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Tonight, as I put Jack and Jane to bed, we prayed for President-Elect Obama.
From Justin Taylor, some good reminders for us all:
"It would be an understatement to call this a watershed cultural moment in our country's history.
No matter who you voted for--or whether you voted at all--it's important to remember that, as President, Barack Obama will have God-given authority to govern us, and that we should view him as a servant of God (Rom. 13:1, 4) to whom we should be subject (Rom. 13:1, 5; 1 Pet. 2:13-14).
...is apparently Rick Rubin.
Bro. Maynard is a funny guy... :)
(And don't worry- I didn't really forget. I sent my ballot in a few days ago!)
Oh my... A Facebook "friend" posted the article below ("A GOD-CENTERED APPROACH TO VOTING"). I don't have the time or energy to deconstruct it- though it's ripe for bit... make that a lot... of pushback.
I couldn't resist responding to someone in the comments claiming "If only the Post Modern soul-patch pastors would open up their political theory to authors that don't bow to the shrine of Marx."
I'm no fan of Marx, but honestly... the whole Obama as "socialist" stuff is about as dumb as saying McCain is running for Bush's 3rd term.
I responded: "Amen! McCain's recent slogan/commercial "Keep What's Yours" is absolutely the Gospel-oriented approach! Oh wait- what do I know? I have a soul patch."
And now I regret that- From the following comments, I don't think they knew I was kidding.
And then someone added "Keep praying!! God is merciful and perhaps there will be enough of us righteous that He will spare our Sodom for this term. In any case, He will preserve the righteous."
Yeah. That's it. What a colossal misunderstanding of the Gospel.
How does someone who actually listens to the Gospel end up comparing themselves to anyone else and claiming righteousness???
The article and comment thread below
"A GOD-CENTERED APPROACH TO VOTING"
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A GOD-CENTERED APPROACH TO VOTING | © Lynn Barton - October, 2008
Soon our nation will be electing a president. How should a Christian vote? What if we don't understand all the complicated issues that face us? Is everything so confusing or discouraging that you are tempted to sit this one out? Take heart. Examining the views expressed by each candidate in light of scripture will make the choice clear. You don't need to understand the details of every issue.
Why bother, you might ask? What difference does it make how or even if I vote? For one thing, voting is a way we can obey Christ's commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves. Through God's Word and the gift of the Holy Spirit, Christians have a unique capacity (if they use it), to understand the truth about all of reality, including politics. If we neglect to bring that truth to bear in our culture through wise voting, how will we explain ourselves to God? Or to our children, who will reap the consequences? We should do right regardless of outcome, but I am convinced there are enough true followers of Christ that we could indeed choose the next president, if enough of us would simply vote, and vote wisely.
With the current financial turmoil, economics is what is on everyone's mind, so economics is what I will focus on. I promise you, God's will in this arena is not difficult to understand. The economic visions of the presidential candidates (and their parties) differ dramatically. One candidate is traditionally American, while the other wants to "change" America into a socialist state which will "spread the wealth around" to benefit the poor and the "little guy." We know from scripture that God cares deeply for the poor. We can discover whether God also approves of socialism by examining how it lines up with the Ten Commandments.
First, a definition: socialism is system in which the government taxes the "rich," then redistributes the money to the "poor" so as to make things more "fair." For the good of the people, the government heavily regulates and taxes businesses, sometimes taking them over outright (nationalization).
SOCIALISM BREAKS GOD'S LAW
At first glance socialism, with its concern for the poor, seems like something God would approve. "Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered." (Pr. 21:13) But the truth is that socialism opposes God's will as revealed in the Ten Commandments. It is not just misguided, it is immoral. It will easiest to see this if we start with the tenth commandment.
The tenth commandment says, "Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's ox" and so on. Socialism is based on the notion that everyone should have about the same amount of wealth. But apparently God doesn't think so. If everyone was the same materially, what would there be to covet? Through this commandment God says, in effect, some people will have more than you, but you must not envy them. Instead, you must trust Me to provide for you (first commandment). When politicians say it's not fair that some people have more money than others, they are appealing to covetousness. Phrases like "fairness," "no tax cuts for the rich," "corporate greed," or "spreading the wealth around," all reflect socialist thinking.
