swinging lhianne’s Neighborhood

Peggy has always been one of my favorite writers.  She cuts to the chase quickly.  Her ability to put aside her conservative leanings to address the issues objectively is the mark of a reasonable Republican.  I applaud her wisdom and talent. 

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined "brand," as they all say, speaking the language of marketing.

I am a moderate and a registered Independent in a world that is harshly divided between conservatives and liberals.  Even though I lean right sometimes, I try to be objective.  This is my take on Sen McCain's campaign.

The Republican Party is going to have a difficult time in the General Election.  The reasons are obvious.  The Iraq war, no immigration plan, and the poor economy can spell disaster for the Republicans. 

On Tuesday, a conservative Democrat won a special election in what had been a staunchly GOP district in Mississippi -- the third defeat for a Republican in a special congressional race this year -- prompting senior party officials to warn candidates that if they want to win this fall, they had better do everything possible to cut the chain from the political anchor that is President Bush.

I have not decided who I will vote for.  Sen. Obama is too closely tied to radical friends who are anti-American.  I cannot vote for anyone who supports Rev. Wright, Black Liberation Theology, the Black Panthers, and Louis Farrakhan. 

This shows real class. Of course, Joe Biden has always shot from the hip.  I guess he wants everyone to know what a classy guy he is.  Oh well, at least he did not say that we were being bamboozled.

Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bush’s speech in Israel today:

“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”

The governor tried to correct this budget mess with California propositions.  Government employee unions and the voters rejected his propositions to control the budget.  Now, we have a mess.  Our governor does not even take a salary, because he believes in the State of California.  He is a real action hero in my eyes.  He is trying to do the right thing, but the career politicians in Sacramento will not cooperate.

Governor Schwarzenegger used the term Girlie Men in reference to politicians who could not stand and do the right thing.  He caught some heat over this remark, but pressed on.  Our governor can be entertaining sometimes.  Now, it is time to get down to business on the budget.A few years back, the governor called reluctant politicians Girlie Men.

The term was first used by Schwarzenegger in the 1988 Presidential election, accompanied by then Vice President George H.W. Bush. He was shown attacking Bush's opponents, saying “They all look like a bunch of girlie men, right?" He repeated it in the 1992 election, then campaigning for President Bush, again applying it to the Democratic candidates, as seen in the documentary Feed (1992) by Kevin Rafferty and James Ridgeway. He used the phrase again on July 17, 2004, where he stated "[i]f they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ...' if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men."[2] He would use the term twice in the speech.

United Church of Christ needs to be saved from itself.  The latest controversy regarding Trinity United Church of Christ has raised some serious internal problems. 

I am a member of United Church of Christ and have been for almost 20 years.  This being said, I plead ignorance to what was happening at Trinity.  Now, it is up to the faithful in the pews to stand up for what is just and call for the removal of Trinity from the United Church of Christ.

There should be no room in our denomination for Trinity's Black Liberation Theology and their relationship with Louis Farrakhan.  The following is part of our Statement of Faith.   We need to return to this model.

United Church of Christ Statement of Faith in the form of a doxology (In Part).

We believe in you, O God, Eternal Spirit, God of our Savior Jesus Christ and our God, and to your deeds we testify:

You call the worlds into being, create persons in your own image,and set before each one the ways of life and death.

Sen Obama has been at Trinity since 1991.  The theology at Trinity is different than most congregations in the United Church of Christ family.  This being said, Sen Obama has every right under our constitution to worship any place he wants.  Furthermore, I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state. 

On the other hand, Trinity has created a separatist type of spiritual and intellectual church organization.  Should Sen Obama be elected to represent all Americans, when he belongs to a separatist church that praises Louis Farrakhan?  I will report you decide.

In 1991, when Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, he pledged allegiance to something called the Black Value System, which is a code of non-Biblical ethics written by blacks, for blacks.