McCain,
I'm a little confused with all the twisting and turning and double-talk you and your Sarah Palin person have been doing. In fact . . . well . . .
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight!If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,different." But if you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're a quintessential American story.If your name is Barack you're a radical, and an unpatriotic Muslim; but if you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.If you graduate from Harvard law School you are unstable; but if you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the firstblack President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registrationdrive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as aConstitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district withover 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.But if your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as thegovernor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive, and possibly the leader of the Free World.If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a realChristian.But if you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left yourdisfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including theproper use of birth control, and try to get legislation to protect kids, you are eroding the fiber of society.But if, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're *very* responsible.If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's. Watch the hypocrisy now . . . because if you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable, and the most patriotic of all Americans.OK, McCain, I got it now and I can see much clearer. Thanks for straightening me out!
For What it's Worth . . .
Black Issachar
In order to be competitive, the McCain camp is lobbying hard for Obama to meet McCain in Town Hall settings. They are hungry for this because Obama will make McCain look good. Why are they pushing this? Because they know that his resume is puny and that his Vice Presidential nominee's resume is just as scanty.
Stay away from him Obama, let Americans judge their own future. Let them hire their own management team. And may God help us!
This morning I was cleaning out some old files on my compouter and look what I found buried among tidbits of wisdom? I found some eviudence that McCain is in deeper trouble than he knows by even invoking the name "Bush." Read it O Faithful and weep for the Religious Right.
By
Kenneth R. Adderley, PhD, M. Div., M.A.
This morning I received the shock of my literary life while reading my bible in daily meditation. The effect was so great that I felt compelled to record my discovery. For more than two years (since late 2005 when the Bush Republican Administration went to great lengths to deny that a civil war was occurring in Iraq, even calling upon the Religious Right for its support) the Religious Right, which had stood solidly behind its presidential candidate began to say that they felt betrayed, and were “ashamed” by the Presidential pronouncements. Today, there is a message from the Lord, which has been in my hands for more than 20 years and in Scripture for thousands.
The passage in Isaiah 1:18-20 has become one of the most read passages within Christianity and Judaism for the purpose of calling sinners to repentance. However, I have not heard anyone in 30 years read, concentrate or explain any of the verses between Isaiah 1: 21-31.
“Zion shall be redeemed with judgment and her converts with righteousness. And the destruction of the transgressors and of sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed. For they shall be ashamed . . .” Isa. 1:27-29
The number for the Hebrew word translated “ashamed” is 954, which I promptly looked up in the Strong’s Greek-English Dictionary and Lexical Aids to the Old Testament at the back of my Bible. The word is “Bush" (buwsh = boosh)! Following is the explanation cited word for word for this scholarly research:
954. Bush; to be ashamed, to feel ashamed, to be confounded, to make ashamed, to keep waiting, to deceive, to act shamefully; to disgrace. This is a root meaning “to become pale” or “to blush.” When failure or sin occurs, there is a disconcerting feeling, a flushing of the face. The word often occurs in contexts of humiliation and shattered human emotions. It is the feeling of public disgrace. Bush is the confusion, embarrassment, or dismay when things do not turn out as expected. The idea of shame of an utter defeat pervades the mood. Disillusionment and a broken spirit follow (Ezra 9:6; Isa. 1:29; 30:5; Jer. 2:36; 9:19). The opposite meaning is trusting God (Isa. 29:22; Joel 2:26, 27; Zeph. 3:11). There is a strong connotation of guilt (Jer. 6:15; Ezek. 16:63).”
While it is common knowledge that a Hebrew word may have multiple meanings, of considerable interest should be the meanings “to deceive” “to act shamefully” “to disgrace.” In addition, please notice that “it is a feeling of public disgrace” and also that “the opposite meaning is trusting God.” Does this mean that the Religious Right was deceived into supporting this candidate, and subsequently became disillusioned and ashamed? Mine is not to judge or conclude, but rather to report the findings of true research as a “research professor.”
K. R. Adderley, PhD
December 2, 2007
So much for Sarah Palin. Let’s finish the Job Obama. McCain admits that Community Organizers are honorable and patriotic. This is the 4th quarter so bring it on home. And while you do that, all the Christian Sons of Issachar will pray: “Thy will be done and may God defend the right!”
http://www.crosscut.com/2008-election/17341/About+Sarah+Palin:+an+e-mail+from+Wasilla/
It is a sad thing for men, who want to see a woman in the White House or authoritative enough in Washington to bring about changes that honor women in this country, to swallow the misguided leadership of a petty and vindictive McCain Campaign. Why did they not better school this vice-presidential candidate or force McCain to make a better choice?
