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--- Personally I'm not sure it's his 'real' religion. Environmentalism is simply the latest face put on the same wealth-destroying, humanity-degrading philosophy of the hard Left, which thinks we should all live (and be ruled) like army ants. "Liberation theology" is another front for it, which exploits race and class envy at the same time and uses religion overtly to proselytize, and frankly I'd be more worried about _that_ from Obama & Co. than environmental Puritanism. But they're both pretty bad and deeply ingrained in who he is. (Theologically speaking, both are one and the same gospel of the god of this world, but I'll spare the dissertation on this point for the moment.) He does seem to hang out with an awfully angry, radical crowd, and strikes me as somehow inwardly empty, despite his outwardly pleasant persona and stirring oratorical skills. 2 of his 3 "spiritual mentors" are people he has had to publicly disassociate himself with, after their poisonous rantings and ravings embarrassed him repeatedly on the trail. They are by no means a new phenomenon--how he gets away with the argument they are somehow new and shocking and anathema to him, I have no idea! The other mentor (Meeks) is in Congress, and all of them are curiously chummy with 'Minister' Farrakhan. This should really bother more people than, apparently, it does. Michelle strikes me as more outwardly honest--hence the venom that occasionally escapes from her lips toward this country. There is no question Obama agrees with their hate-filled worldview, his protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, and has bought into its proscriptive solutions hook, line and sinker. Watch his facial expressions carefully next time he gets the crowd whooped up. Deep inside he's as angry and self-certain as any representative of the hard left I've ever seen grace an auditorium of adoring hand-clappers and goose-steppers. Ordinarily, when they're on the fringe, you just laugh them off and then feel bad and pray for such people--but in his case, he's only one plebiscite away from having a kind of power no aspiring Leftist has ever before gotten by legitimate means. I include Clinton I and II in that because both of them are mostly opportunists and pure narcissists, not true radicals--though they make Leland's Machiavelli look like a piker when they're on their game--and I think most of their "moral outrage" as liberals is the manufactured kind so typical of children of fortune who get their brains washed at a post-1960 American university. By contrast I think he's the Real Deal--an angry Hugo Chavez, only with a fully functioning medulla oblongata--and I hope somehow America can be spared this cup. But I don't think it will be. I no longer can defend Bush or the current crop of Republicans, they so thoroughly botched the last chance they had to bring fiscal sanity to our nation, and make the case for liberty at home and abroad. I hardly relish the thought of a McCain presidency, which will doubtless find new ways to botch it than even those perfected by Bush's "compassionate conservative" non-sense. But think again before you pull the lever for Mr. Obama, and know what you're asking for. You just might get it. Personally I'd rather have a cranky old Republican who frequently cross-dresses as a Democrat in the Oval Office than a young, idealistic zealot who knows all too well how he wants to use the force of government to fundamentally "change" us stupid, evil Americans, who seem to be lapping it up eagerly thinking this will be good for us. But that's just me--I choose actual life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness over grand schemes of top-down administered "social justice" that wherever they have been tried in the world have caused certain destructive loss of the same. Tough times are surely ahead, and quite possibly the end of freedom as we've known it since the founding of our nation (especially if the Dems get a filibuster proof Senate--which Bush never had), at least for awhile. You don't know what you have till you lose it, as the saying goes. But by then it's often too late to appreciate it. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
