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Believe it or not, I actually enjoy Political Comics. This might have started in Elementary when i would skim through my History Text book and look at the older ones of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis Boxing or of “Teddy” Roosevelt and… well whatever that one was about. This enjoyment has continued to grow and, thanks to the Internet, flourish. Well, I happened upon one today that seems to sum up my feelings of the first few days of the Obama Presidency and decided to post it.
I am interested to see how the typically harsh cartoonists protray our new President in the coming years. It should be interesting.
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Here is a link to an MSNBC article that actually is pretty comical. During the entire Bush Presidency I thought he was a nice, meek, calm man who cared for the Staff and, deep down inside, was a good Ol’ Boy… Well, looks like I was wrong.
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After taking time to read through President Obama’s Speeches, Watch Media Coverage, and Listen to old Speeches I think, as a Nation, we are experiencing another first… another Change.
I realize that in the Political arena you have to pander to the Majority in order to get elected and that the job is basically about the People and fro the People, but it appears that President Obama has taken this to a new level. How? Well, it doesn’t seem like he is pandering. He appears to be the first President who actually “IS” instead of “Trying to Be” the people. Whether it is his “Aloha” persona or his tight Basketball skills, he has the “Common Man bit” down pat. He seems to hold the ideals and mindset of the vast majority of the American public in his pocket… but also in his heart and mind.
So, what does this mean. Well America, I think we finally have our first Post-Modern President. His speeches drip with the “Po-Mo” concepts of relativism and subjective Truth.
Sure, according to the new President, there are ideals and and abstract constructs that are needed in the face of the troubles coming upon our nation, but it is only a matter of time before these ideals and constructs are viewed as a hindrance to our progress. The real Importance, as can be gleaned from Speeches, lies in Each Individual Man.
Maybe I am jumping to conclusions. Maybe things aren’t as “Post-Modern” as I think. Oh well, no matter how you cut it… Change is coming – “Yes We Can.”
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I debated on whether to post this or not… But I couldn’t pass it up. Forgive the one or two questionable parts.
After watching it a few times I am struck by the amount of people who don’t appear to be part of the group, but are trying to dance along with all of them. Are we really this easily influenced? Are their Cutural Implcations? Or is this just a really fun Video?
Voddie Baucham Jr. in response to the questions that some may ask:
“Look me in my eyes and ask me this: “How on earth can a holy and righteous God know what I did and thought and said yesterday and not kill me in my sleep last night?” Ask it that way, and we can talk. But until you ask it that way, you do not understand the issue. Until you ask the question that way, you believe the problem is out there somewhere. Until you ask the question that way, you believe that there are some individuals who, in and of themselves, deserve something other than the wrath of Almighty God. When you ask me the question that way—when you say, “Why is it that we are here today? Why has he not consumed and devoured each and every one of us? Why? Why, O God, does your judgment and your wrath tarry?”—then you truly understand the issue.”
(Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World pg 63-64)
“I feel like pleading: Don’t waste your life on experiments. There are proven paths. They are marked out in the Word of God. They are understandable. They are precious. They are hard. And they are joyful. Search the Scriptures for these paths. When you find them, step on them with humble faith and courage. Set your face like flint toward the cross and the empty tomb—your cross and your empty tomb. Then, for the joy set before you, may a lifetime of sacrifices in the paths of love seem to you as a light and momentary affliction.”
(John Piper: The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World pg. 83)
