The contents of Obama's heart [View all]

I wish I could post this in its entirety.

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The contents of Obama's heart
Feb 23, 2015 5:43pm PST by Craig Hardegree



I don’t know if Franklin Graham is a Christian. Or if he loves America. I don’t know if Rudy Giuliani is a Christian or if he loves America. And I don’t know either of those things about Mitt Romney. Or George Bush. Or Ronald Reagan. I don’t even know if Pope Francis is a Christian.

Just as I don’t know if anyone who claims to be Muslim, is truly Muslim.

I do know whether a person is Jewish, because that status is defined in objectively-verifiable ways: being born to Jewish parents; or conversion, which can only be done after a ruling from a Bais Dina court.

But whether a person is a Christian; whether a person is a Muslim; whether a person loves America, are all matters purely of the heart, not subject to objective testing.

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The sad truth is, they passionately hate President Obama, as a person. So nothing he does and no change he makes, will ever please them. He could debase himself and jump through their hoops to their glee and delight, but they would still criticize him. He could acquiesce and use the wording they are presently demanding, but they would simply change their demands to different wording, just as Jim Crow elections officials changed the questions on voter literacy tests, once the original questions were answered correctly. He could talk big and engage in a purely symbolic swagger-stunt, but they would laugh him off the stage, as they did when the “diminutive” Dukakis put on a combat helmet and took a staged ride in a 68-ton M1 Abrams Battle Tank.

But in the final analysis, it is because of President Obama’s impeccable uprightness; his undeniable positive achievements; his first-in-modern-history-to-be-scandal-free presidency, that they are relegated-down to criticizing (their perceptions of) the contents of his heart.