Nutty, Nutty from The Poorman

There are two sides to every coins. There is yin; there is yang. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you kill Obi Wan, he becomes more powerful than you could possibly imagine. Such is the way of the universe, and, if you are feeling a little disheartened by Bush's re-election, try to take a more holistic view: for every gloomy you, there's a happy Bob Jones. The cosmic balance is restored.

November 3, 2004

President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

The media tells us that you have received the largest number of popular votes of any president in America's history. Congratulations!

In your re-election, God has graciously granted America—though she doesn't deserve it—a reprieve from the agenda of of paganism. You have been given a mandate. We the people expect your voice to be like the clear and certain sound of a trumpet. Because you seek the Lord daily, we who know the Lord will follow that kind of voice eagerly.

Don't equivocate. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ. Honor the Lord, and He will honor you.

Had your opponent won, I would have still given thanks, because the Bible says I must (I Thessalonians 5:18). It would have been hard, but because the Lord lifts up whom He will and pulls down whom He will, I would have done it. It is easy to rejoice today, because Christ has allowed you to be His servant in this nation for another presidential term. Undoubtedly, you will have opportunity to appoint many conservative judges and exercise forceful leadership with the Congress in passing legislation that is defined by biblical norm regarding the family, sexuality, sanctity of life, religious freedom, freedom of speech, and limited government. You have four years—a brief time only—to leave an imprint for righteousness up upon this nation that brings with it the blessings of Almighty God.

Christ said, If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my father honour (John 12:26).

The student body, faculty, and staff at Bob Jones University commit ourselves to pray for you—that you would do right and honoor the Savior. Pull out all the stops and make a difference. If you have weaklings around you who do not share your biblical values, shed yourself of them. Conservative Americans would love to see one president who doesn't care whether he is liked, but cares infinitely that he does right.

Best wishes.

Sincerely your friend,

Bob Jones III
President

PS: A few moments ago I read this letter to the students in Chapel. They applauded loudly their approval.

When I told them that Tom Daschle was no longer the minority leader of the Senate, they cheered again.

On occasion, Christians have not agreed with things you said during your first term. Nonetheless, we could not be more thankful that God has given you four more years to serve Him in the White House, never taking off your Christian faith and laying it aside as a man takes off a jacket, but living, speaking, and making decisions as one who knows the Bible to be eternally true.

Bob Jones: not opposing interracial dating as a tool of the anti-Christ since August of 2000! (The Pope is still Satan, though. On some things, there can be no compromise.)

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My pal, Rachel Maddow gives us a good overall look at this story as Bob Jones U. finally apologized for being total racists.

Bob Jones University has apologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn't lifted until nine years ago and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.

"We failed to accurately represent the Lord and to fulfill the commandment to love others as ourselves. For these failures we are profoundly sorry. Though no known antagonism toward minorities or expressions of racism on a personal level have ever been tolerated on our campus, we allowed institutional policies to remain in place that were racially hurtful," the statement said.

The interracial dating ban was lifted in March 2000, not long after the policy became an issue in the Republican presidential primary that year. Then-candidate George W. Bush was criticized when he spoke at the school during one of his first campaign stops in the state after losing in New Hampshire.

The leader of the South Carolina NAACP said the civil rights group welcomed the statement.

"It's unfortunate it took them this long — particularly a religious, faith-based institution — to realize that we all are human beings and the rights of all people should be respected and honored," said Lonnie Randolph, president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

alicublog: Bush I parties with Sun Myung Moon, Bush II goes to Bob Jones University, John McCain seeks and accepts the endorsement of John Hagee, and it slides. Barack Obama renounces Rev. Wright, and we are told that the taint is indelible. The trouble starts when pols ignore this and do this. TBogg has more on the subject...

The Left Coaster: All of the above is Hillary's fault.

The Newshoggers: Enlisting opinions.

Connecting.the.Dots: The ultimate triumph of George W. Bush. The Chimperor and the rest of our dysfunctional ruling class are always wrong about everything.

JURIST: Torture Doctors

Sunday Bookchat: Three decades of rebel-rousing by a reggae poet! A handbook for liberals in the era post-Bush! A Travis McGee novel for Eliot Spitzer! When is a blurb more than a blurb? When is wit only half of what it seeks? These and other questions answered in The Opinion Mill's Sunday Bookchat.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is Steven at The Opinion Mill, and I'll be piloting this daily roundup until Saturday. If you have any suggestions for stops along the way, send them to me at steve[dot]theopinionmill[at]gmail[dot]com.

Now, fasten your seatbelts, please.

Lenin's Tomb has some information on a rebellion against a dictatorship that's not getting nearly as much coverage as the one in Burma.

Xpatriated Texan has some handy ideas for pro-choice bumper stickers for your car.

Mike Shapiro asks if it isn't time for city governments to tell arena-hungry sports teams to take their ball and go find somewhere else to play?

Philip Roth surveys the State of the Union and shows once again why he's America's greatest living writer.

Who's afraid of an oud player? The Salvation Army sure is if he's sponsored by a Palestinian group .

Digby asks: What kind of dolt could equate MoveOn.org with the GOP-linked Freedom's Watch and call them both "outsiders"? Hint: A dolt who writes for the Associated Press.

HOLY CRAP: Thank you, Jesus, for keeping all those troublesome black protesters in line down there in Jena. Now, can you do something about the crackers? Here's some howlers from the Bob Jones University Press textbook on biology. And when Jesus Whooper Janet Folger complains that FreaxNews, CNN and MSNBC ignored ignored the Values Voters Presidential Debate in rfavor of some Iranian guy with a hard to pronounce name, Bing says Cry me a river.

Revealer

There's so much to love about "Justice Sunday," that it's hard to decide what to love best: the "high noon" ring of the title; the flier graphics showing a young, double-fisted believer slinging Bible n' gavel, ready to take on "'the filibuster against people of faith'"; the Unitarian Jihad-like creativity of the charge itself: "I hear you been filibusterin' people of faith."

But ultimately "Justice Sunday," a joint telecast bonanza organized by the Family Research Council and featuring Sen. Bill Frist, James Dobson, Chuck Colson and Al Mohler, which is expected to reach more than a million viewers through church screenings and Christian media outlets, isn't about appealling to misplaced nostalgia for the "Old West" and related John Wayne/Remember the Alamo motifs; it's about smearing Democrats as anti-religion again, this time for blocking President Bush's judicial nominees.

Oh, who are we kidding? Of course this is about evoking the Old West and its straight-shooting morality: a strategic change in rhetoric after describing the issue of changing Senate rules to override filibusters and allow for easier majority rule as the "nuclear option" has backfired, what with the metaphor's unfortunate baggage of vaporized innocents, radioactive fallout, and unintended effects that take decades to go away. A Hiroshima reference that would make all but the most hawkish squirm. How much better, then, to change the image to a God-fearing cowboy, shooting from the hip then tipping his hat to the ladies. Now that's poli-tainment. Or as Joan Didion might say: Cut. Print.

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