Don’t
Blame Me, I Voted For McCain
By True Catholics
I am so disgusted with my Holy Roman Catholic Church that I have lost all faith that we, as Catholics, will do the right, moral thing in these coming elections, the most important elections in the history of the United States of American, that may soon become the USSA, the Union of Socialist Soviet America.
Even though true Catholics (about 10% of pretend Catholics) have spoken out in a loud voice regarding the upcoming election, as you will read below, I have lost faith in Catholics.
Even though about 20 brave bishops have spoken out in a loud voice regarding the moral sin involved in our vote, I have lost faith in Catholics because 130 Bishops have remained silent.
Even though thousands of true Catholics are organizing prayer novenas for this upcoming election, the most important in the history of the entire world, I have lost faith in Catholics, because we, inside the Catholic Church, have been in a war between Catholics who have faith in the true teachings of the Church, and pretend Catholics, who pick and choose what articles of faith they want to believe and what articles of faith they do not.
This war did not start with Vatican II, it started in the mid 50s, long before Vatican II. Theologians started questioning the teaching of the faith and our moral obligation to hold fast to the faith as taught by the Church. Instead they began to proclaim that each and every person could decide for himself what to believe and what to not believe. This was caused by the infiltration of secular philosophers of objective truth, which led to Marxism, Communism, Socialism and Atheism.
All these isms failed in time but me-ism still permeates the Church, where me-ism is the ultimate arbitrator of truth, not God or the Church. This is why all obedience to Catholic teaching has degenerated to personal choice, secular views, and democratic morals. Humanistic Psychology infiltrated the religious orders to the point they gave up on prayer and embraced whatsoever felt good at the time. You have seen the results, but you have not seen anything yet.
Catholics in
However, according to poles 55% of Catholics are going to vote for the most pro-abortion candidate in the history of American elections, a man who wants to even kill babies after they are born. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many of the Catholic writers I have included below, this is a moral sin, that may put these 55% Catholic votes in Hell forever and ever.
Although many good Bishops have spoken out (some below), I believe that the majority of Bishops who have remained silent or said too little will answer to God for not warning their flock of the great sin involved in voting for a pro-abortion President, who will stack the Supreme Court with liberal judges that will set back pro-life for 50 years.
These pretend Catholics will help elect a non-American
citizen, who was born in
God Bless people like Andrew Dunn,
Father Thomas J. Euteneuer , Bishop Robert
Herman, Bishop
Rene H. Gracida, Bishop Robert
Herman, Bishop Robert
Finn, Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, Bishop Keven W. Vann, Archbishop Charles Chaput,
Bishop Joseph F. Martino,
and others who I have included below, who have spoken out boldly in defense of
the truth and in defense of the Holy Innocents being killed by the new Herod,
Obama.
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Dear Catholic Friends,
Starting tomorrow (Monday) it will be exactly nine days
until Election Day. Every election season, we hear the same battle cry:
"this is the most important election of our lifetime." Well, this
time, it's really true. The consequences of an Obama presidency, combined with
another round of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi's leadership on the Hill will be
challenging to say the least for the pro-life, pro-family movement in
Starting tomorrow, I'm going to start a personal fast as
well as an intense novena for the future of our country. I plan on praying the
full Rosary daily, along with Eucharistic Adoration and a daily prayer to Our
Lady of America. I ask all of you to join me in some type of novena (your
choice) for the sake of our country's future. Don't listen to the polls. Don't
pay attention to the biased media: They're doing all they can to demoralize
people of Faith so they can turn our country into a secular-progressive utopia.
Do however put your trust in God and the intercession of Our Lady. All of our
many blessings in this great country come from the Creator (despite what the
secular-progressive types say). As someone who personally experienced a miracle
in
May God Bless all of your and our great country,
Andrew
PRAYER TO THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
(OUR LADY OF
O Immaculate Mother, Queen of our Country, open our hearts, our homes, and our Land to the coming of Jesus, your Divine Son.
With Him, reign over us, O heavenly Lady, so pure and so bright with the radiance of God's light shining in and about you. Be our Leader against the powers of evil set upon wresting the world of souls, redeemed at such a great cost by the sufferings of your Son and of yourself, in union with Him, from that same Savior, Who loves us with infinite charity.
We gather about you, O chaste and holy Mother, Virgin Immaculate, Patroness of our beloved Land, determined to fight under your banner of holy purity against the wickedness that would make all the world an abyss of evil, without God and without your loving maternal care.
We consecrate our hearts, our homes, our Land to your Most Pure Heart, O great Queen, that the kingdom of your Son, our Redeemer and our God, may be firmly established in us.
