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A Serious Case of Buyer's Remorse

Posted At : July 6, 2010 2:01 PM | Posted By : Dr. Chuck Betters
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Gripping Thoughts with Dr. Chuck Betters

America got it completely wrong, not that we had much of a choice. The presidential election of 2008 was driven more by hype about hope than substance. As I said in earlier blogs, "I wish I could have voted for Mr. Obama." I wanted more than anything else in my role as an American citizen to vote for the first African American president. But his politics, ideology and mentors was too much for me to handle. Thus, I voted for John McCain. I must say, I was not too thrilled with him either. But what choice did the American political system give me? Were these two men the best we could offer? Given the plethora of brilliant political minds we have in this great country, was this really our brightest and best?

Now we have children running the greatest country on the face of the earth. We have a president who continues to embrace our enemies and make apologies for America while shunning our friends as he recently did with the Prime Minister of Israel, at least until he saw the political fallout of the Jewish liberal community. Now he is rolling out the red carpet for Netanyahu. He continues to drive this country into a forced socialism, ignoring the will of the people with Obama-care. He has more than tripled the national debt he criticized when running for office with no end in sight. The campaign promise of an open and televised government has become a joke. He continues to bless Islam as a peaceful religion. Most recently he has instructed NASA to become more user-friendly toward Islamic nations. He mocks the Tea Party as out of touch and has thumbed his nose at the will of the people.

I truly believe we got what we knew we had - an immature and inexperienced community organizer at the helm. He continues to "blame Bush" for everything while accepting no responsibility for his policies that have driven our country to the brink of financial ruin. Had he allowed the flow of financial capitalism (i.e. the survival of the fittest) to run its course when he first came into office with no bailouts, no stimulus packages, no bank purchases and no irrational bridge leaps into the massive debt from which we will never recover we would have emerged from this recession by now.

It all comes back to the purpose of government - to protect its citizenry and to punish wrongdoers. Now we have a commander-in-chief who the top generals do not respect. One even went as far as to vent his frustration to the press. He was promptly (and correctly) fired. But what did he actually say to Rolling Stone Magazine? Surely he knew he would be fired, but he did not care. His conscience would not permit him to blindly follow a president who seems more concerned about offending the Muslim world than he does about winning the war.

There is so much more I could say - the horrible choices he has made for the Supreme Court vacancies, his handling of the Gulf oil crisis, the sure to come middle class tax hike, and the denigration of Arizona's new immigration law and the refusal of the Federal government to seal the borders to mention a few. It is time for America to cut its losses and for the first one-term president since George H.W. Bush.

In His grip,

Dr. Chuck Betters



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Obama the Narcissist

Posted At : June 26, 2009 2:40 AM | Posted By : Dr. Chuck Betters
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Gripping Thoughts with Dr. Chuck Betters

In this blog since the election, I have tried to give our new president every benefit of the doubt to fulfill his many campaign promises. I did so with the hope that his ideas will work, even though I believed they would not. It is thought that one will campaign from the extremes of his party but then, if elected, governs from the center. Not so for Obama. He campaigned from the left and has governed beyond even the extreme left of his own party. He is making Ted Kennedy look like a conservative.

His answer to our economic woes - we can spend our way out! We now have a debt that is beyond comprehension with no end in sight. Socialism is right around the corner if not here already. His plan for health care reform - nationalized medicine with the certain net result that all of us will eventually be mired in a Canadian-like model where the government makes the decisions on your care. Ask any Canadian if he likes his health plan. They don't and that is why they come to America when they are really sick. His answer to Iran's totalitarian regime and its slaughter of young people in the streets over a rigged election - let's talk and reason together. Check out this site and tell me if these jihadists are even remotely reasonable.

Click here for video.

His laxity in condemning this joke of an election is appalling. Congress had to pass a bill to condemn the slaughter going on in Iran because our president would not. He even went as far as to take credit for what he calls the "debate in Iran" attributing the revolt to his speech in Egypt. This is narcissism at its worst. Only after his own party urged him to be tougher in his condemnation did he do so. When Ronald Reagan stood before the Berlin wall what did he say? "Oh, please Mr. Gorbachev let's talk about how we can learn to respect each others' ideas." No, he said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." That is leadership. That is decisiveness.

Obama has lost an incredible opportunity to effect change in an enemy country, an axis of evil state. I am sure he thought that if only he could talk to their Ayatollah he could use his power of oratory to convince them to hold a new election. Instead, men and women in Iran looking to the U.S.A. for encouragement and support are being brutally suppressed while our president bows to his own immaturity. His solution to the North Korean threat - we will follow your boat and ask for permission to board, but we must say, "Please." And if they say, "No?" "Pretty please with molasses on it."

