![]() What is his voice? And what’s Clinton’s? “It did seem sort of strange to hear a Yankee affecting a southern drawl,” Fox’s Hill said of the New York senator, by way of explaining the fun she’d had at her expense. Sometimes he’s Stokely Carmichael one cannot help but wonder who’s the real -what’s his voice?” (One reader comment: “I’m from Hawaii and I live in the South now, so I guess I can’t really hear either of his ‘blackcents.’ ”) The syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker wrote an op-ed about Clinton’s speech, likening the senator’s performance to “Granny Clampett auditioning on American Idol.” Bill Moyers observed that Obama used an “inflection of the southern dialect that you don’t hear in the rest of his speeches,” while the author Shelby Steele, speaking with him on Bill Moyers Journal, argued that Obama is sometimes “John F. Wonkette, the tongue-in-cheek political blog, created a “Pride Goeth Before the Drawl Dept.” to mark-and mock-Obama’s speech. Hill on Fox News Live, after re-airing “KF(HR)C” for her audience. ![]() “Well, I don’t feel noways tired, neither,” scoffed E. The southern-spiced speeches, not surprisingly, soon made it to YouTube-the former, as “Kentucky Fried Hillary” the latter, as “Barack Obama, Man of 1,000 Voices”-from which they were, in another fairly predictable development, picked up and roundly mocked by the media. “I’m here because somebody marched for our freedom I’m here because y’all sacrificed for me.” The same day found Barack Obama y’alling to his own Selma audience: “Don’t tell me I’m not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama,” he said. “Ah don’t feel noways tahred!” the senator declared, her drawl booming out to the crowd. When our words are wrapped in the love of Christ, that is when real differences are made.On the March 4, 2007, commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, an animated Hillary Clinton spoke from the pulpit of the First Baptist Church, borrowing lines from a James Cleveland hymn. Speak as Christians first, regardless of your political leanings. But let us do so with a heart that longs to see these leaders transformed by God’s love, that prays for them as we would pray for a family member, that is determined to walk in undefiled light, and that recognizes that we too have failings that call for repentance and contrition.” If someone’s actions are wicked, we can brand them as such. We are taught to intercede for those in authority in 1 Timothy 2:12: “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving be made for all people - for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.”īrown writes, “I’m all for denouncing what I believe to be the sinful policies of Obama and Hillary, as well as exposing and rebuking corruption wherever it is found (including Hillary’s email server). Pray for our country’s leaders, and encourage others to do so also. ![]() Did Obama’s teen daughters look bored during a speech? Do you think Hillary looks ridiculous in her pantsuits? You can let the whole internet know if you want to. In this technologically-driven age, it has become commonplace to mock politicians on social media we can share our most cutting insults with the world in seconds with a tap of a button. They need to be Christians first, conservatives second. In The Stream blog Do Conservative Christians Have Christ’s Love for Obama and Hillary? We Should., author Michael Brown writes that “Conservative Christians” actually have it backwards. You may have even claimed that you hate both of them.ĭear brothers and sisters, this kind of talk needs to stop. Most of all, you think Barack Obama has been a disappointing president for the past eight years and fear a country run by Hillary Clinton. You support religious freedom and might not believe in climate change. You call yourselves “Conservative Christians.” You are likely pro-life and believe in biblical marriage. Most of you reading this politically lean to the right.
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