We ask no special sign of you, sweet Mother, for we believe in your great love for us, and we place in you our entire confidence.
We promise to honor you by faith, love, and the purity of our lives according to your desire.
Reign over us, then, O Virgin Immaculate, with your Son Jesus Christ. May His Divine Heart and your most chaste Heart be ever enthroned and glorified among us.
Use us, your
children of
Work your miracles of grace in us, so that we may be a glory to the Blessed Trinity, Who created, redeemed, and sanctifies us.
May your valiant Spouse,
Then when our work is over, come, Holy Immaculate Mother, and as our Victorious Queen, lead us to the eternal kingdom, where your Son reigns forever as King.
Amen
Andrew Dunn, State President, Eagle Forum
The Catholic Vote by Father Thomas J. Euteneuer
I have been asked by many people to help clarify Catholic teaching on
exercising one's voting rights, especially with respect to the abortion issue.
There are many candidates across the nation running on many issues, and
Catholics are trying to sort through them all, so I will state the Church's
position as unequivocally as possible for the education of the faithful and not
as an endorsement of any particular candidate or candidates: true Catholics are
not "single-issue" voters - we are principled voters. That determines which candidates we give
our vote to and it determines the state of our souls after we vote.
With respect to the abortion issue, the principle in question is the
moral impossibility for a Catholic to cooperate in an act or an institution
that is "intrinsically evil." Now, something that is
"intrinsically evil" is not just a bad thing - it is a heinous thing, trumping all other
moral considerations, and we can never legitimately commit the act ourselves or
approve of it in anyone else. Casting a vote for a candidate who forcefully
advocates the killing of innocent unborn babies shows approval or unacceptable
toleration of that heinous crime against humanity, and Catholics can never do
it in good conscience. The
Catechism of the Catholic Church calls such an attitude and action
"formal cooperation" in evil (#2272). This does not mean that I
commit the evil myself. It means that I agree with it and have made it possible
for a person in public office to continue and/or advance that evil in my
society.
Formal cooperation in the evil act of another is a sin, and depending on
the gravity of the person's evil act, formal cooperation in it can be a mortal
sin. Since procured abortion is an intrinsically evil act, and all promotion of
it fits into the same moral category, voting for a person who forcefully
advocates it must be a mortal sin. Add to the sin of formal cooperation in evil
the sin of disobedience
to legitimate Church authority. To date the USCCB and more than a dozen
Further, add the sin of scandal that a regrettable number of priests and
religious are giving by their appalling disingenuousness about Church teachings
both in and out of the pulpit. Catholic parents and teachers equally give scandal
when they do not teach their children the principles that undergird moral
behavior or properly form their consciences according to the Truth that is in
Christ.
Some ask if a Catholic may vote for someone whose policies would advance
an agenda that is mostly
in line with the Catholic Church's teaching? Also, what if the Catholic
disagrees with the candidate's position on abortion but still wants to vote for
this candidate for other reasons consistent with our values? Here the Church
uses the term "proportionate reason" to indicate that there must be
some kind of balance in the candidate's position that indicates it is likely
that a greater good would be accomplished for society despite the evil he or
she advocates. Proportionate reasoning usually has to do with positions that
are not intrinsically evil in themselves or that, if they are, would constitute
such a minimal part of the platform that they would be "outweighed"
somehow in the grand scheme of the candidate's public service. According to the
above principle, however, the degree to which the candidate would promote
something as heinous as abortion can literally nullify all the other
"good" that he or she would do for humanity! When the fundamental
right to life is denied in society, all other rights and goods are therefore
threatened. The very moral foundation of a people is eroded. So the answer has
to be no, it is not legitimate to disagree on abortion and still vote for a
radical abortion candidate.
May a Catholic vote for an "imperfect" candidate if the
radical abortion candidate is worse? The Church says yes, but only if the vote
is not expressed as an agreement with the "imperfect" elements of the
candidate's policies and only if the vote is intended to limit the evil that other
candidate would inevitably do.
It is truly regretful that we have gotten to
the point where we might have to surrender some of our basic values in the
voting booth because we have not successfully insisted on the very best
candidates for public office to serve the common good. That is a discussion for
another day, but I anticipate that if Catholics do not assert Catholic values
forcefully in elections and public policy from here on out, we may be faced in
future elections with no choice
whatsoever that can morally satisfy the Catholic conscience. Heaven help and
guide us all on November 4th.
Bishop
Robert Herman
St. Louis, Oct 18, 2008 / 08:03 am (CNA).- Bishop Robert J. Herman,
the administrator of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, has written a column
reminding Catholics that their vote will be a decision weighed on the Day of
Judgment. He urged Catholics not to treat the unborn as the neglectful rich man
treated Lazarus in the biblical parable.
“Judgment
Day is on its way,” the bishop wrote in the St. Louis Review. “We cannot stop
it. We don’t know when it will come, but just as surely as the sun rises daily,
the Son of Man will come when we least expect.”
“For many, this coming election may very well be
judgment day, for this election will measure us,” he continued, referencing
Christ’s words of judgment in Matthew 10:32-33: “Everyone who
acknowledges Me before others, I will acknowledge before My heavenly Father.
But whoever denies Me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father.”
Bishop Herman asked the faithful to consider what
kind of witness they give to God when they enter the voting booth on Election
Day.
“The decision
I make in the voting booth will reflect my value system. If I value the good of
the economy and my current lifestyle more than I do the right to life itself,
then I am in trouble,” the bishop wrote.
He cited Pope John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation
Christi fideles laici, which said outcry on human rights is “false and
illusory” if the right to life is not defended to the maximum.
“The right of our children to be protected from
destruction is greater than my right to a thriving economy,” Bishop Herman
continued. “My desire for a good economy cannot justify my voting to
remove all current restrictions on abortion. My desire to end the war in
Bishop Herman looked to the spiritual dimension as
well. “Those 47 million children our nation destroyed are still living.
We have destroyed their bodies, but their souls are still alive. When our Lord
comes again, they may very well be there to judge us. Even worse, Jesus tells
us that whatever we do to the least of our brethren, we do to Him. We would
truly shudder if we heard the words, ‘I was in my mother’s womb but you took my
life!’
“It is quite possible that we might see these
children, but, depending upon the choices we have made, we may very well be
separated from them by a great chasm which cannot be crossed, much as the rich
man who ignored Lazarus, the poor man, during his lifetime here on earth but
was separated from him after death.”
Bishop Herman said the “deepest problem” with many
Catholics is that they have become accustomed to rationalizing away a “life of
sinful actions” headed in the wrong direction. “My goal is not to engage
you in some political party way but to engage you with our Savior and His
teachings. We need to constantly challenge our accustomed behaviors in the
light of the Gospel,” he wrote.
He said the issues of the coming election could help
people learn about the teachings of the Catholic Church and to use the
Sacrament of Reconciliation. “When we do this, both we and the heavens
will be filled with joy!” he asserted.
“Judgment Day is on its way,” he repeated,
encouraging people to pray the family Rosary daily between now and Election
Day.
In a previous
column for the St. Louis Review, Bishop Herman urged Catholics not to put
politics ahead of the Fifth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.” “Save our
children!” he wrote. “More than anything else, this election is about saving
our children or killing our children. This life issue is the overriding issue
facing each of us in this coming election. All other issues, including the
economy, have to take second place to the issue of life.”
U.S.
Catholic Bishop Rene H. Gracida Releases Radio Ad Stating no Catholic can Vote
for Barack Obama in Good Conscience
MEDIA ADVISORY, October 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- Today - perhaps
in an eleventh hour answer to prayer for the unborn - Bishop Rene H.
Gracida has released a stunning radio ad concerning Catholics voting for Barack
Obama. His ad is recorded in English and Spanish.
Bishop Gracida boldly states:
"This is Bishop Rene H. Gracida, reminding all
Catholics that they must vote in this election with an informed conscience. A
Catholic cannot be said to have voted in this election with a good conscience
if they have voted for a pro-abortion candidate. Barack Hussein Obama is a
pro-abortion candidate."
The commercial can be heard in English and Spanish at www.randallterry.com.
Bishop Gracida has offered this radio spot without charge
for all who want to use it. All faithful Catholics are invited to download the
mp3 file, and place this ad on their local radio station(s).
They must simply contact their local radio station (s), and
pay for the ad as an "independent expenditure." The station can
download the audio file to play on the radio. The mp3 file is also available at
www.randallterry.com.
Moreover, permission is granted for the ad to be downloaded,
sent as a file, or posted on any web site in
If this ad receives the airplay it deserves, it could sink
Obama's campaign by jolting Catholic voters back to their senses and moorings.
Over 50% of Catholic voters have been seduced into ethical quicksand by errant
Catholics who are partisan supporters of Obama and have betrayed the lives of
innocent unborn children.
Contact:
Randall Terry. 904 687 9804
50 Bishops Say
Abortion Most Important Issue in
By Thaddeus M.
Baklinski
October 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- With only days remaining before the November 4 U.S. election, a tally has
shown that over a quarter of America's bishops have published articles, issued
statements or given interviews where they have declared that the most important
issue for voters in their choice of a new president is the candidate’s stance
on abortion.
The tally was put
together by well-known Catholic journalist and blogger Rocco Palmo, and
published in The Tablet, a Catholic periodical (See Rocco’s article here: http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/12189).
Catholics across the
nation have taken the message pro-life to heart, as their pastors have
repeatedly called on them to make the right to life the defining issue and to
vote accordingly.
Bishop Robert Hermann
of
"Saving our
children or killing our children. This," wrote the Bishop Hermann in the
St. Louis Review, "is the overriding issue facing each of us. All other
issues ... have to take second place to the issue of life."
Bishop Robert Finn of
Kansas City-St Joseph wrote in his diocesan newspaper that "despite
hardship, beyond partisanship, for the sake of our eternal salvation,"
Catholic voters "should never" support a candidate who favours the
continued legalisation of abortion.
Bishops Kevin J.
Farrell of
"It is impossible
to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to
life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded
and from which they develop," the bishops wrote.
Archbishop Charles
Chaput of
Archbishop Chaput
later said that those Catholics who promote Obama as "this year's ‘real'
pro-life candidate," are under a "peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or
moral confusion, or worse."
The determination of
these bishops to reach Catholic voters appears to be paying off.
Investor's Business
Daily and the TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (IBD/TIPP) has
released a tracking poll that shows a dramatic shift in opinion that may be a
result of the bishops' guidance to their flocks.
IBD/TIPP reported on
Thursday that McCain, who has repeatedly declared his pro-life stance on
abortion, has cut into Obama's lead for a second day in a row and is now just
1.1 points behind. The spread was 3.7 on Wednesday and 6.0 on Tuesday.
Of particular note,
however, the poll also shows that John McCain has gone from an 11-point deficit
to a 9-point lead over Barack Obama among Catholic voters.
According to the
Drudge Report, IBD/TIPP was the most accurate pollster for the 2004 election.
Read related
LifeSiteNews.com articles:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08101706.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08101509.html
Local
and national Catholics reacted Tuesday to statements by Diocese of Scranton
Bishop Joseph F. Martino apparently discounting teachings of the national body
of bishops during a political forum at a Honesdale Roman Catholic Church this
weekend.
Martino arrived unannounced in the midst of a panel discussion on faith issues
and the presidential campaign at
“No USCCB document is relevant in this diocese,” he was quoted as saying in the
Wayne County Independent, a Honesdale-based newspaper. “The USCCB doesn’t speak
for me.”
Thomas Shepstone, a local businessman and Catholic who spoke about his
opposition to abortion rights during the event, recalled Tuesday that Martino
also told the audience that he voted against the
According to
participants, Martino expressed dismay that the panelists did not discuss the pastoral
letter he directed all priests in the Diocese to read in place of their
homilies on Oct. 4 and 5. In that letter, he called on Catholic voters to
consider abortion above all other issues, except those he defined as having
equal moral weight, like euthanasia and embryonic stem-cell research.
“The only relevant document ... is my letter,” he said at the forum, according
to the Independent. “There is one teacher in this diocese, and these points are
not debatable.”
According to the Independent, the bishop also said he no longer supports the
Democratic Party.
A diocesan spokesman on Tuesday confirmed the bishop’s comments as reported in
the Independent.
The spokesman, William Genello, also released a statement that noted the bishop
attended the event because he “was concerned because of the confusion and
public misrepresentations about Catholic teaching on the life issues.
“Certain groups and individuals have used their own erroneous interpretations
of Church documents, particularly the
“When Bishop Martino heard how some of these issues were being presented at the
forum, he determined that he must address the forum to fulfill his obligation
as the authentic teacher of the Catholic faith in his diocese.”
Professor Douglas Kmiec, a Catholic constitutional legal scholar who advises
Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, said Tuesday he respects
Martino’s passionate speech about life and doubts the bishop intended to
separate himself from the larger church.
“That said, we have to be faithful to the church as the church universal
exists,” he said. “And the church universal exists in places other than
Participants at the event described a spirited exchange of ideas that was
either interrupted or invigorated by the bishop’s arrival.
Gene Tagle, the moderator of the event, said the bishop “torpedoed” the forum,
even though he had been told about the event as early as May 27 this year.
“If the bishop disapproved, it seems all he had to do was have his secretary pick
up the phone, call our parish pastor and tell him not to go ahead with the
forum,” he said. “Instead he came in at the midpoint of the meeting and totally
surprised everyone.”
Tagle said the bishop criticized the resident pastor, Rev. Martin Boylan, for
holding the forum and “seemed to justify his presence there by stating that he
owned the building.”
He also described the bishop’s tone as “angry and admonishing” and said his
words created a surprising level of emotion in the audience.
“When he left it was chaotic,” Tagle said. “He incited his supporters to wild
applause and shouting. And some individuals were castigating others for
supporting pro-choice candidates. It was pretty wild there for a while.”
The bishop left shortly after his remarks and many audience members — some put
the number at two-thirds of the group, others say a quarter — left after him.
Shepstone, the panelist, was one who left.
“I left because it was singularly inappropriate to continue the meeting after
the bishop had spoken,” he said Tuesday, explaining that the bishop had made it
clear he wanted the meeting to stop.
“He spoke eloquently and he spoke forcefully and there was nothing else to be
said.”
Wendell Kay, another panelist and a
“He’s my bishop and I accept what he says, but I was a little bit surprised at
the turn of events,” he said, “and thought if there had been an objection from
the diocese in advance we probably would not have held the forum.”
llegere@timesshamrock.com
Steve
Strang, publisher of Charisma magazine, a Pentecostal publication, titled one
of his recent weekly e-mails to readers, "Life As We Know It Will End If
Obama is Elected."
Strang
said gay rights and abortion rights would be strengthened in an Obama
administration, taxes would rise and "people who hate Christianity will be
emboldened to attack our freedoms."
Separately,
a group called the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has posted a series of
videos on its site and on YouTube called "7 Reasons Barack Obama is not a
Christian."
The
commission accuses Obama of "subtle diabolical deceit" in saying he is
Christian, while he believes that people can be saved through other faiths.
But
among the strongest pieces this year is Focus on the Family Action's letter
which has been posted on the group's Web site and making the e-mail rounds.
Signed by "A Christian from 2012," it claims a series of events could
logically happen based on the group's interpretation of Obama's record,
Democratic Party positions, recent court rulings and other trends.
Among
the claims:
• A
6-3 liberal majority Supreme Court that results in rulings like one making gay
marriage the law of the land and another forcing the Boy Scouts to "hire
homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys."
(In the imagined scenario, The Boy Scouts choose to disband rather than obey).
• A
series of domestic and international disasters based on Obama's
"reluctance to send troops overseas." That includes terrorist attacks
on
•
Nationalized health care with long lines for surgery and no access to hospitals
for people over 80.
The
goal was to "articulate the big picture," said Carrie Gordon Earll,
senior director of public policy for Focus on the Family Action. "If it is
a doomsday picture, then it's a realistic picture," she said.
Obama
favors abortion rights and supports civil unions for same-sex couples, but says
states should make their own decisions about marriage. He said he would
intensify diplomatic pressure on
On
taxes, Obama has proposed an increase on the 5 percent of taxpayers who make
more than $250,000 a year and advocates cuts for those who make less. His
health care plan calls for the government to subsidize coverage for millions of
Americans who otherwise couldn't afford it.
One
of the clear targets of this latest conservative Christian push against the
Democrat is younger evangelicals who might be considering him. The letter
posits that young evangelicals provide the margin that let Obama defeat John
McCain. But Margaret Feinberg, a Denver-area evangelical author, predicted
failure.
"Young
evangelicals are tired — like most people at this point in the election — and
rhetoric which is fear-based, strong-arms the listener, and states opinion as
fact will only polarize rather than further the informed, balanced discussion
that younger voters are hungry for," she said.
In an interview, Strang said
there are fewer state ballot measures to motivate conservative voters this
election year and that the financial meltdown is distracting some voters from
the abortion issue. But he said a last-minute push by conservative Christians
in 2004 was key to Bush's re-election and predicted they could play the same
role in 2008.
Socialist George Soros backs Obama and
Liberal Catholic Groups
Billionaire investor George Soros is bankrolling liberal
Catholic groups that support abortion.
An investigation by the New York-based Catholic
League for Religious and Civil Rights finds that George Soros' Open
Society Institute gave Catholics in
"George Soros, who's basically an anti-American, far left-wing,
pro-abortion, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, is funding the Catholic left. Now, if
the Catholic League were getting money from an anti-American, far right-wing,
pro-abortion, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic source, we'd be out of business in a
New York minute," Donahue says. "By the way, George Soros lavishly
funds Catholics for Choice, previously called Catholics for a Free
Choice."
Donohue suggests Soros is attempting to make respectable the idea that one can
be Catholic and promote abortion. However, Donohue notes Pope Benedict XVI has
said some issues for Catholics are non-negotiable -- including abortion.
New Ground, the newsletter of Chicago's Democratic
Socialists for America, reported in its July/August 1996 edition that Obama
attended a New Party membership meeting April 11, 1996, in which he expressed
his gratitude for the group's support and "encouraged NPers (New Party
members) to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration .”
Becoming a New Party member requires some effort on behalf of the politician. Candidates must be approved by the party's political committee and, once approved, must sign a contract mandating they will have a "visible and active relationship" with the party.
The New Party,
established in 1992, took advantage of what was known as electoral
"fusion," which enabled candidates to run on two tickets
simultaneously, attracting voters from both parties. But the New Party went
defunct in 1998, one year after fusion was halted by the Supreme Court.
Following the initial
reports of Obama's purported membership in the New Party, Obama associate and
former Chicago New Party activist Carl Davidson posted a statement on several
blogs claiming his former party was not socialist, but he admitted it worked
with ACORN.
"[The New Party] was a pragmatic party of 'small
d democracy' mainly promoting economic reforms like the living wage and testing
the fusion tactic, common in many countries but only operational in New York in
the U.S. The main trend within it was ACORN, an Alinskyist outfit, which is
hardly Marxist," wrote Davidson.
Rosary Novena to 'Our Lady of Victory' beginning on Oct 27, 2008 to Nov 4, 2008.
We need all faithful prolife Catholics and Christians to participate in this Rosary Novena.
The prayer intention will be that the forces of evil are defeated on this historic battle/election that will take place on 4 Nov 2008. And that a prolife candidate will be elected to save the unborn.
At stake is the lives of millions of innocent babies that
will be aborted if Obama is elected. This is battle the
Your prayers will be united with millions worldwide participating with this prayer starting on 27 Oct and ending on 4 Nov 2008. Lets unite our prayers and effort!
http://www.thewandererpress.com/ee/wandererpress/index.php
http://www.cny.org/archive/eg/eg102308.htm
Will Undecided Voters Break for Obama?
As the presidential campaign winds down, an important question toward
predicting the outcome is how undecided voters break. For years now, the
conventional wisdom has held that these voters are unhappy with the incumbent
(or his party) and most will vote for the challenger when they enter the
polling booth. In the Democratic primaries however, it seems that undecided
voters broke heavily away from Barack Obama and toward Hillary Clinton; they
viewed the election as a referendum on him. And when he never 'closed the
deal,' most voted against him.
So as this election comes to a close, will Obama be able to assuage the
concerns of those who still aren't backing him? It probably depends to a large
degree on whether the cycle closes with a series of stories that reassure them
that Barack Obama and the Democrats can be trusted with
both ends of
For those who wonder whether it's a good idea to elect a Democratic president
who's likely to green-light the liberal agenda of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid,
it might be alarming to hear that they are considering killing 401k accounts:
House Democrats recently invited Teresa Ghilarducci, a professor at the New
School of Social Research, to testify before a subcommittee on her idea to
eliminate the preferential tax treatment of the popular retirement plans. In
place of 401(k) plans, she would have workers transfer their dough into
government-created "guaranteed retirement accounts" for every worker.
The government would deposit $600 (inflation indexed) every year into the GRAs.
Each worker would also have to save 5 percent of pay into the accounts, to
which the government would pay a measly 3 percent return. Rep. Jim McDermott, a
Democrat from Washington and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee's
Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, said that since "the
savings rate isn't going up for the investment of $80 billion [in 401(k) tax
breaks], we have to start to think about whether or not we want to continue to
invest that $80 billion for a policy that's not generating what we now say it
should."
Given the long-term Social Security insolvency problem, private retirement
accounts have become far more important to working Americans. Why would senior
Democrats want to confiscate these retirement contributions and replace them
with a program that is almost the same is the insolvent Social Security
program? Posted by Brian Faughnan at 04:49 PM
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Christian
Coalition Voter Guides are Now Available
MEDIA ADVISORY, October 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- The election is
now just a few days away - and much depends on the result.
·
What kind of judges will sit on the US Supreme Court?
·
Will our taxes be raised?
·
Will gay marriage become a national reality?
·
Will the ban on partial birth abortion be maintained?
You can have an impact on these and other issues by
distributing Christian Coalition Voter Guides in your church and local
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Catholic Family News urges you to join us in a
Nine-Day Rosary Novena Prior to the
From October 27 to November. 4.
Please forward this email to as many as possible…
Whether you plan to
vote for John McCain, Chuck Baldwin, Ron Paul or no one at all.
Join us in the Rosary Novena and in the daily
recitation of
a special approved prayer against “revolutionary men”.
CONSIDER:
• Obama is the most pro-abortion candidate in history.
Catholic Bishop Arthur
Serratelli of
• Obama vows to fight for the legalization of homosexual
marriages and for hate crimes legislation.
In June,
Obama sent a letter to the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender
Democratic Club saying he supports repealing
the Defense of Marriage Act and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” US military policy.
In 2004, Obama sent a letter to a “gay” newspaper in
• Even the Wall
Street Journal is concerned about an Obama win.
An WSJ article entitled “A Liberal Supermajority” warns of “one of the
most profound political ideological shifts in US History. Liberals would
dominate the entire government in a way they haven’s since 1965 or 1933” and
warned that an Obama victory would unleash “a period of unchecked left-wing
ascendancy.” WSJ also noted that an Obama presidency would result in regulatory
overkill in the business world; substantial tax hikes; a “green” tax to repel
so-called “climate change’; and the “Fairness Doctrine” that would effectively
silent conservative ralk radio and political opposition.
Catholics throughout the nation (such as Father John Corapi) are organizing Rosary novena’s on the nine-days prior to election day. Let us unite all of our payers to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The battle of Lepanto was won not so much by superior firepower, but by Catholics praying the rosary to defeat the enemies of God.
PLEASE ALSO
RECITE ON EACH DAY OF THE NOVENA
THIS PRAYER APPROVED BY THE CHURCH
Prayer given by Our Lord to
Sister Marie de Sainte
of the Holy Face of Jesus), to divide and conquer revolutionary men.
October 26, 2008
Joan Swirsky
Last week, during the crucial waning days of the presidential campaign, Obama left
for Hawaii
to visit his 85-year-old grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who had broken her hip.
In such bad shape was she - in spite of the hospital's sending her home to heal
- that Obama told ABC's Robin Roberts, that "I'm still not sure whether
she makes it to Election
Day."
Filling in for Obama on the campaign trail in
After a recent article I wrote, My Mother's
Birth Certicate - And Obama's, a number of people e-mailed me with
FactCheck.org's "proof" of the certificate. But let's not forget that
FactCheck is owned by the Annenberg Foundation, the same foundation that gave
millions of dollars to Obama and his unrepentant terrorist pal William Ayers
for an "education" project. To me, that makes FactCheck ipso facto
the least credible source of factual information.
Infinitely more credible is the research done by, among others, Pennsylvania
attorney
Philip J. Berg (ObamaCrimes),
Chicago journalist Andy Martin, ContrarianCommentaryBlog
and author Jerome Corsi (The Obama Nation), who have
cast persuasive, data-provided doubt not only that the birth certificate(s) so
far produced were blatant forgeries, but that Obama - and his leftwing media lapdogs
- have been concealing the fact that he was born in a hospital in Mombasa,
Kenya, a birth his Kenyan grandmother is on record saying she and Obama's
half-brother and half-sister attended.
What else has Obama failed to provide to a public - and an electorate - that deserves to know everything possible about a presidential candidate?
·
· Columbia Thesis paper - not available, locked down by faculty.
·
· Selective Service Registration - not released.
· Medical records - not released (only a one-page report).
·
· Law practice client list - not released.
· Certified Copy of original Birth certificate - not released.
· Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth - not released.
· Harvard Law Review articles published - None.
·
· Record of Baptism-- Not released or 'not available.'
· Illinois State Senate records--'not available.'
No wonder Obama's critics have called him a Manuchurian Candidate, a Trojan
Horse, and a stealth candidate! If he has nothing to hide, why on earth is he
still be refusing to come clean with the American people? Answer: he clearly
has a lot to hide.
THE BERG CASE
In August, Mr. Berg lodged a suit against Obama and the Democratic National
Committee.
On October 4, the accused parties filed a Motion to Dismiss.
On October 21, Mr. Berg released the result of his investigation - "Obama
& DNC admit all allegations in Berg v. Obama" - in which he said that
by failing to answer the questions the lawsuit posed, both Obama and the DNC
admitted, by default, that the charges were true.
On October 24, U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick threw out Berg's suit,
which asked that Obama's name be removed from the November 4 ballot and claimed
that if Obama were permitted to run for president and subsequently found to be
ineligible, he (Berg) and other voters would be disenfranchised. The judge
concluded that Berg's allegations were "too vague and too attenuated."
On October 25, Berg announced in a press release that he is immediately
appealing the dismissal of his case to the United States Supreme Court.
"This is a question of who has standing to uphold our Constitution, Berg
said, "If I don't have standing, if you don't have standing, if your
neighbor doesn't have standing to question the eligibility of an individual to
be President
of the
United States - the
Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person in the world - then who
does?"
Berg echoed the outrage reverberating throughout the nation at the prospect of
Obama so brazenly flouting the U.S. Constitution, the provisions of which are
very limited for qualifying a person to run for president: Article II, Section
1: "No Person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United
States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to
the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office
who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen
years a resident within the United States."
"For the first time in history," writes journalist
Sher Zieve, "
What will the Supreme Court do? As one e-mailer told me: "The Supreme
Court may be very loathe to take this case, given that they're still smarting
from being accused of `selecting' a president in 2000 and they won't want to be
accused of `deselecting" a president" in 2008."
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?
Big hat tip here to Matt Bruce, a retired fire-rescue captain, who provided the
following information.
Currently, lawsuits are being filed in nine states - California, Connecticut,
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Washington
- that are seeking to require Barack Obama
to provide Certification of his Birth in the United States, or to be removed or
to remove himself from state ballots.
Every day, new lawsuits are being lodged. For more information about each
lawsuit or on how to start your own, contact:
· Hawaii: Andy Martin: AndyMart20@aol.com AndyMart20@aol.com .
· WA: Steve Marquis:
· peoplesvoice@peoplespassions.org peoplesvoice@peoplespassions.org (website:http://www.peoplespassion.org/)..
· CA: David Archbold: darchbo1@gmail. com.
· GA: Tom Terr: kingdommatters@gmail.com kingdommatters@gmail.com
· PA: Philip Berg: philjberg@obamacrim es.com; website http://www.obamacrimes.com/.
· NY: Dan Smith: Dansmith1954@aol.com Dansmith1954@aol.com
· CT: Cort Wrotnowsk: Metaqubit@aol
Steve Marquis, noted above, is a Washington State resident who last
Tuesday filed a suit in Washington State Superior Court against Sam Reed, Secretary of State
for the State of
Marquis said that by "resolving, one way or another, the unanswered
questions surrounding Obama's citizenship and background would
preclude a constitutional crisis and likely civil unrest which would arise
should information come to light after the election which shows that the
Are Obama and the DNC guilty of conspiracy, treason, or sedition? According to
Webster's
· Conspiracy: Planning and acting together secretly, esp. for an unlawful or harmful purpose, such as murder or treason.
·
Treason: Violation of the
allegiance owed to one's sovereign or state; betrayal of one's country,
specifically, in the
· Sedition: The stirring up of discontent, resistance, or rebellion against the government in power.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
At this 11th-hour in our election cycle, it is imperative for all activists
to act!
The following site has information about contacting your elected representative
by phone, fax, and e-mail, as well as extensive information about contacting
the media -print, electronic, TV and radio. http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm.
Use the letter below - or your own version - which was written by Frank
Salvato, proprietor of http://www.newmedia.us/
and Executive Director of Terrorism Research at the Basics Project (http://www.basicsproject.org/)
literally to blitz your representatives, the media, and the Secretaries of
State in your home state. Use this link to find out who they are:
http://www.e-secretaryofstate.com/.
Remember, this is not partisan! It is to protect the Constitution of the
Dear ____,
Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution reads: "No Person except
a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the
adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained
to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the
United States."
There are numerous allegations regarding Sen. Barack Obama's claim of
natural birth in the
Some of the assertions to which Obama "admitted" on Philip J. Berg's
suit are:
·
He was born in
· When his mother, divorced from Obama Sr., moved to Indonesia and married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian, Obama was adopted by Soetoro and became an Indonesian citizen.
·
While in
·
Obama traveled to
·
Obama's Kenyan grandmother is alleged to have
claimed that Obama was born in
·
Muammar Gadhafi, leader of Libya,
has publicly claimed that Obama was born in
· Obama has also admitted on his website to hold citizenship in another country (the U.S. Constitution forbids dual citizenship).
·
A lawsuit in
·
Obama has thus far neglected a Freedom of Information
request for the records at two hospitals in
·
Lawsuits in
Philip
J. Berg's months-long lawsuit in Federal Court in
These allegations will not go away until Mr. Obama produces proof to State and
federal authorities. If he will not do so voluntarily he must be compelled by
every means available. You, as an employee of The People, have sworn an oath to
support and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies foreign and domestic.
We The People are demanding you to make every effort, both public and private,
to resolve this fundamental Constitutional question before Election Day,
November 4, 2008.
Sincerely,
[Your Name, Address, and Contact info here]
EXERCISE YOUR PRECIOUS RIGHT TO VOTE
Despite the threat that Obama and his supporters have leveled at the United
States Constitution, we as voters have a fail-safe solution. If Obama continues
to refuse to produce an authentic birth certificate, then we voters - on
November 4th - can come out by the millions upon millions to end his
candidacy simply by voting NO to Obama and Yes to McCain-Palin!
Then we can work to get him out of the Senate!
Joan Swirsky (http://www.joanswirsky.com/)
is a New York-based journalist and author who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com joansharon@aol.com