HOPE WITHOUT A GAME PLAN EQUALS VANITY

People like to talk about Hope as some virtue in and of itself. Dr. Levy is one of these people who says that hope and optimism are essential even in the most dire circumstances. But if you go into anything with a game plan and the other side has one, you will lose. People told me when I became a Born Again Christian, and Chuck Smith is famous for this, that you "shouldn't lean too strongly upon your own plans because God has his plan for us all if we will only trust him" and how it's all a matter of trusting in blind Fate. There is talk about "not getting out ahead of God". There is the line I like to use regarding God using a Beverly Hillbillies example where Jed asks Jethro to solve a delema they have and Jethro says "Don't worry Jed, I've got my giant brain and six years of education working on it' and then he assumes a pose like he's straining, or he's constipated or something, and Jed sees this and says "- -in the mean time here's what I think we'll do". This how it too often is with God. God doesn't seem to have a plan. What people in Born Again often boast about is how they did NOT have a plan for their own lives but God dropped good fortune in their laps. Most likely I suspect that they DID have a plan all along and that they are lying through their teeth, and as such render a grave disservice to all of their listeners. And yet there seems solid evidence that anything that is successful has a plan to it. Ted Armstrong points to aspects of nature and says "Not only to creatures have to do it perfectly, but they have to do it perfectly the first time". My problems with Christianity is that old adage about "You never get a second chance to make a first impression". But even these people who talk about the Cosmos on TV and how things "worked out exceedingly well" for conditions in the Universe for Life to thrive- - point to a Plan. The idea of not having a Plan comes from out President and his writings in his book "The Audacity of Hope". And I maintain that to have Hope without a plan is indeed an Audacious thing. For most people you'd think being on the job and having four years of incumbency would be a real father in your cap as far as a resume is concerned. But if anything this President actually appears LESS credible and less qualified than he did four years ago. People like Dr. Levy say "this president has absolutely no experience". This is an albitros you won't want around your neck.

These tea party people are so far to the right that in order to find people of equivelant distance the other way on the left side of the political spectrim you'd have to really reach. Perhaps Ted Kennedy or Willy Brown, or James Carvile, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. More likely it would be people from the past such as Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, John Kenneth Galbreth, the early writings of Nelson Rockefeller, Helen Keller, Eugene Debbs, Margrete Sanger, and Madalane Murray O Hare. One viewing this election from any time other then the present would be hard pressed to see what the problem was in his being re elected. Four years ago the President had to grapple with the "Phone call at 3 AM of a national emergency". They doubted he was pro war or pro military enough. They thought he was really a Moslem or took his marching orders from leftists and was an economic socialist, and wasn't really born in this country. All of these problems have been disposed of. This president has been very pro business and cut taxes and the investment bankers' profits have skyrocketed under his administration. He has supported local governments such as aid to police and fire and health care workers and school teachers. He helped out labor in the auto bail out. Indeed he helped the bankers themselves by bailing them out, too. He has put through bills to increase the rights of consumers and passed laws to keep them from being dropped from their Health Care plans. In any other year each and every one of these things would have been a plus. Killing or apprehending so many Islamic terrorists would certainly be a plus. He's even suspended various EPA regulations to placate business. And yet the President is in such big trouble in the polls it is seriously doubted even if he should manage to squeak by next year - - with this congress it would be just as well as though he never ran. With this congress, after all, who would want the job? So that's where we stand. If Barry Goldwater had come up with any nine, nine, nine plan in 1964 the Republicans would have dropped his from consideration like a hot potato. You've got one candidate who put an innocent man to death and blocked his appeals. You have another with the nine, nine, nine plan. And you have another who drove five corporations into bankruptsy and proffited from each one of them. Romney treated those five corporations about as badly as Jesus treated the Jewish people. It was like he was running a chop shop. You have Michelle Bachman with her dingbat proclamations. None of these candidates would have a prayer in any other year except for this one. I'm sure Dr Levy wouldn't mind if any one of these candidates ran next year unopposed, which is pretty much what they've got with Obama anyhow. If any of these candidates were to run unopposed - they would still lose, to write in candidates like Mickey Mouse or Homer Simpson. All because the President didn't have a clue and didn't pave a Plan for four years.