The country seems to be going to hell in a handbasket and the main topic this morning on the news is the candidates wardrobe.   The thing is, at first I was like why and I was really upset that they felt this was an important issue, then I sat down here to gripe about it, then I started thinking.    They were talking about Palin’s wardrobe and how it costed like $50,000, they criticized her for it.   Which with the economy the way it is and people losing their homes, it’s rather shameful to spend that much on clothing.   So what does Palin do?   She caves in and stands up and tells everyone that the clothes weren’t hers and she has gone back to wearing her own clothes, which came from her favorite thrift store.   Right, does she think we have stupid tattooed to our foreheads?    That so called thrift store jacket looks amazingly like the jackets she was wearing before she went back to her own clothes.   She expects us to believe that a governor is going to run into a local salvation army or st vincent depaul and buy clothes??    What worries me is that you know she’s lying about something so insignificant.   If she’ll lie about that, she’ll lie about other stuff.   Secondly, she caved in to pressure.  What happened to her backbone?   Seems to me that a vice president should have one of those, don’t you think?   Now for McCain, they noticed that he was wearing $500 designer shoes.   That much for shoes???   I know shoes that expensive are out there and I know there are people who buy them, but I’d like to know somebody smarter then that is running my country.    He spoke of greed and how to end it, the man should start at home and end his own greed.   Now Obama, I’m not sure about him.   He comes out looking down home, like a regular joe, says he only has 5 suits and patches them together and only owns 4 pair of shoes.    Well, maybe, I’ll believe it when a news reporter does an actual surprise visit to his closet.    The thing though that I appreciate most about Obama, is that he hasn’t tried to change along the way.

Obama started out focusing on the working class and he’s still focused on that.    I’ve noticed on the news that the anchors are making comments about McCain and stating the he is now trying to reach the working class.   His campaign seems to be running to catch up with Obama and they are trying to pretend they care about the same things.   I don’t know that Obama is the right choice, but I do know I want somebody who will at least start out and finish the same way.    I don’t want someone who will hide their fancy shoes and clothes and try to pretend to slum it just to get my vote.   I don’t want someone who’s wife owns 11 houses, buys $500 shoes and tells me we need to stop being greedy.   I don’t want someone who has voted with Bush as much as McCain as.    Eight years of that moron Bush is enough, we don’t need is clone.

A   Pastor with  GUTS!!
Thought you might  enjoy this interesting
prayer given in  Kansas at
the opening session of their  Senate. It seems
prayer still upsets  some
people. When Minister Joe Wright was  asked to open
the new session of the  Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting
the  usual  generalities, but this  is what  they heard:  

Heavenly Father, we  come before you today to ask
your  forgiveness and to seek your direction and  
guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe  to those 
who call evil good,”  but that is exactly what we 
have  done.  

We have lost our  spiritual equilibrium and reversed 
our  values.

We have exploited the  poor and called it 
the  lottery.  

We  have rewarded laziness and called it 
welfare. 
 
We have killed our  unborn and called  it 
choice.  

We have shot  abortionists and called  it 
justifiable.  

We have neglected to  discipline our
children and called  it  building self esteem.. 

We have abused power  and called it  
politics.  

We have coveted our  neighbor’s possessions
and called it  ambition.  
 
We have  polluted  the  air with profanity and 
pornography  and called it  freedom of expression.  

We have ridiculed the  time-honored values
of our forefathers and  called it  enlightenment.  

Search   us, Oh, God, and know our hearts 
today;  cleanse us from every sin and  set us free.  
Amen!  

  
The  response was immediate. A number of 
legislators walked out during the prayer in 
protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian 
Church,  where Rev. Wright is pastor,  logged more than
5,000 phone calls with only  47 of those calls
responding negatively. The  church is now receiving
international  requests for copies of this prayer 
from  India , Africa and Korea . 

Commentator  Paul Harvey aired this prayer on
his radio  program, ‘The Rest of the Story,’and 
received a larger response to this program  than any   
other  he has ever aired.  

 
With  the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep
over  our nation and wholeheartedly become our 
desire so that we again can be called ‘one  nation
under  God.’

What is wrong with people?? What happened to originality? What happened to being unique? It was just on the news that since Palin hit the scenes everyone is wanting glasses just like she wears. The woman they interviewed works at an eye glass center and she said that the phone has been ringing off the hook everyone asking if they have the Sarah Palin glasses. Oddly enough the woman being interviewed was not only wearing the glasses, but her hair oddly resembled Palin’s too.

Why do we feel this huge need to wear what people on tv are wearing? I know this is nothing new, it’s been around for eons. In the 80s, Madonna hit the scene in her Like a Virgin video and suddenly ever girl was dressing like Madonna. Then came MC Hammer and the hammer pants (thank you God those didn’t last).

It’s really sad when the people we tend to look up to are on television and not the teachers who educate us, the ministers, preachers, and priests who pray for us, the police who try to protect us, the doctors and nurses who work to save us.