Stirring up covetousness leads to violation of the eighth commandment: "Thou shalt not steal." Just as when some thug burglarizes your house because he covets your property, politicians stir up covetousness in the people so that they will support laws that tax the incomes of the "rich" more than the "little guy." This is called progressive taxation, and few people (except the minority who are forced by the majority to pay the most) think it is wrong. Most people think it's only fair the rich should pay more. After all, they can afford it.
Ok now, this requires careful thinking; an emotional response will bring you to the wrong answer biblically. What moral right do we have to our neighbor's income which he has earned by his own efforts? Do you think it's too extreme to call this stealing? Then try this experiment. Find someone wealthier than you. Knock on his door, and when he opens it, ask him to write you a check to cover your most pressing financial need. Tell him it's only fair; he can afford it and you can't. If you don't want to do that, then you should not be supporting your government doing it either.
Socialism is getting the government to do for us what we haven't the guts to do ourselves: make our wealthy neighbor give us some of his money. Voting for socialist principles comes with a nice twist too: we can tell ourselves we are virtuous because we care for the poor (mostly with other people's money). If our neighbor protests, we can shame him. Why, he is unloving and selfish. He wants grandma to eat dog food. He wants children to go hungry, without education or health care, just so he and his rich buddies can get even richer. Neat trick, huh? But it's not virtuous at all. It's legalized theft.
What about free market capitalism then? Surely God would be against a system which allows the greedy to prosper while the poor suffer. Wouldn't He?
GOD IS A GOD OF LIBERTY
Capitalism is simply economic freedom. Individuals are free to own property, to start businesses, to buy and sell according to what seems best to them. To work hard and prosper, or not.
Does God think wealth or profits are evil? Not at all. The book of Proverbs is full of advice about how to become wealthy. Not once does scripture approve or even suggest that government take wealth from those who earned it and give it to those who didn't. Cheating ("dishonest scales") is condemned, but seeking wealth through hard work and honorable trade God approves. The Protestant work ethic which led to such prosperity for America, came directly from the pages of scripture.
Capitalism is not evil. It is a blessing. Those who oppose capitalism really oppose freedom. Free enterprise means businesses provide a product or service to those who pay for it. In return, they receive something they want. A fair price is determined by supply and demand. Yes, there will be imbalances, corruption, greed. It works best when the people are virtuous, but the system itself tends to encourage virtue by rewarding it. Socialism, on the other hand, actually discourages virtue, not only by undermining the work ethic through heavy taxes on those who work and payments to those who don't, but by giving great power to bureaucrats who use it to enrich themselves. In case you hadn't noticed, government always pays itself first.
Injustices will occur with capitalism because human beings are sinful. Socialism will create worse injustices because it is inherently immoral. One might say about capitalism what Winston Churchill said about democracy: it is the worst possible system, except for all the other ones.
WHAT'S A GOVERNMENT TO DO?
So what is the proper role of government according to the Bible? Primarily to restrain and punish evil. After the Flood, God established the first government institution: capital punishment for murder. Paul kept to this theme when he wrote that a ruler is "God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain...(he is) an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer."(Rom. 13:4) Government is not to provide for people's economic needs, but to protect them from evildoers so that they can provide for themselves. Even in times of emergency, as when Joseph stored up grain in Egypt in preparation for the great famine, he didn't give it away; he sold it.
GOD'S ANSWER TO POVERTY
Ok, then what about the poor? First, they must work. "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat." (2 Thess. 3:10) For those who physically cannot work, or who cannot earn enough to meet their basic needs, God calls individuals and the church to help. Jesus said that in the judgment he would commend some because "I was hungry and you gave me something to eat," (Matt. 25:35) Notice he did not say "I was hungry and you voted to make rich people give me something to eat." He said, YOU do it. We may choose to do this through a Christian ministry such as the Salvation Army, which is experienced in helping the poor not only with material but spiritual needs. Especially in America, where some sort of work is always available and many poor households have cell phones and color tv's, at the root of most material poverty is spiritual poverty.
Government programs can never really help the poor because governments cannot love. Only people can love, and the love of Christ is the love they most need. Government is force; it "bears the sword." Because it is comprised of sinful people like us, it is dangerous. That's why our founders set up a limited government with enumerated powers. That meant if the government was not specifically authorized to do something, it could not intrude into that area. Foolishly, we tossed that idea out decades ago, and now there is scarcely an area of life left unregulated by the government, right down to the kind of toilet we can buy.
