Culture War

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By Karen Testerman

With the apparent nominations for the President of the United States final, the question in the minds of many is “Now what?”  We watched as the candidate of our choosing moved out of the final picture.  So, as some have said, “here we are again having to choose between the lesser of two evils.”  However, let’s really look at the candidates from the two major parties.

On one hand, we have Senator Barak Obama from Illinois, a good looking, young black man of mixed ethnic background.  A junior senator, he’s articulate, energetic with a winning smile.  He’s befriending the “right” people and building his coalition. 

However, as Nicole C. Mullins relates in her song, “Color is skin deep, true beauty lives on and on.”  So does it really?  Let’s look beyond the surface of these two men and the picture that the media paints.

Strict constructionist judges will fulfill the duty of interpreting the Constitution of the United States, not to impose legislation from the bench.  Do you realize how the decisions of these justices affect your daily life?

Life is a fundamental right upon which this country was founded, identified in the Declaration of Independence.  If you have children, you have basic implied constitutional rights as a parent, and if you are a citizen of this country, you also have certain rights that come with that citizenship as long as this nation remains sovereign. 

As noted by Michael Gerson in the Washington Post

“Obama’s record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called ‘too close to infanticide.’ Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois State Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be ‘punished with a baby’ because of a crisis pregnancy — hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life.”

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Yep. I’m man enough to admit when I made a boo-boo. Last Monday, in a post entitled "Rogues Gallery" I put forth 3 examples of the types of words and rhetoric being expressed by prominent Democrats associated with the presidential campaigns of Hillary and Obama. In the post, I showed former campaign associates Billy Shaheen, Geraldine Ferraro, and the now infamous Pastor Wright and printed some of the words that got them in trouble. I included a pic of a box of popcorn indicating my delight in watching the ongoing Democratic Party infighting. In the case of Geraldine Ferraro, perhaps I could have picked someone more deserving of the title of "rogue". Let me explain…

Recall the offending words used by Ms. Ferraro about Senator Obama that got her jettisoned from the Clinton campaign:

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she continued. "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

At the time the story broke, I said to a friend, "Heh. That’s the same thing Rush Limbaugh said about that black quarterback that got him fired from his stint as an ESPN football commentator." Of course, looking back, most agree Rush was right– and, once you think about it, Ms. Ferraro is right here, too. Stripped away of the platitudes of hope, change,inclusiveness, and the celebrity of his black skin color, Barack Obama is a whole lot of nothing, which is ALL he’d be if he had been born white.

The headline in the DailyBreeze.com newspaper (CA) says it all:

Geraldine Ferraro resents being lumped in with the Reverend Wright in Obama speech

I can say I honestly don’t blame her. As reported in the story,

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“Cold, poverty, and a life of danger and fatigue fortify the strength and courage of barbarians. In every age they have oppressed the polite and peaceful nations of China, India, and Persia, who neglected, and still neglect, to counterbalance these natural powers by the resources of military art. The warlike states of antiquity, Greece, Macedonia, and Rome, educated a race of soldiers: exercised their bodies, disciplined their courage, multiplied their forces by regular evolutions, and converted the iron which they possessed into strong and serviceable weapons. But this superiority insensibly declined with their laws and manners;”

BELMONT — A resident petition seeking to address recurring problems involving juveniles roaming the streets after dark, has members of the Board of Selectmen considering a curfew/loitering ordinance for the downtown area.

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In Iran homosexuals are put to death…here’s the latest from Fox News…I’m sure we can all agree, no matter what side of the issue we’re on, that we all condemn the death penalty just because someone is a practicing homosexual.

If you’ve read any of my posts from the past, you know that I am opposed to civil unions and gay marriage for a multitude of reasons. But there’s a significant difference between being opposed to  CUs for homosexuals and believing someone should be put to death.

This leads to exploring a new study about whether or not homosexuals can be healed and become heterosexuals.

Here’s the recent research on the possibility of changing sexual orientation.

Okay, yeah, I already know that the chimps won’t like it, and more than likely I’ll be called more bad and creative names. That’s okay.

However, since my husband and I spent many years in ministry counseling homosexuals, I can personally attest to the fact that they can be “healed” of homosexuality. As in any other complex issue people deal with; e.g., sexual abuse, alcoholism, pedophilia, etc., because God created us with free will, a person must first be willing to change.

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NH Dem Chair Ray Buckley (GG file photo)

Click here first to read my post: Is Civil Union Legislation Based on Lies? Then click here and read “Gay-Rights Group Pushed for State Democrats in ’06.” More disturbing is this article from the Boston Globe. Yep, that’s right, they were the single biggest donor to the democrats. But, of course the dems weren’t influenced by the money, geez, ya gotta explain everything. da mi il soldi!

Spending almost $150,000 on New Hampshire state races by the Human Rights Campaign…I wonder why they just don’t call it what it is; i.e., Gay Rights Campaign?…paid off for them. They switched their focus from national politics to influence state politics, particularly NH, Iowa and Oregon. Smart move, I’d say.

I recently read an opinion published in one of the papers that said there was no out-of-state influence regarding pushing civil unions in NH. Well, the Human Rights Campaign donation would prove that person’s theory wrong. Not only did they contribute money, according to the editorial, but an employee traveled to NH to assist with get-out-the-vote efforts and phone-banks. Do you think he was encouraging Republicans to vote?

The President of the Human Rights Campaign states:

“We understood that in order to change things at the federal level, we had to play a role in changing things locally.”

 

Of course they were successful in changing things here locally. They don’t live in NH and NH citizens didn’t get a chance to vote on the issue of civil unions, but I guess many NH citizens simply are too apathetic to care that NH was being influenced by “outsiders.”

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Have you ever watched “Miller Time” on the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News? If you have, you know that Dennis Miller is not just one funny dude, but he’s smart as a whip.

I listen to Dennis on WTPL, 107.7 FM from 10 am until 1 pm every chance I get. While he talks about very serious subjects, he always approaches them with his unique sense of humor. He’s one of the few people I know who can slam someone or some cause yet, because he’s always laughing and does it in such good humor, it’s difficult to take offense to his position even if you don’t agree with him.

Then there’s Ann Miller, Executive Director of NH Peace Action. Not only does Ann not seem to have much of a sense of humor, she’s also lacking in the smart as a whip department.

Click on her letter recently published in the Monitor, Giuliani’s Offensive Foreign Policy here, and you’ll see why she’s no pie in the face comedian and just not too bright.

My personal history with Ann goes back several months. After I read an article she wrote published in NH Magazine and after reading several stories from several newspapers, I wrote Ann and she called me. The first words out of her mouth were that I had “disrespected her” by referring to her as Tokyo Ann.

For you youngins out there, here’s a bit about Tokyo Rose whom I based my Tokyo Ann comment on:

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