“Observations”

by: Donald S. Conkey

Date: August 14, 2008 - # 8833 – The Political Party Conventions (815)

Do you know who you are going to vote for in November yet? By now most voters have strong opinions about the two presidential candidates representing America’s Democratic and Republican political parties.

      We know who the candidates are and most of us also know that our next president will be one of these two men. We will learn who the candidate’s vice presidential choice will be during each party’s convention; the democrats in Denver later this month, the republicans in Minneapolis the first week in September.

      At this stage of our political process we know that die-hard democrats are zealously enthusiastic about their candidate, a candidate promising ‘Change” but change undefined. We also know that many republicans, including me, are lack luster about their candidate. I was so disenchanted in May I determined I was going to ride this campaign out and do nothing. But in mid July I read a recent talk given by Henry B. Eyring, a man I look to for guidance. 

      His message was clear: it is my responsibility as a citizen of this nation to get involved, to study the issues, to study the candidates and then work hard to support that candidates who best represents my beliefs as an American, and those candidates who most closely stand for the principles of constitutional government that I stand for and have been writing about for many years.

      In late July I discussed my feelings with a neighbor and friend Pat Wilder. Pat has been active in politics many years, serving in the Arizona state legislature (her husband Tom Wilder is a 10 veteran of the Georgia state legislature) and had worked with the republican nominee for over 20 years. She helped alleviate many of my concerns about the republican’s candidate but it was a scripture I have read often that reinforced Eyring’s counsel. It reads: “I, the Lord God, made you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free.” The next verse hits hard at those of us who would sit out this campaign. It states: “Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn.”

      This caused me to remember the ancient Israelites, a nation the Lord had raised up and made free until they became so wicked that they rejected their God and installed a king to rule over them. Soon Israel, the wealthiest nation in the world at the time, began to self-destruct. The Lord then lifted his protective arm that allowed the Assyrians to  capture them and return them to a total bondage not unlike what the Lord, via Moses, had freed them from centuries earlier.

      Needless to say I am involved again, this time using the internet to reach out to people nationwide with positive e-messages about my candidate hoping to help voters understand that this election is perhaps the most important election we will face in a long time. The issues are not just about ‘Change,’ they are about our freedoms and our prosperity and the future of America itself.  And for the informed voter the issues are not grey – they are Black and White.

      My decision to get involved was reinforced when I purchased and read Dick Morris’s new book titled “Fleeced.” Morris, a national political pundit was an aid to President Clinton during his two terms in office and learned first hand what the Lord meant when he stated “when the wicked rule the people mourn.” We need not go back too far to understand what happens when the ‘wicked rule.” Examples of wicked rulers include Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Saddam Hussein. People loose their freedoms, jobs dry up because new tax laws destroy incentive, etc, and depressions destroy the very soul of a nation, and of its citizens. It has happened before and it can again.

      Every American who plans to vote in the upcoming November election should read Fleeced. Yes it is scary but it is about time American voters got scared – the freedoms and economic prosperity they have enjoyed for so many years could be destroyed by the kind of ‘undefined Change’ being proposed by one party candidate.

      The comparisons between what happened to ancient Israel and what may be happening here in America is uncanny. We need to remember what happened when Communism ruled much of the world; millions were murdered or enslaved, and we need to remember what happened when America was divided during the Civil War, similar to America’s divisions today, and the cost in bloodshed to restore again the freedoms nearly lost.

      American voters need to be prepared to cast an informed vote for America’s constitutional freedoms in November, and reject the ‘undefined Changes’ being promised, changes that never have been nor ever will be. Remember the foundation of America’s liberties is the laws of Nature’s God – the Founder’s Creator, their Supreme Judge of the World.

      Fleeced will help you understand the seriousness of the November election.