MAKING GOVERNMENT GOD
Increasing numbers of people, including Christians, now depend upon government, not God. Forget equality of opportunity, we want equality of outcome. Like children we cry, "It's not fair! Make them share!" What is most evil of all about socialism is that it exchanges the true God for a false idol of government, and God is extremely offended by idol worship.
This is serious. The first commandment is the reason true Christians ought vigorously to oppose socialism in any form, even when it hurts their own pocketbooks. Moreover, government as God is a jealous god, and will tolerate no other god to have authority over it. Under full socialism, we will lose not only our economic liberty but our religious liberty. We will either be a nation under God or under tyrants. To know this is true, we need only look at the socialist nations of the world. I think we don't want to face the truth because then we will become responsible to do something about it.
Our God is a liberator. He demonstrated it when he brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Later he did something even more amazing when Christ died for us, to set us free from our sins. With credit to Paul in his letter to the Galatians, I say with a broken heart: you foolish Christians, who has bewitched you? "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." (Gal 5:1)
Israel made that very mistake. They asked for a king because they wanted to be like the other nations. They didn't want to trust in God alone. God told them they would be taxed and enslaved. But they persisted, so God gave them what they asked for. And of course just what God predicted happened.
Now a frighteningly large percentage of Americans seem to want to be like the other nations too, especially socialist Europe. Depending on the poll, from one half to two thirds of Americans already think "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is in the Constitution. (It's not, it's from the Communist Manifesto.)
The public has become so accepting of these ideas that outright socialists no longer hide their true agenda as they once had to do, lest they face harsh criticism for such un-American ideas. Last summer when oil prices were skyrocketing, one congresswoman threatened outright government takeover of oil companies to stop their "excessive" profits. Another presidential candidate similarly said during her run for president, "I want to take those profits..." And there was little, if any, resistance.
For decades America has been drifting toward socialism through ever-expanding entitlement programs. That move is now dramatically accelerating through the financial bailouts engineered to try to stop our economy from total collapse. More alarming is the push for unified world socialism, as we are told we must "coordinate" efforts to stave off economic doom.
We are reaping the inevitable consequences of debt, both personal and government. The federal debt alone now amounts to $455,000 for every American household. That's a subject for a different article, but the ultimate cause of this debt has been our growing acceptance of socialist thinking, which sees the government as the source and provider of all good. Politicians have fanned this flame because it enriches and empowers them. But we the people are ultimately at fault for allowing this spending to occur, thinking the "rich" would pay and we "little people" would get the benefits.
Socialism is so deceptive that even the Pilgrims fell for it at first. In the early years of the colony, everything was held in common, and people drew from the common store to meet their needs. Soon, many were loafing, knowing they would get an equal share no matter what. This led to the "starving time," the year harvests were so poor that in winter half the people died of hunger. The next spring, William Bradford assigned the colonists their own plots of land and the right to keep what they grew. They never went hungry again.
THE DECISION IS EASY
This November, one presidential candidate promises to use the government to provide "universal health care" for all of us, to "spread the wealth around" and make things more "fair." He appeals to our covetousness, our envy, our lack of trust in God. The other candidate is someone with whom you may disagree on a number of issues. He may not have a completely biblical world view, but his instincts are correct. He is a traditionalist American who understands the proper role of government, who promises to fight to make it smaller and has a long record of doing so. As a bonus, his running mate is a born again believer who does embrace a fully biblical world view. Yet many Christians plan to vote against him, or not vote at all. How can this be?
If that weren't enough, the socialist candidate favors the most extreme aspects of the greatest moral evil of our time, the ongoing slaughter of unborn babies. He voted four times in his state against a bill that would have provided medical care to babies who somehow survived an abortion. A nurse had discovered these late term babies were being left to die in a utility closet in a Chicago hospital. This candidate insisted that if their mothers wanted them dead, then dead they must be. Later, as a United States Senator, he also voted against the partial birth abortion ban, the law which outlawed the killing of late term babies by puncturing their heads with a scissors and sucking their brains out.
