Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things pass away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
He who has God
Finds he lacks nothing;
God alone suffices. — Saint Teresa of Avila
“God does not call us to be successful. He calls us to be faithful.” — Blessed Mother Teresa.
For the last month I have been preparing myself for a Sen. Obama win. I am by nature a pessimistic-optimist. I am though much more calm than I expected I would be in the aftermath of President-Elect Obama. It is much easier to remember today that my trust is in Jesus. Though I am also in mourning for the unborn who will die as a result of an Obama Presidency. They will never get to vote in an election, much less get healthcare or participate in the economy. The economy goes up and down. Dead babies stay dead.
Maybe we need to pray for the health of Supreme Court members so that they stay healthy another four years and have no desire to retire. Yeah I am only saying this jokingly, but no doubt some will retire and have a replacement named by a President Obama and another generation of children will be killed with the permission of the court. One thing you can say about Democrats is that they never pick a nominee that “grows” in office – they are reliably strict deconstructionists who will find a foreign law that matches their biases or grab a penumbra in a pinch.
Being thankful for little things the Democratic Senate does not have 60 seats so I hope this will keep the misnamed Freedom of Choice Act from being able to be signed into law. At least I hope that it is not able to be passed. Unfortunately the Mexico City policy will be history in an Obama administration. Plus I can only imagine the type of people that will be sent to represent us in the U.N. Say hello to CEDAW and the United Nations efforts to make abortion a universal “right.” Plus President Bush’s restrictions on Federal funding of embryonic stem-cells will be gone and surely the taxpayers will be funding destructive embryonic research regardless of the progress of ethical sources of stem-cells. Federal money will be used for cloning research and yet more embryos will die at the hands of scientists killing in order to preserve life.
This is the affirmative action presidency. Affirmative action is notorious for placing skin color above qualification and the electorate decided accordingly. There was hardly a dimes worth of difference between any of the Democratic presidential wannabees other than varying levels of experience. Obama’s main qualification was that his father was from Kenya and he was capable with a teleprompter. Though once he became the nominee he had a cascade of forces historically helpful for a Democrat to take the office this time around.
Though at least now we know how many racists there are in the United States. Those 56,280,668+ that voted for Sen. McCain are obvious racists for not voting for “The One.” And just because you might have voted for Alan Keyes – well you’re racist too for not voting for Obama. The idea that the election of Sen. Obama is going to heal race relations I think is laughable. The media will frame every opposition to a President Obama’s policies as racially tinged just as they did during the election.
As far as the media goes I don’t know which I liked worse. The media that use to pretend to have some objectivity or the one that simply became campaign operatives. Media bias is nothing new and selective reporting has been with us for quite a time. The editing of the Palin interview to make her look worse and the L.A. Times withholding of a video tape are just some of the egregious examples this time around. The media can determine what the Palin family ate the night before by inspecting their garbage can, but could find nothing worthy to investigate on Sen. Obama. Gee remember the media trying to pin cocaine use on President Bush, yet Obama’s biographies detailing drug use get a yawn. I hear that the Main Stream Media is going to be elevated to a cabinet position by President Obama because of the good work they did for him. No longer will dissent be patriotic as the media said during the Bush years.
Now we will also have a culture of death Catholic Vice President who will be putting the vice into Vice President with his support of many forms of abortion. I bet the media can hardly wait to snap a picture of him receiving Communion to gloat. The USCCB meets soon to discuss “practical and pastoral implications of political support for abortion.” Will the scandal of Sen. Biden be addressed? Probably not, but I would love to be wrong.
I hear that Sen. Obama will be FedExing 30 pieces of silver to Doug Kmiec. Moloch is quite happy with all of the Catholics that voted for Sen. Obama. According to Catholic Culture “Among Catholic voters who attend Mass weekly, McCain won majority support: 54- 45%. Among those who do not attend weekly Mass, the margin for Obama was an overwhelming 61- 37%. Thus Obama drew his support from inactive Catholics.” So 45 percent of Mass going Catholics supported the most extreme supporter of abortion ever in a Presidential race. The unborn chopped up via scalpels will be glad to hear about hope and change.
I also hear that Gov. Palin will be stepping down so that she can get some experience by becoming a community organizer.
I find it strange that all of the pro-life measures lost and that all of the anti-same-sex marriage measures won. Somehow their is still some idea of what marriage means, but the preciousness of life is another story. Washington State now has doctor assisted suicide like Oregon. So all we need to do is have California join in and we can call it the Kevorkian Coast or simply the Death Coast. In Michigan voters approved ESCR (supported by a Catholic Governor Jennifer Granholm). Modern liberalism means more dead people. If you don’t get them at the beginning of life you can always catch them when they get old or sick. The endless pursuit to make the distance from cradle to grave to be zero. Modern feminism says “Give me liberty and give them death”
Oh and by the way thanks a lot Jack Ryan (the Senator and not Tom Clancy character) whose divorce papers led to him withdrawing and giving us a Senator Obama in the first place. What a maroon.
But like many American I will be praying for a President Obama. May his campaign promises be typical campaign promises that never come into fruition. I pray that he realizes the definition of life is not “beyond his paygrade” and the the protection of life and liberty includes those who have been conceived. That he will realize his mother choose life in a situation that so commonly leads to abortion. The law is a teacher and as long as abortion is legal there will be many abortions but as this story works out we can still work to save lives on a personal level.
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John… do yourself a favor, and step away from the computer. Facts and substance has been lacking in your posts, so it would be wise to throw in the towel. Mark Shea and Marcel LeJeune are two Catholic gentlemen who deeply love Jesus Christ and His Church. To say that you’ve missed this in any of their writings (available on their blogs and other places) is a gross understatement.
While you are spending so much energy on Mark’s critique of torture and the Bush administration, you’ve patently missed his critiques and criticisms of the Obama campaign and its minions.
Marcel and Big Tex
So the fact that Mark Shea and Marcel “love the church” is reason to leave them alone for the fact that “most church going Catholics” voted for Obama, and Mark Shea using his paid platform bashed day in and day out the GOP, who though faulty, was the better of the two evils
I think you should step away
Last I checked I am not asking for paid speech engagements and writings as Mark Shea
Possibly you are one of his paid lemmings
So the fact that Mark Shea and Marcel “love the church” is reason to leave them alone for the fact that “most church going Catholics” voted for Obama
Congratulations, Marcel! You have joined my exclusive power elite, capable of making most Church-going Catholics vote for Obama! Most mysteriously, we are able to exercise this Svengali-like control by urging Catholics to *not* vote for Obama. I’m not sure how it works myself, but clearly we are to blame for the Catholics who voted Obama. John XXIV locuta est. Causa finita est.
Sorry I’ve been so remiss in paying you, Marcel and Big Tex. John has this weird envy thing going about the imaginary riches I supposedly acquire as a Catholic writer. Would it were true! He seems to have the notion that I do something besides squeak by month to month on a decidedly lower-middle class income. He also has this mysterious notion that Catholic writers and their families don’t need food or shelter.
Catholic Liberal Arts Majors: Learning to despise the money they’ll never make.
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