William F. Buckley, Jr, in his 1968 collection "The Jeweler's Eye", reprinted comments from Senator Kennedy's first Senate term, comments which represented his basic and now lifelong personal belief that simply by giving jobs, commerce production, farms, and ESPECIALLY cash to Latin America and other places, JUST LIKE THAT all poverty evaporates, the USA isn't harmed, and immigrants here and still in nations of origin are instantly well-off, no need to look back; certainly, President Clinton et al have been uber-generous that way, and lo! Poverty is still in ALL those places...rampant, we're told, high costs versus income THERE also counted as "poverty"...as are the same-old same-old dictators and clergy who profit from the whole thing, and the Kennedy Klan's answer? Why, toss more money at it all and click ruby-red slippers while crossing your fingers, squinting.

Within below remaining text is verbatim as received from the American Conservative Union; myself believing it should not pass unless it contains final text saying all Congress members who support it will immediately resign and vacate their positions, if, upon cash flowing out in liberation theology appeasements, terror in the world doesn't stop, all nations don't immediately start respecting human rights, and all dictators and despots don't immediately leave global offices; otherwise, it's the same-old with even MORE losses to the USA and any conditions abroad which such legislators PROMISE can be cured by a barrage of cash THIS time FOR SURE, especially since it masks immigrants are then to be ported here in usual ways and spend that cash into the same few pockets, and is WHAT Iraq funds would be spent on; that ACU text I have read and afreed with, and is, to-wit:

"S.2433, the Global Poverty Act, may come up for a vote at any time and I am urging you to do everything in your power to stop its passage.
 
Obviously the concept of eliminating poverty around the world would appear, on the surface, to be a good thing. And since no one wants to be on the record as not wanting to combat poverty, you will -- without a doubt -- feel pressure from some of your less courageous peers and the media to let this horrendous bill pass!
 
It is not humane to burden the American taxpayer with billions in additional foreign aid. It is more than unacceptable. And moreover, if history is to be our guide, these monies often wind up lining the pockets of third-world tyrants and bureaucrats who hate America and do very little to help those who are truly in need -- remember the Oil for Food scandal!
 
The American people will be watching and will not tolerate massive United Nations style giveaways that are passed in the dark of night -- or in broad daylight for that matter.  Expose S. 2433 for what it is; a stealth bill and a dagger aimed at the heart of America's sovereignty. I urge you to stand firm for what is right and not to buckle under the pressure. Filibuster if you must but kill S. 2433 by any means necessary!"

 

When one hears, say, Bill Maher call the Pope a Crusader, one puzzles, as the Pope heads the Roman Cayholic Church at the Vatican; the Vatican but for a few shrines in the Mid East is manifestly a Western faith separated from Byzantine Catholicism (Greek Orthodox, Rutherian, Eastern Orthodox, Armenian, et al) since 1050 A.D.; to call the Pope a Crusader against Islam sounds moronic at best, so some say "heh, heh...ol' Maher or whoever, heh heh, just trying to link Iraq to SOMETHING for his Democrat friends! Lighten up, jeez!".
 
When one hears say Obama call religious people in Pennsylvania...specifically that State, notice...one puzzles why a man who clawed so hard to look so progressively ecumenical (well, at least tried as best he personally cared to) would knock even Democrats in a crucial vote and first then at that; "aw jeez...you again! Come on, Obama's just trying to spiff his anti-racism and anti-nationalism credentials for the immigrant votes, as everybody knows Pennsylvania is the new South! Jeez, lighten up, heh heh! Nobody's out to pick on Popes or faiths at random, they're trying to get poor troops out of Iraq and get gays married to stay on the cutting edge of green and progress!".
 
Well...not so fast.
 
In 1960, a Brazilian professor and lawyer started something called Tradition Family And Property (TFP), a voluntary association of Roman Catholics to peaceably oppose any nature of communism or socialism or anything acting like it; their website is http://www.tfp.org/. Since 1973, FTP has had offices throughout Europe and the Western Hemisphere; their primary compass is the 1937 Encyclical of Pope Pius XI titled Divini Redemptoris, a Vatican online copy of which is currently viewable at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19031937_divini-redemptoris_en.html; said Encyclical at length identifies socialistic traits of society with which the Vatican disagrees, and FTP remians a docile thinktank for advancing the gravamen in Europe and the West via peaceable means; you'll never guess, their USA office is located in Pennsylvania...and the name of their magazine: Crusade.
 
