RAHM HEADS HOME FOR ILLINOIS - Just A Minute Radio for Friday 101001

            Once more we’ve reached the end of the week… and it’s been a full one.

           

            Now Mr. Emanuel’s shift of platform is like “letting the cat out of the cellophane bag” – as t’was said about FDR when he announced for the fourth run at the Presidency – the term which he ended in Warm Springs Georgia, a very old and sick man… who had a totally unprepared Vice President, Harry S. Truman to take over for him – who through no fault of his barely knew where the front door of 1600 Pennsylvania was much less what he was supposed to do once he got inside.

 

            Well, the Lord took us as Americans, through those perilous times…. Not *because we were Americans* -- but because it was HIS will – and HIS will, will still be accomplished in these perilous days – and I sincerely believe these *are* perilous days.  I rather vividly recall a cold Sunday afternoon in Roanoke, Virginia – when I was a nine year old lad being driven by my Aunt Pansy to a rehearsal for the coming Christmas program at Trinity Methodist Church where our family worshiped.  We had heard on the radio that afternoon that our Naval base in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor was being attacked – apparently by Japanese aircraft and there were many casualties.

 

            I certainly had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach… I suppose everyone else did.

 

            We, as a nation had finished a war barely 23 years before – that was the war to “end all wars.”  But it didn’t. – And what followed was a long drawn out effort to preserve our nation… I felt some of the same emotion in April of 1945 when the end of the war in Europe was in sight. I had never known another President in my 13 years – what was America to do? Well, the Lord brought us through those troubled times and all of them since. It merely confirms what the Bible tells us over and over. HE is Lord. HE is good, HE is just and HE’s coming back to establish HIS kingdom here.  Be not afraid.  Those are the thoughts I cling to. I hope you do too.

 

            We have to keep our heritage before us in order to keep track of where we’ve been and where we’re headed.  The important thing is to keep HIM at the head of our effort – and we have all the best instruction through the Bible and the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth.  Have a wonderful weekend worshiping the Lord!

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack & Barbara Buttram

 

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RAHM HEADS HOME FOR ILLINOIS

Just a Minute: -- If I’ve read the tea leaves right – Rahm Emanuel goes home to Illinois delighting some and vexing others.

You may not know Rahm served the Illinois 5^th District as Congressman in the wake of Rod Blagojevich and Dan Rostenkowski. His winning margins in those elections for four different terms were in the 60 percent plus range. You’d easily say the 5^th is a district leaning heavily toward Democrats.

So now, how will he do in this short campaign for mayor… just a little more than a month?  It’s saying the obvious -- he knows the ropes. Also his penchant for cursing and vulgar language is apparently well-known but according to some, toned down. I guess it’s a flexible standard. 

Bear in mind Emanuel served in the Clinton campaigns and also in the Clinton White House.  Pulling out of the Democrat effort to go to the Obama White House was done with delicacy and preservation in mind. Rahm Emanuel is a complex and experienced politician who will be 52 the 29^th of November. A person to be reckoned with beyond the coming election.

¨     I’m Jack Buttram.  (END)

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