Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—August 16, 2020

Shades of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, who once complained that the president “threw me under the bus”.

“Barack Obama is sharing doubts about the ability of his former Vice President Joe Biden to win the 2020 election, according to a new report.” (Daily Mail, Aug. 15, 2020)

“Tensions linger between the camps with the VP determined to prove the naysayers wrong after Obama backed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as his successor in 2016, Politico states.

‘Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up’

“While the former President has publicly backed Biden – albeit late in the day – he is said to be warning his inner circle that he may not be fit for office.

‘Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up,’ Obama has cautioned, according to one Democrat who spoke to Politico.”

“Don’t underestimate Joe’ ability to f**k (his words, not ours) things up”.

In other words Obama is greasing his former VP’s back for an easy slide under the bus, before he can even deliver his acceptance speech at the DNCC on Thursday night.

Could it be that Obama is paving the way for the presidency run of Senator Kamala Harris which is who Democrat elites really want as president?

Up to now, Obama and Biden have come across as BFFs.

“On the social media-generated #BestFriendsDay, the campaign posted a picture of “Joe” and “Barack” friendship bracelets. Biden relabeled himself an “Obama-Biden Democrat.” (Politico, Aug. 14, 2020)

Throw out your Obama-Biden friendship bracelet, Joe.  It was only a juvenile joke from the get-go.

Fifty-two percent of Democrats/Leaners wish someone else were their nominee (Gallup, Aug 14, 2020)

Long before Obama’s pointed critiques, Biden was already out there shooting himself in the foot by not seeming to know what day or place it was, to the point where some were demanding he take a professional cognitive test.

“Obama is said to have bemoaned Biden’s lack of understanding for much of the Democratic electorate. (Dailymail)

Because of his multiple trademark gaffes, Dems have treated Biden like the tipsy uncle in early stage dementia some folk hide in the attic when unexpected visitors come to call.

In Biden’s case, the attic is his Delaware basement.

Interesting how the usually non-specific Obama, who performed like the Artful Dodger during his 8 years in the Oval Office, is now specific about Biden in his 11th-hour complaints about him.

“The former president allegedly told one former Democratic candidate that he was struggling to understand voters in the likes of Iowa.  (Daily Mail)

‘And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden,’ they said he added.

“Yet, Biden has pushed ahead despite knowing that Obama may feel he is not the right person for the job and disagrees with his governing style.

Obama didn’t ‘lift a finger’

“ ‘He was loyal, I think, to Obama in every way in terms of defending and standing by him, even probably when he disagreed with what Obama was doing,’ said Leon Panetta, Obama’s secretary of Defense.

‘To some extent, [he] oftentimes felt that that loyalty was not being rewarded.’

“Biden is said to have hit out of the fact that Obama didn’t ‘lift a finger’ to help him take the primary in South Carolina and that he had won the support of black voters in the state on his own merit.

“The tension comes after Obama lined up Clinton instead of his own VP to be his successor, talking Biden out of a run in 2016.

“While the move was linked to Biden’s recent loss of his son Beau and it being too soon after the death for him to begin a grueling presidential campaign, insiders have said that Obama simply viewed Clinton as a better person to take over.

‘In the Situation Room, Biden could be something of an unguided missile’

“…Obama heaped praise on Clinton early after his own 2012 reelection.

‘I was a big admirer of Hillary’s before our primary battles and the general election,’ Obama once said.

‘You know, her discipline, her stamina, her thoughtfulness, her ability to project, I think, and make clear issues that are important to the American people, I thought made her an extraordinary talent. … [P]art of our bond is we’ve been through a lot of the same stuff.’

“Obama is said to have viewed himself and Clinton as the ones that do ‘the reading’.

‘In Situation Room meetings, she had the thickest binder and had read it three times,’ one Clinton aide told Politico.

“While in office, young Obama aides are reported to have dismissed Biden, even ‘eye-rolling’ when the VP would begin speaking, while former members of the administration have also treated Biden dismissively in their memoirs.

‘In the Situation Room, Biden could be something of an unguided missile,’ Ben Rhodes, Obama’s former deputy national security adviser, wrote.

Obama on Clinton: ‘I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office’

“Former FBI Director James Comey also said that ‘Obama would have a series of exchanges heading a conversation very clearly and crisply in Direction A. Then, at some point, Biden would jump in with, ‘Can I ask something, Mr. President?’

‘Obama would politely agree, but something in his expression suggested he knew full well that for the next five or 10 minutes we would all be heading in Direction Z,’ Comey added.
‘After listening and patiently waiting, President Obama would then bring the conversation back on course.

“The tension becomes more clear when looking back at Obama’s endorsement of Clinton in 2016.

‘I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,’ Obama said of the former New York Senator.

In contrast he said of Biden this year: ‘I believe Joe has all of the qualities we need in a president right now … and I know he will surround himself with good people.’

“Obama’s dismissal of Biden comes despite Republicans recalling how they preferred to negotiate with the Vice President over the President, referring to Obama’s know-it-all attitude which they felt spoke down to them.

Meanwhile, when Biden makes his acceptance speech on Thursday night, he’ll be making it from under the bus where Obama already threw him.

The repressed giggles never heard will be coming from the direction of Senator (President in her own mind) Kamala Harris.