The more we contemplate the secrets of Sarah Palin, the worse it gets--even down to the now alleged "baby daddy."
This thing just won't go away! And now we have the dollars and sense of the Pork Earmarks and it smells - lipstick or not.
Watch it for yourself, and tell me if I'm making too much of this Pig, because for 7 years I've been asking for a woman to get to the Power of the White House to bring equity to this country of ours.
Sarah Palin Champion Against Earmarks of Pork (Pigs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbn_AXlaeY
http://blackissachar.blogspot.com
They are old in ideas, old in political rationale, old in diplomatic strategy, old in technology, old in scientific inventions, old-thinking in education, unable to see the real future of a global economy because they want to retain the old ways of control. A John McCain White House will be old rhetoric and old Cold War tactics designed to keep everyone enslaved in fear. Watch it and make up your own mind, because without knowing it, they will be bringing on the real holocaust of 2 Peter 3:10.
http://www.tellingthoughts.com/us-politics/taking-control-of-the-agenda
McCain is old . . . and his vision for America is not only reactionary it is looking old more and more each day. Consider this fact. America has only 3% of the world’s oil reserves, but we consume 25% of the world’s output. McCain says every day that only he is “ready to lead” and that he can solve our energy problems by drilling. He charges Obama with not being “ready to lead” and one who talks without action and lacks judgment.
Obama has consistently called for alternative sources of energy to get off the Oil bandwagon, and went out on a limb during the Primaries to say that drilling would save less than a dollar for a tank of gas. John McCain went to town and called Obama all kinds of names saying that he has bad judgment and is not “ready to lead.” But, by his own words and actions, McCain proves that he and his Grand Ole Party (GOP) are just that.
They are “ole” in the true sense of the word. If you want to see what the world is doing, click on the YouTube link. You will see how “Ole” he and his party are, because before Palin gets to spend one year drilling for the Oil in Alaska, the oil which Dick Chaney coveted in secret, the world will be driving on water and laughing Americans and their Grand Ole Party to scorn. What leadership? They shouldn’t even use the word.
While the GOP and John Mccain are pressuring Senator Hollis French to stop investigating the Sarah Palin secrets, their attempt to fool Americans only show the true motive. McCain MUST win in order to complete George Bush's march toward Oligarchy. It has long been known that Dick Chaney and his confidants wished America to be ruled by a powerful few rather than by the open votes of a democratic people.
Now the GOP has launched a move to get rid of Senator French, a move that is clearly contradictory to Palin's call for reform. If they want reform then they should start answering some questions put to them by several Congressional committees. If they want reform they should declare publicly and sign a contract with America to have an "open" White House where all decisions and dealings can be clearly seen. For example, will Dick Chaney finally reveal the TRUTH about the meeting in Alaska with the Big Oil Executives, a meeting which took place on our dollars?
Perhaps the only way the 290 million poor hardworking Americans will get to see the shallowness of both John McCain and his running mate is to vote them into office. But by then the Democracy we all say we love will have been so eroded that even the World will see the phrase "We the People" as pointing only to the Bush-McCain Oligarchy. Especially since Sarah Palin is a contradiction.
Palin's job description as vice president and her acceptance of McCain's positions of reactionary politics is a disgrace to Alice Paul and the National Women's Party (NWP). It was Paul's radicalism that set the stage for Carrie Chapman Catt and the NASWA to finally be successful so that women won the right to vote. They had been fighting since Abigail Adams for a voice in Congress. But will Sarah Palin carry forward that banner? Will she be the women's champion that John McCain says that she is? Will Sarah Palin prove to be "liberal" enough to bring about the kind of change women need in this country? The truth is that she has already locked herself into the Bush-McCain agenda. That agenda is a reactionary one, which is pledged to keep the status quo. That agenda is pledged to spend billions of dollars a month overseas while hundreds of thousands of children go to bed hungry in every night. American women, you are being raped openly by wolves that look good and speak softly.
