Paparazzi President at work
There’s one employee of the White House — other than the Teleprompter of the United States, that is — who never gets a break.
His name is Pete Souza. He’s the official presidential photographer. Last week, Souza was hard at work making President Obama look hard at work while vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard.
Souza’s Twitter feed and Flickr uploads serve as Agitprop Central for all White House-approved, Behind-The-Scenes Leadership Glamour Shots. Such visual hagiography is to be expected in any administration. But the hasty frequency with which the White House “Message: I’m working here, I’m really working here” photos have been disseminated over the past few weeks is striking. In fact, it’s become a running joke now on Twitter.
Candid Camera or Taxpayer-funded Campaign Camera? You decide:
President Barack Obama receives an update on Hurricane Irene in the Situation Room of the White House, August 27, 2011. Clockwise from left, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood; Richard Reed, Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security; Nick Shapiro, senior policy advisor to John Brennan; John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security; and Chief of Staff BIll Daley. Onscreen are FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Joi[ni]ng by phone are Vice President Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama holds conference call on Hurricane Irene with FEMA Director Craig Fugate, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Chief of Staff Bill Daley, and John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, in Chilmark, Mass., Aug. 26, 2011.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama receives an economic briefing from Brian Deese, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, in Chilmark, Mass., August 24, 2011.
President Barack Obama talks on the phone with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Chilmark, Mass., Aug. 23, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, designated Photo of the Day by the White House)
President Barack Obama receives a national security briefing from John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., Aug. 19, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Reflected in a mirror, President Barack Obama conducts a conference call with his national security staff, including John Brennan (right), Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism, on the situation in Libya in Chilmark, Mass., August 22, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, another White House-designated Photo of the Day)
Hold the phone, America! President Obama’s…holding a phone.
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Judging from the latest Gallup numbers, voters are not impressed. Looks like overworked White House photog Pete Souza is going to have to step up the framing and gaming of the Paparazzi President. For all the daily attempts to manufacture images of competence, strength, decisive, and leadership, this is the stubborn perception Obama’s stage managers can’t shake:
Photoshop credit: IMAO
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Me thinks Harry needs a wahmbulance.
Meanwhile: BARACK Obama’s long-lost “Uncle Omar” popped out of the woodwork, so to speak, and has been arrested for alleged drink-driving outside Boston and detained as an illegal immigrant.
How can Uncle Omar be an illegal immigrant when his Nephew is sort of president of the United States.
Speaking of Obama’s poll numbers, his Rasmussen “passion” index is definitely going to hit a new record low this month.
His prior low was -17.
Right now he’s on track to hit either -20 or -21.
And his monthly “Total Approve” will either match his record low (45%) or set a new record low (44%).
Obama got a short-lived “bump” from acting Presidential during Hurricane Irene, but that bump, like the bumps that preceeded it will fade.
(He previously received a bump from his 2010 election campaigning,
a bump from his late 2010 extension of the Bush Tax Cuts,
and a bump from the reported killing of Osama Bin Laden,
but all of those bumps have faded away.)
Clarification:
His prior monthly low was -17.
Right now he’s on track to hit either -20 or -21.
HarryBailey…It is becoming more and more difficult to be civil to the left, as we see more and more every day they are destroying the most free, prosperous, loving country in the world and turning it into a third world, racist, sink hole. At least, that is why I talk to trolls that way. I just can’t be polite when trolls are so incredibly stupid, ill-informed, delusional and destructive. Keep supporting Obama and you will continue to get derided here. Count on it.
Vacations, golf, basketball, fundraising, campaigning, criticising Republicans and Tea Party activists, sucking up to unions, Hollywood idiots, and Soros henchmen.
Yeah, he’s been really busy.
Now about the country….
I don’t see how he has lasted this long. He has to please George Soros, or he might end up dead. He has to please both the left, and the independents. He has to cover all his lies and make them palatable. He has to remember what he said, and to whom. This tangled web is so convoluted now, I think he is shutting down…mentally and physically. That is why he has TOTUS taking over on everything.
Leave my epistemic closure alone!