Thus, it is entirely possible that those mocking the Vatican and Western faiths Protestant thereto or in any confraternity with it (as opposed to USA Roman Catholic bailiwicks here and there supporting opposite Benedict XVI and his disapproval of liberation theology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology) are actually targeting the Vatican and FTP for opposing socialized and nationalized practices, and thus by extension anyone else at all who sounds in similar disapproval(s) thereof.
 
Makes more sense than making infinite one-liners followed by infinite brush-off apologists, and is humbly presented for consideration by the reader. And as Howard Dean's new DNC youtube ad re Iraq shows, without borders or military or troops in Mid East, and Hamas, Qaeda, and worse liberation theolgies to be indulged so this bad ol' USA knows its place, with the itchy trigger fingers and seeing reward for their violence, and Democrats believing even troops and police should run from terrorists and not at least contain them, here's all we risk at home in trusting goodwill of foreign killers who just would need to SAY they're Qaeda to get Democrat Cash: https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/FundIraqAd?source=NETA764 ...and you thought never having private home ownership or work was bad...well, um, yeah...get outta Iraq, IT'S causing recession not handouts to misinformed immigrants re mortgages and stuff, and with an urbane Dem Prez, what would we risk having no borders...it's not like Dems wanna cannibalize Iraq funds for domestic status quo expansions or socialism, 'cuz they sez so.   
 

I sometimes accompany my wife to her Waukegan IL Lutheran Church, at her request, even though I'm RC. Earlier this year we were abraded by "Nametag Nazis", a cadre of members with ties to State retirement, licensures, and work in secular life; these folks have gotten themselves on steering committees, which ala area RC Churches have annually for years scheduled adult religious/conversion classes for Spring, then cancelled to Fall, thence to Spring, repeat on and on; they all wear neckchain nametags at Mas and are eclipsed by those w/o same yet regularly at Masses; yesterday in his sermon, the Pastor actually said a man had just died from the congregation, and described him specifically as a man "not a member, but a devout and beloved visitor for years"...like I said, those committee folks form the only official "members" including for "stance of all congregants" ephemera.
 
For a couple months, my wife and I experienced not a peep from these folks who back in Lent didn't hate me so much for being RC as they did for supporting Benedict XVI...I understand doing so undercuts their "synergy" with RC Cardinal George in uniting Illinois religions toward their way of thinking. Well, yesterday these folks...despite many empty pews...came in late, HAD to have our pew, and kept pushing us down the whole way; my wife sat elsewhere, I always believing those who make pretense of any religion are to be avoided went all the way out to a small seat by the outer exit to wait for my wife.
 
As best I can make out, the Nametag Nazis so assaulted us due to that RC Bishop, chastised by JPII in and since 1983 and having liberation theology itself condemned by Benedict, "winning" a seat in Latin American government; it appears Nametag Nazis will use this with the RC Church here to bolster Democrats or anyone wishing to keep flooding the USA and Illinois directly with immigrants simple. Rationale appears, ala Pelosi and her Biblical passage re global warming only she can find, to ask how anyone can be Godly and not obey the immigration pleas of clergy...especially now that "change!" is in Latin air.
 
Well, if Benedict were to embrace liberation theology, yawn...in the material sense, does it appear to work its purposes in countries of origin or the USA? Many Lake County IL businesses keep closing w/o relocation announced, area homes keep getting foreclosed, and all that's coming is more New Urban home/strip mall motifs...looking at last year's mortgage fiasco and immigrant costs debacles, does merely struggling to find ever-changing ways to justify it all make it somehow then successful in real life?
 
