neither our country or the office in very high esteem. It really pains me to say these things because our fellow citizens, some of whom we know, voted for Barack Obama out of sincere but misguided hope. They discounted the reports of his far left leanings and assumed they were overblown in the heat of a political campaign. In fact he is exactly who his background suggests he is, only perhaps worse. Nevertheless we are a resilient people, and we will come back from this. I trust that we will do so having learned a lesson we will never forget. Remember, that each commentary is only 1 minute long. Though brief, I trust they serve to encourage you in the fight.
MAY DAY PRAYER ON THE MALL. If there is any way possible for you to be there, join Janet Porter and other leaders and Christians from across the country for prayer at the Lincoln Memorial. Abraham Lincoln was a man of prayer, and our country has always been sustained by prayer, particularly in our darkest days. We will begin at dawn, approximately 6 AM and end at 2 PM. If ever there were a time for putting 2 Chron.7:14 into action, the time is now. I will be there praying and I am organizing a bus for those who want to go from the Hampton Roads area. For more information, check out Janet’s website, www.faith2action.org
Bart Stupak Quits. Good bye and good riddance. He is a traitor, a back stabber and a hypocrite along with the other Democrats who followed him off the cliff. We wish him well in his new endeavor as long as it is not in politics. Is there really any such thing as a pro-life Democrat? I remain to be convinced.
Fiscal Insanity. The wisdom of the American people in opposing the healthcare bill and continued unbridled spending is being vindicated. What is being done to our beloved country is tragic. Paul Volker, Ben Bernanke and the Congressional budget office are sounding alarms that our fiscal policy is unsustainable and that unless we fix the problem we will not have fiscal stability or economic growth. We are on the precipice of economic disaster. This is not coming from “right wing alarmists,” but top officials in the Obama regime. Of course one wishes they had sounded the alarm while we were at town hall meetings and sending faxes and emails to the Congress saying, “STOP! Do not pass this trillion dollar healthcare bill. Do not spend another dime on ‘stimulus.’” Not that Pres. Obama or his cohorts would have listened, but it might have persuaded enough votes to stop it. We knew we were right. Eighty-two percent (82%) of the American people believe that we are in a fiscal crisis. We thought the “stimulus” was supposed to get us out of this fiscal crisis. Instead it has dug the hole deeper. We are 13 trillion dollars in debt now. It is estimated that we will add another 10 trillion in the next ten years. I think that Obama wants all of this. He will eventually propose a value added tax. We’ll limp along with government consuming almost half of GDP, and he will have accomplished his mission to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” The question now is ,“how do we right the ship of state?” We vote the rascals out of office, and vote in people who will put the brakes on the insanity. It is time for a New American Revolution. It is time to take a STAND!
Playing the Race Card. Here we go again. The race card has now been played by Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Emmanuel Clever, Andre Carson, John Lewis, Steve Cohen; and by Senator Harry Reid. The have said that Tea Party activists are racists, Nazis and KKK without the hoods. They are using racial fear make black people believe that conservatives are their enemies. It is a damnable, palpable lie. The hypocrisy of the lie can be seen in the absolute silence from these paragons of civil rights sensitivity when Kenneth Gladney, a black man and Tea Party participant, was beaten by two SEIU (Union) thugs, called the “N” word and ridiculed for daring to attend a tea party event. We black Americans who dare to have an independent thought that contradicts the liberal orthodoxy are called sell outs, traitors and Uncle Toms. I’m not complaining. I take great pride in creating such enemies. But who are the real racists? The liberals who are constantly bringing up race!
We are creating a “HALL OF SHAME” for every Congressional Representative or Senator who plays the race card. I’ll tell you more about this next week.
Appeasement and Disarmament. Are you perplexed by Obama’s foreign policy? He apologizes to enemies and to the so called “Muslim World” – whatever that is. Yet he treats an ally like Israel as if they are enemies most evil. He goes to South America and takes pictures, shakes hands and accepts gifts from thugs and dictators. Yet he will not take a picture with Benjamin Netanyahu. He is selling our country to China. He treats Russia as if it on economic and military par with the United States, and they are not. This so called nuclear treaty requires us, not Russia, to dismantle and discontinue our nuclear advantage. He has even committed not to use nuclear weapons to respond to a biological or chemical weapons attack on our country. Why he is doing this? Why is he willing to risk our security and put our country in danger? Is it just political correctness run amuck? Let e explain what is going on.
For the first time in our history we have a child of the left as President. One of their fundamental ideas is that what is wrong in the world is the United States of America. In their warped view, which the President shares, our country is responsible for what is wrong in the world because our capitalist system has exploited other countries. We have taken advantage of our economic and military might by imposing our will on weaker nations. Therefore, we must shrink ourselves. We must be less powerful and less prosperous. (He said this during his campaign.) We must repent and ask the world’s forgiveness. We must disarm, and the world will then follow. Israel has also engaged in that exploitation so we must support the Palestinians. Terrorists are born of the poverty we have created around the world, therefore we must treat them with dignity and respect. After all, we created them. We must not call them “Islamic radicals” or “terrorists” or extremists because that makes a value judgment which fails to acknowledge our own complicity in shaping the circumstances out of which terrorism grows.
Do you remember when he was asked by a reporter whether he believed in “American exceptionalism”? His answer was that he believes it in the way someone from another country believes that their country is exceptional. In other words he does not believe that America has any unique or special purpose in the world. Any thought that we do is just our bias. Mr. Obama lacks the most rudimentary understanding of the providential nature of the most free and prosperous nation of all history. He lacks respect or awe or even affection for the greatness and the ideal that is America. Instead of shining city on a hill, he sees us as a giant burden sitting on the world’s back. Our success has been at their expense, not because of our industry and values. That is why he generally is so intent on subordinating our interests to the “international community.” So we will no longer develop nuclear weapons, a missile shield or a retaliatory response to chemical and biological attacks. And the world will be a better place… It is leftist madness.
STAND BLOG. It has taken a while, but the BLOG is active. Sorry for the slow responses and posting of your comments. You’ll see improvement immediately, but it will continue to get better over the next few weeks. You will now be able to go to the blog and listen to past audio commentaries, patriotic sermons and read articles I have written and other people’s postings as well.
Thanks again for all of your support. The fact that times are so tough makes me appreciate all the more the sacrifices of citizens who are willing to stay in the fight even when it is hard. God bless you and may God bless the United States of America.
For God & Country,
Bishop Jackson