Ethics reform? Break a few dishes in Washington? By all that godly people hold dear, a woman's champion in Washington needs to turn the whole china closet upside down, kick a few dogs out of the house and reveal every secret found in the Chaney White House. Reform my foot. . . it's nothing but a ploy and an open rape of 190 million American women.
Barack, it's the 4th quarter. I know that you couldn't put forward all your plans because the Republicans would take them and make the people believe it was their idea. If you notice, George Bush has already done everything you said during your debates. He has set a time table with Malaki for drawing down troops. He has gotten the generals and the Pentagon to talk more urgently about deploying more troops in Afghanistan. He talked to North Korea, even though it wa not his stated foreign policy and that threat is now moot. He has opened junior level talks with Iran undercover, even though that was against his and Mccain's stated policy of "not talking to our enemies." McCain has even gone so far as to promise more funding for students college education, and George Bush has began tauting student service to our country like he wants to revive the Peace Corps of yesteryear.
In short, Barack, and all you who are on the advising team, it is the 4th quarter. You promised to bring it in the 4th quarter. So let's get busy . . . bring it . . . bring it Barack. The time is now. Its time to clean house, even God demands it. Call them liars openly and passionately. You don't have to attack McCain's character. Just let the people know that you will tax only those who make more than $250,000 a year. You don't have to worry. Even Forbes Magazine, the rich folks bible, has gone on record saying that only 2% of Americans own 98% of the country wealth. So bring it! There are 294 million of us who cannot come close to $250,000 a year. So let's take it to 'em! Let's ask the American people to tell John McCain and Sarah Palin that if they are serious about ethics reform then they need to start revealing secrets, and that they should start with Dick Chaney's visit to Alaska and the Oil Big Wigs. That should get us in the Red Zone . . . and from there you can rock with a nice 2 minute drill. So c'mon baby . . . let's bring it they're shouting in the stands.
Very CoooL - McCain Gets Ba -rocked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiQCJXpbKg
How Barack Obama Sees The World's Challengeshttp://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/09/05/how-barack-obama-sees-the-worlds-challenges.html
When They Lie Call Them Liars!http://digg.com/political_opinion/Dear_Barack_When_They_Lie_Call_Them_Liars
The day after Sarah Palin basked in the accolades that labeled her McCain’s Barracuda, a notable GOP representative said that she is Presidential material because he saw her eating ice cream with her children and that’s the kind of thing hockey moms like, because it prooves that she likes children and are good with them. The not-so-subtle inference is that all the hockey moms, soccer moms and football moms will vote Republican because Sarah Palin is their Christian role model. Is she? Or would other words like “hypocrisy” and “bigotry” invite a deeper scrutiny to this hockey mom's Christianity?
For example, what gives Sarah Palin the right to attack Barack Obama as though he has never done or said anything of value? Christians don’t do that. Also, it seems that the Christian Sarah Palin does not care that 600,000 people lost their jobs already this year according to today’s figures; but, you know what, Obama cares. It is also evident that Sarah Palin does not care that 290 million Americans make far less than a quarter of a million ($250,000) per year; but, you know what, Obama cares. It seems that Sarah Palin does not care that hundreds of thousands of American children go to bed hungry each night, but Obama cares. Sarah Palin does not care anything about giving billions more to her oil cronies and gouging poor hard working Americans in order to do it, but Obama cares. Apparently, Sarah Palin has a different Bible from the one the rest of us use, because the Word from God’s Son named Jesus was that “inasmuch as you didn’t do it unto the least of these ye did it not to me.” What will Sarah Palin tell Jesus when He judges the world (John 5:22)? Will this Christian mom who admits to being a member of Christ's family say “John McCain made me do it?”
I ask that all true Christians, who know the Son and are filled with His Holy Spirit, to pray earnestly that God would bless Sarah Palin and grant her repentance so that if she makes the White House she would frustrate the conspiracy of those who have planned to make us slaves to a Machiavellian oligarchy. Pray for Sarah, the Christian, to be more gracious and show the kind of class only statesmen and stateswomen have. The kind of class that allows Barack Obama to ignore the pernicious attacks, talk about the issues Americans face, and still refrain from uttering one negative word against McCain’s character.
