Religion In Government Good? Hillary Flip Flop? Mexico and Military.

Hey folks,

Happy Tuesday to ya. Yeah I know for most of you, this is Monday, but hey, we only have four days to go. I commented that I’ve been away in an internet and news free zone for three and a half days. I started scanning and found the following that NEED to be commented on. These stories are WHY I have to be here to translate, simplify, and point out the obvious to you, to make the insanity sane, looniness logical, and the complicated simple. Easy for all to understand.

Lets start with this one. Do you remember when it was "bad" and a few in the mass media had a field day that the President is a Christian? More than once or twice we heard of the non-existent "Wall of Separation" argument? The fact that religion has no place in public life, most assuredly NO place in the White House? So what is the NYT reporting yesterday?

Narrowing the Religion Gap? They are talking about how faithful Hillary and Obama are. They even ask you to picture them, not only sitting in a pew, but to picture them standing in the pulpit preaching a sermon. Nothing but praise for these two for having faith. Unbelievable.

Let’s stick with the NYT for a second. Then you have this story. Seems that Hillary is changing her explanation yet again as to why she voted for the war. This has become a real problem for her and many on the left want her to apologize and say that she simply made a mistake.

First she said she was lied to. Then she said she was fooled. Now, and this is not new, she is saying "If I knew then what I know now." But the problem is, she CLAIMED to know everything then. It’s all over U-TUB and has been played all over the place, Hillary back in 02 and 03 saying why she was FOR the war in Iraq. She said SHE did the investigations. She was told by the Clinton advisers. She studied the evidence. She felt we needed to go alone if necessary.

Then when the Looney fringe came out against it, she said she was fooled by Bush. Bush Lied, Bush is to blame. When this did not work, including some very Liberal writers asking an honest question, "She was fooled by Bush, by her husband, by Saddam, by North Korea, by the little blue man on the moon, how can she be trusted to be President?" So now, "if I knew then,,,"

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers have been split for some time about whether she would be better off if she apologized for the vote. Mark Penn, her chief strategist, who was also Mr. Clinton’s pollster, carries considerable influence within the campaign, and he agrees with her that she should keep the "mistake" onus on Mr. Bush and turn her attention to finding "the right end" to the war, as she says.

{Sigh} Then you have THIS story by the AP. More examples of corruption to be ignored and excused.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday denied that her campaign traded money for an endorsement from one of South Carolina's most influential black politicians.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton responded to questions about the consulting contract her campaign negotiated with state Sen. Darrell Jackson, who last week endorsed her candidacy rather than of top rivals John Edwards or Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

"Senator Jackson was someone who was involved in my husband's campaigns. He was someone we turned to for political advice and counsel and I'm proud to have him on my team," Clinton told the AP.

Soon after the endorsement, Jackson acknowledged that his media consulting firm had negotiated a $10,000 per month contract with Clinton's campaign. Jackson has said he turned down more lucrative contracts from other candidates.

That’s $10,000 a month until the 08 elections. Do the math folks.

Although he backed Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary, Jackson said he now supports Clinton because she has the best shot of winning the White House.

And the fact that she outbid him. {Laughing} I’m not making this up folks. Edwards campaign along with Obama were seeking his endorsement. Clinton simply had more money to offer. Now wait a second,, The name of this article is "Clinton defends consulting contract." Where does she do this? {Sigh} But she gets a pass on this as well.

Then I’ll wrap it up with this story. Completely unrelated, but just another example of insanity. By the AFP.

The Mexican mother of a US soldier jailed for refusing to deploy to Iraq said she had asked Mexico's government for help in gaining his release.

"My son is no coward," Susan Aguayo said in Mexico City.

Yes he is.

"My son is not disobedient. He is responsible and knows what he is doing," she said.

Yes he is. No he isn’t and it doesn’t matter. If he knows what he is doing, then he knows he SHOULD be in jail.

Her son, Agustin Aguayo, 35, was born in Guadalajara, and joined the US Army before applying for conscientious objector status.

He served one tour in Iraq as a medic, but asked not to return and to be recognized as a conscientious objector.

He joined the army in 2002, and served one tour in Iraq, before applying for conscious objector status. He was turned down in 2004 but worked in Iraq for a year, before jumping out a window in Germany to escape being shipped back to Iraq. He remains jailed in Germany.

He is to be court-martialed in Germany March 6-7. He has been charged with desertion and missing movement with his outfit.

His mother said he could spend as many as seven years in prison.

Good. He JOINED the miliary, in a time of war. He was sent to the front lines as a medic. A noble job. Yet he turned chicken liver and decided he didn’t want to go back. He is getting what he deserves. What did she think that the Mexican Government could have done anyway? He wanted to be a US citizen, with all rights and privileges. He joined the military because he WANTED all rights and privileges. He chose to jump out a window and run away. I hope he gets the Court Marshal and jail time he deserves.

Yes folks, it’s a crazy, crazy, world out there. Right is wrong, yet right sometimes, depending on who’s doing it. Sin is pardonable to some, yet condemning to others. Yet, the truth remains the truth, regardless of who is spinning what. See you tomorrow.
Peter

Sources;
AFP- Mom of US soldier charged with desertion seeks help from Mexico
AP-Clinton defends consulting contract
NYT-Clinton Gives War Critics New Answer on ’02 Vote
NYT-Narrowing the Religion Gap?