Exile, but there is hope ... Thanks Ramey H.!

ramey hoskins	8:47 PM (31 minutes ago)
to undisclosed recipients

 

From the Desk of:
Steve Elliott

November 7, 2012

Four more years ... of exile.  But there is hope.  Please read my thoughts on where we go from here.  --Steve

I'm writing to you to explain why, even after a late and discouraging evening that stretched past 1:00 a.m. on the East Coast, I was back at the office before 8:00 a.m. this morning.  And why the sinking feeling I felt last night has already been replaced with a deep determination.

And why I'm going out to buy equipment for our new office this afternoon.

And why we are going to build, build, build -- despite a stunning and, for me, unexpected defeat.
Let's Be Clear:  We Just Got Pummeled.

Before I go on, let's be clear: last night was a defeat, and I didn't see it coming.  I expected a "Tea Party Wave" -- perhaps a 300+ electoral-vote victory for Romney.  All the signs seemed to be there.  The 2010 elections, the failed recall of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker and even the Chick-fil-A Day pointed to a re-shaped political landscape.  The polls and crowds made it clear that there was more enthusiasm with Romney.

But that wave never came.  The people did not rise up and reject Obama's statism.  Quite the opposite -- 15 million fewer people voted, and Romney earned less votes than John McCain did four years ago.
Far Worse Than 2008

Upon reflection, what happened last night was far worse than what happened in 2008.  Our first "dance" with Obama was mostly about smoke and mirrors -- "hope and change" that was never really defined.  For many Americans, Obama 2008 was more an idea, an idealized dream and a collective catharsis from our dark past.

But Obama 2012 was something altogether different because now we know the real Barack Obama.  We watched him advance the most radical leftist agenda since at least FDR.  We saw him rape and pillage the free market and impose a government takeover of industries.  We witnessed him go to foreign nations and apologize for America and then leave our people alone to die in Benghazi.
This time we knew Barack Obama.  Yet a majority of American voters said, "More!"  The opposition to Obama's agenda never really showed up at the polls.

We can try to console ourselves by saying it was a close election ... that the leftist media gave Obama the election ... that we couldn't really expect a Northeastern liberal Republican to be our standard bearer ... that a bizarre hurricane swung the election.

All that may be true.

But it matters little now.  And the less time we spend blaming each other or the trickery of the other guys the better.

So here's why I'm more determined ... why I'm building.
A 2,500-Year-Old Letter Written for Today
I want to share with you a letter that, although 2,500 years old, it could have been written this morning.  For us.  For faithful patriots who feel like they just discovered they will have to live at least the next four years in exile.

This letter was written to Jewish exiles who had been pushed out of Jerusalem and forced to live under a tyrannical ruler named Nebuchadnezzar.

The exiles wanted one thing: they wanted to be re-established back in Israel.  They even had a prophet named Hananiah come to them and tell them that their time of exile would only last two years.

You can read about it in Jeremiah 28.

Hananiah was a false prophet.  He died.

And so Jeremiah wrote a letter to the exiles.  You've probably heard a part of that letter recited many times.  It's one of the most commonly quoted passages in the entire Bible.  Unfortunately, this passage is mostly taken out of its proper context and delivered as a "feel good" word that everything is going to be O.K.

One of my friends was quoting this verse yesterday morning:

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Those words sound so good.  The future is bright.  God has a plan for prosperity, for a real hope and a real future.  On the eve of the election, it must have meant a Romney win, the GOP takes the Senate and we start the rollback of the Obama regime, right?

Not exactly.
The Plan Was Exile

Here's the shocking context of Jeremiah 29 (and I offer to you, the context for November 6, 2012): the plan was exile.

That was the "plan" Jeremiah's letter was talking about.  I encourage you to go read all of Jeremiah 29.  Here is the immediate context:

This is what the Lord says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.  For I know the plans I have for you ..."

The plan was 70 years of exile.  Keep that in mind the next time someone quotes Jeremiah 29:11 to encourage you that your time of trouble will soon end.  Not only was the exile going to last 70 years, the exile WAS the plan!

If you don't believe me, go back and read the beginning of the letter, from Jeremiah 29:4.  Here you'll see the Lord (through Jeremiah) giving the Jewish exiles specific instructions on how to conduct themselves in exile:

--Build houses and settle down.

--Plan gardens and eat what they produce.

