Hillary
Clinton and Donna Brazile, the D.N.C., and the Bible
by Pastor
Paul J. Bern
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By now nearly
everyone who gets their news from the Alternative Media has heard or
read yesterday's news release about former Democratic National
Committee chairman Donna Brazile's new book about her career in the
Democrat party, and American politics in general. The following quote
regarding this topic is from a posting on thehill.com
from this past Friday, November 3rd, and the complete story can be
found here:
“The broadcast
evening newscasts on three major networks on Thursday didn't mention
bombshell revelations by former Democratic National Committee interim
Chairwoman Donna Brazile. Brazile has written in a new book that she
discovered evidence that she said showed Hillary
Clinton’s campaign "rigged" the Democratic
presidential primary. "ABC's World News Tonight," "NBC
Nightly News" and "CBS Evening News" all didn't report
the allegations by Brazile on Thursday evening despite it receiving
considerable coverage on cable news and in print and online media.
Brazile was also trending as one of Twitter's top topics on Thursday.
In excerpts released to Politico Thursday, Brazile
writes in her new book, "Hacks: The Inside Story of the
Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald
Trump in the White House," that it “broke [her] heart”
upon discovering evidence that she said showed the Clinton campaign
"rigged" the Democratic nomination system.”
“By September 7,
the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart,”
Brazile wrote about a Sept. 7, 2016, call to Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.), who gave Clinton a far more serious challenge
for the nomination than many had expected. Brazile also shares an
arrangement between the DNC, the Clinton campaign and Clinton’s
joint fundraising committee that indicated the campaign would
“control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money
raised.” She wrote the arrangement was concocted in an effort to
address the mounting debt of the party in the aftermath of President
Obama's successful 2012 reelection campaign. “The campaign had the
DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic
expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising
clearing house,” Brazile wrote. “If the fight had been fair, one
campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had
decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act,
but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity,"
Brazile added.....”
There are two things
we can keep from all this as lessons for further down the road of
life. The first is one we've all heard before, but apparently some
highly placed and influential people seem to have forgotten this –
it never pays to cheat! And even when it does, those ill-gotten gains
will evaporate at some point down the road – and always at the
worst possible moment. That's just the way life works. The second
thing is something few people have yet realized – the Democratic
party's very existence is threatened thanks to Hillary's apparent
cheating in the 2016 primary election. Moreover, the Republicans also
have their party's existence threatened by the way Donald Trump has
handled his presidency up till this point, making America the
laughingstock of the entire world! So, it's safe to say that Ms.
Brazile and her new book have dealt a severe blow to the US
Republican-Democrat political paradigm. That in and of itself may be
the best news of all for regular folks like ourselves.
What does the Bible
have to say about cheating? Did Hillary Clinton sin by rigging the
Democratic primary? Well, Zacchaeus the tax collector knew cheating
was wrong, and said as much when Jesus told him he needed a place to
stay and to have dinner, as it is written: “But Zacchaeus stood
up and said to the Lord, 'Look, Lord! Here and now I give half my
possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of
anything, I will pay back four times the amount.'” (Luke 19: 8)
The apostle Paul used cheating as an example regarding the filing of
frivolous lawsuits that should have been settled within the Church
instead of in a court of law, and I quote: “The very fact that
you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated
already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your
brothers.” (1st Corinthians 6: 7-8)
Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump both have a debt to repay to the American people. They
both tried to buy their way into the White House. They both tried to
cheat their way into the Oval Office. As we know, only one of them
succeeded, but that is besides the point. Whatever the amount of
money each of them spent getting elected – or trying to – they
should reimburse the American people for rigging the system. And then
there's the fact that Russian intelligence tampered with both sides
during our election trying to rig the outcome. As before, Russia has
also been caught cheating. But for now, let's focus on Hillary
Clinton, Donald Trump and the money they spent buying their way into
the White House. According to CBS News, a total of $6.8
billion was spent on the 2016 presidential campaign. OK then,
Jesus was evidently in agreement with Zacchaeus in Luke's gospel, the
tax collector who had the bad reputation (see Luke 19: 1-10) among
the people. As you read in the last paragraph, Zacchaeus told Jesus,
“....if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back
four times the amount....”.
Jesus
must have found those terms acceptable since he said nothing to the
contrary, right? Then those terms are clearly also applicable to
Trump and Clinton. What, they don't believe in Jesus the same way I
do? They don't interpret the Bible word-for-word as I do? That makes
no difference whatsoever since Jesus is the same yesterday, today and
forever!! All right, then, let's do the math here – $6.8 billion
times 4 equals $27.2 billion – divided by 325 million people. My
calculator tells me that works out to $8.3 million for every man,
woman and child – right down to the sweet little babies. Eight
million three hundred thousand bucks will buy a whole lot of
groceries, that's for sure (guess I'd never run out of coffee, thank
God!). Other than that, the best thing that could happen to America
would be a third party candidate presiding in the Oval Office come
January 2021. Until then, don't cheat. It never pays. Hillary Clinton
has already had to relearn this lesson. Don't make the same mistake.
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