Editor Comments:
This is the exact article, Lieberman For President (IN 2004), that was published in August
1999, three months before the election. G. W. Bush was the eventually elected
as we anticipated, which is history. However, we continue to believe it was a
prologue to the 2004 election, and this view looms more ominous with every
passing day.
The Stock market can hardly be expected
to do anything but sink between now and Election Day 2002. There are two good
reasons for this that, so far, few have talked about.
First, there will be tax loss selling
between now and the November Congressional elections. Tax selling invariable
drives loosing stocks lower, and who does not have a loss to take? Second, the
Dollar continues to skid sickeningly down the slope. Any attempt by the Federal
Reserve to buoy up the market by passing out cheap money to its banker friends
will likely result in a further collapse of the dollar. Trading partners will
view this as an act of economic war on them because it prices their export out
of our market.
Furthermore, our President's standard
answer to a slack economy is more international war. The administration
considers war on
The question for those who care is: What
kind of a President would Joseph Lieberman be in 2004: Our answer is we must
start by understanding how and what is about to happen, and who is making it
happen.
For our pre election comment on G. W. Bush in 1999.( click here)
Our last issue of
"Heads Up!" Why Christians Will Vote for Gore
brought a lively response and we are still answering mail and filling book
orders. For those who felt we were picking on Democrats, be sure you read our
past series on the Republican leadership on our website, it will make you feel
better.
We stated, "The power brokers who fund the election have picked Joseph Lieberman,
the most prominent orthodox Jew in national politics, because he is the only
candidate who can attract the Christian Right's vote."
We went on to explain what seemed to
surprise some that Celebrity Christian Leaders, including Jerry Falwell, Pat
Robertson, and as many as a hundred more have been telling us for years, that they believe it is a Christian's duty to act out
blessings on the State of Israel and Jews in general. They are in a position
where they will have an enormous problem in telling the truth about Joseph
Lieberman. We said, "What greater blessing can they bestow on
We described these leaders by their own
self-imposed term, "Judeo-Christians", which we defined as a
political philosophy that dominates the celebrity leadership of the Christian
Political Right. We named a principle tenet of the sect as a belief that
Christians can not be blessed if he does not personally bless Israel (the
state), and that he will, in fact, be cursed if he fails to cast his own
blessings on the State of Israel and the Jewish people."
Further, we summed it up by saying "The
hope of those who appointed him (Lieberman) is to capture a split of the Christian
vote, a very significant number, perhaps even enough to win for Al Gore. Most
important to Mr. Big (bigger even than the Democrat party), if it does not work
this time is why not next time in 2004? By then Joseph Lieberman's smiling face
will be known to everyone."
The
leaders of the celebrity Christian Right have long standing commitments to
those who control the state of
The expected role of a Christian Right
leader is to be decisive on moral issues. Would anyone disagree with that?
Decisive means to leave no stone unturned to let their followers of their vast
publicly networks know who stands where on moral issues. Decisive does not mean
to be gracious and respectful to an adversary, as we are already seeing in the
case of Mr. Lieberman.
An examination of the website of the most
prominent Celebrity Judeo-Christians of our day reveals the top four trend
setters have not made any decisive effort to disclose any of the glaring
political faults of Joseph Lieberman, issues which should have rendered him
un-elect able in national politics. We will discuss these issues in detail in
Issue III.
Pat Robertson's 700 Club seems to have said
the most, which is almost nothing! Stories about the Convention by
Most other celebrity leaders had barely
mentioned Lieberman's nomination before the Democrat Convention came to an end.
Among the "no words are good words" crowd are: James Dobson, D. James
Kennedy, Gary Falwell, Beverly LaHay of Concerned Women for America, and
Richard L. Land, of the giant Southern Baptist Convention. All have remained
silent about Lieberman's voting record, even about his consistently radical
pro-abortion positions. It is as though they had decided that if they can not
say something nice about Joseph Lieberman they will remain mute. But in their
case, this Silence is affirmation, because these same celebrities have
historically made it known that if it is for
What
commitment has celebrity leaders made to
**April 10, 1997: Christians placed a
pro-Israel ad in the "New York Times," using Biblical text for their
assertion that "Jerusalem has been the spiritual and political capital of
only the Jewish people for 3000 years" This preposterous statement included
the signatures of Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed of Christian Coalition, E.E.McAteer
of the Religious Roundtable, and Jerry Falwell, former Presidential candidate
and founder of now defunct Moral Majority.
**January, 1998: Jerry Falwell helped
arrange a meeting between Prime Minster Netanyahu and Christian supporters of
**April, 1998: Falwell and Netanyahu
addressed the "National Unity Coalitions for
**April 1998: Netanyahu addressed
"Voice United for
**
**1998: John Hagee raised $1 million for
**March 1985: Jerry Falwell, speaking to a
conservative Rabbinical Assembly in
1971: Evangelist Mike Evans in his book,
1981: Falwell was quoted as saying, "I
doubt if there is an organization in
April 29-
WHEREAS: IT (Anti-Semitism) WAS PERPETRATED
AND PARTICIPATED BY THE
WHEREAS: THEY (early Christians) ALSO
CONCLUDED THAT GOD'S COVENANTS AND PROMISES TO ISRAEL, WERE NO LONGER VALID
AND, BY FIAT OF THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS, WERE EXPROPRIATED BY THE CHURCH,
WHICH DESCRIBED ITSELF AS THE NEW "ISRAEL OF GOD," etc....
BE IT RESOLVED that .......THE MOST VICIOUS
CHAPTERS IN MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN... AND INCITED HATRED OF JEWS,...IS BASED LARGELY ON THE NOT BIBLICAL AND UNPROVABLE
TEACHING THAT JEWS CRUCIFIED JESUS.
And ... In the 16th
century the ANTI-SEMITIC RHETORIC OF MARTIN LUTHER HELPED CREATE THE FRAMEWORK
OF HITLER'S ASSAULT ON JEWISH PEOPLE. I hereby.....
I SUPPORT, UNCONDITIONALLY, THE CONTINUED
WELL BEING OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, BASED ON THE BIBLICAL MANDATE TO BLESS HER
(Genesis 12:3), encourage her (Isaiah 40:1,2), and speak out on her behalf
(Isaiah 62:1,7);
I WISH TO SEND A STRONG STATEMENT TO THE
WHITE HOUSE, STATE DEPARTMENT, AND CONGRESS, .....THAT
What Christian Leader would sign a pledge
stating they renounce part of the Bible, give "unconditional"
allegiance to another nation, denounce Martin Luther, and recant the story of
Jesus' trial and death sentence at the hands of the Jerusalem Sanhedrin? It is
a blanket denial of many of the words Christ himself spoke. It denounced part
of the New Testament.
All Christian leaders, especially the
Celebrities, should be asked if they supported the Israeli Jubilee Celebration
in any way. If so, they should be asked to publicly renounce the above pledge.
Jesus said "no one can serve two masters". Who are the Celebrity
Christian leaders who signed the oath of allegiance to another faith or another
State and its political leaders? We can not know, for the Jubilee Committee
informed me by mail, the signers are many and confidential, and the pledges
were delivered to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
No honorable person who predicated in any of
the above oaths and pledges can be expected to say anything negative about
Joseph Lieberman, no matter what the facts are! So far, we have said little
about Lieberman or his record, except what he has said of himself. He is a
practicing Orthodox Jew. His voting record, when known, would be unacceptable
to most Christians. In the next issue we will dig deeper into what it will mean
to Americans when Mr. Lieberman takes his oath. And what about the oath he has
already taken in the US Senate, to defend and protect the Constitution of the