Comments on: Obama ‘08

By: firsttube.com » YES WE CAN

firsttube.com » YES WE CAN — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:29:18 +0000

[...] above that. I was called to duty to put that aside and focus on uniting. I was reminded of how I was moved in Feburary of this year. And then I had a very literal moment of pause as I was suddenly overcome by what we witnessed [...]

By: adlibn

adlibn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:08:50 +0000

For a person who spent 20 years in a “Christian” church Obama is surprisingly ignorant about the tenants of his religion. Just to take the simplest and most basic example, the new Testament (that’s the basic document of Christianity) rejects many of the Old Testament laws specifically, such as dietary restrictions, and many others in general. There is still slavery in the world today, but the U.S. is the only country that fought a civil war to end the practice. No thanks to the Democratic party which was the institution most responsible for the continuation of slavery in this country. And that legacy continues today. Left wing “progressives” have destroyed the black family in America with a welfare system that encourages fatherless families and excuses inner-city crime that leads to empty cities with no hope for jobs. Barack Obama is an empty suit who is being propped up by white progressives who want to further disenfranchise minorities. The only thing they care about is power. As long as you vote for them they will pay lip service to you. But ask yourself, what has the Democratic party actually done for blacks and other minorities in America? While they tell you they are fighting for you, they are actually holding you down. A barack Obama presidency will actually turn out to be a disaster for Black Americans.

By: Lil Faerie

Lil Faerie — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:58:49 +0000

The shortsighted and biased dualism in American politics is preventing the American people from seeing the political reality objectively. People are often very biased and just blame the bad people on the other side of the fence for all the evil in the world.

Politics would be easy if it was all about we, the good guys against them the bad guys. But it isn't like that in the world.

The area where you can see that dualism in American politics perhaps most clearly is the way Christianity is represented in politics. By some clever scheme an extreme right wing minority has managed to make Christian values in politics almost as their monopoly in the USA.

It is sad to see tahat a big portions of American Christians seem stupid enough that they have bought that propaganda. They think that they are supporting Christian values and politics - when, in fact, many values of the extreme right wing "christians" are often much closer to 1930's fascism in Europe than to the Biblical Christianity. Many American left wing liberals who often have no idea about the contents of the Bible anymore seem also stupid enough to buy that propaganda too.

Although many even conservative Christian leaders oppose the values of the extreme right wingers - the Christian mass media controlled by money greedy super evangelists seems usually to be strongly behind the extreme right wing view of Christianity. The result is a strongly twisted view of Christian values in the USA - on both sides of the liberal vs. conservative battlefield.

It may have started during the cold war, when - again - there were supposedly only two sides in the apocalyptical battle between good and bad: the so-called Christian and free west with the USA as its leader, and the bad boys behind the suppressive Communist iron curtain. During those times it may have made a little sense as the west was surely a more democratic place than the gulag world in the east. But now that battle is practically over, and the extreme right wingers have had to find new enemies in order for them to keep their influence in politics. Sometimes the bad boys are nowadays the Arabs, but often the enemy can be found much closer, in liberal circles in the west.

However, does anybody in the USA remember that also, for example, Martin Luther King was a devout Christian? In other parts of the world there is a strong heritage of Christian values that do not represent only extreme right wing ideals (according to some studies, a typical Christian in the USA, does not differ from his fellowmen in many other ways except that he appears to be a bit more racist than the others).

At least I would have nothing against seeing a Christian leader like Martin Luther King becoming the US president. I do support that kind of Christian values, but I do not support extreme right wingers.