Oh, and let's not forget those who push for "Godly liberation" also propose that God hates America for its failure to do so, yet embrace abortion as child healthcare, same-sex non-reproduction as a teachable lifestyle, suggest appeasing ALL (even Hamas, Qaeda) liberation theology, and government ownership of all housing with strict HR 1955 powers to States and Towns with green more important than industry; clergy supporting such voice include a Chicago Cardinal who lives in a mansion with chauffeurs and is on the USCCB Executive Committee (quite a solitary light to shine against a Pope one otherwise says is faith infallible, let alone USA parish funds and charities); such clergy also now rely on "proof" such stuff is popular with Hispanics due to Bishop's election...and forget it's SO deadly for him he's lived there 30 years as an anti-government yapper against the dictator, obviously accomplished nothing, won in a place otherwise said to be dubious due to no-trail dictator voting, and will just exhort Bush not to build fences...some engine of faith or change.
 
Be like Benedict XVI re clergy and Pelosi Biblers and God-haters: all are God's creation, even when they err...pray for them; in the secular sense, even if somebody believed getting to a USA mortgage and handouts would forever save them, does it seem in their or a nation's best interests to humor them, or to undercut apostolic efforts and introduce Socialist methods to then make things fit? Or are we Conservatives right: liberation theology and politics, whether Qaedan or Latin American or otherwise, is just a tool of those seeking totalitarian fiefdoms.
 

As churches, seminaries, monasteries, and religious bookstores pare to a "necessary for stagecraft" Soviet-style few, mostly via New Urban design (q.v., Becket Fund), to keep Christians quiet totemic propoganda proliferates; no single party behind it, just a concert of amorphous elitists (as Fulton Sheen defined elitism); effect is to induce alienation ala "only psychos who need shackling cling to faith".
 
"Necessaries" can provide sacraments, but only if painting Christ as myth, aiding posing of elitists as "laity/officials serving God via liberation theology helping array of oppressed", or both...gays part of "liberated".
 
Results: Islamic terror theology validated if not embraced (e.g., Carter-Hamas); Los Angeles seeks perks for jihadists; abortion is too often the ONLY child healthcare many will pay for; USA strategics given away/cannibalized to "keep economy humming"; living as contracepted or same-sex couples taught as desireable...and to say gay life needs teaching supports same IS learned or reflexive responsive to life IN HUMANS, plus leads to less people yet is not a "natural engendering".
 
Purpose: Ala Soviets and other tinhorns, induce sense of alienation from "licentious norm" under which media myth one is submerged regardless of personality, so that no one talks  against further myth USA is 1960's-style industrial-military edifice needing green/able to support infinite immigrants well but for nationalists/racists/Church Nazis/foreigners already here but "too lazy or dumb to cut mustard".
 
Conclusion: Especially since gagging Western faiths won't tether to Byzantine Christianity and Jews and others amid Muslim world and against whom terrorists actually chafe and label Crusaders, as a Roman Catholic I stand by the catechism of Benedict XVI, and insofar as confraternity with all Western Christians, I stand by my Vatican 1970 New Testament re Divinity of Christ; I also continue to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Rosary for all of us on earth, especially those for those who do not believe in God at all...thus their use of moral relativity which would undercut their endgame if I and most other folks had been aborted, at conception or as we arrived greeted by scissors and a brain-sucking catheter.
 

H.R. 2092 sets about giving 72 million choldren globally an eduaction, as if to say the USa should just spend a gazillion dollars on global kids' educations, quality thereof no barrier to expense, quality of life in dictatorships no barrier, no barrier if dictators sop up funds sent (ala State and Cities here who misspend), and no way of addressing repayment or addressing reason all then come HERE to live ala mortgage fiasco of 2007 inter alia...really pushes that vision of an HR 1955/total socialist State, though.
 
In that this legislation essentially has an end product of failure on top of monumental cost not even our burden, or at least singular burden, I respectfully submit my opposition to H.R. 2092.
 
Er, um...Democrats WILL tell folks this is just a canard, in that the Education for All Act is another nice titled stinker CALCULATED to do nothing but give "cause" to call GOP "obstructionist child haters"...won't they? And now, back to asking what Democrats like Blagojevich and Daley have been spending all that do-re-mi on for years.  
 

