#502 (4/22) " Shameful Day for Obama"

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URGENT PRAYERS/PETITIONS: 

Stop Censoring the Abortionist Gosnell Mass Murder Trial! - Please go to the following site and join me by adding your name to a petition signed by a growing number of people who want the mainstream media to finally report on this incredible trial that they have largely CHOOSEN not to do. (Go to the site to get full info about this, though I did post an article about it in post #493 last Saturday.) https://www.mrc.org/action/stop-censoring-abortionist-gosnell-mass-murder-trial?roi=echo3-15276168063-12322625-78ab33e7c6cdfb9ca6e76919b81a7eaa&utm_source=apr16remark&utm_medium=email&utm_content=abortiontrial&utm_campaign=stopcensoring

Check Out Also: "Tiresome Bias -Turning a Blind Eye to Evil," Eric Metaxas|Breakpoint.org; April 16, 2013, http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/breakpoint-commentaries-archive/entry/13/21964 

PRAY that 1) justice will be served to this abortionist for his crimes and that he would repent of his sins and find salvation in Jesus, and 2) this trial will lead many involved in performing abortions to finally repent and turn away from doing evil and turn their lives over to Jesus.

Same -Sex "Marriage"- PLEASE PRAY WITH ME (every day untill the decision is revealed around mid-June) THAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL VOTE TO UPHOLD THE 2 LAWS REVIEWED SUPPORTING A TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE.. PRAY that the Court will resist any pressure to MAKE new law based on "cultural trends." PRAY as though the very future of the institution of the family is at stake because it is. PRAY! -  for the sake of possibly millions of children, and for our country if it is to continue to be shown any more favor by our Heavenly Father, who I promise you will be very displeased if homosexual marriage is legalized; "GOD IS NOT [TO BE] MOCKED..." - (Gal. 6:7)  - Stan [Be sure to check out my brief essay at post #478.]

CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR PASTOR SAEED (Iranian-born AMERICAN pastor who just started an 8 year sentence for helping the underground churches in Iran)  If you have not already, please join over 500,000 (was recently250,000) who have signed the petition  for Pastor Saeed's release and tell your friends about it.  http://aclj.org/iran/save-american-pastor-from-iranian-prison-sentence  As the Lord leads, please pray: *For Pastor Abedini as he endures one of Iran’s most deadly prisons, potentially beaten and abused regularly, simply because of his Christian faith. *For the pastor’s wife and family and the Holy Spirit’s comfort upon them. * For God to visit his tormenters and all in his cell with him with supernatural dreams of the risen Christ, and use the pastor's actions and words to draw them to repent and turn to Christ; that God would use the pastor's time in that prison to spark a genuine spiritual revival that will bring scores of Iranians to Christ..*For the U.S. State Department to get involved in a significant way to obtain the pastor’s release.

LATEST Update - April  15 - 1)".. During the weekly prison visit today, Pastor Saeed's family reported that his physical condition is worsening - seeing first-hand the marks and symptoms left by the recent beating. These beatings and the internal injuries are causing Pastor Saeed frequent fainting spells.  Iranian officials are telling Pastor Saeed it could be an additional two months before he will receive medical treatment. Such a delay is inhumane and a gross violation of Iran’s international obligations. ...In addition to refusing to give Pastor Saeed the medical care he needs, it now appears authorities are stepping up their physical abuse and psychological torture. Pastor Saeed reported that cellmates, who appear to have connections to the Iranian intelligence police, recently threatened they would suffocate Pastor Saeed in his sleep, making his death look like an accident.  The daily threat that his life could be taken by his internal injuries or by the hands of cellmates, weighs heavily on Pastor Saeed. .."(http://aclj.org/iran/beatings-intensify-american-pastor-saeed-condition-worsens-in-iranian-prison    PRAY that Pastor Saeed might finally receive the medical  treatment he needs. 2) More than 550,000 people  from 180 countries have signed the petition to Save Saeed. Your voice has moved the U.S., the European Union, and many others to call for his release. But as Pastor Saeed's May 7th 33rd birthday approaches, it's time to encourage him directly. At the ACLJ, they've obtained the address of Evin Prison, and their goal is to flood the prison with thousands of messages of encouragement for Pastor Saeed. Just write a letter (or simply sign your name to one proposed greeting) and they will be sure that its delivered. These messages will let Pastor Saeed know that we're praying for him and his  release, as well as send a signal to the Iranian leaders that Americans will not give up standing up for him. Go to Save Saeed.org and add your name to those sending letters to him.

