Posted on 09/03/2013 7:16:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
She’s in Alaska.
I’ve seen that photo many times. Is it real or photoshopped? If real, what on earth is McCain doing at that moment?
Al has not earned the title of Rev. He never went to divinity school, never had a church, never had a congregation. Same is true for Jesse Jackson. Al was "ordained" by a DC preacher when he was 10 years old, yet he perpetuates the lie.
I have posted in other threads that we ‘need a statesman to clean up the messes caused by the last 4 president.’
It is difficult to find a person who is more concerned about the future of the nation than in his/her own personal power and wealth.
Many went to Washington with bright ideals, but they quickly succumb to the seductive power of politics. It is a long way from feet of clay to statues of bronze.
What great quotes. Thanks for posting.
Unfortunately, the term “statesman” has always been a misnomer. And, over the years, the “state” part of the word has become the operative word. Certainly, we’ve seen no real “men” for several years - almost anywhere on the globe.
The truth of the matter is that any great “statesman” has always backed up their words with outstanding action and deeds. So it was with Churchill, even Thatcher (who had the spine and figurative balls of a man), Reagan (PATCO, the Wall, Star Wars etc.) and the like.
What we now have is a prayer-rugged, curtain-hanging puppet community organizer/disrupter who can only “state,” not “do”. And when he decides to try and “do,” he lies or f@cks it up and has to regroup and re-message the optics.
Yes!! Is that a REAL photo??
Makes the pettiness of the return of the Churchill bust more understandable.
‘zackly.
Great stuff... thanks for the post...
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
— Winston Churchill
Here's the last one I'm likely to see in my lifetime.
True statesmen are principled.
They understand that our individual rights come from God, not men, and that those rights are therefore unalienable.
They understand that just government exists to secure those rights.
We’ve been scouring the land for such people. Finding a few. Having to raise up the rest from the grassroots.
http://www.selfgovernment.us/be-a-leader.html
Happened to be reading Manchester's epic three volume biography of Churchill. Before Hitler's violation of the Versailles Treaty, Churchill sternly forewarned the British people and the Parliament in a series of editorials and speeches. Then as Hitler made every move from taking over the demilitarized Rhineland, to the Anschluss with Austria to the destruction of the Czech border etc., Churchill castigated PM Chamberlain in public and in private for holding his own legacy and reelection as paramount over Britain's survival.
We are very similar straits today with a pretender, a parvenu not only vainer narcissist than Chamberlain, but one who cannot even hold a candle to the average man's successful career. Yet it took events driven by the Nazi's and the relentless outspoken character Churchill to get the attention of the Brits before they moved a muscle and ousted Chamberlain. To be a Churchill takes maturity, experience and unmatched courage as even a vivid sense of history is useless without the ability to articulate patriotism to your government and your people.
There may be a few in Washington today who can do the job yet they are likely too young...Gowdy and Lee come to mind.
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