One wonders where a porn starlet gets the neocon funding and public relations spin, as a proposed Democrat challenger to GOP Senator Vitter of Louisiana; of course, the pornographer would be just one name running, but isn't it handy how a Bush-driven neocon media atmosphere just whisks her up as if to have SOMETHING to make it plausible somehow Americans don't like Dems, so by extension, they gag on Democrat change?

Well, perhaps the GOP has gone senile; we ALL recall what the GOP majorities did for us on pain of plain dissolving filibusters and other traditions, we know they are the most enamored of neocons and likely find kinship with their neo-Louisiana icon getting big cash from SOMEBODY who has it, and no...people aren't going to believe Democrats want to end religion, have all turn to porn for jobs, practice same-sex bacchanalias and more with intent to flip birds at God, or otherwise give us what the GOP has already delivered.

No, folks I've spoken with don't seem to think the aforesaid rise above wedge issues re elections simple, if that at all. But we DO spot that the no-ideas GOP thus mean to indicate...hold on for this shocking revelation...staying the course Bush, Chenehy, Delay et al have set our ship of State (and States!) upon, not THEIR legislative intent to have any change there whatsoever...gays, pornos, and non-Calvinist religious stamped out or not.

President Obama is correct no single omnibus bill, or standalone bill, could possibly be hammered out for at least a decade if we went that route. Knowing the background of many issues and persons in public service, I respectfully observe the GOP is gainsaying for no other purpose than to go on record as being 'Nay' to any change whatesoever to the domestic issues, and penchant for blaming any other ethnics or nations for their relevant aacta, motivating voters to have supported Democrats and Obama last November.

President Bush used fuzzy slam-through bills so that as a unitary power, he could best set about doing what he understood the legislative intent of Congress to be, beyond the mere words of any bills; I repose special confidence in President Obama to interpret any Congressional bill for change from the aforesaid, especially where GOP restricts itself in nature of refusing to admit jobs are important let alone being lost while arguing Churches should discriminate against people in need money is taken from, and I believe President Obama is quite capable of using his unitary Presidential power to effectuate the obvious intent of the majority of both Houses that positive and people-inclusive change from what has been occur instanter or with minimum delays.

It certainly seems true that a number of executives in firms being the recipients of Federal bailouts have sought to abuse the cash flow; on the other hand, there seems a fungible salient re the public in our times.

Media here and I'm sure elsewhere are abuzz with skyrocketing unemployment, on top of the miasma causing bailouts and on top of inability for most people to get credit for commercial, educational, or personal endeavors. Concurrently, of the amorphous comparatively few who can get advertising on mass media, a lot of it here is constantly peppered with: law firms reiterating their general availability to file class or personal liability and punitive damages claims; and companies urgin that if one can get a structured Court settlement of any kind whatsoever, one may approach them for upfront buyout of such settlement.

Now, most of us know, for example, that the USA Roman Catholic Church is perceived as a monolithic edifice, further charged by many public bodies as if to completely handle public distributions of social service and immigration-related funds...i.e., in times where many people are in financial tailspins, to some they might make excellent targets for renewed lawsuits based on steamroller, high shock value allegations in hopes of producing a quick settlement. Indeed, local media here the past few weeks have reported Catholic Priests around Illinois suddenly slammed with allegations of being literal child-porn drug lords out of rectory offices, child molsters literally on their altars, and the like, often with attendant defacements to their Church (which can be caused from lawbreaking disgruntled persons upon hearing of bare charges, persons in league with complainers to "slip convincers", or anything else wrongly undertaken in reaction to such news).

It would seem necessary and fair, on such grounds as aforesaid, that the public not be able to "jackpot" in re Presidentially-guided faith initiatives nor against any company involved in provision of bailout intendments. Just as the public should not expect bailout cash to be scarfed up by a relatively few execs, neither should the government nor bailees have to expect mass chunks can be taken away via nuisance lawsuits.

I would respectfully suggest as or in the nature that: any faith organization receiving Federal or any public funds have such funding suspended if any criminal or civil complaint is lodged against its agents; that should faith initiative or corporate bailees' agents settle out of Court to avoid judgment against them, rather than see a suit through, such faith or corporate entity should be banned for ten years at least from participating with public funds, or minimally be investigated by the highest relevant law authorities for criminal probe; that the public should be capped in damage allegation recoveries against public bailees or funded initiatives, specifically being limited to actual costs of damage or restoration to full mental health simple (no housing, maintenance, or jackpot trappings), reasonable costs thereof and interest thereon, together with reasonable costs of Court action; and that such "gloves" stay on against a bailee or funded intiative only until such time as the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives is rescinded, or in the case of corporations such unit has repaid its bailout money and no longer subject to executive pay caps.

