Rush Limbaugh-Barack Obama Debate Offered!

Today, Rush Limbaugh is offering Barack Obama the chance to debate him on Rush's radio show, which has the largest audience of any talk radio program in the nation. Obama acts likes he's tough; let's see him accept the offer. It'll be like 1967 when then-California Governor and future President Ronald Reagan destroyed then-U.S. Senator Bobby Kennedy. The difference would be, though, that Rush Limbaugh would own the rights to the recording of the debate. CBS owns the rights to the televised version of the Reagan-Kennedy debate, and they will not play it in its entirety again, because they want to continue to promote the lie of "Camelot" - the lie that the Kennedy family is so great. What a shame that today, Britain bestowed an honorary knighthood upon Ted Kennedy. Hopefully, that act will contribute to conservative victories over there in the upcoming elections! It seems that Gordon Brown is only popular in the U.K. among Muslim imams.

President George Washington on Yesterday's Election

"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times." --George Washington

Samuel Adams on Voting

"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country." --Samuel Adams

Sam Donaldson on How the Democrats Usually Get Us Into Debt

Sam Donaldson on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Sunday, October 26, 2008, 10:16 AM (Central Time): "George W. Bush is one of the great free marketers of our time, except that he took us into a huge national debt doing what the Democrats usually do."

The Elections, Churches, and Voter Turnout

This from David Barton and WallBuilders (http://www.wallbuilders.com):

October 20, 2008

In Matthew 22:21, Jesus commanded His followers: "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

Today, many mistakenly act as if the conjunction in this verse is "or" -- that is, "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, or unto God the things that are God's," but to the contrary, the verse deliberately uses the conjunction "and" -- that is, "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." Very simply, Christians are commanded to do their duty in both the spiritual and the civil arenas -- to fulfill a dual responsibility in both.

Christians in previous generations fully understood the scope of this command. For example, the Rev. Charles Finney, a minister and leader in America's Second Great Awakening, reminded Christians in his generation:

The Church must take right ground in regard to politics. . . . God cannot sustain this free and blessed country which we love and pray for unless the Church will take right ground. . . . God will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics.

There are three weekends left before the November elections, and churches can do five things during that time to help ensure that Christians fulfill their civic responsibilities in this election.

1. Preach an ELECTION SERMON.
Election sermons began in America in 1633 and continued for the next 270 years. These sermons reminded Christians of their Biblical responsibilities in the civic arena, addressing the issues of the day from a Biblical perspective. As the Rev. Ebenezer Thayer noted in 1725, the preachers of Election Sermons were to offer thanks for the blessings received and also were to be "watchmen upon Jerusalem's wall, whose proper business is to decry dangers and give seasonable notice thereof -- to observe the sins of the times and the awful symptoms of God's departure." Dr. Timothy Stone's Election Sermon from 1792 can be read online.

2. Utilize these BULLETIN INSERTS.
We have a church bulletin insert with quotes from five famous American ministers on the importance of Christians voting according to Biblical standards and values. Obtain these bulletin inserts in packages of 50 or 100, and distribute them on Sunday, November 2 before the November 4th election. These bulletin inserts are offered at a 50% discount.

3. Make VOTERS GUIDES available to parishioners.
In the three weeks leading up to the election, make these guides available so that the people will be equipped to cast an informed vote either in early voting or in on site voting on Election Day. Those voters guides are available free on our website and are downloadable so that they can be printed in whatever quantities are needed by each church or group.

4. Show "YOUR VOTE COUNTS" DVD.
We have produced a 3-minute DVD, "Your Vote Counts," showing the historic role and importance of Christians voting. This DVD can be shown in church the Sunday preceding the election to encourage voter participation. (This video can be downloaded from our website or you can email us to order a copy of the DVD.)

5. All of the above activities are completely legal.
To assuage any concerns that pastors or parishioners might have, we not only have a letter from the IRS setting forth the freedoms of churches to engage in these activities but also the legal analyses of several national legal groups (including Liberty Legal Institute and Liberty Counsel) further affirming the right of churches to engage in these activities. In fact, these legal groups will represent free of charge any church that is attacked for engaging in these constitutionally protected activities.

Let's do all we can to be salt and light in the civil arena this election cycle, and these five things will help achieve that objective. (Feel free to forward this information on to other pastors, churches, or Biblical voters.)

God Bless!

