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Obama - Messiah Comparisons Growing and Spreading

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:31:11 -0800 (PST), The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com

I've been noting for a while that the messianic projection of Obama
has been met by an equal reaponse by his followers. I mentioned the
time in the Germany speech, where he said the whole world has been
waiting for his time to come (really said that). Then, there was
Farakan saying that Obama's words were the messiah speaking (really
said THAT). There was the manifest Obama website that sang a hymn in
the background and said Obama would save the world.

I didn't know, however, that someone was actually chronicling this
movement. I cannot tell from the website if they are being over the
top satirical or if they REALLY think Obama is the Messiah, but they
provide a wealth of links in the press to the Messiah's rise...

http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

World Net Daily brought the site to the attention of their readers
here...

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57090

...where they threw in a few notes, such as a slate.com commentator
saying that "we can't dismiss this possibility out of hand" (about
Obama being the second coming).

It is a fascinating site, although the Obama - Messiah sites seem to
be shutting down after being discovered (why would they run from the
attention...I think someone is shutting them down to operate in
darkness). However, the numerous quotes are undeniable, and the
magazine cover pages are a part of public record to check out.

Kenneth Clifton
--
http://www.2008jesus.com



On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:49:35 GMT, "Zadok" <...@accesswave.ca

"The_Carpathia" <religionist nutcase

When you have statements like I don't know, and I cannot tell,
that should be your first clue to shut the fuck up.

But you continue to show your complete ignorance, and blather on.

Didn't anyone ever tell you if you don't have something nice to say,
shut your mouth??

Smile.


On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:35:43 -0500, Bob LeChevalier <...@lojban.org

The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com
There is no "movement", idiot.

That is because you have the social awareness of a ... member of the
religious reich. i.e. none.

I suspect that you'll find a reference or two somewhere in the
archives of The Onion, and you'll probably believe them, too.

Here is what the article said about the slate commentator:
<Slate.com's Timothy Noah introduced last year his tongue-in-cheek
< "Obama Messiah Watch," a periodic feature "considering evidence that
< Obama is the Son of God."

You must be one of the few people who doesn't know what
"tongue-in-cheek" means.

It's pretty bad when you are serious, and your posting history reads
like a "tongue-in-cheek" blog.

Kennie the Wonder Klown is a joke - a BAD joke.

How's that teacher job coming, BTW?

lojbab
Bob LeChevalier - artificial linguist; genealogist
lojb...@lojban.org Lojban language http://www.lojban.org

On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 00:01:24 -0800, <. tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! . .

"The_Carpathia" <...@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

Please show the President Elect the correct respect.


On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:37:12 -0600, duke <...@cox.net

On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 00:01:24 -0800, <. tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! . .

The green black man?

The Dukester, American-American
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
*****

Anonymous Wrote:

On 8 Nov., 14:37, duke <...@cox.net
It sucks that your senile white man and the dumb white woman lost,
doesn't it Duke?

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:05:37 -0800 (PST), The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com

On Nov 9, 3:01 am, <. tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! . .wrote:

Sorta like you did with Bush? However, I have no doubt that the anti-
christ will silence ALL free speech opposition. It's called the
Fairness Doctrine and will soon be applied to the media. Hell forbid
they would have enacted it during the Bush term.

Kenneth Clifton
--
http://www.2008jesus.com

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:51:35 -0500, Larry Hewitt <...@comporium.net

Once the Florida election was settled and the SC selected Bush to be
president Gore made a gracious concession speech and the vitriol died down.

The first summer of Bush's term was somnolent --- nobody, especially
Bush while on vacation, did much of anything. New appointments were
sailing through the repuglicon dominated congress and other change of
administration tasks went on apace.

When 9/11's attacks shocked the country just about everyone rallied
around Bush. He got ALL of his measures passed by large margins, and he
got authorizations for his invasions.

Then it started to come out about how badly he planned the invasion of
Iraq and how much of the evidence for invasion was , shall we say,
dubious. Revelations about ineptitude by Bush appointees at DOJ that
allowed 9/11 hijackers to escape detection was unveiled. Film of Bush
sitting dumbfounded when given the news of the attack got wide
distribution. Katrina hit. Budget deficits exploded,. The economy tanked.

The negative judgments against Bush were about his actions in office.

