Profound Pontifications

It seems that just about anybody can become a pastor these days. Now “Pastor” Steve Anderson has the audacity to say that he hates Barack Obama and that he prays for his death. He quotes the 58th Psalm as justification and has even gone so far as to say that if someone kills the President, it wouldn’t be murder. I just had to post a video response to this rhetoric on YouTube (displayed below).

The REAL problem is that few pastors have openly condemned this guy. I mean, when renegade blacks run amok, all black leaders are expected to condemn them. When Democratic party members run amok, the party leaders are expected to condemn them. Republicans, Muslims, cops, lawyers, etc. ALL face the same scrutiny. So is it unreasonable to expect pastors to set the record straight when someone suggests that their demonic stance is indicative of DIVINE PROVINCE???

Kill

I have been on the email list for Brave New Films for some time, now. They send me correspondence concerning issues that are near and dear to me – health care reform being just one of them. In this film the industry – most notably, CIGNA – is again exposed. After viewing, let me know how you feel about this. And don’t forget to view my video response, directly below it.

The Health Insurance Racket

The fact is that I was so upset after viewing this that I just had to post this video response – direct from my webcam.

Re: The Health Insurance Racket

While I can certainly respect the President’s desire for bipartisanship, the tactics of the right make it clear that it isn’t possible in today’s political climate. I truly understand the desire to tout any legislation as inclusive, but politics is a dirty game.

President Obama still has the mindset of a commUNITY organizer. He still wants his “kumbaya” moment. Although this is honorable, it isn’t practical in politics. I would imagine that he decided to run for office after surmising that the powers that be had their own selfish agendas that didn’t include their constituencies — the ones they IDEALLY work for. I’m sure that he felt he could get more done from the inside. NOW he has to understand that this new circle he is in is STILL proliferated with the selfsame people who did little for the Chicago folks that he represented as a commUNITY organizer.

Even worse, his catering to the other side — most outrageously, his support of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter — has alienated Congressmen on the left. This whole desire for compromise when it wasn’t necessary has led to a very tenuous ability to pass a bill that includes a much-needed public option. I fear that, as a result, the American people are going to end up with a mere face lift, a facade of a reform — reform in name only. President Obama needs to be more forceful — become, in the words of President-Select George W. Bush, “the decider“. He needs to tell Congress that he will sign absolutely NO BILL, outside of a budgetary one, until and unless he gets the public option health-care reform bill the American people deserve. Am I wrong to feel this way?