Breaking Up (With Obama) Is Hard To Do

[DeWayneTN]

My friend Lee Grady sent out a great column last night:

Breaking Up (With Obama) Is Hard to Do
African-American Christians who don’t support Obama risk being called traitors, defectors and Uncle Toms. But some are defying him for moral reasons.

This past Sunday I shared a pulpit with a delightful African-American recording artist. She recently turned 70, although I would have guessed she wasn’t a day over 55. She sang better than I preached. (After all, she has won Grammy awards in the gospel category.) Then we sat down for a meal and she decided to get very honest with me.

She leaned close to my ear as if to make a dreadful confession. “Can I tell you something? I’m not voting for Obama.”

I wasn’t sure how to react, but I let this woman elaborate. With a pained expression she vented her frustrations about leaders who, in her opinion, are more concerned about loyalty to their race than to Scripture. She scolded pastors by name who have endorsed Obama when they should have been preaching against abortion, which Obama defends.

She continued: “I hear some black pastors saying from the pulpit, ‘Let’s thank God we’re going to have a black man in the White House.’ Well, I’m sorry, but I don’t think this is the right black man.”

I’m not going to reveal the identity of this woman—not because she doesn’t want me to tell, but because outing her as a McCain supporter could close doors for her in the black church. Sadly, African-Americans who aren’t supporting Obama today are viewed as traitors.

It’s not easy to go against the flow when it seems that the entire black community is marching in lockstep with the well-financed Obama machine. Aside from all the endorsements from Hollywood celebrities and European crowds, black church leaders have formed a huge mass choir of support as well:

Read the rest at http://fireinmybones.com/

[MacUser]

Again, another example of people voting values.

Some key core things she just can't overlook. I dare say she's not voting FOR McCain.. other than voting AGAINST Obama and what he stands for.

[KBevangelist]

I thought Grady did an excellant job with this article. Of course, I enjoy most all of his articles.

KB

[Dr. Ron]

I saw a black artist this am on Fox who has started a tour called Stop Obama tour....can't remember the name of the guy, but he wrote a song called Sarah's Smile after the RNC.

As with most things considered "minority", the few speak for the many. I don't for one minute believe that all blacks are voting for Obama. I know that none of the many black families here in my church admit that they would vote for him. If they do, they certainly don't speak that way.

We must also remember that the "African-American (I hate hyphonated names)" is still a BIG minority. They alone cannot elect a dog catcher. The long lines of black voters at the early polls are there to make it appear the election is already lost. But just wait till the Christians show up...... We may not all vote early, but we will vote large!!!
and many of them will be black and hispanic.

[soulsearcher]

The long lines of black voters at the early polls are there to make it appear the election is already lost. But just wait till the Christians show up...... We may not all vote early, but we will vote large!!!
and many of them will be black and hispanic.

Interesting (thank you) for mentioning the hispanics. I have been asking the questing for weeks, "Why is NOTHING being mentioned in the main-stream media regarding the hispanic vote in this election?"

The vast majority of hispanics here are die-hard conservatives, and there are hundreds of thousands of them.

[crispfin]

Interesting (thank you) for mentioning the hispanics. I have been asking the questing for weeks, "Why is NOTHING being mentioned in the main-stream media regarding the hispanic vote in this election?"

The vast majority of hispanics here are die-hard conservatives, and there are hundreds of thousands of them.

Latest polls (if one believes them) show McCain losing the hispanic vote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/14444