You, and the other right wing haters, aren't even waiting for the
inauguration to spew hatred. The FBI and SS are tracking an escalating
number of racist threats. Right wing groups are funding a SCOTUS
challenge to Obama's legitimacy (not born in USA) , Berg v Obama. Right
wing groups are trying to organize a filibuster against the counting of
the electoral votes. The RNC has launched viscous public attacks on
Obama's only two official acts --- his choices for chief of staff and
press secretary.

And millions of idiots like you lie, misrepresent the Bible, call Obama
a racist, Muslim, socialist, predict the end of the world, and threaten
to destroy the US by scuttling _any_ attempt by Obama and the congress
to fix the economy, social problems., budget, Iraq and Afghanistan, or
any other initiative.

Roast in hell, false Christian.

Larry

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:42:15 -0500, Bob LeChevalier <...@lojban.org

The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com
It didn't happen for the decades from 1949 to 1987 when it was in
force. Why do you think it would happen now?

The answer is that you have NO CLUE what the Fairness Doctrine is, and
what its history is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

lojbab
Bob LeChevalier - artificial linguist; genealogist
lojb...@lojban.org Lojban language http://www.lojban.org

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 06:42:06 -0800 (PST), Dom <...@teikyopost.edu

On Nov 8, 7:31 am, The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com
It is truly amazing that the radio/TV windbags who spoof Obama as a
"messiah" are, for the most part, pseudo-conservatives who are
awaiting the second coming of the mythical Ronal Reagan.

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 06:48:14 -0800 (PST), repo <...@yahoo.com

On Nov 8, 7:42 am, Dom <...@teikyopost.edu
Rush Limbaugh called Obama "the messiah" over and over;
it may have been Limbaugh that coined the name for Obama.

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:30:09 -0800 (PST), Dom <...@teikyopost.edu

On Nov 8, 9:48 am, repo <...@yahoo.com
So have Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity over and over. However,
Limbaugh attributes the expression to Louis Farrakan. In a recording
made last February, Farrakan talks about all the young people who had
never been interested in politics and now were getting involved as a
result of Obama's candidacy. In the recording, Farrakan says something
like: "When the messiah speaks, young people will listen."

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:17:55 -0500, Pastor Dave <...@_gmail.com

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:31:11 -0800 (PST), The_Carpathia
<...@yahoo.com

You people are at it once again! You have picked
your next target as "The Anti-Christ", just as I had
said you would!

Now where are your letters of apology to both
Saddam's family, for wrongly accusing him of
being "The Anti-Christ", as well as George Bush?!

Now it's this guy whom you have targeted,
calling it you being some "Bible prophecy expert"
and falsely claiming that "The Holy Spirit told me",
etc., etc.!

And when he leaves office and he wasn't "The Anti-Christ",
once again, there will be no apologies from your camp!
But rather again, you will just pick your next target,
never admitting you were wrong the last time and
denigrating another person!

Yea, you serve God! Sure! Right! (:

--

Pastor Dave

The Last Days were in the first century:

Romans 13:11-2

11) And that, knowing the time, that NOW
it is high time to awake out of sleep:
for NOW is our salvation nearer than when
we believed.
12) The night is far spent, the day is
AT HAND: let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness, and let us put on
the armor of light.


On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:08:25 -0800 (PST), The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com

On Nov 8, 9:17 am, Pastor Dave <...@_gmail.com
Point me to where I said that Bush or Hussein was the anti-christ. I
said they MAY be the anti-christ. I haven't been convinced that it
was Obama (who I said over a year ago may be the antichrist) until
recent months. So, your witness of me is false, not that I would
expect anything else from the untrained "pastor" without a church
leadership position.

Kenneth Clifton
--
http://www.2008jesus.com

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:42:07 -0500, Bob LeChevalier <...@lojban.org

The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.christian/msg/e8894c2ec2985b9b?hl=e n&dmode=source
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.christian/msg/e99c639c5b28647f?hl=e n&dmode=source
I couldn't find you mentioning Saddam, but you did mention McCain
once.

<I said they MAY be the anti-christ.

Innuendo is innuendo, no matter how you soft-peddle it.

To suggest that ANY human being "might be" the ultimate evil without
absolute proof is libel. Only the fact that you are so insignificant
and irrelevant keeps you from being sued into oblivion.

lojbab
Bob LeChevalier - artificial linguist; genealogist
lojb...@lojban.org Lojban language http://www.lojban.org

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:12:48 -0500, Pastor Dave <...@_gmail.com

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:08:25 -0800 (PST), The_Carpathia
<...@yahoo.com

Are you kidding me?!

