Clinton and Obama: The immoralists

It took none other than the liberal presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., to definitively conclude that the Bible is wrong and that they are more enlightened than the authors of same – after all, they're progressive, educated politicians in a contest for the presidency of United States; the authors of Scripture were only ignorant men, guided by, and filled with, the Holy Spirit of God.

Clinton told Bloomberg News she "[does] not think homosexuality is immoral." I digress to say she has an interesting perspective on immorality. She obviously didn't think serial adultery, groping, alleged rape, lying to a grand jury, supplying missile technology to the Chinese (that now allows their weapons to reach our shores) and her husband using every means necessary to protect himself while putting the nation at risk was immoral, either.

Obama released a statement saying, "I do not agree … that homosexuality is immoral." Here again, we have an interesting perspective on immorality – this time from someone who claims to be a churchman. One would think – if we are to believe AIDS is as rampant among blacks as we are told, and if HIV is the epidemic in Africa we are led to believe – self-proclaimed churchman Obama, whose church is committed to the betterment of all things black, would cry from the highest mountain that it is such acts of sexual deviance that causes AIDS.

One should question a church that claims to put the best interest of blacks before all else, yet supports a principle member who is pro-homosexuality and pro-abortion on-demand, insofar as AIDS and abortion are the two single greatest threats to the black community. Obama and his church appear to be conflicted pursuant to what constitutes "best for, and love of, blackdom." But here,...

Years ago, Congressman and medical doctor Larry McDonald was working late in his Capitol Hill office when an old friend from medical school knocked on his door. Larry rose and greeted his guest and, after exchanging the usual pleasantries, looking a bit dejected, his friend slumped into a chair.

Larry asked him what was wrong.

With a little sigh, his friend said “Every few years, a group of us have to take time away from our practices and jobs and come all the way up here to meet with our representatives and senators to try to head off some new effort to trash the Constitution. And I often get the feeling that these guys up here just aren’t listening.”

Laughing, Larry offered, “You do know, don’t you, that there’s a better way?”

“What’s that, Larry?”

“You and your friends ought to get together at home and find a House candidates who shares your values and get behind him with support and resources and REPLACE those guys who aren’t listening. And if there is no candidate with those qualifications, go out and CREATE one – maybe even run yourself! And if, down the road, the new guy stops listening to you, work to replace HIM. The beauty of the House of Representatives is that the Founding Fathers designed it so that these folks have to come home every 24 months to get their tickets punched by the voters. And as we both know, the taxing and spending occur in the House. If the lower house refused to fund some liberty destroying or unconstitutional agency or program, it just won’t happen.”

“But, Larry, how do we convince the rest of the voters that the incumbent needs to be replaced?”

“That used to be a real challenge since poll after poll asking folks what they thought of congress usually got very negative answers. But when asked how they thought THEIR guys were doing up here got responses indicating that THEIR guys were doing a good job. There’s a new program called Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM) that uses only one yardstick for its quarterly rating of every member of congress – the United States Constitution.” (http://www.trimonline.org)

“Does it work, Larry?”

“One of my favorite stories about that is the 16 year-old paperboy out in the Midwest who every quarter paid to have 10,000 TRIM Bulletins printed and threw them on his route and in another 9,500 lawns in his district – FROM HIS BIKE! After 3 quarters of that, the incumbent was ousted for someone who more closely represented the views of the voters. On election night, the red-faced loser was interviewed on TV and, waving a TRIM Bulletin, sputtered that it was a right-wing plot to “get him.” It was GREAT TV.”

“A ‘plot’ by a 16 year-old paperboy.” Larry and his guest laughed.

“And it’s happening all over the country – even in my state, Georgia. My supporters down there are keeping the voters in the 7th informed about my votes up here. Since my only standard is the Constitution, they keep sending me back. So it works both ways: The good guys get reelected and the bad guys get sent home – or hang around as lobbyists.” Another chuckle.

“But what about the presidential election?”

“While important, if we had 300 or so decent representatives up here on the Hill, they’d take back much of the power they’ve shipped down to 1600 over the past years and the 4 year beauty contest would become far less important than it now is. A metaphor for these elections for president, representatives and senate is a 3 card Monte game: While everyone is focused on the card marked with the “P,” the “R” and “S” cards are largely ignored.”

Larry’s friend returned home, got his friends and neighbors up to speed with TRIM – and within a year, had a new and improved representative.

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