Faith and hope in hard times....

http://www.sundaygazettemail.com/News/EssaysonFaith/200811010252

This is a very inspirational account of how one family dealt with the personal tragedy wrought
by economic hard times.

Worthwhile read....

Dad, his parents and siblings were staunch Republicans, but in 1932, he changed parties...

One man's inspirational is another man's chance to politic.

Well OC it is hard to talk about the Great Depression without mentioning FDR.

The focus of the article was on Faith, family, and resolve during hard times.

Not politics.

During such times, people learn they need each other.

Some might call that politics.

Others say it's just economic reality.

Economic reality?

Please......you don't have a clue about economic reality.

You and your party (and most members of the GOP for that matter) have stepped through the looking glass. You all think you can tinker with interest rates and print money out of thin air and bailout financially insolvent financial institutions and then have the unmitigated gall to use a phrase like "economic reality"!

I'd laugh my ass off if the results haven't been so disasterous.

Of course I shouldn't worry my empty little head about it, should I? After all..........Barry & Nan & Dingy Harry will soon have a strangle hold on our government and they will put a chicken in every pot in every cute little pink house they're going to build. I won't have to worry about a dang thing.....they'll provide substandard care of every kind for each and every one of us from cradle to grave.

Yippee!

Well like the preachers always say, to get any benefit you have to have your cup turned upright.

I suspect you guys turned your cups upside down soon as you read any mention of FDR.

For the life of me I can't imagine why patriotic Americans can't put aside petty politics and pull togethor in times of crisis.

"...I heard FDR's words - just as he delivered them 75 years ago: "After all, there is an element in the readjustment of our financial system more important than currency, more important than gold, and that is the confidence of the people. Confidence and courage are the essentials of success in carrying out our plan. People must have faith. Let us unite in banishing fear. We have provided the machinery to restore our financial system; it is up to us to support and make it work. Together, we cannot fail." I believe that message is as true today as it was in the Great Depression...."

But instead of banding togethor with common purpose in our current crisis and rallying 'round in the bonds of unity, what do we get?

Finger pointing and blaming, and "you and your party, blah, blah, blah..."

And bitter resentment toward fellow countrymen who extend the hand of friendship and brotherly love.

There is none so blind as he who will not see.

So you're saying that if the roles were reversed Sherman, and it was McCain and Republicans about to seize control of Washington, you could "put aside petty politics and pull togethor in times of crisis?"

But instead of banding togethor with common purpose in our current crisis and rallying 'round in the bonds of unity, what do we get?

Finger pointing and blaming, and "you and your party, blah, blah, blah..."

And bitter resentment toward fellow countrymen who extend the hand of friendship and brotherly love.

There is none so blind as he who will not see.

Oh spare me the sermon!

Here you are on your high horse preaching about brotherly love and unity and extending hands in friendship on this thread.....

meanwhile.......

On another thread you're telling us all how the Democrats should give Joe Lieberman das boot for not towing the party line 100% of the time.

In the next edition of Webster's Dictionary next to the word hypocrite will be a picture of sodbuster.

sodbuster wrote:http://www.sundaygazettemail.com/News/EssaysonFaith/200811010252

This is a very inspirational account of how one family dealt with the personal tragedy wrought
by economic hard times.

Worthwhile read....

Hmmmm.

Psalms get mad props (as does 2 Chronicles) after a very long homage to Roosevelt. As for personal tragedy, the only thing I read was that a sewing machine was repossessed and a father had to walk to work.

You'll have to forgive me, Sherm, but to call that a tragedy is just wrong. Rwandans who are starving and risked genocide while Clinton fiddled would laugh at the idea of walking to work and not having a sewing machine as a "personal tragedy."

I have to wonder what point the writer was making. Is she equating the Bush years with "the wicked" being trapped in his own snares, or is she condemning the moral climate of this country? If she is condemning the moral climate of the United States while praising Roosevelt, that plucky fellow who put people in camps for being Japanese, I have to wonder if that West Virginia hooch isn't a bit stronger than I remember it.

It was an interesting read, if only as a case study of the easily deceived and how frequently religion can be used by manipulators for the further drugging of the sheeple.

On another thread you're telling us all how the Democrats should give Joe Lieberman das boot for not towing the party line 100% of the time.

That's not what he said, Stephanie. He said that he should get the party caucus boot because Democratic Party voters rejected him by not nominating him.

Then he turns around and runs against his former party and defeats its candidate. So why should they not give him the boot?

Officeholders' political parties are not about "towing a line". They are about being first nominated by the party, then winning in the name of the party.

ziggy wrote:

On another thread you're telling us all how the Democrats should give Joe Lieberman das boot for not towing the party line 100% of the time.

That's not what he said, Stephanie. He said that he should get the party caucus boot because Democratic Party voters rejected him by not nominating him.

Then he turns around and runs against his former party and defeats its candidate. So why should they not give him the boot?

Officeholders' political parties are not about "towing a line". They are about being first nominated by the party, then winning in the name of the party.

Sherm keeps telling us all about how the Democrats are going to extend hands of friendship and work with the GOP because they want to do what is best for America.

Well he needs to make up my mind. Either the Democrats do what is best for the country or they do not. If Lieberman was best for the country during this session of Congress, why won't he be during the upcoming session?

Or, are the Democrats just playing politics. I say they are. Taking Lieberman's committee chairmanship away from him will prove this.

Don't get me wrong, Ziggy......I am not a Lieberman supporter. In fact, he disgusts me. He has clearly demonstrated his first priority is Israel. He is a pro-abortion Zionist who believes in big government and the redistribution of wealth. He fits in very well with that party.

Well thanks zig.

That means a lot that you understood what I meant.

Eapecially since I know you have even less use for the Dem Party than they do.

But they just do not understand I am not saying kick him out of the Senate.

But he should not be allowed to caucus as a Dem and get committee chairmanships, etc. just as if he was a bona fide Democrat.

sodbuster wrote:Well thanks zig.

That means a lot that you understood what I meant.

Eapecially since I know you have even less use for the Dem Party than they do.

But they just do not understand I am not saying kick him out of the Senate.

But he should not be allowed to caucus as a Dem and get committee chairmanships, etc. just as if he was a bona fide Democrat.

You don't seem to understand Sherman. The ONLY reason he continued to caucus with the democrats and was allowed to maintain his chair is because Reid and the dumocrats NEEDED him. So unless Joe makes 60, then they no longer NEED him and their tune will change.