Obama Hears Church Sermon About Humility
This morning at the First Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, Wis., Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., heard a sermon about humility.
Pastor John Kerr sermonized for the congregation — Obama sitting on the aisle in the fourth row — about Romans 12:1-8 and the importance of being humble.
"For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather, think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you," reads the text. "We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man’s gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully."
In his 13-minute sermon, Kerr said it was important not to become "cocky" because one is a good singer or public speaker. The apostle urges his readers, Kerr said, "not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think."
- jpt
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Posted by: young_voter | August 24, 2008, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
Nice. Sounds like a pretty down to earth Preacher. I Hope John McBush got his personal sermon today. It goes something like this, “It is better to appear foolish and remain silent than to speak and remove all doubt!”. LOL
Chas
Posted by: Chas Woods | August 24, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
Well considered comments.
“Barack America”?
Please.
It’s all about the O and his astounding egO.
Posted by: drjohn | August 24, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
pifffttt Dems, so what!! McCain heard the Sermon on the Mound…..AND McCain was a Roman POW that fought lions, tigers and snakes…..Now TOP that!
Posted by: Katie | August 24, 2008, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
“Hearing” and “listening” are two different things.
;-)
Posted by: drjohn | August 24, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm
Good grief, some people are just negative about everything, that is so sad.
Posted by: Cheryl | August 24, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm
Sermon on the Mound was what Stengel used to give.
Posted by: drjohn | August 24, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm
He was probably in shock of what he heard… not blaming him after 20 years with “Rev” Wright…
Posted by: TT | August 24, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
Obama is a megalomaniac.
Obama is neither qualified or electable.
The Dems are very foolish if they nominate the one candidate who cannot win.
Divine intervention will allow the most qualified and most electable candidate, Hillary Clinton to be the Dem nominee.
It’s Hillary or McCain 08 and Hillary 2012.
Country first, party second.
May God Bless America
Posted by: S | August 24, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
Joe biden Washington insider. Joe Biden with lobbyist, Joe biden,White House is not for on the job training, Joe Biden: Barrack Obama is NOT qualified to be president!!!
Posted by: Hilly-Billy | August 24, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
LOL Drjohn, touche’
Posted by: Katie | August 24, 2008, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
I thought picking Biden meant Obama was “insecure”.
Geez.
Posted by: Benjamin | August 24, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
Hearing a real sermon without the BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY TWIST of hating whites, jews and the U. S. of A. must have been a shock for him!
Posted by: Debra | August 24, 2008, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm
A sermon he needed to hear, I am sure he was in shock, he was probably expecting some comedy show where the preacher made fun of Hillary.
Posted by: rachel | August 24, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
Obama is so self-focused, and thinks so highly of himself, that it wouldn’t dawn on him that he needs a huge dose of humility.
His arrogance will destroy him and I pray it happens before he gets to the White House.
Obama is not the leader God sent to us–contrary to what He, Oprah, RevWright, and Pelosi think.
Posted by: riley | August 24, 2008, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
What happened to the headline they put up right after this one about Obama saying Hell when adressing a crowd in Wisconsin after Church this morning? I know I read it here at ABC blogs..
Posted by: Debra | August 24, 2008, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
Obama probably tuned out the sermon since it wasn’t some nutcase pastor cursing America.
Speaking of Rev Wright and Father Pfleger I wonder if they were hiding in the basement yesterday during Obama’s speech.
Posted by: cindy in nc | August 24, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
Yet Again, Obama’s action completely belied his words. As people get to know Biden, who supported/advocated Iraq war even before Bush, who was the creator of the disastrous plan of dividing post-war Iraq along ethnic lines, is the worst that can happen to the democratic ticket.
Posted by: amy | August 24, 2008, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm
Kerr said, “not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think.”
It’s hard to do that when the skies open, a light shines down, and people have epiphanies commanding to vote for you.
This pastor is misguided and boring, I like the other one better, you know, the ‘God-damn America’ and ‘Bill was riding dirty’ one, now that was fun.
Posted by: Rob | August 24, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
Too bad McCain wasn’t sitting there with him to listen to the service.
Posted by: kat | August 24, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
it seems obvious that none of the nay-sayers heard any “Good News” today.
Posted by: Carl Diederichs | August 24, 2008, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Too bad McCain didn’t wasn’t there at the service, especially after his latest campaign caveat of bringing back Hillary’s sharp words of competition. I think a lot of her former supporters are feeling pandered to, including the undecided. Well, most of us know what goes before the fall.
Posted by: kat | August 24, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
Someone should send mccain a sermon on the 10 Commandments. It seems as though he’s forgotten some of them just like he’s forgotten how many houses he owns. Obama/Biden 2008!!!
Posted by: pt | August 24, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Is there any picture of Obama sitting in the 4th row? Just wondering if he had his chin jutted up, looking down with a mean disdainful look…really, this Pastor read that passage for a reason. If he really used the word “cocky”, I’d say that was a person sermon directed at Obama.
Speaking some time after the service Obama used the word “hell”…I’d say he was directing it at the Pastor, defiantly. Getting out all the vented angry, ’cause how dare a “representative” of God address Him in that manner. Umbrage you might say, unstable I’d say.
Posted by: hype bites supreme | August 24, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
“What happened to the headline they put up right after this one about Obama saying Hell when adressing a crowd in Wisconsin after Church this morning? I know I read it here at ABC blogs..”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Obama said *gasp* HELL! Stop the presses!
Posted by: ChrisNBama | August 24, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
What is your point?
Posted by: cassandra | August 24, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
“As people get to know Biden, who supported/advocated Iraq war even before Bush, who was the creator of the disastrous plan of dividing post-war Iraq along ethnic lines, is the worst that can happen to the democratic ticket.”
Posted by: Belle Starr | August 24, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
WOW!!! I just read that the DNC unanimously voted to give Florida and Michigan FULL Delegate Voting for the Convention in a few days !!!
This is despite the fact that obama wanted those states to be punished and not have ANY VOTES at the Convention….
I hope all of the previously-stripped Michigan and Florida Delegates vote for Hillary at the Convention, and I hope that Hillary wins the Nomination, instead…… LOL
Posted by: From Democrat to Independant | August 24, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm
cassandra
My point in posting Matthew 7:3-5 is maybe to get us to think about what we write on this blog.
I think it is more fair to judge the candidates on what changes they will make to put our country on the right track.
Posted by: cincyr | August 24, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
kat
He calls himself “Barack America.”
No one has called himself “John America.”
Please.
Posted by: drjohn | August 24, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm
Sermon Not Heard; regarding your post about mccains first marriage; while we are on the topic of family values and character let us not forget that john edwards was sneaking around in hotels with his lover while his wife was with cancer. also jfk comes to mind. at least mccain married the woman he was involved with. paid child support and alimony to his first wife, adopted his first wife’s children, and managed to maintain an excellent relationship with all involved and then admitted it was his greatest moral failure.
Posted by: sonia trevino | August 24, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
Love that….Rev. John Kerr must have known his celebrity guest would be in the pews….perfect sermon, then BO goes out to a crowd of 300 and says Hell no, regarding spending on the war.
I’m just glad he sat in a real church today and not the hall of hatred he’s attended for 20 years.
John Sydney never Barack Hussein
Posted by: Debra | August 24, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm
then admitted it was his greatest moral failure.
Posted by: sonia trevino | Aug 24, 2008 4:32:07 PM
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Well of course he’s going to say that. He’s pandering to the conservatives.
Posted by: d | August 24, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm
Obama says McCain isn’t qualified for the presidency because he had the bad judgment to vote for the Iraq war.
Biden voted for the Iraq war.
What does it say about Obama’s judgment that he chose Biden?
Bambi has become a walking disaster.
Posted by: Peach | August 24, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
I’ve been on various news reading web sites where we play a drinking game for every time Obama says “I”. If you really played the game the way it should be played, a person would be dead from alcohol poisoning.