Re the certain Conservative Senate objections re faith bills, I think it is fair of a President expected to maintain the Bush Office of Faith Based Initiatives to require no faith unit discriminate in God's intention of sharing with love toward one another; also, it seems a more proper Constitutional respect to not use Federal or other public money to promote the teaching of divinity matters nor to confer degrees therein nor to pay for religious activities peculiar to a faith unit...one thing if my or someone else's folks can form activities on their own, another if the State must fund us INTO being, instead of help us help others; also, who really wants State accrediting boards establishing secular standards for what is and isn't a "true faith" or "true faith doctrine" in re peaceable religions? Sounds a lot like the very intrusion of government into religious control even Conservatives disdain in OTHER nations.

That is my opinion as a USA national and voter re issues present at a time President Obama is soliciting for people to have house meetings re the stimulus and what it should do.

The Pentagon’s own reports on detainees who have returned to the battlefield are unreliable and false according to its own data and prior reports, sometimes including duplicate names, names of people who never at Guantánamo and people who have never left their homelands.

Several convicted terrorists have been prosecuted and successfully incarcerated in high-security federal prisons --including Colorado's Supermax facility -- without posing any risk to the public's safety, including Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheik convicted in the first World Trade Center attacks.

Dangerous criminals who have committed horrible crimes are locked up in prisons all over this country every day and nobody wages campaigns objecting to that. This is clearly a politically motivated fear-mongering effort from those who wish to perpetuate the Bush administration's failed illegal detention policies.

It recently came to my attention ( http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/world/europe/25pope.html ) Pope Benedict XVI has lifted excommunications against 4 Roman Catholic Bishops, said interdicts imposed 20 years ago by Pope John Paul II on cause these Bishops deny any Holocaust (sacrificial of the Catholic faith simple or otherwise) against the Jews under NOT Germans, but Adolf Hitler and those in league with him; these Bishops are not required to perform such reconciliation as John Paul II required, in that Benedict XVI wishes them to continue denying said Holocaust, necessarily imputing it is within and part of the exercise of Roman Catholic faith doctrine to promulgate and preach such denial.

Separately, groups like Amnesty International are currently petitioning Secretary of State Clinton to launch independent investigation into “USA war crimes” committed by, so the malarkey must be, fabricating Jews instigating attacks against Hamas and targeting civilians ab initio with eye to Jews and USA military offering Hamas a final solution to Jewish supremacy in the Mid East. Oh, so THAT’s why the Hamas ancient public credo is death to Israel, Jews, and anyone who harbors them thereafter. Hey, it’s not ME who needs a rubber room, huh?

Now, to be sure, it doesn’t help to have a Pope running around exhorting that Jews are perfidious liars and that a racist USA is prone to helping them…look at what happened to innocent Nazis due to USA/Jewish simpatico, eh? Like Obama, those folks back when faced Nazis in hopes of hope, freedom, and change; hope that’s not why Roman Catholic clergy in Georgia threatened to excommunicate anyone who voted for Obama…unless you really believe being pro-gay civil union or pro-abortion trumps a Supreme Pontiff urging Church-wide repudiation of anyone who acts like FDR in time of trouble.

Let’s now see what the heck one necessarily has to re-educate about World War II and the Cold War to maintain “American pals helped Jew liars” in re the Holocaust: John Paul II was a Jewish mouthpiece lying about being in a Nazi concentration camp as prisoner himself, with hopes of destroying the “real Scriptures” of the only Master Church; Hey, France, Poland…no Nazis annexed you, Blitzkrieged you, or both, you anti-Muslim, anti-Nazi Jew lovers…Hamas only carries on Hitler’s brave quest for their own and earth’s freedoms; Hey, gays, gypsies, everyday Germans…none of you died at Nazi hands; Hey, Lutherans, disciples of Martin Luther, Master Heretic anyway…your Dietrich Bonhoeffer was not hanged by Nazis in Flossenburg concentration camp in April 1945; Hey, fellow Roman Catholics…Max Kolbe, for some time a 20^th century Church Saint elevated on grounds he was a Priest who took another’s place and was murdered by Nazi lethal injection…what a lie, since everyone NOW knows it was Eisenhower staging all that, no doubt with the help of Jew-controlled media; Hey, Americans…Stalin never machine-gunned Russians into pits, the KGB WAS keeping Russia and Eastern Europe safe from USA/Jew lies with “tough love”, and anti-Communism Roman Catholic Archbishop Fulton John Sheen was a madman obsessed with medievalism and Satanic thoughts of every faith on earth getting along in one spirit of God…make HIM a Saint? Hooccccchhhhhhhhh!

