Shivers Down My Spine!

By John Stallings


This blog was written and first published on 9/28/09.


During the last presidential campaign, I said, "Obama is a narcissistic neophyte, too inexperienced to lead this country. " I had no clue as to how right I really was.

I get shivers down my spine when I look at things this man has said & done in just over eight short months. I’ve been around a long time & I can safely say there’s never been a president who raised the ire, indeed fostered a sense of rage in the people of America on the Right, Left, & Center in so short a time.

I got a small shiver down my spine when Bam, not yet acquainted with White House surroundings, on the way back to the Oval Office approached a panel window, instead of the actual door, expecting it to open. The actual door was just a little further down, which he finally found. Not to worry, this wasn’t going to be a big-deal for him. To me that was a mistake anyone could make. Probably you & I have made similar mistakes. O.K, maybe just me.

The shiver came when I remember George Bush exiting a press conference in Beijing & tugged on the handles of a door, only to find it locked. Bush laughed off the small blunder but the pictures still live on as part of Bush’s legacy. Dozens of news outlets used it as a metaphor from that point on, saying things like; I wonder if this or that will be another “locked door for Bush?”
However there was little note taken of Obama’s rookie mistake. I don’t agree with everything Bush did but something runs up & down my spine when I see such gross unfairness & double-standards. What I’m still trying to wrap my head around is that outright lies & hypocrisy don’t seem to bother some folk in the least. They don’t know the meaning of a “blush.”

It sent shivers down my spine when I heard Obama tell Europe that America was no longer a Christian nation. It sends shivers down my spine when I hear him speak of “spreading the wealth,” when I know that’s nothing more than codified rhetoric meaning socialism.

It sends shivers down my spine every time I hear our president criticize America, especially in other countries, never quite able to bring himself to speak of the greatness of this country. I wonder: whose side is Obama on?

My shivers slightly subsided when I saw Obama hit the nail on the head recently, calling Hip Hop artists Kanye West a Jack---, because of his pitiful display at the award show, taking the mike from 19 year old Taylor Swift’s hands & telling her & the world in essence she didn’t really deserve the award but Beyonce Knolls did. I pray for this young man because it’s likely he was both stoned & drunk when he took this action. But again, Obama described the young man perfectly. Way to go Obama!

But my shivers started again a few days later when Obama played down the shameful videos that surfaced involving the corrupt organization ACORN, acting as if they were beneath his notice when he’s had connections with them through the years, not to mention the fact that through the years they’ve enjoyed millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize their too often nefarious conduct. Conclusion: Obama knows all about a music award show where whatever happened it didn’t cost the American people their hard earned tax dollars, -but isn’t really familiar with the ACORN mess.

I get shivers down my spine when I see our President allowing an investigation into the CIA interrogations with all the risks it would entail. We’re a nation with many vicious enemies & knowledge is power. Now who in the intelligence community going forward is going to stick their neck out to garner information when a few years down the road the rules will change & they’ll have to “Lawyer up,” & maybe even go to jail?

I get shivers down my spine when I see the following; with our allies fighting for their very existence; Europe has virtually been overrun by Muslims, Africa is corrupt in the main, & Israel is fighting for its life, nonetheless our president plans on undermining our intelligence community, consequently shutting out the possibility of our allies exchanging information with us because if we can’t be trusted to safeguard the identity of our own agents, why jeopardize themselves.

I get shivers down my spine when I hear Obama & those around him criticize the free market system, our Constitution, the Founding Fathers—who according to them were—“rich old white men.”

I get shivers down my spine when I hear Obama give dozens of speeches seeking to ram his idea of Health Care down the throats of a people who’ve made it clear they want no part of it, & never mention the good parts of the health care we have & the great strides we’ve made in medicine in the last few decades. Certainly our health-care needs a tune-up but not a complete over-hauling. It doesn’t need to be reinvented & placed in the hands of the government. Have you been to a DMV lately, took a number & watched your fingernails grow while you waited? Have you driven around a government housing project lately or visited a V.A hospital?

I get shivers down my spine when I see voices of descent squelched, people like Humana called on the carpet for telling their patrons the truth about what Obama-care would mean to them.