Posted by: Peach | August 24, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
What is this story about Obama saying “hell”?
Posted by: Peach | August 24, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
Anyone know which church Obama officially belongs to now that he has thrown Rev. Wright under the bus — the same Rev. Wright that performed his wedding ceremony, baptized his daughters and who he listened to for 20 years give “I hate American Speeches”, which he says he never heard?
I suppose since he never heard what Rev. Wright said, he didn’t listen to Rev. John Kerr’s sermon either.
Posted by: susie | August 24, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
Peach go to Political Radar Blog here at ABC you’ll see the “Hell” gaffe.
Posted by: Debra | August 24, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Oh no! Obama said the word “hell”. That settles it, I’m voting for the old guy who throws temper tantrums.
Go watch FOX news. Oh wait, ABC is the new FOX.
Posted by: This is news? | August 24, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
All right all of you Christian RIGHT!
Why wasn’t your man McBush in church today????
Posted by: Y.sister | August 24, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
Joe Biden not only plagiarized a speech when he ran for President in the 80′s, he also was almost kicked out of law school for receiving an “F” in a class for plagerizing a paper he “wrote”. But he said he didn’t know it was plagerizing to use someone elses words. DUH! They let him stay and he then graduated 76th in a class of 85.
Posted by: susie | August 24, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
Thanks, Debra.
Posted by: Peach | August 24, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm
“Anyone know which church Obama officially belongs to now that he has thrown Rev. Wright under the bus … “
Posted by: Belle Starr | August 24, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
“They let [Biden] stay and he then graduated 76th in a class of 85.”
Posted by: Belle Starr | August 24, 2008, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
To democrat to independent..it was Obama that said we should count all those votes…so you wanna thank him for that..oh and even with all those counted in, HRC wont be nominated..there are alot of nit-pickers that read this..its one thing to support the war based on what your told..then oppose it once the truth comes out..its another to support the war blindly even when you know the truth. Dont mix the 2 up
Posted by: Tanya | August 24, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
Humility??!! Obama has no clue what that is.
Posted by: Amber | August 24, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm
Even without this ad, I’m voting for McCain. Hillary was disrespected time and time again by that no-good, arrogant, lying Barack Obama. The fact that she wasn’t vetted and that he sent that phone message att “3 am” was a direct slap in Hillary’s face. I hope Obama rots!
We’re the ones you were warned about Obama. You’re going down!
Posted by: Amber | August 24, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
“[Obama] sent that phone message at “3 am”
Posted by: Belle Starr | August 24, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
I’m calling Obama at 3:00 am and asking him if anyone vetted Biden. What a joke. All of this information regarding where he got his money from and his lobbyist son is now just coming out of the woodwork. Certainly Caroline Kennedy was asleep during this whole process.
Posted by: LauraR | August 24, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
I never thought anyone could be more arrogant than Bush, but Obama takes the prize.
When he sticks his nose in the air and looks down at people it shows he has indeed bought into all the hype.
Obama thinks he is a gift from God just like Pelosi said. That explains her dismal approval rating.
Posted by: cindy in nc | August 24, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
It’s just a tad too late for that message of “humility” for Barack Obama… his head is now way above the clouds, too far for words to reach!
Obama first refused to count the delegates from MI and FLA during the Primary… but now that he thinks he’s the presumptious nominee, HE wants them all to count so he can inflate his ego further by having bigger numbers.
WELL, I’ve got news for him! Hillary’s name is still up there… so technically, IF all the FLA and MI delegates vote for her, and her pledged delegates stick to her, she can still WIN the nomination!!!
Wouldn’t THAT he cathartic?
Even with the naming of his VP, all Obama got was a 2-point “bump” in the polls, so he’s now ahead John McCain by 4 points!
Posted by: BJ | August 24, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm
It’s so good to be a new independent — I no longer feel I have to turn myself around like a pretzel to defend the disgusting antics of people like Obama, Biden and the silliness of it all, like those lefty blogs making complete fools of themselves as they defend a guy who no longer mirrors any of their ideas, but they just can’t let go of Mr. Hopey-Changey — how embarrassing for them.
