The Courage to Change???
by Carl V. Bibeau

God grant me the Serenity

to accept the things I cannot change,
the Courage to change the things I can,
and the Wisdom to know the difference.

This election is nothing less than a referendum for believers in God.

Let's talk about a change from the Politically Correct status quo, which we have been force-fed by the controlling elite. The word "CHANGE" is tossed around by the Democrats and Republicans both. Yet, in a bi-partisan vote, they recently approved a 700+ billion dollar bailout against the will of the majority of the people. What will it take for the people to realize that cooperation in evil between Democrats and Republicans is the PROBLEM, not the solution?

At some level, everyone knows that our financial woes are the consequence of our lack of moral self-discipline. We know that living above our means at the personal level is pandemic. The bailout of lenders who pandered to people with that lack of moral self-discipline, signals the ultimate surrender to moral corruption on the national level. In this sense, the PEOPLE instinctively knew better than those they elected to supposedly represent them. HOPE? CHANGE? Electing either Obama or McCain this time around reinforces neither... to a person of sanity. The Republicans failed to keep their Contract with America. The Democrats fail in their liberal licentiousness against morality.

The PEOPLE have the power for CHANGE via their vote. They can do it, if only they muster the COURAGE. Repeatedly, we hear historical revisionists try to claim this nation was meant to be a Godless nation. Non-believers falsify the plainly-worded First Amendment Establishment Clause. The cancer of Atheism did not exist at the founding of the United States. Most certainly there were individuals who did not believe in God, but the societal context in which the Establishment Clause was written, was comprised of a vast majority of Believers.

Twenty-first Century Believers compartmentalize their belief as if God does not reign in the totality of their lives. In a culture contaminated by the secular, Christians insist that Revival must come while they are wearing their Church hats. But how can Revival occur if they take off those hats upon entering the voting booth? Aspirants like Huckabee check their pastoral robes and rhetoric at the door before entering the political arena. Why? Because they have already conceded the historical revisionists' interpretation of the Constitution.

One man has consistently refused to compromise on Moral Principles. His unwavering proclamation of Declaration Principles has echoed relentlessly. So much so, in fact, that every effort to silence him, short of assassination, has been employed. (America has become much more "sophisticated" since the sixties when the Kennedys and MLK were silenced.)

In each speech, essay, media or personal appearance over the past 20+ years, Dr. Alan Keyes has integrated God with the American Imperative. Does that make him a theocrat as many PC secularists claim? Only if you subscribe to a revisionist view of our Founding Fathers. Those men plainly stated that our fundamental rights were given to us by God. Being unalienable, and pre-existing any government, they cannot be taken away by any government or given away by any individual. Government exists to protect those rights. Any sane individual should not be insistently trying to give them away.

I'm trying to persuade you, as an individual, to vote for a man who believes in these Principles when you enter the voting booth... alone. I have no power over you. You may feel the pressure of forces conspiring to vote according to a pre-conceived coalition according to "electability." But "at the end of the day" - if I may borrow one of Dr. Keyes' favorite phrases - it's just you and your conscience (hopefully attuned to God) that will cast your vote. Will you have the courage to initiate real change? Will you have the wisdom to appreciate the power in your fingertips?

"The media out there loves to tell people that perception is reality. The reason they love to do that is because they manipulate perception. If perception is reality, then they control things. And I don't believe that perception is reality. I think that if we go down that road - if we let the media and the pollsters and the others rule - we will find that we make some short term gains on their editorial pages in order to achieve long term and permanent losses amongst the American people."

Dr. Alan Keyes
1997 Midwest Republican Leadership Conference

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