Aw, do we to have to go back to these divisive moral issues? Some Christian leaders and younger evangelicals are saying we need to drop them. They say that opposing abortion and homosexuality has done nothing but make unbelievers hate us more. I suggest these issues are as divisive as the Ten Commandments. Whether it comes to supporting abortion (thou shalt not kill), approving homosexuality (thou shalt not commit adultery), or socialism (thou shalt not steal or covet), one candidate takes an unbiblical view of every issue. The other candidate takes the biblical view. Which one do you think God wants his people to support?
CHRISTIANS ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD
As Americans, we have received from God the gift of freedom and the vote. It is shocking that so many Christians don't vote or worse, plan to vote for the candidate who opposes God on every front. How will we explain to the Lord that we neglected his gift, or used it selfishly by voting for ourselves benefits from other people's money? Christians have a special responsibility in every election, but in this one, with the nation literally teetering over a socialist cliff, our obligation has never been greater.
Just yesterday I spoke with a believer who told me she didn't plan to vote this year. I told her, "You have to vote. It's wrong not to." She told me she didn't like the traditionalist candidate, he's too old. I told her bigger issues are at stake and no candidate is perfect. She told me "Don't go there with me." I went there.
This past summer, a man came to the Right to Life booth at the county fair when I was doing my shift. He signed the pro-life petition, then told me he planned to vote for the pro-death candidate. When I expressed dismay at this, he said he didn't care, he was going to do it. I went there with him too.
A kind of insanity and outright refusal to believe the truth is gripping the land. Christians, be sober minded and do what is right Too many excuse themselves by saying politics is unspiritual, or the end is near anyway, or the other candidate doesn't live up to their standard. But your Savior, whom you say you worship, calls you to love your neighbor as yourself. If you saw a blind man heading toward a physical cliff, wouldn't you act to stop him? Well, your neighbor is spiritually blind, and you have a duty to try to stop him from going over a political cliff. Talk to your friends, send them this article, and steward your own vote with love and wisdom.
Politics is spiritual. It is the outworking in the public square of our dominant values as a people. The bible says that if it is in our power to do good and we don't do it, we sin. (Prov. 3:27) If you love the Lord and you love your neighbor, then vote.
Of course no election is going to fix the mess we've made of things. So let us also pray and seek God's forgiveness. I am not pointing the finger. I have been selfish, I have forgotten the poor, I have been greedy for material security. But I know our God loves to show mercy to the humble. If we will humble ourselves before the Lord and repent of own personal sins, the sins in our churches and the sins of the nation; and if we turn to the Lord with all of our hearts to serve him and not mammon, then he will hear from heaven and forgive us and cleanse of our iniquity. Perhaps he will even heal our land, so that our children may continue to enjoy the blessings of liberty that we have so foolishly failed to treasure and protect.
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Doug TenNapel (Los Angeles, CA) wrote
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Great stuff! Well said.
If only the Post Modern soul-patch pastors would open up their political theory to authors that don't bow to the shrine of Marx.
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Bob Hyatt wrote
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Amen! McCain's recent slogan/commercial "Keep What's Yours" is absolutely the Gospel-oriented approach!
Oh wait- what do I know? I have a soul patch.
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Patty Carlson (New Zealand) wrote
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Thanks Liza! Excellent article! :)
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Beverly Moore wrote
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Very well said! I appreciate you taking the time to write this all up as you have. I will be sending it to many of my friends. I wish I had had it 2 weeks ago. You definitely outlined it more succinctly than I did and with scripture to back it all up.
Keep praying!!
God is merciful and perhaps there will be enough of us righteous that He will spare our Sodom for this term. In any case, He will preserve the righteous.
God is doing some good things in my brain and heart and in our community. Some movement in my definition and understanding of "missional." Maybe the best way to sum it up is to say I realized today we've been asking the wrong question.
One of the foundational questions for evergreen was "If our church disappeared tomorrow, would anyone notice? Would anyone go unfed, unclothed, unloved and unhelped?" We wanted to take that seriously and be able to answer with an enthusiastic "yes!!" I wanted to pastor a community that did stuff.
Four years in though, I'm realizing that Evergreen could disappear tomorrow and most of the things we support would be fine- not because we aren't missional, but specifically because we are.
Lemme 'splain...