Posted by: free at last | August 24, 2008, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm
-I’ve been on various news reading web sites where we play a drinking game for every time Obama says “I”. If you really played the game the way it should be played, a person would be dead from alcohol poisoning.-
Too funny. I guess he is big on the first person narrative. Bet there will be a couple of books out after he loses in November: Book 1, “I the Candidate”; Book 2, “Why I lost”.
Posted by: hype bites supreme | August 24, 2008, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm
America was founded on cockiness.
Posted by: Danny | August 24, 2008, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm
It was a Lutheran Church – haven’t you ever heard of Garrison Keillor and ‘A Prairie Home Companion’?
Posted by: Tom J | August 24, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm
How ironic that the most arrogant man in Washington listened to a sermon on humility. LOL
Posted by: Cory | August 24, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
For Maureen…..
Hillary supporters will not be denied. Get out the popcorn. Fasten your seatbelts. Next week it’s going to be a very bumpy ride.
Posted by: JoAnn Walker | August 24, 2008, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm
Hey Debra, re:
Love that….Rev. John Kerr must have known his celebrity guest would be in the pews….perfect sermon, then BO goes out to a crowd of 300 and says Hell no, regarding spending on the war.
I’m just glad he sat in a real church today and not the hall of hatred he’s attended for 20 years.
- Can you see him twisting in confusion… ‘that isn’t the book I used to know’ (it burns, it burns). I’m sure he told the pastor later ‘Uh, I think you had the wrong book, try the sermon on the mount in the secular humanism version bible’ or Qutb, My Struggle, something to pep it up…
Posted by: candy | August 24, 2008, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm
“Obama first refused to count the delegates from MI and FLA during the Primary… but now that he thinks he’s the presumptious nominee, HE wants them all to count so he can inflate his ego further by having bigger numbers.”
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This is one of the worst political blunders Obama has made…… and HE has made a BUNDLE of them!!!
Posted by: eyes wide open | August 24, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm
Hillary supporters will not be denied. Get out the popcorn. Fasten your seatbelts. Next week it’s going to be a very bumpy ride.
Posted by: JoAnn Walker | Aug 24, 2008 8:51:15 PM
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Really Joann, what do you think is going to happen.
Posted by: oo | August 24, 2008, 9:02 pm 9:02 pm
Now, Barack Obama surrogates are tempering the expectations for his “acceptance speech”, because the bar has been set too high (lol).
Obama needs to call on Steven Spielberg or his Hollywood connections to create a Convention Production equal to the Ten Commandments, with all the bright lights and stairway to heaven…
Because it would take an “act of God” to get him elected!
Hillary’s supporters are gonna take him down, down down, to the gates of hell!
Posted by: BJ | August 24, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
13 minute sermon? Obviously Lutheran preachers don’t get paid by the word like their Baptist counterparts do.
Posted by: Rick Schwartz | August 24, 2008, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm
Obama lied about his long term ties to Ayers “hes just a guy in my neighborhood” and the media ignored it. Will the media also ignore Obama’s ties to some of the most notorious gangs in Chicago?
Posted by: Tim | August 24, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
It’s the ol’ Democrat bait n’ switch. Let the press did up all the dirt on Obama, make Hillary look twice as competent, then pull the rug out from Obama and nominate Hillary. Then Obama can go back to Chicago and write more books, “I Was the One: Jus’ Nobody Knew It”, “How to Lose an Election, For Dummies”, and “Change is Good: 50 Pennies and My Experience Got Me a Cup of Coffee.”
Posted by: Emm | August 24, 2008, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
“13 minute sermon? Obviously Lutheran preachers don’t get paid by the word like their Baptist counterparts do.”
Posted by: Belle Starr | August 24, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm
All we heard during the primary season from Obama and his blog squad was the RULES say MI and FL do not count.
Posted by: geevill | August 24, 2008, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm
I wish Obama had a little humility when it came to doing something concrete to help bring down the prices of gas at the pump which would help the blue collar worker Obama says he is so concerned about. Instead, Obama keeps touting his pie and the sky plans for energy that will do nothing to bring the price of gas down. In fact if Obama’s plans ever get a chance to see the light of day they will make all of our energy costs go higher and we will all be waiting in lines for due to the shortages caused by Obama’s call for “Wind Fall” tax increases for the oil industry. That is what happened in the 70″s when Carter tried these bone headed policies.
None of Obama’s proclamations on our energy future are remotely achievable in the time frames he asserts. Obama’s idea of change is change we can do without.
Posted by: mary | August 24, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm
More information about how well Biden did in college (top of his class – yeah right)
Prior to law school while an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, Biden’s first three semesters, his grades were C’s or D’s, with three exceptions: two A’s in physical education courses, a B in a course on ”Great English Writers” and an F in R.O.T.C.
Wonder if the “F” in R.O.T.C was why he never went to Vietnam?
Posted by: susie | August 24, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm
Obama has no humility. How many people has he thrown under the bus?
Let’s see:
Grandma “a typical white woman”
Obama’s Brother Bama living on a dollar a month.
Jeremiah Wright Obama’s Pastor and mentor for twenty years The angry and racist man, “was not the man he knew”, Obama said
Father Pfleger Obama’s friend and mentor Obama: “deeply disappointed in
Father Pfleger’s divisive, backward-looking rhetoric”.
Bill Ayers who was “just a guy in his neighborhood” the unrepentant domestic terrorist bomber who it turns out has long term ties with Obama going back to 1998
Hillary Clinton who Obama did not even bother to consider as his VP and to twist the knife even further sent out a 3AM notice about the pick because of Clinton’s famous 3AM ad that asked who would you want in the White house to pick up the phone at 3Am .
I am sure you can all remember more.
Posted by: mary | August 24, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm
“None of Obama’s proclamations on our energy future are remotely achievable in the time frames he asserts.”
Posted by: Belle Starr | August 24, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
“an F in R.O.T.C.”
Posted by: Belle Starr | August 24, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm
Mary, Obama’s connection to Ayers goes back further than 1998. Below is a post about Obama’s involvement in the failed 160 million dollar project to improve schools in Chicago, “the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (“CAC”), the education reform project founded by Bill Ayers and which he led with Barack Obama from 1995 until 2001.”
The more you know about Obama the less you like him much less think he is qualified to be President. Wonder when the main stream media will catch on and start reporting some of this?
Posted by: terry | August 24, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm
All these last few weeks show that Obama just hasn’t grown into the president he wants to be. shallow on foreign affairs, “giving in” to others rather than compromising and setting forth his own ideas.
I don’t think he’s fit to be president. Yet.
Posted by: hmm | August 24, 2008, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
I don’t think Obama will join that church. He likes to hear things the he wants to hear them, not how they really are!
Posted by: rofl | August 24, 2008, 11:55 pm 11:55 pm
I’m sure he sat through the subject of humility comfortably. Last week at Rick Warren’s mega church, which some may think could use humility, Obama stated that an attribute for a wise man is telling him when he’s wrong. He’ll find that in Biden, his choice of VP. He’s shown humility in choosing a former opponent who speaks his mind, when he could have had someone more deferring. Contrary to the image painted by the McCain surrogates and ads, Obama is well grounded in humility and far from a jet setting celebrity.
Posted by: kat | August 25, 2008, 1:27 am 1:27 am
DOES NOT MATTER THAT HE SAT IN A LUTHERAN CHURCH THIS MORNING FOR ONE SERMON………HE SAT FOR 20 YEARS IN A HATEFUL BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY CHURCH WITH HIS MENTOR REV. WRIGHT
Posted by: Debra | August 25, 2008, 1:28 am 1:28 am
LOL, kat.
The Oh Nobama didn’t pick squat. The DNC told him to pick Biden because Biden’s foreign policy experience makes up for Obama’s zero experience. It’s not humility you notice in Obama’s eyes, it’s realizing he’s just a puppet.