Waffle! Gitcher waffles fer just "change!"! Servin' up good un's like: Dems say China very good in 1960's, very bad in 2008, or maybe not! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
 
Surely, it doesn't take ANY kind of partisan to remember that throughout his 2004 Presidential campaign, Senator Kerry made it a mantra to say: "You can't fight a war on the cheap!" in re Iraq; he and booster General Wes Clark (father of VoteVets) were fond of telling troops: "Help is on the way!"; Kerry also said you can't "just throw up" your hands re Iraq; even Howard Dean thought Kerry should've won in 2004.
 
In 2008, amid all the incense and peppermint, wishes for somebody to love, and singing along to "War Pigs", oh how the Democrat times have been a-changin'...and other 1960's stuff visible only to them.
 
Indeed, if one bothers to look at ALL war spending, one of even grade-school math comprehension can calculate Iraq has been a drop in the bucket compared to money sent to each and every State as well as Towns...for everything from healthcare to roads to farms to transit to education and beyond. Yes, 2004 hopeful John Kerry WAS right that Iraq is USA security on the cheap, if not right why.
 
Recently Senator John McCain said that the economy has been much improved over the past eight years, and going by what's been paid for by the Federal government to sub-governments, as reflected by many high local salaries, and including DHS and assorted disaster/emergency funds, things SHOULD be relatively hunky-dory most places...Illinois even reduced job help, foodbanks, and shelter services in reflection of their own prosperity, if now hemming and hawing re same. 
 
Yet in Illinois for example, a State 100% Democrat-run since 2002, what has the State made monies received be spent upon? Apart from Churches, Roman Catholic and thereto Protestant, which practice gay to global liberation theology, it seems little money had by Illinois (even its own income taxes) gets spent on anything it's sent for...except say big dollars for faith-funding ultra-anti-gay Byzantine Catholic faith of which Democrat Gov. Blagojevich is a member, even if BYZANTINE is the biggest Christianity Muslims yap about in the Mid East and Democrats say the Roman Catholic POPE is "a Crusader" who won't "modernize".
 
The latest resurgence of Illinois "Hate Bush!" and "gimme Iraq funds NOW!" butt cover: yesterday on local CLTV, Mayor Daley was shown in renewed whining Chicago has this aging fleet of transit vehicles, blah, blah, blah, boo-hoo, and of course it's all due to folks who can't see yesterday is water under the bridge and now won't keep coughing up without strings (idea: do something first, submit bills). And we already know what Illinois Senator Obama thinks about folks who won't support liberation theology or think it will ever go away...here, in Iran, in Iraq, in Syria, in Ladenland, or elsewhere. Maybe McCain was right to stall more funds to STATES for vets; maybe all the cash already sent should have accounting.
 
For such res gestae as a commoner may observe, I again reiterate my support of George Walker Bush; of Pope Benedict XVI; and of any defensive or economic USA confraternity with other nations which does not require any in such confraternity to meld or give up its sovereignty...which latter point cannot be implied by mere presence of immigrants.
 

Global warming is now equated with being a problem bigger than WWII, as Time magazine (parent company of Bill Maker's HBO which is his forum for calling ROMAN Catholics Nazis) this week shows in its opinion; trees lifted in lieu of Old Glory, meaning such patriotic service to the USA and free people everywhere, and the martyrs at hands of declared war enemy nations (Auschwitz, 9/11, et al) and rotters, pales in contrast to the biggest baloney ever stuffed into an Al Gore-sized casing.
 
Global warming is not caused by anything in the USA as Gore mentions, since you need tons of manufacturing and agricultural concerns belching mega-pollution 24/7, like it was in the 1960's and as Democrats and amorphorous elitists constantly tell non-English speakers the USA STILL is. Tempting to say just one hippo hurricane holler from Gore could generate a week's worth of polar caps melting, but let's be bigger than that.
 
That's how global warming ties into liberation theology...remember, liberators in USA elected and political offices are "liberating" folks abroad from dictators, and locating them in a 1960's industrial-military edifice still polluting, still having jobs aplenty, still driven by WASPS and related or thereto reactive racists, still dripping with education money, only uber-constricting liberty of USA nationals and Uncles/Tios Tomas for the sake of women's rights and "the chillldddrrreeennnnn!!!" who are bitter liberated good people are here at all when there's plenty for all plus a trillion times over, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Of course, sidebars include stuff like redlining out of say gay marriage attacks uber-strict Islam, Byzantine (Blagojevich/Durbin) Catholicism, and Jews, so that only Roman Catholicism and thereto Protestants (largest groups in the West) are compelled by State faith funders and elitists at-large to A) accept care of the "liberated" or else; B) LOOK like the reason "noble" officials HAVE to keep the New Urban, less job intensive, high credit and prices economy as it is going on and on...yep, even if we just all have to say partake of the same liberation theology of Hamas, Qaeda, Iran, Marxists, and do what it takes to anyone to make sure THAT kind of Crusade works...yes, strip defenses and police and borders and whatever it takes to pay...only the bitter can lose in that, and YOU aren't bitter....ARE you? Better give me your name and whereabouts, comrade...... . Unless there's another reason(s) an Illinois State Police plainclothesman stopped by, two days after I checked out the Catechism of the Catholic Church, to ask my landlord about me generally and to ask me what kind of stuff I read (there is an ILLINOIS DHS office, not just U.S., with PATRIOT and State law no-warrant over library records, apartments, hotels); that was last week, and I note the Chicago archdiocese and its Churches in Lake and Cook Counties refuse to put up pictures of Benedict XVI and do not approve for posting or bulletins regular reminders to watch global Catholic network EWTN.
 
For these reasons, I continue to support George Walker Bush in re Iraq, war on terror, diplomacy, and national security; and I continue to support prohibition against liberation theology as expressed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.  
 
 

Amongst the latest morally relative positions emerging due to a motif "anything but meat and potatoes address of the results of liberation theology impacting the recession, because nobody wants it to stop, just activity in lieu of action":
 
1. PFAW today sent an email PSA, which as its opener says quote:
 
   "H.R.2831, which has already been passed by the House, remedies a terrible Supreme Court decision regarding protections against pay discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Because the Court's decision had to do with a piece of legislation and not the Constitution, Congress can amend the current law to make the language clearer and more explicit about the original act's intent -- and thus correct the Court."
 
    Um, that means the Supreme Court said a law as written contained improper language in the first place, probably something regardless of party folks voted for to get through the day without really doing anything; the Court sent it back; Congress merely has option to amend and let's hope Democrats won't try to slip in "Hail Hamas!" or something just to make GOP look the obstructionists while the tempest of words yet again trumps "huh? Economy? Oh, just change who's in! Works EVERY time, no?".
 
2. Howard Dean is named in a DNC e-PSA today telling me McCain is going to be advertised against for saying the economy is better off now than eight years ago; curiously, especially abroad and in languages everywhere which aren't English, many Democrats and Liberals describe the USA as a 1960's and better economy with a mammoth industrial-military complex run by racists, nationalists, and Uncles/Tios Tom/Tomas...plenty of room for many many more immigrants on public doles and credit (mortgages), who COULD be working but for the GOP and such aforesaid miscreants.
 
    Kudos to the McCain camp for out-thinking moral relativists of the Left: now the GOP has opponents locked into admission no such 1960's edifice exists. Maybe now the debate about what to change about it can be better advanced.
 
Otherwise, today it appears the Democrat-liberation theology wing of Christianity is in sympatico again, in that two days ago Chicago Cardinal George denounced the Pope as begging for mercy on gay priests who molest children (boy, he sure doesn't forgive or change dogma, unless he's cheering for Obama to succeed in efforts to have liberation activists ala Hamas/Laden re-write all non-Jewish, non-Muslim, non-Asiatic, and non-BYZANTINE Catholic scripture texts to validate Church gay marriage or strongarm economics to liberate folks into the USA or call Christ Himself symbolic at best if He ever was here); today, oh, three months after they stopped our six-week temp envelopes (when some opined NOT appearing a Church member made one of interest), my wife and I received Our Lady Of Humility envelopes from Insta-Sets in Salem OH (a month after we officially notified all we would not be attending due to liberation theology still in force under Cardinal George, and as Obama et al now posit BEING a Church member simple should make one of interest generally); and Family Research Council has today placed me in USPS receipt of a PSA which says gays will crash and protest assorted Churches Mother's Day and Father's Day to raise hell and protest that Churches (same exceptions as aforementioned)MUST re-write texts of Scripture to say homosexuals are parents created in God's image and family design...and FRC asks my support of any clergy so beset (but only via signing a pledge to pray for them).
 
