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Frustration and High Horses

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The National Prayer Breakfast is a yearly event held in Washington, D.C., on the first Thursday of February each year.  On Feb. 5, at the National Prayer Breakfast, our President spoke on the current rampage being perpetuated by ISIS.  This “organization” as Obama likes to call it, is the group responsible for the recent burning of a Jordanian pilot in Syria.  The world is currently being besieged by radical Islam.  Radical Islam (NOT an “organization”) holds nothing but hatred for the Western way of life, with a special hatred for Jews and Christians.

So, while Jordan’s King Abdullah (who cancelled plans to attend the breakfast because he was dealing with RADICAL ISLAM), was fighting TERRORISM, our President was continuing his role as apologist for these animals.  He does this a lot lately – and one portion of his speech was totally beyond the pale.

“Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of

Christ.  In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of

Christ.  So, it is not unique to one group or religion.  There is a tendency in us, a simple tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.”

Wow. Where does one start?  We are going to go back to the 15th century now?  Islamic radicals are killing people TODAY.  When has this president ever spoken about Islamic radicals who kill in the name of Allah or Muhammed?  How does slavery and Jim Crow become the moral equivalency of these monsters who are decapitating, burning, and murdering people at will all over the world.  Of course, slavery was wrong.  But, we SAY it is wrong.  This administration seems to be bending over backwards to make terrorists the ‘victims’ here.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

Presidential speeches are written very carefully.  So, exactly WHY did our President use THIS language at THIS event?  How can we defeat a murderous ideology when you cannot even call it what is?  The President’s words almost seem to be propaganda FOR the radical cause.  His words will most certainly be repeated to fuel even more hatred against Americans, Christians, and Jews.  Why would our President do this?

But, I guess we must remember, this is the same president who said, “It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Frustration is right.  Frustration when we get misrepresentations displayed as truth.  Frustration that we have a president who cares more about his Progressive/One World ideology than the dealing with a bunch of murderous thugs.  This president continues to speak contemptuously of his own citizens.  “High horse” indeed.

This Prayer Breakfast was a wonderful opportunity to try to bring people together with hope and love and faith.  Instead, our President once more stirs the pot and divides with his words.

And to what end?  The answer may be staring us in the face.  Yes, sir.  VERY frustrating.

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