I used to have a job that felt like Divine Grace. Since I was raised secular, it was as close to a religious experience as I had ever had.
I was fresh out of graduate school in my late 20s, working with black foster families and relatives in dicey areas of Oakland. Not a day went by that I didn't cry -- and not just because of the sorrowful plight of the kids.
I'd never been around people like this before, who loved God, who praised Jesus, who lived to serve him. In retrospect, I think my tears came because deep in my heart, I loved God too, but I didn't know it yet...
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Obama's mega-borrowing is predicated on a rather thin margin of safety. We can service nearly $2 trillion in additional debt this yearon top the of the existing $11 trilliononly because interest rates are so low.
Imagine a two-term Republican governor from a state carried by Barack Obama who turned an $800 million deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus by cutting overhead and bringing sound business principles to his state's government even as he provided new health benefits for poor citizens. Imagine no longer. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels accomplished this and more, and he did it all while enacting the biggest tax cut in state history.
Just who are the Tea Partyers? And how far will the Republican establishment go to prevent the resurgence of Reagan conservatism?
Those are the two questions which will decide whether the Republican Party can make a decisive comeback in the next year...
Perot's "Reform Party" achieved 20% of the 1992 vote, enough to enable Democrat Bill Clinton to gain the White House. Incumbent George H.W. Bush was seen as an ultimate Washington insider who had distanced himself too much from the policies of the president who he had served for the preceding eight years. The Perotistas were people highly distrustful, fed up with Congress and Washington politics which they believed was ignoring them.
During the campaign Barack Obama vowed he would be a different kind of leader who would move America beyond the "smallness of our politics." That inspired promise was not an insignificant part of why he was elected last November.
In his inaugural address Obama told us that "the time has come to set aside childish things." He promised to bring "an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics."
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Tom Bevan RealClearPolitics
Barack Obama
Not only has President Obama failed to live up to those promises so far, it appears that on more than a number of occasions he's made a conscious decision to break them.
I AM feeling better, Lisa.
That was the worse virus I've ever had in my entire life.
Absolutely horrible.