Just in from a good walk and getting to see a beautiful orange ball in the sky that I know will brown my lawn even more as this day goes forward, I was pondering our world. I counted last night the number of Presidents have been in the White House since I have been born and the magic number twelve. Interesting to know I know but hey, read on, please!
As I was thinking of the issues in the European Union, Japan's now almost two decade dwelling in their economic cave, politics in America, the Affordable Care controversy, the issues of war with Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, remember that?; I kept coming back to a common thread about this POTUS that stands in stark contrast to the other eleven presidents that I know housed the White House. Mind you I realize that I am older and understand things more clearly but here is my thread point ... I have never seen nor do I remember a standing POTUS that elicits such harsh, poisonous response and reaction almost regardless of the action or speech. As I read my global news each morning, even outside the US, our POTUS is the candy-filled donkey hanging from the tree with everybody and their stick hitting at him.
I know, I know, you think I am getting out the violins and candles to step forward boldly to write words of defense and wash him with great terms of warmth; NOT! I have watched this man as a Senator and wondered who he was. Articulate, dapper, warm smile, academically astute but; here comes the but. I have found myself thinking of this POTUS more as a beautiful, cunning, dangerous Cobra. The Cobra is mesmerizing and that is why it is so dangerously poisonous. Please know I do not relish in putting these thoughts to words but it is just amazing to daily watch, listen, read in trying to determine who this guy really is and I still have not figured it out, frankly.
I have changed jobs many times in my career and have thus left many jobs in my career. This President and His Men cannot seem to leave the previous POTUS alone in still pointing and blaming W for all the ills and wrongs of mankind. I was not a strong proponent of W either but at least he took the ball and ran with it. For me, with all the hoopla and criticism, this POTUS receives, justifiably I might add, it is the bent to blame the past when this president has been in that office for over three years, has added more Federal debt to the balance sheet and ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED and is the poster child for increased government in our lives, pushing what I have finally begun to believe is a socialist agenda on the American people. These are strong words and I do not loosely put them together but having studied, researched and watched and listened, the Cobra metaphor seems more and more correct.
So you can know, as an American, I WANT THIS PRESIDENT to be viewed as a success, to be respected domestically and internationally. But reality is, he is not and thus neither are We the People. Our military does not carry the fear factor of respect it held for all eleven of the other presidents thus the worms and scorpions that lurk always continue to crawl out from under their blood soaked rocks not fearing the US Beat Cop anymore.
But worst of all for me, a man that believes in Christ and His teachings and believes every single word of the Bible, I see the very framing of the Bible and the U.S. Constitution being challenged and changed under this Administration. The Roberts-led decision by the SCOTUS brought the matter of the ills of this nation into focus when he was open that the changes to be made rests not with the Court decision but with the electorate translated as you and me. He is absolutely correct.
We live in a republic meaning we elect people to represent us at the governmental level and we have done a very poor job it would seem. We live in what was a Christian nation but that nation now seeks to established equality on a grand scale on societal matters and lifestyles that are simply wrong and an abomination to our Creator. We are a nation that has turned our backs on a God that loves us and we have myriad examples in the Old Testament of the Jewish people doing the same thing and God's Wrath was exacted. How are we, as a nation, any different than the Children of Israel grumbling around about food and water and leadership. I have often thought that if I were Moses what I would have done; please, don't ask! We have turned our backs on the very foundations that created this nation. Read the writings of the Framers and you will find each of them making strong the fact that we are a Christian nation and a nation founded on principles espoused in the Holy Scriptures. We are no longer than nation I have realized more under this POTUS than any other.
Am I pro or anti Obama? No for those Scriptures command that I respect and pray for my leaders and I do as hard as it is at times. Am I pro or anti being a Christian which, for me, over rides the politics of this morass we now reside? I am pro God and His teachings and I see a People and a Nation forsaking the principles upon which this nation was created. And thus we pay the price so at the aggregate, the finger pointing begins and ends in front of our mirror.
adn not be steered by Grover Norquist-types or money by PACS and SUPERPACS, that our values as a People will take a step back and look at where we are from where we have come. We have taken God out of our schools. We have chosen equality over what is right in the eyes of God for political rightness; that is sickening to me. We have removed the Bible as the true and only Word of God and is unchanging in the headwinds of political correctness. There will be some that might read this rationalizing that I am just old and losing my mind but fact it, I know what the Scriptures say and to see chipping away of the concrete foundations of those Scriptures by decree, law and interpretation is simply wrong. And one thing about wrong; it is ALWAYS WRONG!
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