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Barak Obama Ends the Primary Season a Winner!

I love to imagine how the next few months will go - McCain and Obama are already facing off with each other.

I am excited at the potential for change that Obama represents and am hopeful he can stick to his high standards!

Congrats Obama for making real history in a day and age when reporters sensationalize stories to try to make something sound important - this is real history in the making !

That's the change America needs!    And it's quite likely; Yes! He Can!

;-)

As it appears, NARAL, the largest Pro-Choice activist organization in the US, has decided to back Obama over Hillary! I couldn't believe it either until I read the original article and got the opinions from bloggers that quickly caught wind of it. I previously backed Obama myself until I realized what would happen if he got the nomination. After I had my realization, I started backing Hillary.

Andrew Austin blogged this:

NARAL Screws Over Women

Kate Michelman came out for Obama a long time ago. NARAL is following her lead. Michelman's endorsement, published in the Huffington Post, is, frankly, embarrassing. She sees Obama as a messiah figure.

I know this will sting, but this is typical of Obama supporters (followers, really): it's about how Obama makes them feel not whether he's right on the ideas or whether he can be elected.

When Obama's handlers were test marketing their product, they knew right away they had a shot at the prize when they recorded the emotional way liberal Democrats responded to the glittering generalities the Obama campaign were pitching (they even test marketed and devised a logo fit for armbands and banners).

Clinton has all the right ideas for Democrats, but she doesn't make them feel good. Hard-nosed, practical people often lose out to the vacuous and charismatic (charisma is a manufactured essence).

To be blunt about it, the Obama candidacy is a personality cult. Those who will put McCain in the White House (likely with a mandate) are impervious to the manufactured magic of Barrack Obama.

The bottom line is that we need a smart and experienced politician with the best ideas, not an "extraordinary leader" who makes us feel good.

One would think that there are enough scary analogs in history of politicians supposedly worthy of unquestioning devotion, the most recent example of which is George Bush.

I guess I should be happy Obama won't win, but that means McCain will, and a McCain presidency will be a disaster for working people, minorities, and women. I can't be happy about that.

            Is Barack Obama’s former pastor a hate-filled man?  Is his preaching really hate-speech?  Or are the things he’s said excusable because of the things he has suffered as a black man in the U.S.?  Will Obama’s association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright damage his run for the presidency?

 

            I don’t know.  African-Americans have been dealt a lousy hand in this country.  I can understand the anger of someone who has been treated unjustly.  But, as a Christian, and as one who has endeavored to present the life of Jesus Christ to people both here and abroad, there is one thing I do know: what Reverend Wright is saying isn’t going to bring anyone into a relationship with Jesus—particularly anyone who isn’t an African-American.  Why?  Because instead of preaching the gospel, he’s talking about things that divide people.  He has made politics and the suffering of his race in the United States more important than the gospel and the love of and for God.

 

            That’s what’s wrong with what Pastor Wright has said, from a biblical point of new.

 

            I believe—and the people I have hung with for thirty-six years or so believe—and, more significantly, the New Testament teaches—that there is nothing more important than the presentation of the love of Jesus Christ to believers and unbelievers alike.  Paul was a Jewish convert to Jesus and was violently persecuted.  However, if you read his letters, you won’t find any condemnation of the Roman government or of the Jews who were trying to kill him.  The same is true of the teaching of Jesus, who taught us to bless and to pray for those who persecute us.  We are instructed in Paul’s letters to pray for our government and to obey the authorities that are in place.  We are taught to endure suffering as servants of Jesus Christ—and there are no exceptions—none.  

 

What does this mean for Christians today?  It means that the sharing of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is more important than our position on abortion.  That means it is more important than our position politically.  It is more important than our race.  It is more important than our suffering, whatever the cause. 

Well at least on the Democratic side.  Things are pretty much the same. Hillary Clinton with a slight edge over Barak Obama. No clear winner and the demographic of  their supporters are not very surprising.  Hillary Clinton had an edge with woman and Hispanic voters, while Barak Obama had the edge with white male voters, black voters and young voters.

 

However, on the Republican side, Mike Huckabee gained some momentum and Senator John McCain seemed to emerge as the front runner. So does this still make Huckabee a spoiler or does this mean he is still pretty much in the race? Or both? Should Mitt Romney be concerned?