David Barton

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News

McCain: Obama Policies Socialist
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_el_pr/mccain

Palin: "Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth. Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic," Palin said. "But Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairyman, I believe they think it sounds more like socialism."
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/2109863/posts

Powell: "I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14714.html

"Joe the Plummer" Strikes Back at Media
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081019/NEWS09/810190374

Barack Osama Printed On Ballot in a County in New York

Barack Osama Printed On Ballot in a County in New York. Oops! :-) Source: CNN. Link: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Nabbed by Obama Nation

Jerome Corsi, author of a best-selling book blasting Barack Obama, is detained by officials in Kenya, the ancestral home of the White House hopeful. Source: FOX News at http://www.foxnews.com. He had called in to the radio show Faith 2 Action within the last week, reporting live from Kenya. You can hear his interview at http://www.f2a.org by clicking on the "Archives" button.

Obama, Biden "Palin" Comparison

Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin did a fantastic job in the debate last night. She's pro-God, pro-life, pro-marriage and family, and pro-gun. She's smart, she's experienced, and she's a true conservative. She's a genuinely joyfull person, and she truly loves her family and her country. And here are some other reasons why we can know that she's the right person for the job: the Democrats hate her, (not to be redundant, but) the liberals hate her, (not to be redundant again, but) the people who own and operate the mass media hate her, and the RINO's (Republicans in name only) don't like her.

She won the debate last night, but as soon as it was over, the liberal, pro-Obama, anti-America media talking heads started saying that Biden had won. If they admitted their bias, it wouldn't be quite so bad. However, they continue to claim that they try to engage in unbiased, professional journalism. Honest is something that McCain and Palin are, and they're not.

Col. Tom Parker Running Obama's Campaign?

People around Elvis Presley have admitted that back in the 1950s, Col. Tom Parker (Elvis' manager, and not really a colonel) was planning to pay young women in the audience to scream for Elvis, until he supposedly found out that they were going to scream for him anyway.

Tom Parker is dead now, but is someone in Obama's campaign using the Parker approach and paying people to attend his rallies, to act excited, and to scream for him? I hope they'll stop and think about what this guy stands for, because if he were to get elected, then a lot more people would start screaming, and not because they're excited.

Candidate Forums in Church

In an article titled, Pastor Warren: Stop Politicizing Religion, Star Parker says "What exactly is going on in America when our obsession is to cleanse every inch of public space from religion, yet somehow we think it is appropriate to bring a presidential political forum into church?" I vehemently disagree with her.

Church is exactly the place where candidates should come to share their views. Chrisitans need to know for what kind of person God wants for us to vote, and need to know where candidates stand on the issues so that we can make the best decision. All that was changed, for the worse, in 1954 when then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, in a move designed to get back at Texas churches for opposing him in the election, got a law passed barring pastors and churches from supporting or opposing a candidate, and threatening them with taking away their IRS tax-exempt status if they did.

Pastors used to preach election sermons, informing or reminding believers what it is that God wants for us to look for in a candidate. Since only God can see the heart, and we can only see a person's actions, then we have to judge a candidate's worthiness for an office based on what they have done, and that includes what they have publicly said, and how they have voted if they have previously held office. And the Founders knew that since we can't tell for sure whether someone is a Christian, then we need to choose the one who comes closer to being what God wants for him to be, and who is more likely to do the will of God in office. As one of our Founders said, none of us is perfect, so we need to vote for the one who is the least imperfect, and church is a great place for us to ask questions, listen to candidates' answers, and find out who is the least imperfect.

Georgia vs. The Muslims and Russia

That "breakaway" Georgian province is largely Muslim, and Muslims are the ones who are causing the trouble. Georgia has declared itself an officially Christian nation. Russia has taken sides with the Muslims. We need to be on Georgia's side and give them any help we can. By the way, given his relations with Kenya, I think we know which side Barack Obama is on, and we don't need for him to become our President.

The Real Barack Obama

Barack Obama influenced an election in Kenya in favor of a Muslim candidate and stood by doing nothing while Muslims rioted, burning a church, murdering Christians, and committing other atrocities. He also supports the murder of children who survive abortions. Listen to Dr. Jerome Corsi (World Net Daily) discussing his new book, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. at http://f2a.org/radio/Download%202008-08-05.htm.

Response to Obama's "Yes, We Can!"

The proper response to Barack Obama's campaign slogan "Yes, We Can!": "No, You Don't!" They only can if good men do nothing.