PIML 96062105 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: [Mark Howerter's thoughts on our Prez Klinton (the military man).] PIML ================================================================== From: "Mark E. Howerter" Organization: http://www.cris.com/~dhathaw/otherside To: C-News Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 15:08:39 -0600 Subject: C-NEWS: Klinton or Clinton? Somebody started spelling our president's name with a "K" instead of a "C" a while back and I picked up on it and have been doing the same ever since. I think it makes a statement and I like what it says. I have taken some heat recently for doing so of late and i wanted to reply to those who think i am being too disrespectful of the office of president. As I lay in bed one morning half asleep and half awake my mind was going over this in a prayerful way. (I get my best sermons and columns during those times, probably because my mind is so active during the work day that is easier for God to get through to me at those times while I am still groggy.) I am not totally convinced that I have the answer, but let me throw something out for consideration. I have often thought that if one had lived in Nazi Germany during Adolf Hitler's reign of terror, how those people would have handled the Scriptures about respecting our leaders. Not that I think our present leadership is quite as bad as Hitler, he hasn't killed nearly as many--yet. My point being, when ungodly leadership is in charge of any office how do we who are Christians react? The answer that came to me (and I am still open to new ideas) is that there is a difference between the office and the man personally. If I were writing a letter to the president I would not address it to Slick Willy or Bill Klinton. If the president were in town and I had opportunity to meet him (he was here in Galesburg, IL, and I didn't bother to go across the street to see him, even though I had a press pass) I would treat him with all the respect that the office of president of the United St[Configuerves. On the other hand, when I am referring to Bill Klinton the person as opposed to Bill Clinton the president I do not feel so constrained. IMHO Jimmy Carter was almost as bad of a president as the present one. I did not think of Jimmy Carter in anywhere near the same way as I do what we have now, however. He was a good man, but a poor president. I never doubted his integrity or desire to do what he thought was right. I disagreed with nearly every move he made, almost as much as I do now, but the difference is that this president has no integrity--none. There is no true north on his moral compass. Bill Klinton is not merely a man of little integrity, he is a man of no integrity and a criminal who belongs behind bars besides. He may very well end up there. They are getting closer and closer all the time. It isn't just a matter of difference in political philosophy between me and this president like it was with Jimmy Carter. With this president we have someone who shouldn't qualify to run as dog catcher in a town of 50 people, let alone for the highest office in the land to be the most prominent representative of our nation to the whole world. Our president is a national embarrassment. In my humble opinion he is an accomplished manipulator, drug smuggler, liar, thief, adulterer, and indirectly at least, a murderer to name just a few character traits. These things were not true of, say a Jimmy Carter, who was every bit as poor a president. I disagreed with Carter just as strongly. I just never doubted his character, integrity or his intentions. I guess that Bill Klinton has crossed the line so many times that he no longer has any credibility with me at all, whether he is speaking as the president of the United States or if he was speaking as a spokesman for Wheaties cereal. (A friend of mine said, "General Foods wouldn't have him!") I don't even allow him on my television set! If he pops on there even my kids yell, "Get that man off daddy's TV set!" It doesn't matter what he says because he doesn't mean anything he says anyway. He will just turn around the next day when it is more convenient to say just the opposite and do so without any regard for the truth, or what he said the day before. I have never known a man with any less integrity than Bill Klinton. He is absolutely incredible and would literally sell his own mother if she were still living and he could get a few bucks for her. (The same friend I referred to earlier says, "I doubt he would sell her...he would rent her out instead and take a tax loss.") I don't necessarily feel I have the answer for everyone and I am not asking anyone else to call him anything other than Clinton. I am just trying to let anyone who asks know where I am coming from. The messenger is the message and with Bill Klinton what he is doing and has done is speaking so loudly that I am surprised anyone can hear anything he is trying to say with his lying lips. I am continually amazed that anyone listens to him or takes him the least bit seriously, even if he happens to be president of the United States of America at the moment. %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%* Mark E. 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