We're a metro church (no- not like metro-sexual... more like metropolis- a city-wide church). We are people from a ton of different neighborhoods in north Portland, South East, South West, North East and North West PDX... and our people, the more I look at them, the more I notice how connected they are- to their local public schools and community associations, to serving on boards and helping out with Loaves and Fishes, with the homeless downtown thru Blanket Coverage or they travel to Africa, Haiti and elsewhere to help and serve. Many know and love their neighbors in significant ways and find good and creative ways to converse their faith with people who don't know Jesus. Both here in Portland and elsewhere, a huge percentage of evergreeners are "on mission."
And while it's been frustrating to see some evergreen people attempt different justice initiatives and try to get our folks involved- I've realized that a less-than-hearty response isn't so much a lack of passion, it's a sign that many are already involved, already committed to good things- just not good things our community is necessarily going to be able to "take credit" for. And that's okay.
"Church" is not the bleeding edge of mission and kingdom. It's the result of it. Where God is at work, and the Kingdom is growing, church happens. People come to know Jesus and they form into those signs of the kingdom, worshiping communities.
Church is necessary- it's the supply lines, the place to fall back to and be refreshed, encouraged, trained and taught. That place to worship the God who sends us out. To pray with others... and then to go. But it's not synonymous with Kingdom and it's not all that God is doing in the world. In other words- God always works through His people- but often through His people scattered more than His people gathered.
The question isn't- "if our church were to disappear tomorrow"... because a church that is truly on-mission would leave behind a bunch of on-mission folks who carried mission forward without the institution of "evergreen" (and would no doubt re-coalesce into a number of different worshipping communities). The real question is- if our community had never existed, what would be different? Who would have gone unmotivated to give? To serve? To make that extra effort with neighbors and love co-workers? To help change a neighborhood, help a village in Haiti get clean water, adopt some kids, live in Africa, move to Bangladesh...
Yes- a truly missional community does stuff- it accomplishes meaningful things together. But maybe, even more, a missional community encourages, trains and supports people as they do stuff, helps connect those not doing (but wanting to) with those who are, and becomes a well of missional living not so much by what we do together under the logo of the gathered community, but how we pray, train, encourage and send... and then how we just get out of the way and let God's people do what they've always done- follow God out into the fields where He's at work.
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Here's a review from Creative Pro talking about an upcoming paper rating system that labels paper based on environmental options. They have another that describes environmental inks.
If you were to look through the many boxes of old books, clothes, knick-knacks I have stashed in various places around the house, you might notice an abnormal amount of unaddressed, unwritten-in Christmas cards. Some birthday cards and a smattering of Father's day cards as well.
It's been almost a year since we spoke. And probably 6 years before that. Not making the trip to my wedding was kind of a big deal to me. Ditto no acknowledgement of the birth of my son. Or my daughter. Or my other daughter. My birthday for the last decade or two... pretty much anything that someone else didn't drag him to.
Last year, deciding it was probably time he meet my family and vice versa, I called and told him I'd be down there for the National Pastor's Convention, Amy and the kids would be flying down after and we'd all like to see him. We arranged to meet him along with my aunt and uncle at a restaurant.
Only my aunt and uncle showed up. No dad. No call. No apology. Just said he wasn't feeling up to it.
I really thought that was the last straw. I'd already given up any vestige of hope for relationship- I wasn't fooling myself on that count. But I thought, for his sake, sitting alone in an apartment day after day after day, zero relationships- basically just running out the clock on life, maybe it would be nice to have some touch of real-life humanity. Maybe meeting his grandkids might do him some good, or at least, be something he'd enjoy.
After the no-show, I stopped even caring to do that much.
Until last week.
I've been ruminating on grace, on those things we get while not even coming close to deserving them. I've been thinking that the response of someone who's been shown grace should be to extend that grace to others- and that necessarily means to those who don't deserve it. And to be honest, I can't think of anyone in my life who deserves less than my dad.
So, I thought... the grace-full thing to do was send a card with pictures of the kids and tell him something about each of them and how we were doing. To offer him something of a real-life connection with a real family, even though everything he's done over the last four or more decades has fought that.
Thursday, I stopped by Walgreens on the way home. It only took me about 20 minutes to pick out a card, which, if you know anything about guys, you know... that's an eternity. I can buy a card in 30-40 seconds. But this was a bit harder. Anyway, card in hand, I headed home, and when Amy asked why I was buying Christmas cards before Halloween, I told her what I planned to do. 
