Bobby Eberle of GOP USA sums it up quite well:
Obama uses Prayer Breakfast to Promote Political Agenda.
Some of what Obama said sounded good (especially when he spoke of Billy Graham)...until he went off the prayer breakfast radar screen and became, once again, the bitter "Criticizer in Chief" in a not so subtle way; which immediately ruined the good parts that he previously spoke within the speech. Obama just cannot control himself! Absolutely EVERYTHING has to end in a fight against his political enemies!!
If President George W. Bush ever did such a thing at a prayer breakfast, the liberal left lunatics of the media of mass deception would have been HOWLING at the moon in anger! But when their "guy" does it...it's OK??
I can't think of a time when Obama has ever said anything remotely nice, encouraging, uplifting, inspiring and most of all INCLUSIVE of conservative Americans...can you?
All he does is play the "race card," the "rich vs. poor card," the "anti-conservative Americans card" (recall the "waving tea bags" and other demeaning statements spoken against the TEA Party while he praised the Occupy Wall Street thugs who have caused deaths, property damage, rapes, crime, squalor in the streets and millions of dollars of police protection and clean up??) the "haves and have-nots card," the "tax the rich card," the "blame the Congress card"...I could go on for pages and pages!
Well, I guess if one loses the support of a top Hollywood liberal like Brad Pitt (supposedly supporting Ron Paul), there is nothing left to do but play every nasty, negative card in the evil liars liberal leftist deck against conservatives.
Mr. Eberle writes:
Hello! There's a difference in talking about the "poor in spirit" and the reference that Obama made. But he didn't stop there. As noted in the Washington Post, Obama added the following:
"I think to myself, if I'm willing to give something up as somebody who's been extraordinarily blessed, and give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy, I actually think that's going to make economic sense," Obama told the audience. "But for me, as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus's teaching that 'for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.'"
Who funds the government? Who pays the VAST majority of taxes? Much already is required, and for Obama to suggest that Jesus would be on his side in supporting even higher taxes is simply wrong.
The comments particularly riled Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch.
Hatch also references Obama's direct attack on the Catholic church with his mandate to require religious institutions to provide insurance coverage for abortive drugs and other services for their employees that are in clear violation of those institutions' religious beliefs.
Hatch summed up his feelings by saying:
The President's comments this morning share more with political strategy than they do the religious beliefs of most Americans. In 2008, the President declared that his nomination was the world historical moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. Someone needs to remind the President that there was only one person who walked on water. And he did not occupy the Oval Office.
For someone who is so overtly anti-religious -- remember his 20 years under the guidance of Jeremiah Wright? -- Obama has no business interjecting politics into a prayer breakfast. He should stick to what he knows... dividing the country on race, income, gender, and whatever else that can score him political points.
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