I got more shivers last week when it was announced that Obama is moving the missile defense from our allies, Poland & the Czhek Republic & did it on the anniversary of the 1939 invasion of Poland. This is a real gift to Russia who desperately wants to reassemble the Soviet Union.

I got shivers down my spine when I heard those New Jersey school kids singing praise to Obama in their classroom. I know Obama didn’t organize that but it shows the militancy of some true believers who are willing to cross the line & indoctrinate young school children. Chairman Moa would be proud.

I got shivers down my spine this morning when I learned the president & his wife were soon off to Copenhagen to plead with the Olympics Committee to bring the next Olympics Games to Chicago, while his generals in Afghanistan sweat it out waiting for him to decide whether or not they’re going to lose the fight with the Taliban & Al Quida for lack of enough boots on the ground.He's spent more time lately with David Letterman than he has talking with the generals in Afghanistan.

I got shivers down my spine when I heard Obama say he wants his own private army of somewhere between 10 & 20 million. This would be a domestic force answerable only to him, to do his bidding. Obama wants to recruit high-school & college students to serve a term in his-“AmeriCorps.” These kids would be shipped off to various locations, housed in a barracks-style setting, issued uniforms & trained in “emergency response techniques." Didn’t someone else in history do this? Feeling safer now?


I’d like to share with you a prayer that was prayed on national radio by then President Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, the day after D-Day. As you read the prayer, ask yourself if our school kids will ever hear this prayer or even have a clue it was ever prayed.

Also, ask yourself if any present day president would deign to read such a prayer on radio or T.V. If President Bush had read such a prayer politicians from all quarters would have been on him like a pack of ravenous dogs. When our president prayed this prayer in 1944, it was considered by Americans to be perfectly proper.

Here’s the prayer;


“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness to their faith.

They will need thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again & again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and day without rest until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men’s souls will be shaken with the violence’s of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home—fathers, mothers, children, wives, and brothers of the brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them—help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great service.

Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let the words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too—strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And’ O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events of temporal matters but of the fleeting moment—let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country and with the sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace—a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen.

Franklin D. Roosevelt-June 6, 1944


The second Psalm contains God’s prophetic message to our nation in this hour.

Here’s the Message Bible translation and I believe you’ll agree that no other comment is really needed.


“Why the big noise nations? Why the mean plots peoples?
Earth-leaders push for position,
Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks,
The God-deniers, the Messiah-deifiers;
“Let’s get free of God!
Cast loose from Messiah!”
Heaven-throned God breaks out laughing.
At first He’s amused at their presumption;
Then He gets good and angry.
Furiously, He shuts them up:
“Don’t you know there’s a King in Zion? A coronation banquet is spread for him on the holy summit.”


Let me tell you what God said next.
He said “You’re my son, and today is your birthday.
What do you want? Name it:
Nations as a present? Continents as a prize?
You can command them all to dance for you,
Or throw them out with tomorrow’s trash.”


So, rebel-kings use your heads;
Upstarts-judges, learn your lesson:
Worship God in adoring embrace,
your very lives are in danger, you know:
His anger is about to explode,
But if you make a run for God---you won’t regret it!


PRAY FOR AMERICA!

Friend, I haven’t lost hope & I don’t think you have either. We’re dealing with a God who catches tears in a bottle. He hears & answers our prayers & He cares.

When Hezekiah was told by the prophet Isaiah that his death was imminent; he turned his face to the wall & prayed. When Isaiah came to tell him his prayers were heard & he wasn’t going to die, he asked for a sign as proof.

Isaiah caused the sun to go backward ten degrees on the sundial. Ten degrees is actually 40 minutes. God gave the king 15 more years of life because of that prayer. 2 Kings 20:1-11.

The God who didn’t refuse Hezekiah’s request won't refuse ours if we’ll humble our hearts before him & call on His name.

Do you think a nation on its knees will be ignored by God? Well when one man prayed, God was willing to throw His massive solar system in reverse for him.

HE’LL DO IT FOR AMERICA TOO!!

Blessings,

John