So now you want to pretend that while you imply
repeatedly that he is and that other men were
before him, that you're not really saying that?!

If what you now say is true (and I'm not saying
that it is), then you make yourself more of a coward!

Now you have admitted that you imply it about people,
but don't have the backbone to stand up and state
that it is!

So according to you, you sit in the background,
taking jabs at specific people, but don't commit
to what you claim, which means that you are
exactly what I said you are, but not only don't
have the courage to be honest regarding Scripture,
but don't have the integrity to admit to what you
imply about specific people!

Bottom line: You would never have sent the post
that you did, if you were not trying to say that
Barack Obama is "The Anti-Christ". According
to your own words, you just sit back, imply it
and then when it doesn't work out, try to claim
that you never actually said it!

What a deceptive coward you are, by your own testimony!

--

Pastor Dave

Life has many choices. Eternity has two. What's yours?

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:13:13 -0500, Pastor Dave <...@_gmail.com

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:08:25 -0800 (PST), The_Carpathia
<...@yahoo.com

Are you kidding me?!

So now you want to pretend that while you imply
repeatedly that he is and that other men were
before him, that you're not really saying that?!

If what you now say is true (and I'm not saying
that it is), then you make yourself more of a coward!

Now you have admitted that you imply it about people,
but don't have the backbone to stand up and state
that it is!

So according to you, you sit in the background,
taking jabs at specific people, but don't commit
to what you claim, which means that you are
exactly what I said you are, but not only don't
have the courage to be honest regarding Scripture,
but don't have the integrity to admit to what you
imply about specific people!

Bottom line: You would never have sent the post
that you did, if you were not trying to say that
Barack Obama is "The Anti-Christ". According
to your own words, you just sit back, imply it
and then when it doesn't work out, try to claim
that you never actually said it!

What a deceptive coward you are, by your own testimony!

--

Pastor Dave

Preach the gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:41:09 -0500, Pastor Dave <...@_gmail.com

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:08:25 -0800 (PST), The_Carpathia
<...@yahoo.com

Are you kidding me?!

So now you want to pretend that while you imply
repeatedly that he is and that other men were
before him, that you're not really saying that?!

If what you now say is true (and I'm not saying
that it is), then you make yourself more of a coward!

Now you have admitted that you imply it about people,
but don't have the backbone to stand up and state
that it is!

So according to you, you sit in the background,
taking jabs at specific people, but don't commit
to what you claim, which means that you are
exactly what I said you are, but not only don't
have the courage to be honest regarding Scripture,
but don't have the integrity to admit to what you
imply about specific people!

Bottom line: You would never have sent the post
that you did, if you were not trying to say that
Barack Obama is "The Anti-Christ". According
to your own words, you just sit back, imply it
and then when it doesn't work out, try to claim
that you never actually said it!

What a deceptive coward you are, by your own testimony!

--

Pastor Dave

"Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly,
not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Anything
half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done
nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads."
-Lord Chesterfield

Anonymous Wrote:

On 8 Nov., 18:08, The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com
Get help. Or get laid. But do something. You're beyond pathetic.

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 13:40:04 -0800 (PST), Feather <...@earthling.net

On Nov 8, 4:31 am, The_Carpathia <...@yahoo.com
Interesting.

I just finished reading, in its entirety, the transcript of Obama's
speech in Berlin:

OBAMA SPEECH TRANSCRIPT:
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery)

"A World that Stands as One"

July 24th, 2008

Berlin, Germany

Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let
me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for
welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin
Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.

I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before.
Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a
citizen - a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen
of the world.

I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken
in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My
mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up
herding goats in Kenya. His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a
domestic servant to the British.

At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others
in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning - his dream -
required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he
wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until
somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.

That is why I'm here. And you are here because you too know that
yearning. This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom. And
you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and
women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle,
and sacrifice for that better life.

Ours is a partnership that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on
the day when the first American plane touched down at Templehof.

On that day, much of this continent still lay in ruin. The rubble of
this city had yet to be built into a wall. The Soviet shadow had swept
across Eastern Europe, while in the West, America, Britain, and France
took stock of their losses, and pondered how the world might be
remade.

This is where the two sides met. And on the twenty-fourth of June,
1948, the Communists chose to blockade the western part of the city.
They cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an
effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in Berlin.

The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet Army.
And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe.
Where the last war had ended, another World War could have easily
begun. All that stood in the way was Berlin.

And that's when the airlift began - when the largest and most unlikely
rescue in history brought food and hope to the people of this city.

The odds were stacked against success. In the winter, a heavy fog
filled the sky above, and many planes were forced to turn back without
dropping off the needed supplies. The streets where we stand were
filled with hungry families who had no comfort from the cold.

But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope
burning. The people of Berlin refused to give up. And on one fall day,
hundreds of thousands of Berliners came here, to the Tiergarten, and
heard the city's mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom.
"There is only one possibility," he said. "For us to stand together
united until this battle is won...The people of Berlin have spoken. We
have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our duty. People of the
world: now do your duty...People of the world, look at Berlin!"

People of the world - look at Berlin!

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together
and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on
the field of battle.

Look at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity
of the Marshall Plan and created a German miracle; where a victory
over tyranny gave rise to NATO, the greatest alliance ever formed to
defend our common security.

Look at Berlin, where the bullet holes in the buildings and the somber
stones and pillars near the Brandenburg Gate insist that we never
forget our common humanity.

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a
continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge
too great for a world that stands as one.

Sixty years after the airlift, we are called upon again. History has
led us to a new crossroad, with new promise and new peril. When you,
the German people, tore down that wall - a wall that divided East and
West; freedom and tyranny; fear and hope - walls came tumbling down
around the world. From Kiev to Cape Town, prison camps were closed,
and the doors of democracy were opened. Markets opened too, and the
spread of information and technology reduced barriers to opportunity
and prosperity. While the 20th century taught us that we share a
common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at
any time in human history.

The fall of the Berlin Wall brought new hope. But that very closeness
has given rise to new dangers - dangers that cannot be contained
within the borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean.

The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in
Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe
on American soil.

As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the
ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and
bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets
from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in
Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The
poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The
genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all.

In this new world, such dangerous currents have swept along faster
than our efforts to contain them. That is why we cannot afford to be
divided. No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat
such challenges alone. None of us can deny these threats, or escape
responsibility in meeting them. Yet, in the absence of Soviet tanks
and a terrible wall, it has become easy to forget this truth. And if
we're honest with each other, we know that sometimes, on both sides of
the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared destiny.

In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our
world, rather than a force to help make it right, has become all too
common. In America, there are voices that deride and deny the
importance of Europe's role in our security and our future. Both views
miss the truth - that Europeans today are bearing new burdens and
taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world; and that
just as American bases built in the last century still help to defend
the security of this continent, so does our country still sacrifice
greatly for freedom around the globe.

Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe. No doubt,
there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global
citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in
Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans
and Europeans alike will be required to do more - not less.
Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the
one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our
common humanity.

That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide
us from one another.

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot
stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with
the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives
and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now
are the walls we must tear down.

We know they have fallen before. After centuries of strife, the people
of Europe have formed a Union of promise and prosperity. Here, at the
base of a column built to mark victory in war, we meet in the center
of a Europe at peace. Not only have walls come down in Berlin, but
they have come down in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic found a
way to live together; in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance
ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice; and in South
Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people defeated apartheid.

So history reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is
never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work
and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of
development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies
who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all,
trust each other.

That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn
inward. America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to
build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us
across the Atlantic. Now is the time to join together, through
constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a
global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st
century. It was this spirit that led airlift planes to appear in the
sky above our heads, and people to assemble where we stand today. And
this is the moment when our nations - and all nations - must summon
that spirit anew.

This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of
extremism that supports it. This threat is real and we cannot shrink
from our responsibility to combat it. If we could create NATO to face
down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to
dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London
and Bali; in Washington and New York. If we could win a battle of
ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast majority of
Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of hope.

This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the
terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan, and the
traffickers who sell drugs on your streets. No one welcomes war. I
recognize the enormous difficulties in Afghanistan. But my country and
yours have a stake in seeing that NATO's first mission beyond Europe's
borders is a success. For the people of Afghanistan, and for our
shared security, the work must be done. America cannot do this alone.
The Afghan people need our troops and your troops; our support and
your support to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, to develop their
economy, and to help them rebuild their nation. We have too much at
stake to turn back now.

This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without
nuclear weapons. The two superpowers that faced each other across the
wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have
built and all that we love. With that wall gone, we need not stand
idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom. It is time to
secure all loose nuclear materials; to stop the spread of nuclear
weapons; and to reduce the arsenals from another era. This is the
moment to begin the work of seeking the peace of a world without
nuclear weapons.

This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to
choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of yesterday. In this
century, we need a strong European Union that deepens the security and
prosperity of this continent, while extending a hand abroad. In this
century - in this city of all cities - we must reject the Cold War
mind-set of the past, and resolve to work with Russia when we can, to
stand up for our values when we must, and to seek a partnership that
extends across this entire continent.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets
have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a
cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be
able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Together, we must forge trade that truly rewards the work that creates
wealth, with meaningful protections for our people and our planet.
This is the moment for trade that is free and fair for all.

This is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the
Middle East. My country must stand with yours and with Europe in
sending a direct message to Iran that it must abandon its nuclear
ambitions. We must support the Lebanese who have marched and bled for
democracy, and the Israelis and Palestinians who seek a secure and
lasting peace. And despite past differences, this is the moment when
the world should support the millions of Iraqis who seek to rebuild
their lives, even as we pass responsibility to the Iraqi government
and finally bring this war to a close.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let
us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the
oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our
lands. Let us resolve that all nations - including my own - will act
with the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation, and reduce
the carbon we send into our atmosphere. This is the moment to give our
children back their future. This is the moment to stand as one.

And this is the moment when we must give hope to those left behind in
a globalized world. We must remember that the Cold War born in this
city was not a battle for land or treasure. Sixty years ago, the
planes that flew over Berlin did not drop bombs; instead they
delivered food, and coal, and candy to grateful children. And in that
show of solidarity, those pilots won more than a military victory.
They won hearts and minds; love and loyalty and trust - not just from
the people in this city, but from all those who heard the story of
what they did here.

Now the world will watch and remember what we do here - what we do
with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the
forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity
and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in
Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the
scourge of AIDS in our time?

Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the
blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the
words "never again" in Darfur?

Will we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the
one each of our nations projects to the world? Will we reject torture
and stand for the rule of law? Will we welcome immigrants from
different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don't look
like us or worship like we do, and keep the promise of equality and
opportunity for all of our people?

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is
our time.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled
to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.
We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions
around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

But I also know how much I love America. I know that for more than two
centuries, we have strived - at great cost and great sacrifice - to
form a more perfect union; to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful
world. Our allegiance has never been to any particular tribe or
kingdom - indeed, every language is spoken in our country; every
culture has left its imprint on ours; every point of view is expressed
in our public squares. What has always united us - what has always
driven our people; what drew my father to America's shores - is a set
of ideals that speak to aspirations shared by all people: that we can
live free from fear and free from want; that we can speak our minds
and assemble with whomever we choose and worship as we please.

These are the aspirations that joined the fates of all nations in this
city. These aspirations are bigger than anything that drives us apart.
It is because of these aspirations that the airlift began. It is
because of these aspirations that all free people - everywhere -
became citizens of Berlin. It is in pursuit of these aspirations that
a new generation - our generation - must make our mark on the world.

People of Berlin - and people of the world - the scale of our
challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you
to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of
improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our
hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and
remake the world once again.

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Where did he say that the world had been waiting for *him*?????

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Note, I do not necessarily endorse or support Barack Hussein Obama,
Jr.

I *do* think we have to really read and listen to what he says, but
more importantly, look to his own voting record while an Illinois
State Senator, and draw our conclusions from his *actions*, rather
than his *words*.

God bless and keep you. . .

. . .and let's just watch and see what happens, now that he is our
President-elect. He *did* say he wanted to reach out to those of us
who *did not* vote for him; that he *hears our voices* and *wants* to
listen and support us in any way he can, so let's give him that chance
first, before writing him completely off.

If you're opposed to abortion (as we *should* be), then *let him
know*.

If you're opposed to 'spreading the wealth' in what seems a rather
socialist manner, then *tell him*.

Sitting here criticizing him isn't going to help, sitting here calling
him 'anti-Christ,' isn't going to help, either.

Even if he *were* the anti-Christ, we are *still* under the
Sovereignty of *God* and as Christians, while our bodies might be
harmed, we belong to GOD, not the world, and shouldn't allow the world
to cause us to become paranoid, fearful, or suspicious.

Just pray for him, as we would *any* of our presidents.

God bless,
Feather