Obama: Now a Bible-Thumper?!

The hypocrisy of the left is breathtaking. President Obama’s invocation of God's word to support his illegal actions on illegal aliens is only the most recent example. If the law of the United States doesn't allow him to do what he wants, then he appeals to a Higher Authority?
Obama's constitutional duty is to faithfully execute the laws. The President and his administration are the “executive branch”—get it? In case you are unclear as to what "execute" means, here you go:

1: to carry out fully :  put completely into effect <execute a command>

2: to do what is provided or required by <execute a decree>

3: to put to death especially in compliance with a legal sentence

4: to make or produce (as a work of art) especially by carrying out a design

5: to perform what is required to give validity to <execute a deed>

Do what the law commands and carry out what has been decreed...by the legislative and judicial branches. What if the next President decides not to enforce capital gain tax collection? Or corporate tax collection? Or environmental protection laws? Or minimum wage laws? Or unpopular elements of ObamaCare…oh, wait, Obama's already used that one.
The Patriot Post wrote the following [Patriot Post November 24, 2014].
Curt

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Politicians -- Please Read All of God’s Word

Thursday evening’s executive decree by Barack Obama marked a particularly significant reversal. But it’s not what you might think.
In September 2012 at their nationally televised party convention, Democrats loudly booed the mention of God and the proposal by former Democrat Governor Ted Strickland to add the Judeo-Christian God, Jehovah, to the party’s platform written and approved every four years. Despite delegate opposition to the amendments, Los Angeles Mayor and DNC Convention Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa overruled the vocal crowd to return this statement to the 2012 platform: “We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.”
Now, just two years later, the president evokes Scripture in announcing policy. It wasn’t from the New Testament, which leftists frequently select – especially the Sermon on the Mount – for the purpose of pushing “social justice,” but from Exodus, that book where Jehovah handed down the Law to Moses to govern the conduct of the nation of Israel and its people.
Flowing across the lips of one of the most secular leaders in our nation’s history came, “Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger – we were strangers once, too.” He was paraphrasing Exodus 22:21 and Exodus 23:9, the former of which says, “You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.” He did this merely to add moral authority for his unconstitutional action.
Will America soon see Barack Obama’s newfound application of the Bible in other policies such as monogamous marriage between a man and a woman or the protection of the life of the unborn?
Let’s pray to see that miraculous conversion.
On Thursday, America witnessed a despicable demonstration of grazing from the oft-used Biblical Buffet, picking and choosing Holy Scripture to fulfill one’s argument, justify a narrative, and, yes, even to justify sin.
To Obama, progressives and all those who worship the secular triune of me, myself and I, plucking Holy Scripture out of context is deemed useful and is employed to rationalize select agendas. However, they say employing those same Scriptures in their entirety to govern one’s behavior, applying virtues in the corporate world, selection of education, entertainment, relationships, et al, should be viewed as extremist and not be permitted in the public square of debate or civic engagement.
All of Scripture testifies to Jehovah’s characteristics of mercy, grace, compassion, limitless love – and righteousness, justice and wrath toward sin. Selective application of God’s Truth is exposed as false teaching and bearing a false witness to the Gospel.
Those of us watching Obama use God’s teaching in such a craven way winced. He supports the murder of the unborn; he has scrambled domestic and military policy to normalize homosexuality in our culture; he was disciplined in racial hate and leftist “liberation theology” by Jeremiah “God D___ America” Wright; he has openly mocked those who “cling to religion”; and he supports all manner of activism contrary to our nation’s Judeo-Christian foundation.
To see the president flippantly use his momentary public profession of faith to Christianity in justifying the disregard for America’s laws as he evokes a commandment of Jewish law was too rich. Remember, this is the same president who refuses to identify and work to eradicate Islamic terrorism while hundreds and thousands of Christians in the Middle East are persecuted and executed for their refusal to denounce Christ as Lord.
Yet, the reality is raw: Gone are the Olympic-god-invoking Greek columns of Obama’s coronation in Chicago’s Butler Field in 2008. Gone are the screaming, fainting crowds of hundreds of thousands in Germany. Gone are the soaring statements of great intellect and political prowess amongst media and colleagues after the merry-go-round of scandals.
After having his six years in office, Obama’s policies and his team of fellow progressives overwhelmingly rejected on Nov. 4, this former political messiah has been exposed. He has no personal authority that remains credible – he’s broken the trust of those he was elected to serve.
While all who watched Thursday’s proclamation know that the policy of legal immigration must be reformed and enforced with humanity, we witnessed a failing leader attempt to justify his own lawlessness and that of millions by standing on a moral platform that, until now, he has openly mocked and betrayed.
The pitiful display of the countless who continue to defend Obama and practice the overt disdain for truth, integrity and goodness should send those of us who abide in the Almighty to our knees and on our faces in prayer. America deserves leadership that is not double-minded and is rooted in honor – on both sides of the political aisle.