On August 29th, 2011 at 1:05 pm, rambler said:
Ventriloquist dummies are all about promoting an image, not solving problems.
The left has not been civil for years. Their activists are violent, irrational, and dangerous. It’s their way or the highway. They will destroy your business, your home, your reputation by any means neccesary if you don’t agree with them. They verbally and physically attack the opposition.
Then they come here and cry about civility? Gadzooks!
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Insanity as defined by Al Einstein (NOT one of the bagel making brothers)
Obowmao (singing) I mix your milk wit my cocoa puff
Milky, milky cocoa
Mix your milk with my cocoa puff, milky, milky right
They say I’m really sexy
The boys they wanna sex me
They always standing next to me
Always dancing next to me
Tryin’ a feel my bump, bump
Lookin’ at my lump, lump
You can look but you can’t touch it
If you touch it I’ma start some drama
You don’t want no drama
No, no drama, no no no no drama
So don’t pull on my hand boy
You ain’t my man, boy
I’m just tryn’a dance boy
And move my bump
My bump, my bump my bump my bump
My bump my bump my bump
My bump my bump my bump
My lovely lady lumps
My lovely lady lumps
My lovely lady lumps
In the back and in the front
My lovin’ got you….
my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
they’re like, it’s better than yours
damn right, it’s better than yours
I could teach you
but I’d have to charge
Really!?! How did I miss that? Oh, I know, the tv hasn’t been on most of the weekend. I didn’t miss the constant Fox News alerts when he farted. “GRETA!! Where are you, GRETA!” (Getting burned out on Fox News too) Must be epistemic closure in the extreme (as one pseudo-intellectual put it)
Harry Bailey won’t you please go home! Wait, that was Bill wasn’t it? You have a brother Bill, Harry?
It’s the ILMC effect. Without the likes of ILMC, back and forth with civil people of disparate ideologies becomes possible.
Wait. Is this because I said I would leave the ‘check it out’ to ass-licks?
Aw.
T-Bone said:
Throw in legislatively while you’re at it. As Michelle mentioned the other day:
Then Trolls come around here wondering why we aren’t being ‘fair’? Of course fair where Obamabots are concerned Reads giving BHO every benefit of the DOUBT 24/7.
Drugs and his own vastly overextended ego.
Au Contraire, mon ami Scrappy! You see, from my point of view, he isn’t bothered with covering the lies or remembering what he has said and to whom. It’s the ‘Liberals aren’t accountable’ syndrome. As Rush and others here today have said, “It’s not the results that count, it’s the good intentions’. Therefore, lies don’t matter to ones not held accountable.
Once lies are stacked so deeply it takes an eighteen wheeler with a logging chain to pull them out, (like some people’s rectal cranial inversion, still here Harry?) it doesn’t really matter what the lies are as long as there are other lies to cover the previous lies.
Remember ‘Oh, the dangerous web we weave…’? It was simpler said that way. Now I’ll be fined for exceeding my daily quota of electron use.
Mr. Hammer, meet Mr. Nailhead. It reminds me to buy some more ammo.
When discussing Obama’s work schedule, please do not forget to distinguish between the work done on behalf of the country and the work done on behalf of being re-elected. There is a major difference despite what the Obozo minions believe.
‘Uhmmmm…… it’s a possibility!’ (channeling Bugs Bunny)
“I think he is shutting down…mentally and physically. That is why he has TOTUS taking over on everything.”
I heard tell that Valerie has a box of Tissues at the ready whenever Sock Puppet tosses a sniffle.
You can tell the author has been to this site:
“Intellect, knowledge and linguistic mastery are mistrusted by Republican voters, who, when choosing a president, would apparently prefer someone like themselves over someone actually qualified for the job.
…The population of the United States is more than 300 million and it includes some of the best and brightest that the human species has to offer, probably more so than any other country in the world. There is surely something wrong with a system for choosing a leader when, given a pool of such talent and a process that occupies more than a year and consumes billions of dollars, what rises to the top of the heap is George W Bush. Or when the likes of Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin can be mentioned as even remote possibilities.”
http://gawker.com/5834921/richard-dawkins-gamely-takes-on-rick-perrys-evolution-denialism
Yep, a toot for the snoot.
Leg up, arm out, any ol’ orifice will do! George Carlin (RIP) said about Dopey of Seven Dwarf fame.
Candid Camera or Taxpayer-funded Campaign Camera? You decide
Truesoldier said:
We could sit here and argue back and forth over how many hours the President does/does not work, but in either case the results have been the same…utter failure. What is worse is the President does not seem to learn from his failures and continues to try the same things over and over again.
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Whirled Peas said:
It’s the ‘Liberals aren’t accountable’ syndrome. As Rush and others here today have said, “It’s not the results that count, it’s the good intentions’. Therefore, lies don’t matter to ones not held accountable.
Drudge:
OBAMA DISAPPROVE AT ALL-TIME HIGH…
ROMNEY: Triple ‘D’ presidency — debt, downgrade, delay…
‘THREE MINUTES, TWO TELEPROMPTERS’…
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/three-minutes-two-teleprompters
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Barry always has been a BS Artist..now he takes it to a whole new level. Look at what he has gotten away with to date, pretty amassing or amusing, depending how you look at it.
This is what you can do when you have Pravda in your back pocket.
I wonder, are teleprompters allowed to be used during the coming presidential debates??
On August 29th, 2011 at 2:02 pm, Ilovehammersandsand said:
57 States, The Austrian Language and thanking his parents for being at Selma several years after he was born to name a few.
Those of limitded intellect probably should not discuss those who do possess more than they could ever hope to harness. Back to the cave, you mental midget.
You just had to say that didn’t you! Voila! (that’s froggy for WTF?) One takes off the HarryBailey hat and puts on the ILOVEMUNCHINGMYDINGLEBERRIES hat.
Allowed? Heck, it will be a pre-condition by Obozo’s handlers in order for him to appear.
“Bob, I would like to respond to my opponent’s comments, just as soon as TOTUS displays what I am thinking”.
Does this guy chew tobacco? I keep seeing pictures of him with this big lump under his bottom lip and it sure looks like he’s stashing chew under there to me!! Other pictures don’t show it, so I don’t think he just looks that way all the time.
Time for a “Gee, aren’t Republicans dumb” meme
Notice that these memes never get applied on the other side of the aisle, either. Did any media question Obama’s intelligence when during the campaign when he made these whoppers?
* The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.
* Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.
* Afghans do not speak Arabic.
* Within 24 hours, Obama reversed his assertion that Iran did not pose a “serious threat” to the US to an assertion that the threat is “grave”.
* “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
* 57 states
No, they didn’t. Why? Because the media only uses the weird, scary, and idiot memes for Republican candidates, that’s why.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/29/time-for-a-gee-arent-republicans-dumb-meme/
Ah….ILMC, in November 2008, I was empirically more qualified to be President of the United States than Barack Obama.
So if you were trying to make a point here, I think you just invalidated your own premise.
Another Wile E. ILMC moment. Genius, pure genius.
Harry’s willing to engage and respond. That’s preferable to seagulls.
We have answers to any talking point the left can produce that will lead a logical person to the conservative side, but swoop and poop will never lead to the conservative discovery.
Wait didn’t he say he was conceived on that bridge to Selma? Well, he didn’t actually mutter and stutter those words but the implication was there. One question, how could he be conceived in Selma 4 years after he was born? Is that a kind of Maculate Conception? Or were his parents that incompetent?
Obama wasn’t really that enamored by his ‘white‘ side. I know it’s repetitious but it bears repeating.
Swoop and poop hahahaha classic!
My analogy was walking through a crowded room dropping ‘roses’ on the way through. Different analogy, same result.
On August 29th, 2011 at 2:29 pm, Whirled Peas said:
I have always been confused by the “conceived on that bridge to Selma” implication — I believe that mr sock puppet suffers from random fugue states.
Check this discription out:
“a disordered state of mind in which somebody typically wanders from home and experiences a loss of memory relating only to the previous, rejected, environment”
Intelligence? From a Marxist?
Marxism is illogical and unintelligent. It is prima facie proof of stupidity.
I seriously doubt that Obama will agree to ANY debates. He can’t afford to have hard questions asked without pre-prepared answers carefully fed to TOTUS. He has no rational answers. All he can do is spin. That dog won’t hunt in a debate with Rick Perry! And Joe Biden debating Marco Rubio??? Priceless!!!
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I don’t see how Barky can avoid debates. Unless something comes up that makes them entirely unnecessary.
I disagree. I am sure he will agree to debates as long as they are moderated by Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, or Keith Olbermann.
You mean like a military coupe?
Could be a wad of Nicorette gum. I understand he chews the stuff quite a bit.
Coupe intentionally used as parody.
He’s tried the patches also, but has had a hard time keeping them lit.
And if he has the questions in advance so his staff can get the answers on TOTUS.
Green eyed Lady said:
I recently took my promotion boards for the Guard and Bammie has so exhausted everyone w/ his dribbling BS when the board asked me something I didn’t know, I simply said: I.Don’t.Know!
Not even going there. Next question! Pre-Bammie I would’ve “rambled to discovery” hoping to dislodge some repressed memory or talked until they told you to shut up. No more. No one has any patience left for it.
“He’s tried the patches also, but has had a hard time keeping them lit.”
It is called “Chasing the MudSkipper”
Sock Puppet is the only person that tries it.
On August 29th, 2011 at 2:53 pm, HarryBailey said:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama.”
Why Harry, what ever do you mean?
Reminds me of Tommy Smothers in the 60′s. He tried ‘hash’ but couldn’t keep the corned beef lit!
Questions we’d like to hear at a debate:
Mr. President, researchers at UCLA have concluded that the massive Keynesian spending and pro-union policies during FDR’s New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression by 7 years. Why did you use failed policies to try to bring America out of a recession?
Mr. President, would you call it lack of executive or foreign policy experience, or did you really believe an iPod loaded with your own speeches would be an appropriate gift for a foreign Head of State?
Mr. President, how do you create jobs by making it more difficult and costly to do business?
I think they should skip the debates and have each candidate appear on “Are you Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”
That would be MUST SEE TV.
OT: Wonder when we’re going to hear the media criticizing Obama for not getting FEMA responders and trailers into the Schoharie Valley and the Eastern Catskills quickly enough?
Sounds plausible. There are a lot of pathologies O’Mulligan displays. Lying being a major one of them.
Now THAT is one debate I would pay to see!
Oh, the humanity! Oy, the veal!
txvet2 said:
Wonder when the LSM will investigate the money slated for use in Joplin,MO was sidetracked for use in the Blue States. Not holding my breath though.
It’s sad. I remember Pete Souza when he was a (mighty good) news photographer for The Hutchinson News.
Now he’s just another Obama punchline.
I was thinking more along the lines of a lil deuce coupe
– ILMC
The liberal alternative has worked so smashingly so far, eh ILMC? Apparently they would prefer someone who paints him/herself as an intellectual over someone actually qualified for office.
I thought as much.
You interpret it your way harry and I’ll interpret it mine.
The patches put over the eyes are a dead giveaway too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was taking the cloth stuffed snuff (can’t remember what they were called, Shooters maybe?) and exchanged the snuff with CocaCocaine.
‘Just a pinch between the cheek and gum…‘ Walt Garrison, former Dallas Cowboy and rodeo star.
Richard Dawkins attacked Perry’s intelligence with this line: “…there is about the fact of evolution no doubt at all. Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. ”
If it is a fact, why is it called the “theory of evolution”?
Man appeared suddenly, 6,000 years ago, which fits the Bible record — there is no historical record of man that predates this, as the Greek and Roman historical records can attest. Evolution through fish-like and ape-like creatures is based on faith because the theory of evolution — after over a hundred years of digging — still has the glaring “missing links.” Go ahead, I will not stop you from believing that your distant uncle was a monkey.
Hence the statement ‘If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullsh!t. The constant baffling will eventually wear one down. It’s just another liberal ‘Standard Operating Procedure’ You, of all people and being connected to the military, should be well aware of this practice. It is/was practiced on a daily basis in the active duty ranks.
(T)he agency focuses on the immediate needs of disaster survivors, communities and states – in this case, along the East Coast for places hit by Hurricane Irene. He said FEMA also needs to ensure there is enough money to respond to any other disasters that might occur this year.
I guess Joplin no longer has an immediate need.
According to my copy of The Complete History of the World by Richard Overy. (Published by Times Books, London), The chronology of world history starts in Near East and North Africa. 9000-8000 Evidence of domesticated cereals and pulses in the Levant – the ‘Neolithic revolution’ – in the Near East; first permanent settlements.
I don’t know where they got the information and how they dated it that far back but this book is in the eighth edition and if it wasn’t somewhat reliable, I wouldn’t think it would be the eighth edition.
Boy, that Richard Overy must be one smart guy. He wrote a book and God directed the writing of a book. I’m going with God’s book.
I hate to break it to Richard, but it’s already been written; Mel Brooks History of the World; Part 1.
huh. It’s not just about ‘missing links’–it’s about one species becoming another. Biochemists, cellular biologists and molecular biologists have shown otherwise over and over again. The adherents will throw around tidbits of (mis)information such as ‘the chimpanzee is our closest relative with 24 pairs of chromosomes’ and other types of homology to prove their point. I feel it actually proves the opposite.
If you were God, and you wanted to explain it to your people living in the desert 8,000 years ago that you created them because you loved them and wanted to have a special place for them, would you tell them the way Moses did or would you write an article similar to what you would see in the Journal of Science?
Well, OBAMA has certainly evolved–into someone who works very hard to look like he’s working very hard.
Great leap for homo sapiens everywhere–especially us here in the US of A!
FIFY.
LOL! You are so right, Hawk–thanks!
Leader of Senate: “All fellow members of the Roman senate, hear me! Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor? How does the senate vote?”
Entire Senate: “F*CK THE POOR!”
See, the Dems saw this and confused the Roman Senate with Republicans. Still can’t convince Kerry it was just a movie.
Ya’ll obviously missed my disclaimer at the bottom of the comment.
I don’t take his word as Gospel. As a matter of fact, I discovered early on (like in the first couple of pages after the Chronology) that the author aspires to the THEORY of evolution. Taken as an aside to Creationism, I can allow them to co-exist in the scheme of things. I lean towards Creationism but will not reject the THEORY out of hand.
Doing that aspires to what was referred to earlier as epistemic closure and rejection of either is a prime example. Have you seen films of a fetus developing? Is a fertilized egg developing into a human being in the womb not an example of evolution (or development, whichever word you prefer)?
My formative years 18months-10 years were spent in a Southern Baptist Orphanage in the buckle of the Bible Belt. I had ‘hellfire and brimstone’ on a 24/7 basis. I rejected it in my teen and early adult life but now that I am coming to grips with my mortality, I tend to fall back on my teachings. I still have quite a vivid reminder of the scriptures although I haven’t referred to them of late. Revelations is the book that is more relevant to me presently.
So don’t try to lump me in with the liberals and Scopes trial types. You don’t know me well enough to cast aspersions.
I know you were attacking the book and not me personally but I took it as a personal affront to my referencing the book illustrating a point an anthropologist has suggested. Does that make that person a heretic? I think not. Outside of politics, I’ll listen to and evaluate opposing views. As stated, Darwin jumped out at me immediately in the first few pages. I didn’t feel compelled to toss it on the fireplace and set fire to it. I could go on an on ad infinitum but I think (hope) I got the message across.
PS LOVED Mel Brooks’ History of the World
First of all, I wouldn’t equate myself with God. Secondly, if I had the ability to create a race of people, I would’t let them be enslaved for millenia, sacrificed on the altar of Satan in Auschwitz and other Godless places, or endure the trials and tribulations of modern times in the Middle East.
Our God is a jealous God but I’ve also been taught he’s a merciful God. I can’t see the mercy in what has been perpetrated (then and now) on the Jewish people generally and the Israelis specifically. Did God grant Caanan to the Jews knowing the torment, anguish, and death it would cause them? Was the land of milk and honey a cruel joke on the Jews? I’m questioning with boldness but stop at the existence of God. I’m sure you’ve heard that before from someone. How can one question the existence of an entity that doesn’t exist? (referring atheist)
Do you reckon the Jews brought all this suffering on themselves from time immemorial by proclaiming they were God’s chosen people? I’ve pondered that question for years.
To answer your question, there wasn’t a Journal of Science available at the time and Moses wasn’t a happy camper when he came down Sinai with the tablets. Moses was a little more effective in getting the message across in my opinion. Again if they were my people that I loved, I wouldn’t have forced them into so much pain and suffering and ANYONE that dared raise a hand to them would immediately be taken up to experience the wrath of God.
There is a reason for it and all will be revealed in His time.
Ann Coulters last column dealt with the subject of evolution.
Here is her site.
Here is a relevant excerpt. I don’t know if this is true but it is interesting.
In fact, however, it has not been advances in Christianity (which is pretty much settled), but in science that have completely discredited Darwin’s theory of evolution.
This week, we will consider one small slice of the mountain of scientific evidence disproving this mystery religion from the Victorian age.
Most devastating for the Darwiniacs were advances in microbiology since Darwin’s time, revealing infinitely complex mechanisms requiring hundreds of parts working together at once — complex cellular structures, DNA, blood-clotting mechanisms, molecules, and the cell’s tiny flagellum and cilium.
Darwin’s theory was that life on Earth began with single-celled life forms, which by random mutation, sex and death, would pass on the desirable mutations, and this process, over billions of years, would lead to the creation of new species.
The (extremely generous) test Darwin set for his theory was this: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”
Thanks to advances in microscopes, thousands of such complex mechanisms have been found since Darwin’s day. He had to explain only simple devices, such as beaks and gills. If Darwin were able to come back today and peer through a modern microscope to see the inner workings of a cell, he would instantly abandon his own theory.
It is a mathematical impossibility, for example, that all 30 to 40 parts of the cell’s flagellum — forget the 200 parts of the cilium! — could all arise at once by random mutation. According to most scientists, such an occurrence is considered even less likely than John Edwards marrying Rielle Hunter, the “ground zero” of the impossible.
Nor would each of the 30 to 40 parts individually make an organism more fit to survive and reproduce, which, you will recall, is the lynchpin of the whole contraption.
More likely, they found out that Joplin went Republican in 2008.
WhirledPeas,
First the Mel Brooks comment was in pure jest, nothing more. I am quite unfamiliar with the author. If you were offended then I sincerely apologize.
My comment about Genesis 1 stems from my background as a Lutheran. We believe the Bible is the “inspired” Word of God. God explained to the children of Israel how the Earth was created in terms they could understand. I find it fascinating a man in the desert 8,000 years ago managed to get the sequence of events to generally match modern science…. most interesting.
If God took 6 24 hour days, then fine. if he took 6 billion years to create this home for me for my short life, then is that not a testament to the love he has for us?
The Jews were God’s chosen people so there would be a race of faithful people from which the messaiah could come. The fact he had to choose one group is a testimony to human wickedness.
When Christ came and fulfilled his mission we all became God’ chosen people, because he died for everyone.
I do not know why Jews suffer anymore than I know why children die of cancer. As my old Pasotr told me, “Never ask, why? Ask, what for?”
You can judge someone by the questions they ask. You ask excellent questions. Hat tip.
Why is it that every time they show the Obatard in a leadership like position I keep thinking of the Mighty Mouse song? They should play that every time you see him because after all here he comes to save the day.
Ilovemycountry
Aside from getting a check in the mail, people vote for people who they can relate to, and that includes looks.
Why do you think that nominally republican southern states were carried in no small party by Clinton and the Bushes?
Besides, needing over 30 teleprompters for a European trip doesn’t strike me as “linguistic, intelligent or knowledgable”.
The Obama Kool-Aid drinking minions think those are one and the same.
When you listen the Lazy Main Stream Media, you hear the same buzz words and talking points over and over. That and their obvious dismissiveness to the gaffes of the Dumbocrats. Do they truly think we do not notice that? So, who is really dumber: Republicans or the LMSM?
Since you are willing to accept “theistic evolution,” then you should know that the name given to the proponents is “evolutionary creationists.”