We've all seen the burger adds where a father and son hamburger are there and the father chides the son saying "Junior, how can you sell yourself for a buck. You're a disgrace to the hamburger profession" and then Junior gets mad and says "Sometimes I wish I'd never been broiled". Well it seems there is some sort of deal making or whoring out in the political profession today. Some way somehow, Berock Obama obtained the coveted endorsement of John Kerry, with all of his "political connections". One wonders why Kerry just didn't endorse Hillary since everyone sees her as the eventual winner. Such an endorsement can't come cheap, any more than Anne Baxter's endorsement by George Sanders was easily obtained in "all about eve". We know how valuable certain endorsements are with all their political contacts. We also know that Edwards had to change his Two Americas speech after he became Kerry's running mate in 2004 because it was just too strident for John Kerry's milk toast message. Kerry was a guy who would literally save anything to get elected. (It wasn't enough) If there was ANY question whom I am endorsing now there no longer is. I have to go for Edwards. Senator Edwards has consistently won in all of the Thom Hartman phone polls. The results are too consistent with Edwards and Dennis Kessinitch at the top, not to have some significance, one that the media is ignoring. I am very unhappy to hear that Bill Richardson is getting out of the race. Along with Joe Byden and Chris Dodd, this whittles down the field consiterably. Why spend all that time for a whole year running for President only to quit a few yards short of the finish line? It doesn't make sense. It's not as if he has to remain a candidate till August- all he has to do is hold out one more month. A withdrawal at this late date will only cause confusions on all the ballots that have been printed up. People want to hear men of subatance like Byden, Dodd and Richardson. We've all had it to here with "the front runners". Now that Obama has whored himself out it's unlikely we'll ever hear another substantive word out of his mouth. Of course the news departments are all whores going after that "entertainment" market. All of the top ranking reporters have to keep job security in mind and not risk losing their jobs like Dan Rather did over some minor misstep, and Rather's mistake was a minor misstep. Dan Rather had the facts right about George Bush's military carrerr. But he also had a forge document. That's all the "drive by media" needs is a red hearing to wring your neck with. We need the wisdom of the people who have dropped out, particularly Joe Byden. Byden is the sort of person who can't capsulate his vast experiance in a thirty second news bite. Once again these three have been running a year and perhaps longer. They started running early and I would presume they did this because they wanted to win and not because they wanted to drop out. John Edwards says he's staying in the race till the convention. I wouldn't bet the farm on that. I heard John Edward's speech Tuesday night on MSNBC. Edwards cares about people. I think of the top three left standing Edwards is easily one of the highest moral principles. It would be refreshing to see a candidate take on "the system" and government by Corporation. I think Edwards is a man who could really "make a difference". Edwards pointed out that ninety-nine percent of the votes still haven't been counted yet. When Richardson talks about "Not doing well in the early primary states" we must correct him. That is STATE, singular. There has only been one primary. I'm so sick of this stuff I can't say about "Well is so & so comes in second he'll have to drop out because he has lost". Give me a break! These candidates who don't come in first in the first two races should give the media the finger and say "If you people won't help me get my word out I'll just have to work harder in other ways". They say boycotts are always good. You don't suppose we could boycott the four major networks, could we?
I want to talk one more time about "Sin". Under Calvinism, sin cannot exist. Sin is defined as departure from the Perfect will of God. We know that everything that happens is predestined and so IS the perfect will of God. The word Perfect means that which is in its ideal form and any alteration of it would be a move tword imperfection. We know God is a fully actually actualized being. We know that God can't learn anything new. All God will ever know he knows now. Therefore this notion of being "disappointed" with man is nonsense. By its definition in the Greek the word perfect also means "Finished" or "Complete". People say the reason why we have Evil on the planet is that God has to abandon his perfect will in favor of his Permissive will, that is 2nd. best. Once again, Calvinistically this is impossible. Man by his own efforts can do NOTHING to achieve holiness. When someone says the word Impossible, perhaps we should believe them. Is confessing Christ "Doing something"? Well, is confessing Christ "Doing nothing?" answer that one. To say sin exists is to say that man "missed" something in his moral goals and aims. That he departed from some Perfection which, on some level had to be at least Possible. But no! Man's so called SIN or ERROR - - Always WAS. It never NOT Existed! There is no logical way he could fall short. There is no way since creation that God can divert the Universe from its pre prescribed path. The one thing God cannot do is change his mind- - and that includes even if you confess your sins fifteen times a day. We are saved by pre election and pre election alone. All that God is may be defined by Theology and without theology one can question whether there is evidence for God. But also- if we insist on a "sign" try this: All that God is is reflected in Circumstance. God lets his perfect will be known by circumstance. Jesus on KFI said "You only go around once in life; there are no do-overs". Well we don't know if God did any "trial runs" in some other dimension. We know only that THIS is the dimension that counts because THIS is where we are. We may have succeeded ten times in a row in some trial run in a parrellel Universe- but it's what we are doing NOW that counts. And since we get rewarded- - not by how we bless others, but by how much we are blessed by God, we CAN DO NOTHING to improve our salvation. If I had "Do overs" for portions of my life to be honist I can't say whether things would turn out better having another go at it. I think in some cases they would, but you don't know. Jesus on KFI says that nobody gets second chances. Some will say "Well, we have control. We can respond to the quickening of the Holy Spirit in our hearts". The trouble is Jesus never talks about the Holy Spirit, and I don't think the KFI preacher believes in it. It can't be overstated that if our salvation is based on something we DECIDE to do, then we have at least some control. Calvinistic predestination affords us no control. The only humane way out, to me is to bring about Universalism. If everybody gets saved, God looks like a good guy and reveals his power over All.
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