No, oddly, Amnesty International and the Vatican haven’t gone that far, yet. They just repeat the mistakes of prior internationalists, who swore that squelching criticism of Nazis would appease them, and cause them to relax, be benevolent to their own folks, and spread good cheer in every nation they entered (though having Death Heads as kepi insignia!); Benedict XVI simply repeats the Pope Pius snafu: Pius called pre-1939 Hitler the “defender of the faith” despite Hitlerian calls for Jew hatred, then Hitler went on his rampages including making runic Teutonic mythology the State religion, so that’s how Hitler repaid Papal butt kissing. Benedict treats Hamas the same way, on Franciscan belief they’ll behave if we do, love Jews more if we do, and keep us safe from Qaeda and such as Hitler promised Pius bulwark against Communist aggression. 

Today’s companion Franciscan internationalism seems to include labeling the USA as “racist” on any old blindly tossed dart(s) that can be spun to stick; if at first you fail externally to whip up that all USA officials are racist/elitist against their own diverse populations, next try to prove Muslims are the target of the entire USA population. The latest latter gambit was the Iraqi woman on USA welfare, already with six children, who had welfare pay to impregnate her with EIGHT more children it currently seems barely more than welfare will support. Godsters jump on raised eyebrows, saying “God’s sharing of life, you accursed non-sex haver on grounds you’re jobless and in foreclosure! Bet YOU’D have an abortion!”; they forget 2 Peter 2:18-19…do they really think Muslim…perhaps ALL…women’s dream is to be artificially impregnated, have an unemployed or absent father, with little more than such women in children living in a kept welfare status?

Now, the Vatican claims it may say Papal, and global diocesan flip-flops, are just ala 1 Corinthians 9:19-26…they’re just taking all positions to appease all voices so they may bind those who would interfere with empowerment of every man, woman, and child on earth. But with so many governments from Eritrea to Nepal to China to the USA and almost everywhere taking over, or faith influencing, faiths including Christianity, and insisting upon the expansion of rights- and income-free subsistence cultures, does the Vatican plan seem to produce much success? Denying the Holocaust in deference to those sitting on their own people, threatening global attacks, or both, willing to say AIDS not Janjaweed kills so many in Darfur, implying WOZA is but uppity Zimbabwe women, and slapping at the USA as if its people ARE wealthy racists being the world’s sole holdout on global Socialism…sounds more like clergy becoming part of the problem, misleading those who would flee totalism into being sacrifices, so idols will give such clergy alone freedom to then at least protect God’s eternal Scriptures intact as artwork only.

For these reasons, I respectfully submit that through making it permissible in faith to deny the Holocaust, on grounds it will “keep the USA safe and empowered”, or otherwise through aligning with aggressor positions, the Roman Catholic Church ought not be permitted continued handling of large public government Treasury funds, without let/hindrance/oversight, as a major current distributor of Federally transferred immigration and social services programs.

Spiritually, I say we must forgive such clergy their weakness; I myself hold no personal rancor(s), and regularly say a Chaplet of Divine Mercy including for all the world’s faiths and clergy. That does not mean the secular world need continue any particular bad idea(s) whenever and from whoever same emanate. As it is, the City of Chicago last week granted $1 million to the Roman Catholic archdiocese solely for educating youth in Vatican ephemera, apparently on grounds this will look like a “peace bond” to aggressors happy with Benedict’s inclusion of anti-Holocaust preaching.

It is said by some scholars that the root cause, of such opposing views, is vested in one school of thought believing original Greek Scriptures use the word (phonetically) “soma” which implies but not necessarily means “whole person” re death and resurrection; such school believes the more definitive word (phonetically) “sarx”, meaning “flesh” or corpse”, would have been used if writers meant to say a body alone dies…this view further does not believe in construing Scriptures as a whole, rather as a line-by-line collage of severable revelations, instructions, or non-parabolic revelations.

