2008 is approaching and things aren't looking better for Republicans. The man that many had hoped would be the next Reagan, - not based on performance, vision, or ideology but on the fact that he is also an actor - Fred Thompson has been unveiled as an abortion-rights lobbyist.
It isn't so much the amount of time that he spent - apparently only 20 hours - it is the simple fact that he did it and the demoralizing impact that is having on the conservative Republicans who thought he might be the one to save the current Republican implosion.
Fred, it seems, is little different than the current top-tier candidates. He is a flipper - pro-choice, pro-life, stay tuned. He has a faulty memory - he never remembers working for this client he billed. He is a man devoid of compelling vision.
This is not a good description for the man hoped to be a Republican savior.
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Johann Hari; you read an article like that and you realize that truly the Sodomites and the people of Noah's day really did exist.
He has shown us them in him.
His perceptive blindness is matched only by his libbed out ego. At least he'll not have to endure his children forced to learn Arabic to "make it" in the future Europistan.
It is difficult to be a successful politician, and even harder to be a Christian one. However, even before becoming a politician, we are called to be Christians. Everything else follows from that commitment. I personally am ashamed of some of the hypocricy and double talk among "Christian" politicians.
I am reminded by James, "My brothers and sisters, don't take an oath when you make a promise. Don't call on heaven or earth or anything else to back up what you say. Let your "Yes" be yes. And let your "No" be no. If you don't, you will be judged,"
"Please, stop speaking ill of fellow Christians."
Mr. Kuo reported FACTS. This is NOT "disdain". Stop your own slander, TP.
Paul of Potomac,
"Let your "Yes" be yes. And let your "No" be no."
I have a problem with that. You set this up in the guise of hypocrisy and double talk. This elimiinates any possibility for growth, for learning, for understanding.
I saw a sign on a rural Church this past weekend saying, "A wise heart is open to change; the foolish never."
Or, as Maya Angelou said, "We do the best with what we know - and WHEN WE KNOW MORE, we'll do better."
Or, as Shakespeare put it, "Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge the wings wherewith we fly to heaven."
"If you don't, you will be judged"
Um, I think we're ALL going to be judged, even if our "No" becomes a "Yes" upon further learning, growth and understanding. Therein lies the value of grace.
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