President Obama's speech in response to the Ferguson Grand Jury's Decision

President Obama's speech tonight, in response to the Ferguson grand jury's decision, was appropriate and going well, UNTIL he mentioned that "communities of color aren't just making these problems up." Did he not just hear the prosecutor confirm that many "witnesses" gave false, sworn testimony claiming that Michael Brown was shot in the back, while running away, amongst other lies, when the forensic evidence, especially the autopsies, along with credible witnesses' testimony, proved those claims to be false? In actuality, the evidence substantiated that Brown acted like a thug to the store owner he stole from, and to the police officer who responded appropriately to Brown's violent and aggressive behavior. No, President Obama, the lessons that need to be learned from the Ferguson tragedy are that race baiting leaders promoting false narratives are not helping anybody. In fact, they're unnecessarily exacerbating racial tensions. These leaders, and President Obama, should instead preach that behaving badly has serious consequences. If you steal, you go to jail. If you attack a cop or neighborhood watch volunteer doing their job, you risk getting shot. If you riot and loot when you don't like a clearly just result, you worsen a tragedy. The more these leaders point to cases that don't prove their claims of police brutality and racism, the more it highlights the real source of the problem.

~Steve Campos

Vote YES to Retain Justice Karmeier

Few political races ever fired me up--and flat out made me angry!--as much the issue of retaining Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier this year. A man of integrity is being unjustly attacked by attorneys who are trying to buy the judiciary.

I don't have the time to go into all of the details, but you can investigate this for yourself. The trial lawyers have a huge case pending before the Illinois Supreme Court. Cases don't get to the Illinois Supreme Court unless there is some legitimate doubt about their outcome. There are reportedly $1.7 billion dollars in attorney's fees that are contingent on this case. The seven justices on the Illinois Supreme Court, based on their positions in similar cases, appear to be about split on it. Karmeier and three other justices seem likely to rule against trial lawyers, while the remaining three justices seem likely to rule in their favor. Karmeier happens to be up for retention vote this year, so if the trial lawyers could get him off the court, they would at least have a 50-50 chance of getting someone who would rule their way to replace him...and if they can get that done, they are likely to win the $1,700,000,000 in legal fees when this big case gets decided in the next few months. 

Let's put that number in perspective.  If there are 50 lawyers working on the case, that means each one of them will make around THIRTY FOUR MILLION dollars! Or, if there are 100 lawyers working on the case, they can each easily retire on their $17,000,000 take. If there are 600 lawyers working on the big case, that means they will take nearly $3,000,000 apiece! Even if the fees are spread among 1,700 lawyers, each gets a million bucks ...if Justice Karmeier is no longer on the Illinois Supreme Court.

So these lawyers are going to stoop to about any depth to remove Justice Karmeier! Based on the many mailings received in my household, that depth is sickeningly low. They are resorting to gross misrepresentation of rulings he has been involved in for many decades. One of the things that even these mailings prove: Justice Karmeier rules based on the law, not on feelings. He decides cases based on what the law actually says, not based on how popular a ruling might later be when analyzed by political opponents.

Note that for the last ten years, he is just one of seven justices on the Illinois Supreme Court, so he has no power to do anything alone...any decision of the court has to have the concurrence of at least three other justices. Karmeier is not out of the mainstream, as the dirty mailings would like to imply.

Don't be suckered by the emotional garbage ("Oh, you couldn't vote for someone who was soft on a murderer, would you?"). Just follow the money, and you know what is behind the false demonizing of this good man. As yourself what might you be tempted to do for seventeen hundred million dollars? Do you think the trial lawyers might succumb to that temptation? They have. Don't let them buy the judges who will hear their cases!

Vote YES to retain Justice Karmeier.