The other school simply doesn’t interpret “soma” so literally and narrowly.

The early Christian faith first met such doctrinal dispute through a movement known as the Averroists, who vested themselves further on the text of “De Anime” (The Soul) by Aristotle. Aristotle therein makes plain that he does, at least, believe that the intellect…which he considers to be a part of the soul claimed to die with the body…is eternal and separable from the body.

Perhaps the most important if obscure argument in “De Anime” is Aristotle’s demonstration of the immortality of the thinking part of the human soul, in the book’s Chapter V. Taking a premise from his “Physics”, that as a thing acts so it is, he argues that since the mind acts with no bodily organ, it exists without the body (or brain). And if it exists apart from matter, therefore it cannot be corrupted, and therefore the human mind is immortal.

What seems a difficult salient in the Averroist position, admittedly basing itself upon Aristotle, is that neither they nor their relied-upon philosopher can explain why, then, if even the tiniest part of a soul is immortal it concurrently rots into nothingness together with other earthbound remains, or then why one shouldn’t believe a non-earthbound element goes forward despite no resurrection yet occurring.

Now, some could resort to the vibrant and time-consuming relevant essays of: Plato, “Phaedo”; Aristotle, “Physics”, ‘generation And Corruption”, “Metaphysics”, “De Anime”, inter alia; St. Augustine Of Hippo, “Confessions”, “City Of God”, “On Christian Doctrine”; Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica”; or any number of works through to modern times which either glaze over the ancient Averroist glitch about the immortality of intellectual souls, pressing the point on new twists on old if misplaced reasoning, or in the alternative simply run with the propriety of belief in the immortality of souls with or without resurrection.

But where non-believers in Christianity or just non-believers in constant soul immortality challenge traditional Scripture on resurrection…and anyone who wants has an absolute right freedom of religion or non-religion to challenge peaceably…it seems enough o direct any such third party inquiring to long-established tomes giving such reasoned Christian point/counter-point, and let such seekers choose as they will.

As for those professing otherwise acceptance of the known sayings of Jesus Christ, whether such people believe in soul apart from body or soul rotting with body pending resurrection…congratulations, at least we all agree on Jesus and believe IN resurrection!

That said, perhaps we ought not so much see which, if any, of us is the greatest disciple due to our knowledge of ancient Greek, Aramaic, Latin, Hebrew, dialectical reasonings of our forebears, or ability to discern proportions of pre-resurrection death; maybe we should spend more time on using such gifts to bring Christ’s intentions intact to modern times, remembering in all matters it is not the nature of what we do, but our reasons for and manner of doing anything, that make what we do either praiseworthy or blamable.

May Christ continue to walk with us as our light as we seek to make as many on earth our partners in peace, justice, and use of God’s diverse gifts in honoring His will for infinite positive creation and fellowship.

Yes, the monikers for me are Republican and Conservative; no, I absolutely never, say, have a teleprompter before me into which Karl
Rove (via blackberry or whatever) or Dubya (via Etch-A-Sketch or whatever) or any Howard Dean or James "Ragin' Cajun" Carville ( via 1000Gdb speakers or whatever) "present my ideas and perspectives".

But one of myriad aggregated media and government awareness tools your truly employs may currently be found at
http://www.economyincrisis.org/?gclid=COf_pd2OrZgCFRk_awodHUCOnQ ; when reviewing this or more formal documentations and analysis, I use the sum of my experience and fond memories of the works of folks such as Hannah Arendt, F.A. Hayek, and William Frank Buckley, Jr. .

This is why I have serious questions about the nature of  ANY USAPresident mulling "aid to Africa" via USA budgets, and concurrently
verily believe...on such information as within afore-described...that there remains a serious bipartisan if not omnipartisan doubt that Bush
era policies, foreign and domestic, could sail on and work simply by having Obama or any "Not Bush" at the helm.

This is important if enigmatic where Congress does not vote to allow itself full treaty-engendering powers, and willl continue "take it or
leave it" votes on whatever Obama presents; assumedly, Obama like Bush could just do as he pleases (whatever that may be in futuro) as "no" votes in such scenario simply mean "sail on, oh captian ours, and PLEASE try to invent something as you roll along a unitary power by grant of ceding Congressional responsibility to you".