McCain and the Republicans want power, and everyone knows that Lord Acton’s thought about absolute power and corruption was correct. Sarah Palin and John McCain want the people to forget about the Abrahamoff scandal and his Republican conspirators. They want the people to forget that Halliburton charged us more than $600 for a screw and paid some 6 million dollars to avoid court trials. They want us to forget that the Republicans blatantly lied to keep thousands of Blacks from voting in Florida with a fake felony list, but they settled out of court for a million dollars 2 years later. So it is clear that our Christian mom, Sarah Palin, is Dick Chaney’s replacement, since she was tagged as the best one to control the flow of information in the McCain White House. It will be breathtaking and painfully sad to see Sarah Palin on TV pontificating to the women who were duped to vote for her and MCCain while the soccer moms beat their heads trying to figure out what to cook for starving children.
But have no fear, the intelligent Sarah Palin, who has cornered the market on all that is good and nice, is set to follow McCain and break a few dishes in Washington. But what hypocrisy? Out of his own mouth this so-called maverick acknowledged voting with Bush and for Bush’s policies 90% of the time. Does this mean that the 10% earned him the title of “maverick?” And does this mean that he and Sarah Palin will reform Washington enough so that 290 million of us working people will get a fair share of America’s pie? If not, is it bigotry? Or is it hypocrisy? Or is it both?
Only Sarah Palin can answer that question because she is the new kid on the block with all the answers, especially since she has never been this way before. Even so, come Lord Jesus and bring the light which needs to shine in this dark place; or better yet, will all Christians who like TRUTH please stand up?
For What it’s Worth . . .
SONS OF ISSACHAR
A Biblical Rationale for the Presidential Campaign of Barak Obama
by Kenneth R. Adderley, Ph.D., M.Div., M.A.
Professor of Theology and African American StudiesBethsaida Bible Institute
The devil hit us with Osama,
But God raised up Obama,
he devil hastily made a death-launching push
By stealing elections and approving Bush,
But God, whose Will is not slack,Remembered the prophecy and raised up Barak. © November, 2007
I. Jacob’s Prophecy
A. Issachar’ Prophecy (Genesis 49: 14-15)1.
Before Jacob died, he was moved by the Spirit to prophesy about the future of his sons.
2. The twelve disciples Jesus chose mirror the twelve tribes of Israel—since He was the New Israel (the new Jacob whose name was changed to Israel).
3. Thus, the names of the twelve tribes written over the twelve gates of the Holy City presupposes that even black people who make it to Heaven will have to enter through one of those gates. So the theological question remains: “Which gate fits the typology for Black People?” Through which gate will Blacks enter the Holy City?
4. The prophecy about Issachar demonstrates quite clearly that Blacks are numbered by God in the tribe of Issachar.
5. Jacob prophesied that Issachar will be forced into slavery by their brethren (the other 11 tribes), and will be forced to carry two heavy burdens while they engage in the agricultural work.
6. Those two burdens suggested by the Hebrew and its cognates are “high rents” and “taxes.”
7. But because he is burdened down with these encumbrances, and forced to labor in the fields, Issachar is too tired to fight and contents himself to “bow his shoulder to bear, and become a servant unto Tribute (task work)” because he saw that the rest was good.
B. Blacks in America
1. History records the “forced” enslavement of Blacks in the Americas.
2. Their white brothers forced them to do the agricultural work, but still burdened them with high rents and taxes or tributes in the sharecropping system after slavery was abolished.
3. Because the task work or gang labor was from before sun-up till after sun-down, Blacks were too tired to carry forward a successful resistance to that injustice, and contented themselves to bow down until God raised up a ‘Moses’ in Dr. Martin King, Jr.
4. But just like the prophecy on Issachar’s experience in Israel, so the historical record of Blacks mirror the Biblical typology.
II. Barak’s Victory (Judges 4: 3-5:15)
A. Winning the War
1. The next time the Bible mentions Issachar is when he moved from being a slave to becoming a soldier.
2. God’s people were fighting for their lives, and God moved upon Deborah, a prophetess and a judge (counselor) in Israel to go to Barak (same name) and encourage him to lead the fight to save the nation and the people.
3. Barak hesitated (Judges 4:8) but agreed to go if God’s prophetess would go with him to battle.
4. The bible says that Deborah arose and went with Barak (v.9) and that he called Zebulon and Naphtali, armed soldiers of war to go up with them. (I do not know if this reference is to Michele) but notice that Bible does not mention that Barak called out Issachar to fight. However, all through the wilderness wanderings Issachar is always encamped somewhere between Zebulon and Naphtali, with three tribes on each of the four-sided encampment.
