Christian Coalition of America

Allow me to admit that I'm completely frustrated at the news today that Obama has gone back up in the polls. What's frustrating is listening to the reporters on major networks ask "Why do you think that is?" Why doesn't someone stand up and say "It's because of you!"?

There is no doubt that NBC is for Obama - but I would also submit that CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, & Headline News are as well. The only fair reporting we get comes out of Fox News. So if the normal person in our community watches the news they will see and hear great reporting for Obama and negative reporting on McCain & Palin. Is it any wonder that some of these polls show an increase in support nationally for Obama?

Millions watch Obama and McCain answer to a recent 60 Minutes program

The undecided are beginning to weigh in after Obama's interview on 60 Minutes. Steve Kroft's interview with Obama spoke volumes of his inability to stay the course when pressured to answer the many questions. One such question was, what qualifies him to be the President? The young man showed to be nervously distressed as he awkwardly struggled to answer without the aid of his notebook or teleprompter, but eventually referred to his beliefs...?! Questions concerning America's problems were never found in Obama, as he clumsily danced his way through the questions as an unprepared student. Will American really swallow Obama's hype when we need definitive answers that can only come from GOD?

At the turn of the 20th century, rhetoric was a discipline recognized by many educational institutions not only for its importance in helping individuals get a point across in casual conversation but, also as a tool for advertising, and social influence through the new and ubiquitous radios and, later, television. This tool was widely used but the term "rhetoric" and its educational departments gradually and silently amalgamated into marketing, general philosophy, ethics, sociology and theology. The ideas were the same but the language to describe this form of persuasion had changed. This is recontextualization.

In a previous post entitled “Banking 101" (link below) I explained that the U.S. banking industry engages in fractional banking. This means that only a small amount of the money “deposited” in a bank is required to be kept in the bank’s vault. Most of the money is loaned to other customers.

When a customer obtains a loan - let’s say for $1,000 - the bank records the amount of that loan as an asset because the bank will collect interest on the loan. The amount of the loan - $1,000 -is also recorded as a liability by the bank because the money is now in “circulation.” The banks “books” are in “balance” (pay-out of $1,000 equals the loan asset of $1,000).