In sum, I respectfully submit that if Congress will rescind Presidential unitary trade powers, and instead propose and enact or defeat trade initiatives as the manifest majority of Congressional jurisdictional intentions, GOP in both Houses (and "grassroots" and other PACs) who currently auto-fear-monger re Obama could then have opportunity to forthrightly plead their voters' and American peoples' interests as said GOP interpret them to be, as would Democrats and others, and all voters would know service of representatives while the democratic principle of majority representative votes would guide enactments, defeats, and veto overrides (if any).

Voting Bush trade unitary power allowed even Congressional "No!!" sentiments to be overrun by Presidential War On Terror powers in that all he, as a vested unitary power in such relation, had to do was claim and not prove anything he did re trade (or anything else)...in his opinion as commander-in-chief in a war against nebulous indefinites of no numeric grand magnitude...would "keep us safe", even if he aligned himself curiously with foreign leaders admitting own uses of Qaeda, Janjaweed, inter alia; one hopes the GOP complainants of today aren't simply hoping for Obama to inherit such unitary powers to fund the globe, neocon pursuits, and Calvinist government-led theologies around the world in Bush fashion, one man (say a President) easier to media-slam et al than a Congress...with GOP then actually blaming Obama for ANY spending and "treadings upon world religion and terror toes", campaigning later for election that THEY will return to 'proper' spendings and 'keep us safe again withuot a military'...and expect this as the new eternal sine curve of USA politics.

I have always had an interest in Africa, the second-largest of earth's continents after Asia. In my early boyhood, my family included clergy of the Roman Catholic Church who performed humanitarian and educational missionary work there, this being the 1960's when many of today's African nations were first emerging or not yet present; as an adult "Buckley" Conservative, and in such nature always a freedom advocate globally, I have shared in the tears and joys of seeing apartheid end in South Africa, particularly in the former Rhodesia.

However, we must consider the state and composition of the present day Africa; I would respectfully direct readers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa for a manifestly accurate crash course in Africa dynamics generally.

Now, first off, Africa contains Caucasians, Arabs, and non-white indigenous peoples, ranging from the nomadic to the well-to-do; there is no one single "people of Africa" today, nor any one "religion of the continent". Second, some places are more or less okay, but too many contain Janjaweed/Bashir/Darfur or similar death squad-style governance; for many years, Western and USA groups have raised very much money for the children, AIDS, and starving people in such lands, yet by Bono's/ONE's current plaints to absolutely no avail. Third, clergy of all sorts often find their hands tied these days, as for example in Eritrea where a few years ago the government arrested native priests and their Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, replaced them with government-installed clergy, and kept the Patriarch to this day under house arrest.

Clearly, just throwing infinite money infinitely to the "bad boys" of assorted African governments won't work; and if you'll compare the size of Africa to arable/habitable North America including Canada, it's not even close that we could airlift all the African continent to our hemisphere, set them up in New Urbanism, and run it all on free healthcare, imported foods and grains, and generally sedentary-lifestyle Socialism in the provision (and thus "State's health comes before individuals" say-so renditioning from) of just about everything; to boot, the perennial clods abroad would STILL be there, constantly sending such "surplus" to our neck of the woods for whatever is....deemed fit?....by who's in charge any given day.

There is an element out there which sees itself as poised to be monopolistic in the industries (like autos, medicines, inter alia) providing en masse swiftly made if riskily QC passed products for such literal "house arrest" society, and like Liberals, clergy, and Bono types also wants to "help Africa" desperately...if on wholly different "altruism". 

But at a time when so many are saying not even folks with sterling credit and income can get credit from bailed-out institutions, whether through say Bush-level William Blair & Co or even Capital One; where jobs and abilities to open small or ANY business locations are dwindling at light speed; and where it's better to restrict Federal mental power to just suing Blagojevich, and hold up a new Attorney General and Treasury Secretary, rather than see a Fitzgerald or similar US Attorney sic themselves on whoever's log jamming all of America's cash, one hopes the only "change" some will allow isn't simply "change Africans for Hispanics for eight years" while the march for neocon monopolies and a totalism-policed sedentary society remains the only game in town.