--Marry and have sons and daughters.

--Marry off your sons and daughters so they can have children.

--Increase in number; do not decrease.

Again, remember the context.  A false prophet had just come and said the time of exile would only last two years.  That prophet died.  The truth is, the people will be in exile for 70 years.  And the directive is to build families, grow businesses, think trans-generationally and increase.
Seek the Welfare of the Land

It gets better.  Because Jeremiah's letter makes it clear that building and marrying is not enough.  People in exile must do something else -- they must be a blessing to the land.

"Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."

So let's review.  First, the plan is exile.  Second, build.  Third, bless.  Simple, clear instructions.

But why was this important?  Why a "plan" for exile with specific instructions on how to act in exile?

Historians tell us it was during the Babylonian captivity that the Israelites moved from a Temple/Jerusalem focused society to a synagogue and community focused society.  Simply put ...

It was the lessons learned during their time in exile which enabled the Jews to survive 2,500 years in exile.  But not just survive -- but to thrive and become the most prosperous, most successful and most innovative people group in the history of civilization.

Exile was the plan.

So that's why, today, I'm going to build.  And I'm going to plant.  I'm going to bless.  And I'm going to pray.

For that is the final piece to the puzzle ...

"Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

So let's get building.  Let's get planting.  And let's get praying.  And let's bless this land.  There are lessons to be learned in exile.

Steve Elliott

P.S.  If this message is an encouragement to you, please share it with your friends by using the tools below.  Thanks!

The best argument against a true democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.  ~~~  Winston Churchill

God is still in control ... Thamks Alma Holl!

http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp

Hoped things would change ...

I remember as a child that the Ohio State football team came out of the locker room and won a game.  It was a technality, but they did it and that kind of hope remained with me in sports. 

I also remember Harry Weinbrecht's story for me in my "Excellence in Athletics" book.  Harry told me:  "I remember that Pete Cory was behind in a close football game, in which the opposition punted, expecting to contain Cory's team while the remaining two seconds of the game time elapsed.  Coach Cory knew of a special rule then, which permitted the receiving team to 'fair catch' the ball stopping the clock when the ball was touched (caught).  The receiving team could elect a 'free kick', which meant they could kick any way they elected to.  Cory chose to kick off and the kicker got the extra running start and kicked the ball through the uprights to win the game with a three point field goal.   That was clever knowledge  of and use of the rules, not to mention a fine and unimpeded kick."

I have yet to click on the bitter news to me this morning, but it appears that barack obama has been re-elected. 

How sad that is ...  Hitler would have loved the American national media and the campaign crowds that put o in his speaking element.  o performed brilliantly with the crowds buoying his ego by agreeing and egging on his golden tongue with pregnant pauses perfectly done.  Never mind that he spoke many lies and attacked the Republican candidate time after time with the lies, never defending his first four years of failure of the USA.

Soros did the better strategic job with o.  The SP's have kicked our collective Traditionalist whatsits.  Every thinking American should read O'Reilly's "Culture Warriors" 2004 book as I only recently did. The Tea Party couldn't win it silently and the higher-up Republicans pulled the wrong political strings.  Mitt and Paul were excellent; however Mitt let his foot off the gas, when he should have gone after the weak kneed potus, who let the ambassador and three other fine Americans die, while he ran off to Vegas for a fund raiser.  Attacking that very point is what O'Reilly advocated while others cautioned against it.  Christie also gave o the photo-op love that helped put him over the top.

Romney gained speaking strength but not to the level of our Reaganesque speaker, Sarah Palin, who Republicans essentially ignored throughout the campaign.  I credit Ann Romney with the best sentence in the campaign when she said:  "We are trying to save this country in this 2012 election".   The ladies tried, but the o-cult following American voters lost it.  The "winning voters" would take poison for golden tongue, just as Jim Jones' followers once did.  America can possibly die as a result of it.

The game appears to be over and little true hope remains this morning.  More lies and traitorous acts are forthcoming.  Please stay with the Traditionalists and love God anyway!  He is truer and better than anyone remaining on this earth.

Sam Kegley aka SamKat  :(


 

o-cult worried- His followers would jump off the cliff or take poison for him just like Jim whatever's people.

    x
Newsmax.com
   
12:00 PM (1 hour ago)
       
to me
   

Breaking News from Newsmax.com

Exclusive

The Obama campaign’s internal polling data – their final polling data — has them “for the first time worried,” a Democratic source familiar with the campaign tells Newsmax.

The Obama polling shows the race tied in Michigan with a clear trend in other swing states toward Romney.

See the exclusive Obama numbers on Newsmax — Go Here Now

Krauthammer to O'Reilly- Three upstanding men!

• Shows
• • Login

• Home
• About O'Reilly
• Talking Points Archive
• Interview Archive

• Krauthammer: Romney will win the presidency

  Published November 05, 2012 | O'Reilly Factor | Bill O'Reilly

  Special Guests: Charles Krauthammer
  •  Print
  •  Email
  •  Share
  • 
    
  • 
    
  This is a RUSH transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," November 5, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
  Watch "The O'Reilly Factor" weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET!
  O'REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I'm Bill O'Reilly. In the "Campaign 2012" segment tonight, let's go down to Washington where our pal, Charles Krauthammer, is telling the world a whole bunch of things about the presidential election.
  He has been listening to The Factor this evening. So, at the end of the segment, you promised me you're going to give a prediction.
  You've already given one but I want to know if you're going to hold to that. But the bigger picture to you -- what has convinced you about your prediction is what.
  CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, look, you can do the calculation as Karl Rove does it. And I believe every word --I mean I agree with his analysis from the micro view, state-after-stare.
  But I want to do it from the macro view. People say that, you know, the national vote doesn't count. Well, technically, yes. But it's very important understanding what's happened.
  Last Monday, a week ago, Romney had won this race if it had ended on Monday night.
  O'REILLY: Correct.
  KRAUTHAMMER: He was up 4, 5, 6 in the national polls. You can't be up that much nationally and not win the electoral, the college. I don't care how you slice it or dice it.
  Then something happens. Then you get the October surprise which is devastating to Romney in this sense.
  And we know this empirically because in the national polls where Romney was up 4, 5, 6, he goes to zero to minus one essentially.
  Number one, he becomes irrelevant. He was very presidential in the debates. Obama was small. That's reversed. He becomes irrelevant in the storm.
  Number two, Obama plays the Commander-In-Chief, the picture in the Situation Room. Now, where was he in Benghazi in the Situation Room, separate issue. Nobody is going to ask it but he looks like the Commander-In-Chief.
  Number three, and the biggest one, was the Christie bear hug. Here's the guy who is the most smash mouth, in your face, Republican partisan, bear-hugging the president, praising him how he cooperates.
  The weakness Obama has had with the independents has been that he's been correctly as the most partisan president of the last half century.
  ObamaCare passed without one vote on the other side, simply one example. So, on three counts, this huge gift Obama gets.
  O'REILLY: Yes, the storm, as you said, de-emphasized what Romney was all about. Do you think that Christie knew what he was doing, the gift that he was giving the President.
  KRAUTHAMMER: Look, I'm a psychiatrist but I don't play one on TV. So, I can't tell you what's inside his head. But I can say what the effect was.
  That's the kind of advertising Obama couldn't have purchased with $10 million, where he gets the picture of the most partisan opponent hugging him and praising him.
  Now, but here's why I still think Romney is going to win. That effect will last only three days. Whenever you have a catastrophe, the solidarity effect is three days.
  And then you get the reality setting in. All the stories of Long Island, stories you know about personally, all the stuff about the abandonment, the inefficiencies, all of these stuff.
  Now, it doesn't read down on Obama the way it did on Bush and Katrina because Obama is a Democrat and Bush was a Republican. And the media aren't going to play it up.
  Nonetheless, it stopped the Sandy effect. And you can see it now in the nationals. If you look at the last four national polls, Romney is now coming back.
  He's up. He's either tied or plus one. So, I see... and that's as of Saturday. So, you get Saturday, Sunday, today and tomorrow where, I think, Romney comes back.
  He doesn't come all the way back. He's not going to be plus five. But the fact that he's coming back has an effect.
  And here's where it has the effect on the battleground states, if they're all very close, all nine or ten of them, and you get a swing in the national of one percent or two, either way, then it's a bunch of dominoes.
  Then all of them will go one way which is why it looked so bad for Romney on Saturday or Friday. But now that I think he's coming back somewhat nationally, you're getting an evening effect.
  And, I think, they're going to split half-and-half. And there are paths, easy ones, for Romney to win electorally if, as I predict, the rebound in the national poll is continuing, which I think it is.
  O'REILLY: Is there anything that Romney could have done to get himself back in the public eye with a very strong message. Because, as you know, as being a sports fan, he went into the prevent defense.
  He didn't take any chances, kind of a ground game out. Is there anything that he could have done to put himself up there beside, of course, the big interview tonight on Monday Night Football where they're both doing it, you know.
  KRAUTHAMMER: Once the hurricane hit, there was nothing he could do. Before, he could have done stuff. But, remember, if you didn't see a hurricane coming in the future, an act of God, I mean a lucky stroke for Obama, the Romney strategy which was a very, as you say, it was a very conservative one, a very defensive one, was working.
  Because he was -- the momentum he got in the debates, while it was slowing was still continuing. And it was clearly going to carry him over the top. But, in retrospect, if you knew there was going to be this event --
  O'REILLY: Yes, you would have been more aggressive.
  KRAUTHAMMER: Well, what you would have done is, in the third debate, you would have -- it's Libya where he went weak.
  He could have hit Obama on Libya in the third debate. He could have hit him after. He never touched him.
  And the media, therefore, had an excuse to stay away from it. That, I think, would have been devastation for Obama and destruction for Obama.
  And that, I think, would have sealed it. But Romney played it safe.
  O'REILLY: He played it safe.
  •  Print
  •  Email
  •  Share
  •  Comments
  • 
    
  • 
    

continued...

< 1 2>

Transcripts

Choose a category

Talking Points

Latest Transcript

November 05, 2012

Please click on a date for previous transcripts:

November 2012

<

>

29	30	31	1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	1	2

ADVERTISEMENT

Follow 'The O'Reilly Factor'

Follow us on Twitter to get exclusive updates and announcements from the show!

Tonight on 'The Factor'

• Election Day 2012! 'The Factor' will be back Wednesday with hard-hitting analysis of the results! 

No Spin Poll

Who won the last presidential debate?

Mitt RomneyBarack Obama

VoteView Results

Line of the Night

"I cannot make a prediction tonight. It pains me. I don't like it. But I have to be honest. I can't do it because even at this late date, some Americans could still vote either way. Both candidates still have a fighting chance."
 -- Bill O'Reilly

Connect With O'Reilly

• Facebook
• Email
• Free Podcast
• Audio Podcast
• RSS

ADVERTISEMENT

About the Show

"The O'Reilly Factor" uncovers news items from the established wisdom and goes against the grain of the more traditional interview style programs.

The No. 1 cable news show at 8 p.m. for 10 consecutive years, O'Reilly's signature "No Spin Zone" cuts through the rhetoric as he interviews the players who make the story newsworthy.

Pushing beyond just the headlines, "The O'Reilly Factor" also features issues from local markets that do not find the national spotlight on other newscasts.

More Bill O'Reilly

Check out BillOReilly.com for No Spin News, books, hats, mugs and more!
Visit BillOReilly.com »

Fox Nation

We want you! Join the Fox Nation community and let your voice be heard!
Visit FoxNation.com »

Shows

• America Live
• Fox & Friends Weekend
• Happening Now
• Studio B
• America News HQ
• Fox News Watch
• Huckabee
• The Cost of Freedom
• America's Newsroom
• Fox Report
• Justice with Judge Jeanine
• The Five
• Cavuto
• Geraldo at Large
• Red Eye w/ Gutfeld
• The Journal Editorial Report
• Fox News Sunday
• Greta
• Special Report
• The O' Reilly Factor
• Fox & Friends First
• Hannity
• Specials
• War Stories
• Fox & Friends

Networks

• Fox News
• Fox Business

Search

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2012 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. All market data delayed 20 minutes. Privacy - Terms

Connect with The O'Reilly Factor

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/11/06/krauthammer-romney-will-win-presidency#ixzz2BSBXBIkI

Jeanie and I voted.

We were nearly straight Tea Party voters.  We hope and pray this important election goes the way of the Traditionalists of America!  The Secular Progressives have done far too much dfamage.

Sam Kegley aka SamKat

Tea Party ... obama OUT!

I want another Tea Party big day in today's election.  I want a win however close or far, but I would appreciate a Romney romp over the lieing obama.  I believe he is the anti-leader for America and, perhaps, the bona-fide anti-Christ. 

I hope the Ohioans vote Brown out along with any other secular progressives SP's.