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By: Love Your Political Enemies: A Response to Jimmy Carter’s Comments on Racism | The Contemplative Blogger

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:02:52 +0000

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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:30:53 +0000

[...] policies, including Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” outburst and former President Jimmy Carter’s response. Jim Wallis’ post last week reminded us that, despite many principled disagreements with [...]

By: Identify racism when you see it | Mission & Justice

Identify racism when you see it | Mission & Justice — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:18:07 +0000

[...] I love my fellow citizens who have taken to the street against President Obama and his plans for health-care reform. I love those who carry signs that compare him to Hitler and depict him as the Joker in Batman. I love those who show up to his town hall meetings wearing guns. I love Congress members who show disrespect for the first African-American president by shouting out, texting, and not giving him their attention. I love those citizens who say that President Obama is not a natural-born United States citizen. I love talk show hosts on radio and television that seek to divide the nation with pronouncements that bear little resemblance to the facts. President Jimmy Carter has said that many of these good people are motivated by racism. Each woman and each man has to look into her or his heart and decide the truth of this. Racist or not, I love them. I love them because the teachings of Jesus command it. See; http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/17/a-response-to-jimmy-carters-racism-comments-love-your-political-enem... [...]

By: BlueDeacon

BlueDeacon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:06:07 +0000

No, that is NOT what I'm saying. In fact, I make the distinction between
Obama's critics -- those who have sincere disagreement based on
principle -- and his enemies, who want to see him fail due to pure
envy. And it's clear to me that most of the folks demonstrating him today
generally fall into the second camp, not interested even in negotiating with
him. And Obama has to know that too -- I mean, how do you talk to someone who
just won't listen to anything you say?

By: BlueDeacon

BlueDeacon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:06:07 +0000

By: irish_annie

irish_annie — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:20:05 +0000

so anyone with another viewpoint is identified as “obama's enemies”?!!!

is your scope so narrow that anyone who strays from the group think is named ENEMY? firmly entrenched in a self-righteous “us vs them”, the new liturgical left has no more imagination or insight than the old religious right. two sides of the same coin.

By: BlueDeacon

BlueDeacon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:55:20 +0000

This was a case of someone hijacking my handle.

By: lysager

lysager — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:23:31 +0000

I did not vote for President Obama, but did feel some measure of pride in his ultimately being elected. President Obama has many admirable qualities which I respect. I also pray for President Obama as I did for President Bush. The scriptures instruct us to respect and pray for the authorities. Our prayers may not always be that their particular agenda suceeds, but rather for God's guidance, wisdom, and will be done. I fear that some on the far right are vengefully directing the same venom on Obama that was poured out on Bush. I could, at times, scarcely believe the kind of hatred the left cultivated against then President Bush. I felt that those who did not believe in Satan had a substitute they created called Bush. He seemed to become the source of all evil that stalks the earth, from global warming to starvation in Africa, and hurricane Katrina. If prayers were given for Bush I believe some prayed he would die a horrible painful death to suffer for his imputed crimes. Such attitudes and actions toward anyone is sinful and contradicts our Lord's teachings totally. Those of us who are conservatives must restrain any urge to get revenge or to “do to them as they did to us.” Let us show respect and judge with righteous judgement. When we disagree, as Shane Claiborne is fond of saying, let us do so, well. Let every thought and word be subject to Christ, not only in church, but in politics and all of life.

By: jonnymil

jonnymil — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:08:34 +0000

President Carter did NOT say that those who disagree with President Obama are racist. He said that shouting out “You Lie” on the House of Representatives during a presidential address has an inherent vistage of racism. You may disagree with President Obama all you like. God knows I do: he does not support a single-payer system of health care that would wipe out the health insurance industry–which is what I want–and the “Lie” that the Congressman cited is about whether or not all equally-created people would have access to publicly funded health care or if we would deny it to someone based on what side of an imaginary line they happened to experience birth. The truth is worse than the lie. But presidents deserve respect, and all white presidents have had it without the asking or the commentary or the explanations. And President Carter was right.

By: kindnature

kindnature — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:08:15 +0000

I am very disturbed by the racist comments made about our president who is doing a superior job and doing his absolute best to clean up the mess he was left by the past administration. Where is the outrage from those people about the greed that permeated throughout the entire (closed) Bush Administration that brought this country to its knees? It was all about making a quick buck with that crowd, under the guise that they were God fearing but their opposition were made up ofl non-believers and unpatriotic.. It was sickening! But there were those who couldn't see the forest for the trees and bought it, lock stock and barrel……it's very sad!

So of course it's racism, pure and simple, that's being displayed by those who voted for the other guy and his terrible choice for vice president (a disastrous team that would have only further deteriorated this great country)

By: mousehouse

mousehouse — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:04:35 +0000

BlueDeacon, you've just violated at least the third guideline in the Comment Code of Conduct.

By: Fortuitous Bouncing « Man of Depravity

Fortuitous Bouncing « Man of Depravity — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:32:59 +0000

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By: kansasmennonite

kansasmennonite — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:13:42 +0000

It's only a very small fraction of the people who don't have health insurance. They're a loud minority group that is very “fringy”. Extremely anti govt so some of the repubs didn't even want to speak and show up since they are part of the govt.

By: jonabark

jonabark — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:17:55 +0000

So Glenn Beck says respectful things like”The President has exposed himself as a guy … over and over and over again … who has a deep-seated hatred for white people … or the white culture…. I don't know what it is”

Or this respectful question”Could Barak Obama be the anti-Christ?”

By: xfree9

xfree9 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:09:06 +0000

I googled it… there are ranges. The anti- tea party crowd wants to keep it 60-70k. Pic of any overhead photograph of the event on Saturday, and that number is the absolute minimum. The photos reveal a very large crowd. Some estimate upwards of a million, with the high end about 1.4, but not “millions.”

By: BlueDeacon

BlueDeacon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:40:41 +0000

A colleague quoted it in his column on Tuesday.

By: wayland

wayland — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:29:59 +0000

let us respect each other and spend our time discussing the problem we are addressing. A racist heart can likely only be touched from the inside and what it experiences, not what it it hears…

By: xfree9

xfree9 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:31:19 +0000

Where did you get that number?

By: BlueDeacon

BlueDeacon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:22:12 +0000

Then explain the “tea party” on Saturday, attended by only 70,000 but claiming millions.

By: BlueDeacon

BlueDeacon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:20:27 +0000

Part of the problem in this discussion is that you seem to believe or act as if the nasty fringe, whose views I hope all here deplore, are a huge force -- that they are the driving force of opposition to Obama's policy, perhaps even the majority.

The fringe may not be the majority; however, no one denies that it does indeed drive the discourse beyond a rational discussion because it has the biggest mouths -- and access to major media. Besides, many of such groups are indeed underground but have the ear of the professional "haters." That's why they complain that the MSM don't bring such things to light.

By the way, can you name this group?

Americans for Prosperity.

As for the Soviet flag story, I'm not quite sure I understood your point.

Well, the very same charge of "Communism" was made towards MLK Jr., despite his repeated open denunciations of Marxism.