Posted by: Emm | August 25, 2008, 1:47 am 1:47 am
Emm, I haven’t noticed the humility in Obama’s eyes, but in his words. If he were following the preferences of others, he would have gone along with Pelosi’s recommendation for Chet Edwards or for that matter, Hillary Clinton, who has actually exerted a lot of influence over the DNC, contrary to the tales of anti-Hillary fat cats there.
Posted by: kat | August 25, 2008, 2:20 am 2:20 am
Being the vengeful, passive aggressive person that he is, how do you think Obama will get even with this pastor?
Posted by: OxyCon | August 25, 2008, 3:11 am 3:11 am
Obama is more embarrassing than John Edwards.
He is risky, inexperienced and a Chicago Politician.
Posted by: Al from NJ | August 25, 2008, 5:40 am 5:40 am
Read about:
Black Liberation Theology, Marxism, Farrakhan, Wright and Pflaeger.
Obama should step down.
Posted by: Al from NJ | August 25, 2008, 5:41 am 5:41 am
Al from NJ -
Bravo on your post and right on target! Good job.
Posted by: Peach | August 25, 2008, 6:28 am 6:28 am
After the Sermon, quote,
“sure as hell”.
–0bama in Eau Claire, WI, Sunday.
Posted by: fact check | August 25, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am
“Twelve minutes is the standard sermon length (even for Baptists who have ordinary traditional churches, instead of drive-ins, skating rinks, or whatever).”
Well… I’ve been in about 5,000 churches around the country as I’ve worked in Christian radio from coast to coast for decades and I can say that I’ve not seen a Baptist preacher go under 45 minutes yet. And don’t even get me started on the Pentecostals. :-)
Posted by: Rick Schwartz | August 25, 2008, 8:42 am 8:42 am
I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR OBAMA THE ARROGANT!
DEM FOR MCCAIN
Posted by: Alex | August 25, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am
Uh, I have it on good authority that the pastor was talking to the press pool.
Posted by: dave s | August 25, 2008, 11:16 am 11:16 am
America’s Moral Issue.
There is no “whites only” sign at door of the Whitehouse, or is there?
As I read the vile that comes from the hearts and mouths of some of the commenters on this blog as it speaks against a good man with the right judgment for president, who just happens to be of color, it makes me realize that America’s moral standing has a long way to go. Years ago, it was the police batons, savage dogs, angry lynch mobs, fire hoses, beat downs with whips and chains, that stood in the way for the pursuit of happiness. All this was being played out during the Cold War, from Moscow, to Paris, to Beijing, all noting the America’s hypocrisy.
As I see the treatment of O, and the thoughts by many racist Americans of his presidency, I see hate has come full circle. And once again, we are may be at a New Cold War, thanks to failed Republican foreign policy. And once again, Moscow, Paris, Beijing, and the rest of the world watches at a sign of America’s hypocrisy, or hopefully, America’s moral high road.
What will we do?
What will America’s legacy be?
“This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!” MLK
Posted by: Pray together Stay together | August 25, 2008, 11:30 am 11:30 am
Good advice on sober judgment … after he needs it badly …more than humility.
BHO = 47%
JSC = 47%
Looks like dead heat to me !
Posted by: Honey, I shrunk the lead | August 25, 2008, 11:44 am 11:44 am
Obama hears sermon about humility and John McCain hear a sermon about the McCains affair. I’m sure that McCain was uncomfortable.. He and the mistress that he married sitting in church listening and watching John McCain answer to Rick Warren question about his moral failure. .. McCain marriage didn’t fail..McCain having an illicit with Cindy caused his marriage to fail.
Posted by: joe | August 25, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
Humility is not a word in the great Obama’s vocabulary! He is so full of himself and runs his campaign like a dictator! I hope he loses big time in November for all of the people he insulted and put down this past year. But even losing wouldn’t deflate that giant ego of his!
Posted by: Mary Anne | August 25, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm