The Serenity Prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
(This edition might be valuable to your Democrat, or Independent, friends.)
THE ENTERPRISE— IF THEY ARE SO SURE HOW TO DO IT NOW, WHY DIDN’T BIDEN & OBAMA FIX THINGS DURING THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE, WHEN THEY HELD BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS…
I am picturing a clear crisp day in November, not likely the day after the polls close—more likely a week or two or three later, when all the legitimate (and illegitimate) ballots dribble in—and after thousands of fraudulent ballots are thrown out, and thousands more ballots are contested by both parties—FINALLY A WINNER IS NAMED. A new President of the United States of America. Who will it be???
Whether Donald Trump is re-elected to continue his remarkable Accomplishments (see the list in document below) OR…whether Joe Biden is elected to dismantle, overturn, and/or reverse most of Trump's accomplishments....We cannot know—for now.
What we can know is that the sun will rise that morning and America will still exist. Life will go on, no matter how difficult it will be with Covid-19 (and NOT President Trump) causing untold deaths (175,000), with the BLM and ANTIFA led demonstrations, looting and riots; and with the after-effects of job losses, companies ruined, suffering and lives lost due to the shutdowns. (We will still be awaiting treatments and vaccines, in hopes of slowing the spread of Covid-19.)
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The one overarching question on that morning, and every morning thereafter, is :
“With this new president, will America of 2021 be headed upward & forward (w/Trump) to a better future—or backward & downward (w/Biden) to a worse one.
AND...will you have done everything possible to assure that your vote, and the votes of everyone you know, will have been cast for the candidate who will help move America …upward & forward or …downward & backward?
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JOE BIDEN WAS NOMINATED AS THE DEMOCRAT’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE THIS WEEK. DONALD TRUMP WILL BE NOMINATED FOR RE-ELECTION NEXT WEEK. Biden supposedly leads Trump in "national polls” (of all people?) by a wide, but shrinking margin. Many recent reports show those leads shrinking fast. These polls can deceive prospective voters, by over-sampling Democrats, and/or failing to sample registered, likely voters (the voters who matter)—which show a very different picture.
Whatever the truth, polls are just mathematical guesses based on small samples 700-1500+/- with high margin of error 3-6%.
AS THE DEMOCRATS CLOSE THEIR VIRTUAL CONVENTION AFTER A PARADE OF SPEAKERS TOUTING THEIR BIG NEW PLANS (@ BIG new $$$ costs to us, as tax payers). Joe Biden READ his best speech in recent history.
(And he didn’t lose his place more than a time or two. And he didn’t plagiarize it from someone else—probably)
The following material might raise a few eyebrows. Barack Obama speaks among long list of women—Pelosi, Clinton, Warren, & Harris—to name a few…
HE WILL ATTACK DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE HIS DEMOCRATS HAVE NO VIABLE PLAN TO FIX ANYTHING, SO THEY WILL SIMPLY RUN AGAINST TRUMP. OBAMA SURELY NOT REPEAT PUBLICLY TONIGHT, WHAT HE SAID PRIVATELY IN THE NOT SO DISTANT PAST.
READ THE ARTICLES AND QUOTES.
FROM: Business Insider— Click on the Link to see the actual article..
https://www.businessinsider.com/obama-privately-voiced-concerns-joe-biden-could-f-things-up-2020-8
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Barack Obama has privately voiced concerns that Joe Biden could 'f--- things up,' according to a report.
(Business Insider)
Barack Obama has privately voiced concern about Joe Biden's electoral prospects, according to a report.
According to Politico, Obama told another Democrat during the 2020 primary campaign: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f--- things up.”
The report claims there are tensions between the Biden and Obama camps over the former President's perceived lack of support for his former Vice President in the presidential run.
Barack Obama has privately voiced doubts about the ability of Joe Biden, his former Vice President, to beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a report. According to Politico, Obama told an unnamed Democrat during the 2020 primary campaign, in which he declined to endorse any candidate: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f--k things up."
Obama has now backed Biden in the race to the November election against President Trump but is said privately to be concerned that Biden does not have an intimate connection with the electorate. "And you know who really doesn't have it? Joe Biden," Obama told another Democratic Party candidate during the primary run, according to Politico, hitting out at his former Vice President's lack of an intimate bond with the Iowa electorate.
There reportedly have been tensions between the Biden and Obama camps over the former President's failure to back Biden's White House bid strongly enough, which date from 2016 when Obama backed Hillary Clinton over Biden as his successor as 2016. This year, Biden was said to have chastised Obama to colleagues for failing to "lift a finger" to help him win the South Carolina primary, complaining that he had to win the support of black voters on his own. "[Biden] did feel that he needed to go out and earn it himself, as opposed to having people see it as an extension of a third Obama term or having it be any kind of referendum directly on Obama," said Anita Dunn, a Biden adviser said, in comments reported by the Daily Mail.
Obama's support this year for Biden's presidential run was markedly qualified. "I believe Joe has all of the qualities we need in a president right now … and I know he will surround himself with good people," he said. It contrasted with Obama's endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2016 when he said: "I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.”
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AFTER THE NOMINEE, BIDEN AND FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA TELL US THEIR GRAND PLANS FOR FIX EVERYTHING (THEY SAY) TRUMP FOULED UP….
ANSWER THIS: If Barack Obama and Joe Biden know with such certainty how to fix America’s problems and Trump’s mistakes...
—WHY DIDN’T THEY DO IT DURING THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE, PART OF WHICH HELD BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS.
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TRUMP HAS A STUNNING LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR A PRESIDENT’S FIRST TERM, (WHILE UNDER ATTACK FROM ALL DIRECTIONS)
The list below raises a question: When the American voters can reelect a president who accomplished all this in 3-1/2 years, why on earth would they even consider electing Joe Biden, (A VP whose competence worried Barack Obama, such that Biden was not even chosen as his successor.
Download Trump Accomplishments 2016-1H-2020
Until Coronavirus sent to the US from China, forcing the shutdowns, suffering and deaths, the US economy under Trump was doing great—as were most Americans. Just look again at the list of what Trump has accomplished in his first term. Now it’s time to rejuvenate America, get the virus under medical control and move forward—upward and onward, (not downward and backward.)
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More Questions to consider:
OPINION | COMMENTARY Why Do Democrats Defend Disorder? My party always stood for principled dissent, not lawless chaos., By Ted Van Dyk, July 26, 2020 2:12 pm ET
Democrats’ response to the continuing round of urban disturbances makes one think that, yet again, they will snatch electoral defeat from the jaws of victory.
After President Trump’s dispatch of federal officers to protect federal facilities in Portland, Ore., some Democratic politicians characterized the officers as “storm troopers” or “secret agents” bent on sending “peaceful protesters” to concentration camps. I watched attacks on the Portland federal building on television as they were happening. The officers were uniformed and clearly identified. The perpetrators weren’t peaceful protesters but black-clad thugs using hammers and baseball bats to damage the building. Others attempted to set fire to it.
Local and state officials objected to the federal presence, saying it “made things worse” in the city. On the same evening, a group in Seattle paraded to a police precinct headquarters, breaking shop windows along the way. Several officers were injured. In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio was forced to evict occupiers from City Hall Plaza.
Meantime, violent crime is on the rise in cities around the country. Chicago has been experiencing a murder plague visited on mostly minority residents over many months. It seems incredible that elected Democrats are supporting initiatives to defund the police, releasing prisoners from local jails, and even removing law-enforcement officers from schools.
Democrats should forget President Trump for a second. The current round of violence isn’t being undertaken by civil-justice or other reformers but by radicals using Jacobin street-violence tactics. The idea is to provoke confrontation and violence with constituted authority so as to discredit it, counting on a few gullible local residents to see police as oppressors. The pretense of peaceful protest is rapidly disappearing. Deaths, serious injuries, arson, public and private property damage, and economic dislocation have resulted. The longer this continues, the greater demand to see it stopped will grow among wage-earning families, small-business people, homeowners, taxpayers and voters. Families of public safety and emergency personnel already have been alienated.
Any president dating back to Franklin D. Roosevelt would have taken action under these circumstances. First, there would be denunciation of the violence. Then the president would ask local officials if they needed federal help. If the answer was yes, it would be sent immediately. If the answer was no but disorder continued, the president would no doubt dispatch officers to protect federal buildings and otherwise restore order as authorized by the Constitution. He would know that the country at large looked to the president as the ultimate guarantor of public safety.
I can’t imagine Joe Biden, as vice president or a senator, hesitating to denounce lawlessness. Nor can I imagine past congressional, state and local leaders condoning such destruction. Democrats have always supported dissent, not disorder. Many of Mr. Trump’s policies deserve criticism, but this isn’t one of them. Democrats are presenting a pro-chaos caricature of themselves, which will discredit them with the public if they maintain it. Especially at the local level, elected officials must recognize that a majority of Americans want to live normal lives without threat of violence or harm.
Mr. Van Dyk was active in Democratic national policy and politics for 40 years. He is author of “Heroes, Hacks and Fools” (University of Washington Press, 2007). Copyright © 2020 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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FINALLY—AN ANONYMOUS PIECE FROM A CORRESPONDENT
I tried to backtrack and see where this came from, to no avail. It’s all over the place but without a source.
. The Rowboat Comes For You...Very Interesting way to look at things.
This may be the best and most honest political promotion statement you will ever read. It decidedly does not brush objections aside.
You hate Biden ? READ it. You hate Trump? READ it. You think there's no choice? READ it. And, read it with your grown-up hat on.
We've all been dealt huge responsibility with this election. The first step toward accepting responsibility is... accepting it, and the first step toward accepting it... is recognizing it.
READ THIS ALL. Read every single word. It'll take you about three minutes. Be sure to read to the end (take a few minutes and read all of it!)
Are you sickened and despondent with the current campaign and upcoming presidential election?
I consider myself a conservative and do truly believe our country is at a political/economic/moral/ social crossroads.
I need to let you know I could/would never vote for Joe Biden to lead this country. To me, he represents everything that is wrong with our current political structure. On the flip side, I look and listen to Donald Trump and I cringe at every rude, insulting comment he makes. If you find yourself in a similar state of mind, please read the following article:
A Message For Christians About Donald Trump
Here's a famous joke about God and how he talks to us.
"A deeply faithful Christian man is stuck on roof at home with massive flooding up to the 2nd floor. Rowboat comes. He says "No, I'm waiting for God. I prayed and I know he's coming." 2nd Rowboat. "No, I'm waiting for God." 3rd Rowboat. "No, I'm waiting for God."
Water rises. The man drowns. Now he's meeting God in heaven. The religious man says, "Where were you God? I prayed. I was faithful. I asked you to save me. Why would you abandon me?"
God says, "Hey, I sent you 3 rowboats."
Did you ever consider Trump is our rowboat?
Maybe God is trying to tell us something important--that now is not the time for a "nice Christian guy" or a "gentleman" or a typical Republican powder puff. Maybe now is the time for a natural born killer, a ruthless fighter, a warrior. Because right about now we need a miracle, or America is finished. Maybe the rules of gentlemen don't apply here. Maybe a gentleman and "all-around nice Christian" would lead us to slaughter.
Or do you want another Mitt Romney, Bob Dole, John McCain, Gerald Ford or Paul Ryan? Did any of them win? Did they lead the GOP to "the promised land?" Did they change the direction of America ? No, because if you don't win, you have no say. Paul Ryan couldn't even deliver his own state, Wisconsin! Nice, but obedient. I mean Paul Ryan...not my dog. My dog is actually a pretty good defender and loyal.
Maybe God is knocking on your door loudly, but you're not listening. Maybe God understands we need a "war leader" at this moment in time. Maybe God understands if we don't win this election, America is dead. It's over. The greatest nation in world history will be gone. Finished. Kaput. Adios.
And with one last breath, maybe what we need to save us at the last second, is someone different. Someone you haven't ever experienced before-- because you weren't raised in rough and tumble New York where nothing good gets accomplished unless you're combative, aggressive, outrageous, on offense at all times, and maybe just a tad arrogant too.
Someone with a personality you've never seen on stage at your church. Maybe, just maybe, being a nice gentlemanly Christian would not beat Biden and his billion dollars, and his best friends in the media who will unleash the dogs of hell upon the GOP nominee.
I guess you think God is only nice and gentlemanly. Really? Then you've missed the whole point of the Bible. When necessary, God is pretty tough. When necessary, God strikes with pain, death and destruction. When necessary, God inflicts vengeance. Maybe you think God couldn't possibly be associated with someone like Trump. Trump is too vicious, rude and crude.
When we won WWII, was God "nice?" Were we gentlemanly when defeating Hitler? Were we gentlemanly when firebombing Germany? Were we gentlemanly when dropping atomic bombs on Japan ? Is God ever "nice" on the battlefield? Or does he send us vicious SOB's like General George S. Patton so the good guys can defeat evil?
It's pretty clear to me God sends unique people to be "war leaders." That's a different role than a pastor or church leader. God understands that.
And maybe it's time to re-define "nice." Maybe Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan aren't nice at all--because they led us to defeat. And losing again would mean the end of America . And God can't allow that. Maybe Romney and Ryan mean well, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or maybe they're just jealous they had their chance and blew it. Maybe they'd rather help elect Biden than allow a Trump victory that would make them look weak, feckless and incompetent.
"Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint." (Isaiah 40:30-31)
God is about miracles. We don't need a "nice guy" or a "gentleman" right now. It's the 4th quarter and we're losing 14-0. We need a miracle.
So let me repeat my message to Christians: "YOU'RE MISSING THE BOAT."
I believe Trump is our miracle. I believe Trump is our rowboat. Except he's more like a battleship!
No one is saying Trump is perfect. No one is saying Trump is a perfect conservative. But he is a patriot. He is a warrior. He is a capitalist. He is the right man, at the right time. Yes, he's a bit rude and crude and offensive. But that may make him the perfect warrior to save America, American exceptionalism, capitalism and Judeo-Christian values. The choice should be easy for Christians.
It's Trump...or it's the end of the American Dream AND America itself.
-- Author & source unknown.
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Remember, this one is in God’s hands, but He gave mankind “free will” so we can deviate from the patch He chose for us. I’m hoping that during this bizarre campaign, God will expose the right path to enough of our fellow Americans that they will vote for the right choices both for the White House and for Congress.
The Serenity Prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
All the best,
John
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