My opinion is homosexuals are entitled to whatever the State enacts as civil union; but given the fact almost nobody ever really IS gay or bi or transgendered, I think it is atrocious some are first making non-heterosexuals support attack upon Christians who don't support liberation theology before granting them THEIR OWN acceptance as such liberators...come on, even non-heteros know it's selective attack, as Byzantine Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Asian faiths and such are left alone, only those in confraternity against liberation theology targeted.
 
But it sure drives home how so many Muslims abroad who are not like liberation theologians must feel under the pressures of al-Qaeda, Hamas, MyMood Alibabjihad, and such. For these reasons, I reiterate my support of George Walker Bush re national security, foreign affairs, and diplomacy; I reiterate my support of Pope Benedict XVI in my faith; if any Chicago archdiocese Church expects me to be a member, they must first renounce publicly any filiation(s) to liberation theology and all its forms of deus ex machina; and I shall continue to pray for all of us together, that we may all better open our hearts and minds to the true voice of God and turn from such foolishness as within aforementioned.
 

Some Roman Catholic clergy have been in USA media lately, such media just "not having time" to air Papal speeches or cite to his catechism, instead deferring to said clergy who likewise "haven't means" of promoting global Catholic network EWTN (which carried complete Papal speeches, live and in repeated encores)...and a lot of cable systems and newspapers don't include EWTN in listings; so you can wind up with "this clergy said this, that clergy said that".
 
Now, relevant media and clergy sometimes appear to take much poetic license, government funded as they are and often having to abide in some places churchgoers are of interest and elsewhere non-churchgoers, with what "the Pope REALLY said". Again, not a judgment, just fact.
 
In any event, in such "coverage" the Pope does not do the talking. This could create impression, insofar as faithful finding means to watch actual speeches, that they may have heard from the original Apostles other than really happened or was said ab initio (by extension, so to all religions)...e.g., for being such a miracle worker and sage, some suggest, Christ sure seems illiterate and perhaps made up, meaning moral authority cannot come Him or any laws enacted by those who believed (even if accomplished laws enacted trump thereto prior contemplations).
 
Suppose, however, that not unlike Benedict XVI, Christ was more the doer/talker type rather than a journalist; then suppose that ala EWTN and Beendict, the Apostles faithfully recorded Christ's words and deeds, with some clergy/media of the time ala the Apochrypha deemed widely to be too self-serving to be of value.
 
Just like Benedict and EWTN, Christ easily could have existed and been truly recorded in His day...despite self-interested detractors of yore. Similarly, look how we believe 232 years ago John Hancock faithfully recorded what England had done to the Colonies, yet we have no direct and timely non-print witness today...relying on folks who had faith in Providence, no less.
 
But that Declaration of Independence later brought forth a separation of Church and State; for the religiously challenged, prior to George III of England, the monarch was both ruler and head of the Church of England; our Founding Fathers appear to just have wanted to be clear whereas religion deserves protection, no GOVERNMENT official(s) should have ex officio influence over or by ANY single religion or combination(s) thereof, and note none of our Founding Fathers ever expressed wish for government funding of any faith(s) despite general respect for Providence itself. (Providence is olde tyme for "heaven".)
 
The USA being also a Republic but a democratically elected one with design a priori officials offer best ways to sanely accomplish betterments a relevant electorate wants, I respectfully submit that it would not be un-American for Congress to seek guidance of Providence if so moved...rather than of any Pope, Imam, Rabbi, or other religious party...and in any event strive to avoid promising far more than could be delivered even if all persons acted to the letter of proposed legislations or budgets.
 
