This recently appeared on my newsfeed, which was decidedly alarming. The latest in the US government’s troublesome acts–
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53S8IM20090430

I’m formerly from Australia, now transplanted to the USA, and becoming more aware of the harsh realities that the Western civilization and Christianity are facing. It’s definitely time to step up in prayer and action and shine God’s light in the darkening age.

Keep up the excellent work, Bill. Your good work is invaluable (1 Cor 15:58).

Olivia Tan
San Diego, USA

- Abortion = death to the innocent (over 30 million a year)
- Apologizing for America’s past mistakes and avoiding any possible chance of discussing that any other regime may ever have got something wrong = lying about history
- pandering to the gay lobby = perversion (Gene Robinson)
- pandering to foreign terrorists (Guantanamo Bay)
- pandering to Europe lefties
- pandering to Islam (bowing to leaders)
- Equivocating and showing gross ignorance about some of the clearest parts of Christianity
- Embryonic stem cell research (which is unethical and has had no success) and pulling funding from adult stem cell research (which is ethical and has had great success so far, providing treatment for over 70 different conditions)
- Policies that demonize the most upstanding and selfless US citizens as dangerous extremists
- infanticide (killing of just-born children)
- corruption (ACORN)
- racism (Jeremiah Wright)
- ties with terrorists (William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn)
- a regime that causes panic in New York by buzzing the locals with a low flying presidential 747.
- the Global Warming cult
- believes in censorship (Fairness Doctrine for media, or the same thing called something else)
- being upset that the US Constitution limits power to the government
- economic policies that punish successful and hardworking people, and reward the lazy and/or unwise.
- Possibly the most stupid economic decision in the history of the USA (all 57 states!) that will make the poor even less well off and make this Financial crisis even worse – even bankrupting the nation

etc. etc.

But apart from that, he’s a really nice guy and just the kinda ‘moderate’ type you want running a superpower…

What I want to know is, have any professing Christians who voted for this madman woken up yet? Yeah, right, it was only a ‘single issue’ that bothered many. You sure got ‘change’ didn’t you?

Mark Rabich

Ewan McDonald.

… The most uncanny feature of “New Deal or Raw Deal?” is its timeliness. Although released before we knew that Barack Obama would be president, the book shows repeated parallels between the New Deal and the present administration, beginning with the personal similarities between FDR and Obama. Both were gifted with appealing voices, personal charisma, media savvy, and winsome oratory. The most significant parallel is their philosophy of governing. Indeed, Obama seems to be running plays taken straight from the FDR playbook. Examples abound:

In 1936, FDR stated that he wanted “to give” Americans “a greater distribution … of wealth;” in 2008, Obama famously told Joe the Plumber that he intended to “spread the wealth around.”

FDR created the Federal Communications Commission, which politicized the granting of radio-station licenses to muzzle political opponents; Obama’s allies have contemplated imposition of the “fairness doctrine” to accomplish the same objective.

FDR, according to his son, Elliott, politicized the Internal Revenue Service, using it to persecute political enemies, but persuaded the IRS to ignore the tax shenanigans of valuable political allies, such as young congressman Lyndon Johnson, the future president; Obama has sanctioned punitive taxes on business executives, but has shielded political allies from accountability for their millions of ill-gotten gains at Fannie Mae, etc.

FDR’s political allies engaged in voter fraud, as have—according to court decisions—Obama’s friends in ACORN.

The New Deal’s economic burden fell most heavily on lower-income Americans due to its reliance on increased excise taxes on common consumer goods—a mistake that Obama may repeat if he follows through on his cap-and-trade scheme, which would amount to an excise tax on energy.

Federal spending during FDR’s first five years was greater than total federal spending under the 31 presidents who preceded him; total new federal debt under Obama may exceed the total accumulated under all 43 of his predecessors.

One of the most sobering lessons to be learned from “New Deal or Raw Deal?” is that government spending buys votes and sways elections. Folsom’s research on FDR’s reelection victory in 1936 shows that vote totals correlated highly with how much money various New Deal programs funneled into specific districts. Where no or little federal money was dispensed, FDR’s Republican opponent, Alf Landon, often received more votes. In those districts, voters were influenced primarily by the dismal economic conditions that prevailed. But the more federal money that poured into a district, the more voters overlooked the general economic malaise and rewarded FDR’s largesse with votes. Similarly today, the danger is that many Americans may continue to repay Obama’s handouts with votes, even if they cause the economy to continue to sink. …

Jonathan Sarfati, Brisbane

Ewan McDonald.

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch

But did I use the words “comprise completely”? No, you put them into my mouth. I have nowhere on this site claimed that the MSM is only always to the left. I have said repeatedly that it is mainly to the left, and I have offered plenty of documentation of this, including book-length studies that have provided the evidence for the leftward bias of the MSM. See for example: www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/11/15/media-bias/

Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch