Comments on: Barack And The Biblical Job

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:18:23 +0000

Today, any time I see a president speaking on television I turn the channel as though I am watching pornography (well, maybe I don’t always turn quite as fast with pornography unless there are children in the room).
Doesn’t even matter what he is saying I know he is completely full of …. and not worth listening to.

It’s hard to figure when this actually started for me but I know it was nearing full bloom sometime during the Clinton years and then it became completely ripe during Bush II, long about the “they hate us because of our freedoms” speech.

Why it didn’t happen sooner with LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, I don’t know but I can now see it was developing subconsciously all the time.

(What a cast of characters of presidents in my lifetime – starting with Harry S. Truman when I was born).

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:15:19 +0000

Obama’s socialist assumptions, however, are troubling. Evil is often beyond our understanding, but the fact that the wicked operate out of free will and their own choice should not be.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:12:53 +0000

I’m no fan of his, but I thought he did very well in his speech.

God of the Judeo-Christian Bible is not fallible; God reproached Job for challenging Him and reminded him of His might. He gave Job relief because Job nevertheless passed the test and He had no wish to make him suffer. If God lightens a person’s punishment, it’s because the person changes, not God. He knew from the beginning all of our actions.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:42:11 +0000

Prior to “national conversations”, FDR held “fireside chats”. Nothing like der Furher telling the people how “WE” should feel.

I agree with you about the Times providing actual source material. Too much news reporting is shoddy snippets based upon shoddy snippets involving editing whose main functionality is to invert or pervert the intent of the speaker. Much of what passes for “reporting” consists of prejudiced hack-pieces.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:19:49 +0000

Look out indeed.

“We must examine all the facts behind this tragedy.”

Having come to terms with pleasure and vice, the censorious spirit of American Puritanism turns to the scientific method to fight ‘evil’. Through no clairvoyant power I predict science will find the devil in ‘hate’ speech.

By: irongalt

irongalt — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:07:01 +0000

Job is one of my favorite books too...but B.O. citing it disgusts me: it's analogous to Mussolini quoting "Thou shalt not kill". OBAMA: “We must examine all the facts behind this tragedy. We cannot and will not be passive in the face of such violence. We should be willing to challenge old assumptions in order to lessen the prospects of violence in the future.” - Yeah, challenge the old assumption that governments can loot and murder without consequences. He would do well to read another book of the Scripture: read about Rehoboam...when the people asked him to lighten their burdens a little, he threatened to increase them greatly: the result was the nation splitting into two, and decades of war thereafter.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:03:37 +0000

Is there a ‘copyright stamp’ on your copy of his speech? His speeches are always a beautifully well written and preformed exercise. I envy the writer’s skill, now that he has apparently learned to stay on the mark and not ad-lib,we can expect to see many more of the same. The future is not anymore the brighter for it either.

By: Frank Brady

Frank Brady — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:01:05 +0000

Last night, the showboater-in-chief managed to turn what should have been a respectful event in memory of innocent dead into a campaign event. His smirking, grinning demeanor was as shocking as it was in appropropriate.

His speech was filled with platitudes–but many carried a dangerous edge. We do not need to have a “national conversation about gun safety.” We do not need to act with more “civility.” The entire narrative being constructed by the usual suspects is blatantly false.

The problem is not a lack of civility. It is that the Socialists are attempting to impose their agenda on the people who want to be left alone–and the people are objecting.

It’s that simple.