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		<title>By: Bianca</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, Victoria, go blow it out your tooblefroobles.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, Victoria, go blow it out your tooblefroobles.
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		<title>By: Victoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Victoria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bianca, after reading what you wrote on &quot;Obama&#039;s grandmother dies on election eve&quot; thread yesterday, (by the way it was deleted) I couldn&#039;t care what you do, or what you think - PATHETIC!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bianca, after reading what you wrote on &#8220;Obama&#8217;s grandmother dies on election eve&#8221; thread yesterday, (by the way it was deleted) I couldn&#8217;t care what you do, or what you think &#8211; PATHETIC!
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		<title>By: Bianca</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bianca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To me, being a Christian voter means staying home and posting on World and then laughing at the folks who voted for both these devils.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To me, being a Christian voter means staying home and posting on World and then laughing at the folks who voted for both these devils.
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		<title>By: Victoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Victoria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>StuBob

You&#039;re right, there may not be a way to stop abortion, and that grieves me, even if McCain should win.    In the same breath I state  never to  vote for any candidate who approves of abortion, or who would approve laws to make it more available, than it already is.    

As a physician this must tear at your heart.  I&#039;m so glad there are those of you who feel so strongly against abortion.  God bless you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>StuBob</p>
<p>You&#8217;re right, there may not be a way to stop abortion, and that grieves me, even if McCain should win.    In the same breath I state  never to  vote for any candidate who approves of abortion, or who would approve laws to make it more available, than it already is.    </p>
<p>As a physician this must tear at your heart.  I&#8217;m so glad there are those of you who feel so strongly against abortion.  God bless you.
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		<title>By: endyblue</title>
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		<dc:creator>endyblue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Victoria,

The man I&#039;m voting for is more prolife than John McCain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Victoria,</p>
<p>The man I&#8217;m voting for is more prolife than John McCain.
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		<title>By: StuBob</title>
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		<dc:creator>StuBob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Victoria -- I agree with you completely about the importance of defending the unborn.  I felt the same way in 1996, when I voted for Howard Phillips.  Did that mean I&#039;d &quot;cast a vote for Clinton?&quot;  In a sense.  But, I don&#039;t think Dole would have been meaningfully better.  I don&#039;t believe for a minute that electing Dole would have saved a single child&#039;s life.  I also don&#039;t believe that electing McCain would save a single child.  We can talk all we want about judicial appointments, but remember that Congressional Democrats have no apologies about applying an abortion litmus test.  That means that President McCain would have very limited ability to change anything.  

So, it&#039;s possible to apply the Scriptures to this election and wind up voting for Baldwin or Barr.  Not so much McKinney or Nader.  Though there are those who think they can Scripturally defend an Obama vote, you&#039;re exactly right that it can&#039;t be done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Victoria &#8212; I agree with you completely about the importance of defending the unborn.  I felt the same way in 1996, when I voted for Howard Phillips.  Did that mean I&#8217;d &#8220;cast a vote for Clinton?&#8221;  In a sense.  But, I don&#8217;t think Dole would have been meaningfully better.  I don&#8217;t believe for a minute that electing Dole would have saved a single child&#8217;s life.  I also don&#8217;t believe that electing McCain would save a single child.  We can talk all we want about judicial appointments, but remember that Congressional Democrats have no apologies about applying an abortion litmus test.  That means that President McCain would have very limited ability to change anything.  </p>
<p>So, it&#8217;s possible to apply the Scriptures to this election and wind up voting for Baldwin or Barr.  Not so much McKinney or Nader.  Though there are those who think they can Scripturally defend an Obama vote, you&#8217;re exactly right that it can&#8217;t be done.
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		<title>By: Victoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Victoria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Endyblue - 

One of the greatest evils in our country is killing/slaughter of the unborn - it&#039;s vile, I hardly understand anyone who could vote for someone who supported such a person.

&lt;b&gt;FOURTY EGIHT MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED NINETY THREE little souls and lives,&lt;/b&gt; lost to the knife of abortion in the United States of America. These figures represent 1/6th of our population in the United States of America - such a SINFUL practice, and its legal - a crime against an infant as death, for doing nothing other then nesting in its mother&#039;s womb, and then selfishly killed.

Wether we have four parties or three, it makes no difference, anyone who would kill an unborn child should not be President -

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;If a man or woman will not, cannot respect the life of an infant, how much do you think he will respect yours?&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt; If a man/woman cannot respect the life of an unborn little lamb, &lt;b&gt;how can he claim to love the LORD who forms the life of that little one?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

 &lt;b&gt;As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.&lt;/b&gt; 
Ecclesiastes 11:5

