Why Are Christians SO Upset About This?

The 2015 National Prayer Breakfast was held this past week.

The National Prayer Breakfast is a yearly event held in Washington, D.C., on the first Thursday of February each year.

The founder of this event was Abraham Vereide. The event—which is actually a series of meetings, luncheons, and dinners—has taken place since 1953 and has been held at least since the 1980's at the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue NW.

The breakfast, held in the Hilton's International Ballroom, is typically attended by some 3,500 guests, including international invitees from over 100 countries. The National Prayer Breakfast is hosted by members of the United States Congress and is organized on their behalf by The Fellowship Foundation [aka, The Family], a Christ-centered organization. Initially called the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, the name was changed in 1970 to the National Prayer Breakfast.
It is designed to be a forum for the political, social, and business elite to assemble and build relationships. Since the inception of the National Prayer Breakfast, several U.S. states and cities and other countries have established their own annual prayer breakfast events.

Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has participated in the annual event.

President Obama attended this year, and gave a few remarks. The right wing, the conservatives, the Republicans, went nuts in their condemnation. First, what did he say?

Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

What do you think? Is that an outrageous thing to say? Fox News and the right wing seem to think so. Starting with the Crusades,

Die Hard Democrat

Ok, I'll admit, I am a die hard Democrat. I can never see myself voting for a Republican, because I don't believe in what they stand for and promote. I may not agree with the Democrat, like what Obama's doing with the TPP, but they're always, on the whole, a far cry better than what the Republican espouses.

The country is way worse than it was when I was growing up, and it started with Reagan. The forces that trashed this fair country for the last thirty five or forty years, backed, and were empowered by Reagan. I will never forget that after twenty of twenty eight years of being ruled by Republican administrations, we had the greatest economic calamity since the great depression, and that so-called fiscally responsible Republicans, for the second time, ran up enormous deficits. Their total economic viewpoint was shown to be absolute trash.

Reagan campaigned on balancing the budget, yet ran up the greatest debt, for every year of his administration, in the history of the country, which continued under Poppy Bush (HW). Clinton turned this totally around and was running surpluses by the end of his tenure, with a plan to pay off the debt by 2010. Poppy's boy, W, said we didn't need no surpluses, totally reversing the budget by his policies, and running a trillion dollar deficit by 2008, the year of the greatest crash since the Great Depression. Any Republican that denies this fact, and there are many, should be called out for their lying tongues, never to be believed again, and consigned to oblivion.