Re-posted from The Canada Free Press By Kelly OConnell —— Bio and Archives—August 16, 2020

A deafening howl arose from aggrieved Democrats when Donald Trump called Joe Biden’s ideas an “attack against God.” Apoplectic liberals seethed knowing the disadvantage in defending their grim beliefs. Most progressives eschew any divinity. But given how many Americans self-identify Christian, they scrambled to fight back against “godless liberalism.” Biden’s outraged partisans touted his Catholic fidelity. But, Question: If Biden were alive during Christ’s rise, would he have counseled Mary – an unwed pregnant teen—to abort the Messiah?

I. SECULAR RELIGION

AG Barr Opposes Faux Religions

In fact, leftism is not only godless, but suffers angst propelled by unresolved theological issues. This explains why leftism developed into a cult-like ‘political religion.’ In fact, AG William Barr described the postmodern development of BLM and Antifa as a power mad ‘secular religion.’

Barr explained to Mark Levin:

The left has “pulled away from the umbrella of classical liberal values that have undergirded” America and made a “secular religion” out of seeking “complete political victory,” Attorney General William Barr tells “Life, Liberty & Levin” this week. “They’re not interested in compromise,” Barr told host Mark Levin. “They’re not interested in a dialectic exchange of views. They’re interested in total victory…It’s a substitute for religion.

“They view their political opponents as evil because we stand in the way of their progressive utopia that they’re trying to reach, and that’s what gives the intensity to the partisan feelings that people feel today, because for them, this pilgrimage we’re all on is a political pilgrimage. Everything is reduced to politics for people who don’t have that perspective.”

AG Barr calls ANTIFA a ‘new form of urban guerrilla warfare’

Liberal History

Briefly, early leftism grew mushroom-like in the shadow of the 17^th century scientific Enlightenment. Then socialism derived from Parisian writers after the French Revolution. Important French author, founder of Sociology, and godless religion – Auguste Comte, went clinically insane. Yet after 3 years of treatment, never fully recovered. But, in the 1840s Comte founded ‘Positivism,’ or society based on “science”, then outlined his Religion of Humanity. This secular religion was dedicated to Comte’s crush, Madame Clotilde de Vaux, as she was high-priestess and Comte its pope.

II. LEFTISM v FAITH

Source of Liberalism v. Christianity Conflict

Why did European politics and Christian theology part ways? Recall Europe itself was a biblical experiment birthing the modern world. As Carl Schmitt wrote,

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development — in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver — but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts.

So the West was built from Christian theories secularized, but as the Reformation faded in influence, politics reversed history and cannibalized religion.

III. GOVERNMENT SUPPLANTS CHURCH

Battle Over God’s Goodness: Theodicy

Theodicy is belief in a good God in a universe abounding in evil. In The Theology of Liberalism, Political Philosophy and the Justice of God, Eric Nelson states historic debates over whether the biblical God is good and just, waged for centuries. Summarizing, Calvinists believe God alone chooses his followers, whereas Pelagians claim God allows freedom to choose. It’s Predestination versus Free Will.

Good Free Men Prove God Just

Originally, the debate was theological, then invaded philosophy, and is now waged in social and political realms. Nelson explains the Pelagian/ free-will crowd, including eminent men like Milton, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, believed doing good works by choice defended God’s reputation. This allowed mankind to gain divine approval by serving humanity, bringing peace on earth, and founding utopia. So by doing free-will good on earth through liberalism, we establish the justness of God in heaven.

Political Adoption of Church’s Mandate 

Charity developed from Jewish and Christian theology, so support of the underclass emanated from these, later augmented by government. Modern liberalism attempts to commandeer the Church’s role in serving humanity, both on ideological and practical rationale. Nelson explains it’s a fallacy to separate religion from politics in European history. But socialists, like Karl Marx accused capitalists of robbing the poor. They responded with a planned, communal, property-free state. Progressives rejected the church and God, and so by the impetus of transference, government fills the vacuum where God and religion once stood. Liberals only accept humanism.

Post-Modern Woke Snowflake Politics

Arriving in 2020, Democrats ride an unstable wave of progressive anger, hoping the tiger doesn’t turn and devour them. Between the economic and social shock of COVID-19 shutdowns, and the fury of Marxist-derived products Antifa and Black Lives Matter, they seek a sea-change. In typical revolutionary style, opportunist liberals use urban unrest to stifle opposition. This drives a wholly unethical and antinomian structure of Nihilism, claiming any activity is justified if driven by injustice to historically oppressed minorities. If this continues, the Rule of Law will collapse, replaced by the ad-hoc rule of despots, as seen in the USSR.

CONCLUSION

We’re told America is in the midst of a culture war. The problem with politics supplanting religion is it destroys both, amalgamating power. So Marxism, by demanding religion outlawed, and in its fake-messianic predictions, is a pseudo-faith. The threat to American liberty and safety is Marxism. Between Lenin, Stalin and Mao, more than 100,000,000 innocent souls were murdered in the name of the deified state. And no churches were allowed since Marxism will not accept competition. Therefore, we must all bone-up on Marxist theories and then commit ourselves to self defense. No better resistance training against tyranny has ever excelled the Bible. For, from the very beginning, church and state were separated to protect God’s people from usurpation of our Natural Rights & biblical Freedoms by fiery-eyed heathens.