&lt;b&gt;Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; &lt;/b&gt;Isaiah 44:24&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Endyblue &#8211; </p>
<p>One of the greatest evils in our country is killing/slaughter of the unborn &#8211; it&#8217;s vile, I hardly understand anyone who could vote for someone who supported such a person.</p>
<p><b>FOURTY EGIHT MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY NINE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED NINETY THREE little souls and lives,</b> lost to the knife of abortion in the United States of America. These figures represent 1/6th of our population in the United States of America &#8211; such a SINFUL practice, and its legal &#8211; a crime against an infant as death, for doing nothing other then nesting in its mother&#8217;s womb, and then selfishly killed.</p>
<p>Wether we have four parties or three, it makes no difference, anyone who would kill an unborn child should not be President -</p>
<blockquote><p><b>If a man or woman will not, cannot respect the life of an infant, how much do you think he will respect yours?</b> </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p> If a man/woman cannot respect the life of an unborn little lamb, <b>how can he claim to love the LORD who forms the life of that little one?</b></p></blockquote>
<p> <b>As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.</b><br />
Ecclesiastes 11:5</p>
<p><b>Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; </b>Isaiah 44:24
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		<title>By: endyblue</title>
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		<dc:creator>endyblue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Outkast #14 - I know you weren&#039;t addressing me directly, but would like to say: While I appreciate your opinion, your entire post is an opinion. I didn&#039;t vote for Obama in voting 3rd party. I don&#039;t see in the Bible where God says the two party system is something we have to work with or that the time for voting 3rd party is in the primaries. (???) If Obama is elected, YES, I can live with that. God never promises us a certain type of government to live under. 

The &quot;lesser of two evils&quot; argument doesn&#039;t work for *me* (although it might for you). &quot;They&quot; told me to vote the lesser of two evils four years ago and look what happened. Why would it all of a sudden &quot;work&quot; this time to vote this way? It didn&#039;t makes sense to me then, and doesn&#039;t make sense to me now. If others choose to vote this way, I don&#039;t have a problem with that. But *I* feel compelled to vote for the man I find to be the best one for the job no matter his &quot;chances&quot; of winning.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outkast #14 &#8211; I know you weren&#8217;t addressing me directly, but would like to say: While I appreciate your opinion, your entire post is an opinion. I didn&#8217;t vote for Obama in voting 3rd party. I don&#8217;t see in the Bible where God says the two party system is something we have to work with or that the time for voting 3rd party is in the primaries. (???) If Obama is elected, YES, I can live with that. God never promises us a certain type of government to live under. </p>
<p>The &#8220;lesser of two evils&#8221; argument doesn&#8217;t work for *me* (although it might for you). &#8220;They&#8221; told me to vote the lesser of two evils four years ago and look what happened. Why would it all of a sudden &#8220;work&#8221; this time to vote this way? It didn&#8217;t makes sense to me then, and doesn&#8217;t make sense to me now. If others choose to vote this way, I don&#8217;t have a problem with that. But *I* feel compelled to vote for the man I find to be the best one for the job no matter his &#8220;chances&#8221; of winning.
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		<title>By: Victoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Victoria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sylvie - 13

GOD&#039;s Will is not always followed, we know that from the post I made.  This is a subject that many have difficulty understanding, however, there is a CHOICE, one can obey GOD or follow their own way.

&lt;blockquote&gt; 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,&lt;b&gt; not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.&lt;/b&gt; 2 Peter&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;b&gt;The LORD doesn&#039;t want any to perish, certainly you don&#039;t believe that is HIS Will?&lt;/b&gt; -  however we know from Scripture that many will perish. 

&lt;blockquote&gt;13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 

14 “For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and &lt;b&gt;there are few who find it.&lt;/b&gt;
 Matthew 7&lt;/blockquote&gt;

In the above passage its clear that few will find eternal life.  It&#039;s their choice, Jesus died for the sins of the entire world, many forget this -  &lt;b&gt;“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.&quot;&lt;/b&gt;John 3:16</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sylvie &#8211; 13</p>
<p>GOD&#8217;s Will is not always followed, we know that from the post I made.  This is a subject that many have difficulty understanding, however, there is a CHOICE, one can obey GOD or follow their own way.</p>
<blockquote><p> 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,<b> not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.</b> 2 Peter</p></blockquote>
<p><b>The LORD doesn&#8217;t want any to perish, certainly you don&#8217;t believe that is HIS Will?</b> &#8211;  however we know from Scripture that many will perish. </p>
<blockquote><p>13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. </p>
<p>14 “For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and <b>there are few who find it.</b><br />
 Matthew 7</p></blockquote>
<p>In the above passage its clear that few will find eternal life.  It&#8217;s their choice, Jesus died for the sins of the entire world, many forget this &#8211;  <b>“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.&#8221;</b>John 3:16
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		<title>By: outkast</title>
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		<description>Shadow: If you&#039;re not voting for either of the major party candidates this year, you are voting for Obama. I hope you can sleep at night, knowing that fact.

The time to vote for a third-party-type candidate is during the primaries/caucuses. After that we have to call come together to support the candidate who best supports our view of the issues (at least until we have a strong third party in our nation).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shadow: If you&#8217;re not voting for either of the major party candidates this year, you are voting for Obama. I hope you can sleep at night, knowing that fact.</p>
<p>The time to vote for a third-party-type candidate is during the primaries/caucuses. After that we have to call come together to support the candidate who best supports our view of the issues (at least until we have a strong third party in our nation).
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