"Shameful Day for Obama,"

By: David Limbaugh,4/18/2013 http://www.humanevents.com/2013/04/18/a-shameful-day-for-president-obama/4/

I wonder why President Obama feels he has the right to be outraged when legislators don’t automatically roll over to his policy demands. I suspect that his moral indignation is more about personally losing than it is about policy issues themselves.

For indeed, President Obama was obviously furious when his gun control bill failed to muster sufficient votes to pass the Senate. Politico reported, “More than anything, it was an emotional blow to Obama, who was as irritated at the four members of his own party as he was at the 90 percent of Republicans who defeated the bill.” Politico revealed that an administration official said Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s refusal to support the bill especially rankled Obama because she “refused to go along with the bill even after White House chief of staff Denis McDonough visited her office to make Obama’s case on Tuesday.”

Do you see clues to Obama’s mindset here? How dare a member of a coequal branch of government, especially one in his own party, defy Obama’s wishes and refuse to succumb to his fabled powers of persuasion? Politico would have us believe that the impetus for Obama’s emotional investment in the bill was that he was “shaken to the core by the massacre of 26 innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School.” He was allegedly so upset that he “broke his own informal ‘Obama Rule’ — of never leaning into an issue without a clear path to victory.”

I’m not buying any of it. I don’t believe that Obama was any more personally shaken by Sandy Hook than he was by the Gosnell abortion clinic infanticide atrocity. What I do know is that Obama is a leftist gun control zealot who seizes on crises as opportunities to advance unpopular policies.

And what’s this about an “Obama Rule”? That, too, is poppycock. Obama has tried to overreach many times, refusing to take the public’s and Congress’ “no” for an answer, from Obamacare to Stimulus Jr. to cap and trade to high-speed rail to various tax hikes for the “rich” to the financial reform bill to campaign finance reform to education reform to his push to close Gitmo to New START to the DREAM Act to his unanimously failed budget proposals. It took him several tries on many of those initiatives, brutal arm-twisting on others, and on still others, he just issued executive orders or had his administrative agencies unilaterally issue their own rules to do end runs around the recalcitrant Congress.

Obama’s defeat on the gun control measure must have been particularly annoying to him after he had exploited and showcased the poor parents of Sandy Hook victims in furtherance of his legislation. Everyone, left to right, agrees that Obama reacted angrily and bitterly and lashed out at his opponents — a most unpresidential performance, to be sure, but nothing out of the ordinary for Obama, who has demonstrated his petulance on numerous occasions. Just ask Rep. Paul Ryan, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, who sat silently for his regal tongue-lashing during a State of the Union address.

After his bill went down to defeat, Obama said: “Families that know unspeakable grief summoned the courage to petition their elected leaders … to protect the lives of all of our children. A few minutes ago, a minority in the United States Senate decided it wasn’t worth it.”
Don’t let those nasty words slip by you. The president of the United States actually accused certain senators of calculating that it wasn’t worth it “to protect the lives of all of our children.” This is an exceedingly harsh moral judgment and a vicious personal attack.

Obama then proceeded to accuse “the gun lobby and its allies” of “willfully” lying about the bill. He said: “There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn’t do this. It came down to politics.” He said those voting no “caved to the pressure.” According to Obama, “this was a pretty shameful day for Washington.”
Obama clearly depicted those who opposed his dictates as caring less about preventing gun violence. He said, “The point is those who care deeply about preventing more and more gun violence will have to be as passionate and as organized and as vocal as those who blocked these common-sense steps to help keep our kids safe.”

But fear not; in keeping with his usual practice, Obama promised to move forward through executive action to get his way: “Even without Congress [let's remember that Congress represents the varying views of ALL the American people], my administration will keep doing everything it can to protect more of our communities.” If Obama truly cared about preventing gun violence, he might look at the unspeakable gun violence in his home city, Chicago. He might investigate solutions actually designed to address the problem rather than to deprive citizens of their constitutional rights with measures that will not prevent or reduce mass shootings.

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