Surely, such would make progress of a kind slow but inevitable, per Obama's Inaugural speech; one hopes Obama really means more that he will support the African Union re G-20 membership, human rights and local healthcare improvements, that kind of Hayek/Buckley-friendly stuff, with America then to lead by example while encouraging democratic inclusion and control of other peoples' cultures in their own present lands, that they may trade and grow in unique cultural ways...which preserve the ethnic diversity of the African continent, and recognize there is no Doudou Diene bullet to dodge in such regard.

One would hope America will avoid a manifest "change" simply being taking Bush's: "All Latinos are Mexicans, Mexicans want to work, slacker anecdotal USA types fill volunteer things on credit, Mexicans need compassion as they aid us in the war on gathering storms and terror just by being here so give 'em whatever they need if apparently totalist or Socialist in substance, watch all people of any faiths who have religious interests outside government-led Churches on ruse Islam works that way and so does militant jihadism (talk about a real crusade!), have the government coincidentally fund Churches open to transfer to them of all public welfare under pro-discrimination Calvinist/Puritan predestination beliefs allowing some to be deemed damned or saved by clergy, and expand monoplistic provision of healthcare and goods via select few sources even if on poor quality controls", and under Obama then manifestly the same government types saying: "Ditto, just replace with the word 'Africans' wherever the word 'Mexican' was seen in Bushspeak".    

Congress.org today asks people to chime in with opinions to Congress re current House bills 15, 40, 414, 346, 390, 227, 254, 113, 202, 116, 126, 160, 155, 162, 87, 25, 70; so further, opinions re current Senate bills 30, 213, 247, 151.

I only have one said House bill I notice needs work: HR 40, a bill to pay reparations to USA African-Americans for slavery ended not later than 1871; few if any experiencing a USA depriving them of housing, food, child rearing aid, and so forth would seem to be alive at this long-later date; as so many educators/workers/police/homeowners, Barack Obama and many decades of entertainers and officials and corporate execs ,demonstrate, there are not really many actually denied much of anything due their race; African non-white Bashir in Janjaweed, as just one of many racial examples on earth, persecute and "cleanse" of their own kind exactly or far worse than long-ago slavers, so such racism is not a USA causation or extension of such things as UN Special Rapporteur Doudou Diene may soon allege against the USA anyway; wherefore, for those citizens alive today who CAN tangibly be shown they are eliminated or beaten or jailed or tossed aside simply due to race...WHATEVER race(s) may factually demonstrate profiling(s) against them in modern USA society forward into infinity...SHOULD be able to paid in nature of expediting  Courts Of Claims-type cases Federal Courts mandamus in finding for plaintiffs.

Only one Senate bill, current Senate bill 247 (Cash For Clunkers) should be tabled; it offers up to $4,500 for driveable old cars getting at least 18 mph, but requires no retro-fittings to improve mileage, and leaves one not able to afford a new car then either without wheels but with some walking around money, or it merely perhaps aids or covers downpayment on a necessary vehicle currently at non-deflated, hard-to-buy-in market rates; that they might get bare credit in such amounts helps the auto dealers, but if credit exceeds return to income, it's Bush Term Three. Wherefore, money to retrofit older cars should be available, to the lowest possible maximum.

All our dreams, hopes, character, and diversity were shown to the world at today's Inaugural; President Obama therein further articulated the manifest emotions and candor of this nation, challenging those who curse us to do better for their own.

That said, I hope Republicans will once again be that one side of the same coin, the nation's People, that simply...as it were...cogently argues what the Federal government needs to serve the People in terms of central government, and soberly admit where States and Towns can make best or Constitutionally free-will decisions for their People...without "special" or "predestined" exception(s) of any kind. Obviously Democrats know how to go about the proper debate in the reverse side of said coin.

Congratulations to Barack Hussein Obama and Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. as the 44th President and thereto Vice President of the United States Of America. I for my part watched the Inaugural ceremony at a public place in Gurnee Illinois, and as with others in attendance have a great confidence in the new administration; we all look forward to helping bring back the American spirit, love of freedom, faith, humor, and global goodwill.

As a Universal Life Church minister, Buckley Conservative, and sensing positivity in Obama, I would respectfully offer my own prayer for the Inaugural:

Let us forgive our outgoing President and those it involved (insofar as the personal spiritual self sense), and ask God for light to guide incoming Barack Obama and all our and the globe's leaders in truly bringing people together and enabling them to do good for God, each other, and themselves, with mercy to all and with absolutely no prejudices or exceptions whatsoever in the doing of peaceable good works and right things .