5. Nevertheless, when the war is won, Judges 5:15 says that “the princes (leaders) of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak:”
6. The implication here must be that even though Issachar gets no credit or recognition as men of war, soldiers if you please, they are instrumental in the battle.
7. The proof of this is seen in the last clause of Judges 5:15, which says that “he (Issachar) was sent on foot into the valley.” The importance of this is only seen in American History and the bravery of men like the 54th Massachusetts (portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie Glory, and Company E of the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry at Ft. Lincoln, District of Columbia).
B. Recognition & Medals
1. Just like in the Bible, Blacks who moved from being slaves to becoming soldiers fighting for America received no open recognition for anything they did. In fact, President Bill Clinton was the first of the modern Presidents to award, posthumously, medals to seven of the Tuskegee Airmen who saved hundreds of thousands of lives. The last living one was from the State of Iowa.
2. The importance of Judges 5:15 is seen in how the black soldiers, who were former slaves, were sent over the mountain and into the valley in the dead of night to destroy the Confederate guns, which were massacring white Union soldiers trying to open the Road to Richmond, Virginia.
3. Some 536 or more of them were slaughtered by the big guns, but every time the standard-bearer carrying the Stars and Stripes fell another black picked it up and pressed forward with a rallying cry until, in the light of day, they stood atop the hill victorious and had opened the Road to Richmond. This was the Battle of Chafin’s Farm. But just like the Bible gives credit to only Zebulon and Naphtali for risking their lives in the fight (5:18), so in U. S. History, the textbooks are silent about the sacrifice and bravery of the former Black slaves turned soldiers. They got no outward recognition, instead black soldiers were persecuted way into and after WW II when they were lynched in their uniforms.
III. Political Understanding of the Times (I Chron. 12:32)
A. The Nation Is Deeply Divided
1. Israel is deeply divided in this Scripture, just like the United States of America is divided today. David is King in Hebron ruling the two tribes that eventually become known as Judah (the Jews). The other ten tribes are resisting his rule, even though God swore that he was the chosen one to rule over all Israel.
2. We meet Issachar again, but this time he has moved from being a slave to being a soldier, and now is a politician with “understanding of the times.”
3. The bible says that “the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” were all under the command of their leaders, or princes, or brethren, which numbered 200.
4. The phrase "understanding of the times" in the Hebrew can only mean “political understanding.”
5. Israel was deeply divided politically, and Issachar sensed that the best political move was to unite the entire nation behind David with David as King since he was chosen by God.
6. There were those who resisted God’s choice, but Issachar, being the only ones with the political savvy and the knowledge that the present course was too dangerous for the nation, brought the food and drinks (I Chron. 12:40), convince Zebulon and Naphtali to help them, and united the others to join their cause.
7. Their solution to the problem was to make David King over all Israel (12:38) and they came together with one heart to do just that.
8. The typology here is too great and too serious to miss or to discard in a flippant manner; and while no-one can state with absolute assurance that the prophecy speaks as set out, one thing is certain. Issachar started out as a slave. He became a soldier. And the children of Issachar emerged as the only ones in Israel with “understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do. (I Chron. 12:32)
B. Who Has the Political Answers
1. If the imagery of Genesis 49 is correct and the typology is sound, then that of Judges 5:15 must follow in the continuum. This is sound hermeneutics.
2. And if Judges 5:15 points in typology to African American slaves who fought in America’s wars trying to get whites to change their image of Black people, then I Chronicles 12: 32-40 has greater significance for this time.
IV. Conclusion
Please draw your own conclusion after the facts and the votes are in, and while it may seem that the references to Deborah pre-shadows Michelle or someone like Oprah, I can only say that in Judges 6:11, when Israel was again beset upon by the Midianites, the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and sat under the “Oprah tree.” But the reference may very well be about Michelle Obama, who will emerge as the one who encourages Barak according to their own story.
2. Thus, does this mean that we have been languishing from Martin King’s time (some 40 years), and that now our Barak is to be like Gideon? No matter how it plays out, the prophecy is foretelling that at some point a Black or Blacks in general will lead or shed influence in healing this deeply divided nation to the glory of God.
