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The Obama Express hurtles through the night, flattening skeptics and, with especial relish, Clintonites.But the Express’ present fuel – hope and change and whoop-de-do – is going to run short once the campaign, not against Hillary, but against a generally united Republican party commences.
It was hard to miss the Dallas Morning News lead editorial last Friday praising the retiring federal judges Jerry Buchmeyer and Barefoot Sanders since it was on the front page of the paper. Ostensibly, it was a news story. It was entitled: “Their fearless rulings changed the face of Dallas.” The headline of the inside page of the lengthy story on all of the “great” things these two federal judges did for the people of Dallas reads: “We …view these judges as giants.”
Why don’t Christians take Jesus at his word?“The poor you will always have with you,” he admonishes his disciples, in the home of Simon the leper, when they become indignant at a woman for anointing the good rabbi with costly perfumed oil that, they contend, could have been sold and the proceeds given to the poor.In the spirit of those same disciples, certain of today’s Christians are indignant that this nation’s costly assets, or at least those of the upper classes, aren’t sold and the money given to the “poor,” however they define that term.
