I can’t believe the new “Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8” T-shirt. While the shirt seems positive, that part of the Bible is basically hate-speak when applied to a president.
Psalm 109:8-13 (King James Version)
8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Some people just like being ugly and don’t understand or respect the electoral process: a few people run for office, someone wins with a majority of the vote and that person governs with ideas he stated during the race. There are vocal voters who feel that their congressmen and senators are not doing what they want. Look here genius, the election results drive the policy and an elected official who would go against 60 or 70% of the voters is wrong. In my opinion, serving in that manner would be un-American.
Of course, the majority can be wrong at times and we are thinking about those times with the current discussion of slavery that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid injected into the healthcare debate. During the civil rights movement, the Kennedy brothers were cautious with federal involvement because they did not want to offend southerners. Really? They did not want to offend people who were ignoring federal law. To conveniently ignore federal law and the U.S. Constitution epitomizes un-American activities.
Protesters to Obama policies say this is not the best course for our nation and sometimes I agree but consider the will of the people. For example, we know that diet, rest and exercise improve our bodies but most of us don’t do that. If the people elect leaders to do certain things (tax, spend, occupy nations), you must first take that up with the voters—not the officeholders.
I am sick and tired of conservatives saying that Blue Dog Democrats don’t represent the will of the people. Did those congressmen win their last elections by sizable margins? They must be doing what the people want and if you have a problem with that, take it up with the people. The protesters then say that an elected official would change his or her vote if the political winds changed. Hello, that’s called representative democracy. I am from the school of thought that believes that elected officials are public servants. Servants gauge the will of the people and act accordingly. If you live in a congressional district that is 70% liberal or 70% conservative, the actions are clear. If the district is equally split, the public servant often takes a compromise position that reflects the diversity of the area—not popular with anyone but fair. Who can understand that?
I never bad-mouthed George W. Bush because the people had spoken and he executed policy based on their sentiment. If Democrats had problems with those policies, they should have gotten more people into the polls…and they did. President Obama is a decent person who will govern based on the will of the people who elected him. I think he is fully prepared and might welcome being a one-termer who ran on reform and change, delivered and then bounced at the top of his game like Jim Brown. I hope that no one wants his children to be fatherless because hating like that will land you a spot in West Hell—and you will be surprised that you are there. Roasting. See what you have done: hating on your hating is going to land me there also. Roasting with no ice water.
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