This may be another card I never get to send. On my way to our elders meeting this morning I got a voicemail from my uncle saying my dad had a pretty big heart attack last night. He's hanging in there for now, though his kidneys are having trouble.
I have no idea how to feel about that... But, if there's a sense he's on his way out, I'll get on a plane and go down there. I guess I have some things to say and I should probably give him an opportunity to say a few things as well. I think if I really believe in grace, it should probably mean something in the hardest relationship I have, not just the easy ones.
Still waiting to hear the latest, so I think for now, I'll just go hug my kids.
A Canadian DJ called Sarah Palin and got through to her... He claimed to be French President Nicholas Sarkozy.
"We have a lot in common... From my 'ouse, I can see Belgium!"
Listen here
Really.
I'm not kidding.
Tom Metzger
Who: Director, White Aryan Resistance
Likes: White people, karaoke, environmentalists
Dislikes: Race-mixing, Jews, the federal government, capitalism
Career Highlights: Was Grand Dragon of Ku Klux Klan in the 70s; won the Democratic primary during his bid for Congress in 1980; appeared on the episode of Geraldo Rivera’s show in 1988 when Rivera’s nose was broken in a brawl.
"The corporations are running things now, so it’s not going to make much difference who's in there, but McCain would be much worse. He’s a warmonger. He’s a scary, scary person--more dangerous than Bush. Obama, according to his book, Dreams Of My Father, is a racist and I have no problem with black racists. I’ve got the quote right here: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s white race.' The problem with Obama is he’s being dishonest about his racial views. I’d respect him if he’d just come out and say, 'Yeah, I’m a black racist.' I don’t hate black people. I just think it’s in the best interest of the races to be separated as much as possible. See, I’m a leftist. I’m not a rightist. I hate the transnational corporations far more than any black person."
Who: Chairman, National Alliance Likes: Third Reich, the movie Rocky Dislikes: Integration, Jewish-controlled media Career Highlights: Turning white-power record label, Resistance Records, into a million-dollar-a-year business juggernaut; an 8-0 record as a professional boxer under the nickname, "The Aryan Barbarian." "Obama might be a better candidate for our cause because he’s racially conscious. One of our big things in the National Alliance is to raise the racial consciousness of our people. Young whites in universities, they’ve been stripped of any kind of racial identity. Obama may be a racist in a positive sense for his people--that will awaken a lot of the whites, knock some sense into them. They’ll see that non-white Americans are allowed to be proud of who they are, to be racially conscious, to talk about their people or their community without being attacked as being racist. Let’s face it, white people aren’t going to fight for their causes, for their kind with a white president. I don’t think McCain even acknowledges that a white race exists. He’s all about granting amnesty to illegal aliens. The fact he wants to keep us in wars in the Middle East for 100 years, that’s not a good thing. I give Obama credit, he seems to have stuck to his guns as far as pulling the troops out of Iraq. He’s a very intelligent man, an excellent speaker and has charisma. John McCain offers none of that. Perhaps the best thing for the white race is to have a black president. My only problem with Obama is perhaps he’s not black enough." Who: Chairman, American Nazi Party Likes: Hitler, white people Dislikes: Jews, immigrants, multinational corporations Career highlights: Being widely quoted bemoaning in the fact that so few Aryan-Americans had the cojones of the 9/11 hijackers: "If we were one-tenth as serious, we might start getting somewhere." "White people are faced with either a negro or a total nutter who happens to have a pale face. Personally I’d prefer the negro. National Socialists are not mindless haters. Here, I see a white man, who is almost dead, who declares he wants to fight endless wars around the globe to make the world safe for Judeo-capitalist exploitation, who supports the invasion of America by illegals--basically a continuation of the last eight years of Emperor Bush. Then, we have a black man, who loves his own kind, belongs to a Black-Nationalist religion, is married to a black women--when usually negroes who have 'made it' immediately land a white spouse as a kind of prize--that’s the kind of negro that I can respect. Any time that a prominent person embraces their racial heritage in a positive manner, it’s good for all racially minded folks. Besides, America cares nothing for the interests of the white American worker, while having a love affair with just about every non-white on planet Earth. It’d be poetic justice to have a non-white as titular chief over this decaying modern Sodom and Gomorrah."Erich Gliebe
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