I am convinced Mr. Obama is too inexperienced and immature to lead this great nation. The hope is that he will not do too much damage before the next election when hopefully someone with greater wisdom can be elected. Until then, we must pray that our nation will not sink into the abyss of the dangerous left-wing agenda.



In His Grip,
Dr. Chuck Betters



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Culture Wars, The Economy and God

Posted At : September 26, 2008 12:04 AM | Posted By : Dr. Chuck Betters
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Gripping Thoughts with Dr. Chuck Betters



As I write, the entire country awaits the outcome of a meeting between Obama, McCain, leaders in Congress, and President Bush on the bailout of some of the greedy financial institutions who have sent this economy into near oblivion while their CEOs walk off with gazillion dollar bonuses. I do not know how it will turn out but there are certain things of which I am very sure. We are reaping what we have sown as a nation. This bailout will likely be successful but short-lived. As a nation we have been fighting a culture war for almost two generations.

The cultural issues have been more than political. They have been moral in nature. As a nation in the past 40 years we have poked fun at "Father Knows Best" and buried the nuclear family. We have aborted millions of babies, ordained homosexuals in the church, married lesbians in California and Massachusetts, emasculated the American male, divorced at a 50% clip (even in the evangelical church), raised an entire generation of latchkey kids whose parents have sold them out for their careers, and turned the church into a faint shadow of what God intended her to be.

In the past 24 hours as I write...

  • New home sales have plummeted by nearly 12% with a $35,000 drop in value.
  • Jobless claims are up, bell weather GE is in trouble, and the fingers are pointing with lightning speed.
  • Warren Buffet invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs and in one day made a profit of $748 million.
  • Iran's (Biblical Persia) vile president, Ahmadinejad, freely railed against the great harlot America - in free America of all places.
  • A bomb killed scores of people in Pakistan in a hotel frequented by Westerners.
  • The Democrats and the Republicans reluctantly sat down together to try to resolve the financial crises while Americans are warned of the coming Great Depression. But they couldn't even put aside partisan politics for a moment in the best interest of the country.
  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, designed to help poor people buy into the American dream, have all but buried the poor with foreclosures during their drunken sailor mortgage binges.
  • Kids continue to make "Grey's Anatomy," a morally bankrupt drama, one of the most watched TV programs, as their parents watch the two hour season premiere with them.
  • Philadelphia police officer Patrick McDonald was shot and killed in the Iraq of the West, the city of brotherly love known as Philadelphia, in another of this city's death spree in their killing fields.
  • The trailer for the new movie with Bill Maher, "Religulous," an assault on Christianity starring the nut cases who have long embarrassed us, was just released with this statement from the cynic himself:

    "Since starting on Politically Incorrect in 1993, it has been my pleasure over the last decade and a half to make organized religion one of my favorite targets. I often explained to people, 'I don't need to make fun of religion, it makes fun of itself.' And, then I go ahead and make fun of it too, just for laughs. With religious fanatics like George Bush and Osama bin Laden now taking over the world, it seemed to me in recent years that this issue -- this cause of debunking the man behind the curtain -- needed to have a larger, more insistent and focused forum than late night television. I wanted to make a documentary, and I wanted it to be funny. In fact, since there is nothing more ridiculous than the ancient mythological stories that live on as today's religions, this movie would try to be a real knee slapper. Unless, of course, you're religious, then you might not like it."

    I could go on and on. But it would be too depressing. As bad as things are, "you ain't seen nothin' yet! This is but the beginning of sorrows. And what is the response of the church to this coming economic and moral earthquake? We argue the fine points of theology that divide us while people are dying and going to hell. We argue over music styles while Satan laughs at our immaturity. We leave our churches and sinfully challenge the motives of our leaders - men we have rarely supported, never prayed over, and criticized in a thousand ways without ever entering into their struggles and joining them as co-laborers. And we often do these ugly things without giving a dime to support them. And then there are the pastors who abuse their office in horrific ways while at the same time preaching the "gospel" every Sunday. How brazen can we be?

    I believe God is sickened by our immaturity and lack of a Biblical world-view. Meanwhile, the world continues to wait for a message of hope, someone to tell them that all is going to be OK. The Democrats cannot say it. The Republicans cannot say it. And most of the church cannot say it. Why? Because too many believers no longer believe God is sovereign and that He can be trusted. Maybe we are too busy studying our 401k accounts and little time in the Word of God. And yet when it comes right down to it, we will be forced to say and echo with Peter, "Lord, to whom shall we turn? You have the words of life."

    In His Grip,
    Dr. Chuck Betters

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