David W. Obst's Journal

By Ariel Ben Solomon, www.jpost.com Ugandan pastor Umar Mulinde, a Christian convert from Islam, said growing up, he constantly heard “Jews are the most hated people by God.” He had no relationship with Jews, and “did not even know where Israel was on a map,” but he was taught to hate it. Muslim hate is mainly religiously based and when he became a Christian, all of the sudden the preachers were “talking about love, and a lot about Israel,” Mulinde said, sin an interview in his most recent visit for treatment after an acid attack threatened his life and severely damaged his face. “It is part of the Islamic mind, and the Western mind refuses to accept the reality of Islamic ideology,” he said.

There are a lot of people who say, if the out come of the election today turns out like a lot of people think it will, that is because of a failed presidency.   Others will say that the presidency was a failure because the Republicans stopped him from doing the thinks that he wanted to do.  Actually, I would say the American people stopped him from doing what he wanted to do. The House of Representatives  are dominated by republicans but they did not just come out of the ground from hades or Lock Ness.  There are 545 House districts and each of those districts had fair elections and a majority of those districts voted for the republicans.  The republicans in the House want to be reelected for a second term so they are doing, pretty much, what their constituents want them to do.  So it wasn't the republicans who stopped Obama but a majority of the American people who stopped him. It will be interesting to see the analysis of who voted and why.  I be...