Sidebar re Christians as morons: some also wish to defeat Western if not all religion on grounds early Christian Church prophecy of the Book of Revelations HAS to be purely dreamt up to make speakers thereof princes over us, based on "it hasn't happened YET, has it?". Well, in 1967 famed Roman Catholic William F. Buckley Jr. wrote essays prophesying that giving in to then modernists saying Latin Masses were "too elitist", and no longer requiring knowledge or use of Latin by the diverse laity, would give rise to impression that only slackjawed yokels were interested in Christianity; he was laughed at as "preserving Catholic elitism" against all other faiths, then lo! Earlier this month, Bill Maher said Catholics are possessed of no greater intellects than Nazi hitmen, and Senator Obama opined Christians are largely slackjawed yokels "clinging" to faith in hopes of avoiding "humanly unavoidable" events known only to Obama. It took 41 years for Buckley's prophecy to be proven true; what would a mere 2,000 or more years be for something as epic as the Book Of Revelations? Maybe those lawyers, doctors, and other Founding Fathers weren't so slackjawed themselves.
 

Back about 1976, there arose this amorphous effort in Europe and the USA which represents broadly that if said lands would just "know their places" respectively and collectively, as well as downplay or rid themselves of their Christian faiths, a smorgasbord of liberty, mass opportunities for growth, and security would be theirs for all time; the same geezers today banging such drums were at the forefront, and since have brought in new blood to their ranks (e.g., Barack Obama). Gosh, at so many levels, that seems to be baloney, big-time.
 
But that doesn't stop the current malarkey about USA religion: "hey, want State faith based? Teach and enforce only this mot du jour, it helps national security or whatever's topical at the moment, and anybody not going to Church is of interest and will be watched generally as potential Laden-like fundamentalists...duhhhh, yeah, even if it's Byzantine Christianity the Muslim world terrorists have always hated, and we're tearing down Western faiths to install Byzantines while deconstructing borders and defense forces. Come on! Buddy boy Bill Maher just called the Roman Catholics a child abuse club and Nazis again, and we can USE that...yeeaarrrrrggghhhhh!!!!".
 
Now, it has never and does not now matter(ed) to me WHAT anyone on earth wants to have or not have in re religious beliefs; Roman Catholicism has always worked for me, I'll offer anyone interested info on it, and don't get flustered because someone says "no". I don't care if someone would rather blow their nose on the concept of God, believe God is that catty coolster in the candle-adorned mirror, or prefers to practice from a litany of humanly known faiths. But these days, so many are so ready to keep State education and faith funds coming that they'll even expel an innocent kindergartner for having a "Jesus Loves You" pencil; at the same time, I understand I'm simply not at innocent liberty to simply say "no" to my archdiocese re attendance if the Host is "adored" in a can and the archdiocese will support teaching homosexuality as an alternate lifestyle (even DEMOCRATS know that's not true) to be explored by youth while otherwise collectivizing Hispanics, other immigrants, and nationals...to some, "zat iss very interesting", and I don't mean to Benedict XVI.
 
And there's spin saying how can you be FOR Benedict XVI yet not want aimless, economy-destroying mass immigration that only weakens remaindermen in countries of origin...as if to say BENEDICT is behind such mass immigration, unless Bill Maher infers otherwise.   
 
Wherefore, all I wish to conclude re my observations of religion and politics for 2008 is that especially given such within aforesaid palavers, I worry what other leaders will say about government money going into USA religion to effect government agendas; I cite homegrown example PFAW saying the other month government faith money pushes agendas, and homegrown example Pelosi re China being such an intermeddler with religion...both homegrowns pushing their own buttons, unlike say China not yet connected to a "red" button.
 
Other than that, I think government money should be better spent on defense, education and economic diplomacy rather than faith funding as shinola for something unrelated apparently not working very well. As it is, about all we get otherwise are admonitions to fear a litany of everday "possible harms" from pre-school to going for a walk or seeing a mosquito, with going green played as financially secure progress rather than making do with reducing options as all status quos rapidly deepen.