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Tag: Acton

From Glenn Beck, Fox, and HNN: Obama no Jeremiah Wright!

Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 03:50:51 AM PDT

The Acton Institute is a conservative think tank with the goal of "Integrating Judeo-Christian Truths with Free Market Principles (see  http://www.acton.org/... )

Professor Anthony Bradley (Assistant Professor of Apologetics and Systematic Theology, Covenant Theological Seminary) is a research fellow at the Institute and is a favorite of Glenn Beck and other Fox flunkies (HNN video with Beck here: http://youtube.com/... )
Bradley is the one most likely to be quoted when someone tells you that Wright’s religion is anti-white and anti-American.

So that makes it especially powerful for us to cite back to them Bradley’s statement below that Obama does not believe in what Reverend Wright preaches. It will also help with that "he sat there for 20 years so he must believe it" argument.

Neocons au naturel

Thu Dec 27, 2007 at 01:21:49 AM PDT

It was natural for neocons to strive for power after the cold war because of Lord Acton's old axiom, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

After the Cold War, many people naively thought the U.S. would enter a period of peace and partial demilitarization, including lower defense spending. In a world without temptation and greed this would have indeed been natural.

But this ignored the position of post-cold-war America: ostensible undisputed military supremacy. The crumbling of the USSR -- America's main military, foreign policy and ideological opponent -- thrust the U.S. before the extremely dire temptation that Lord Acton noted has historically absolutely corrupted the tempted.

Neocons were the inevitable outcome.


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