Vice President Pence Is Right
"Reviewing Vice President Pence’s brief remarks at the 2020 National Prayer Breakfast, I was caught up short by the phrase he always uses. It was a phrase I heard him use in a large non-denominational church in Mesa, AZ, when he was the VP candidate in 2016. It was fitting then but, oh, how much more fitting today.
You know, when Karen and I travel across this country, and when the President and I travel, we — the sweetest words we ever hear are when people will reach out, grab a hand, and say,
“I’m praying for you.” And you know when people mean it, and it’s always a blessing. . . "
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Who is Clifford Brown? (his own self-description)
Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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President Donald Trump holds up a newspaper with a headline that reads “ACQUITTED” during the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast, at the Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
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* For readers of this blog who don't know what the word Desert refers to, here's an outline map of the territory. It is also refered to as The State of Desert, a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by settlers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City.
The provisional state existed for slightly over two years and was never recognized by the United States government.
The name derives from the word for "honeybee" in the Book of Mormon.
However, "Pioneers" from Salt Lake City were sent by Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith to colonize what is now the State of Arizona, and especially The East Valley establishing an ever-expanding real estate empire in wards and stakes, building meeting houses and "temples" in reference to what they call The New Zion"
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'I will never let you down': Trump expresses support for faith groups in National Prayer Breakfast speech
SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump promised ongoing support for religious freedom during Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast while celebrating some of his administration's most controversial faith-related moves.
"I will never let you down, I can say that," he told the mostly Christian audience. . .
Trump's message resonates most among those who feel like their beliefs are under attack in American culture and by Democratic leaders, said Jeff Hunt, a vice president of Colorado Christian University who has attended multiple prayer breakfasts, to The Washington Post...
Evan Vucci, Associated Press
Is true courage loving your enemies? Trump offers his point of view at National Prayer Breakfast
Harvard professor Arthur Brooks tells audience that “people of faith” should “lift our nations up and bring people together”
SALT LAKE CITY — "Moral courage is not standing up to your foes, but standing up to defend them. That was the theme of Thursday morning’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. — although President Donald Trump, a guest speaker, disagreed."
Other speakers — like Harvard professor Arthur Brooks — and Democratic and Republican legislators stressed the importance of unity and Jesus Christ’s teaching that Christians are to love not just their neighbors, but also their enemies, the morning after the president was acquitted from impeachment by the Republican-controlled Senate
* For readers of this blog who don't know what the word Desert refers to, here's an outline map of the territory. It is also refered to as The State of Desert, a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by settlers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City.
The name derives from the word for "honeybee" in the Book of Mormon.
Outside of the U.S. Government, the Latter-Day Saints are the biggest holders of lands. One of their most recent acquisitions was 11,400 acres sold-off by The City of Mesa, along with all the water-rights.
Marc Short said that the media was focusing too much on concerns that President Trump might ostracize Romney for being the lone Republican in the Senate to vote to convict the president on one of the impeachment counts. Instead, he said the focus should be on Romney's beef with the president. . . "
Short then said,
Top Pence aide: Mitt Romney ungrateful, ‘who’s not giving forgiveness?’
"The chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence ripped Sen. Mitt Romney as an ungrateful politician who repeatedly begged for the president’s support then turned on him.Marc Short said that the media was focusing too much on concerns that President Trump might ostracize Romney for being the lone Republican in the Senate to vote to convict the president on one of the impeachment counts. Instead, he said the focus should be on Romney's beef with the president. . . "
“At some point, when are we going to ask the other question:
> In 2012, Donald Trump endorsed [Republican presidential nominee] Mitt Romney.
> In 2016, Mitt Romney led the Never Trump campaign.
> In 2018, he asked for Donald Trump’s endorsement, and Donald Trump gave it to him for his Senate race. And as soon as he comes to Washington, he writes an op-ed in the Washington Post about how he’s going to oppose this president.”
He added, “At some point, we have to ask the question, who’s not giving forgiveness here?”
Host Stuart Varney asked about Romney’s statement Wednesday that his Mormon faith drove him to condemn the president. Short noted that fellow Mormon and Utah Sen. Mike Lee didn’t vote to convict Trump.
“If his Mormon faith led him to want to convict the president, I don’t know if that is an indictment of Mike Lee’s Mormon faith because his fellow senator from Utah, I don’t know if he is implying Mike Lee didn’t rely on his prayer to come to his conclusion for acquittal,” said Short.
And he ripped the hypocrisy in the media that is quick to condemn politicians who cite their faith in supporting conservative causes but herald others who use it criticize Trump, like Romney did.
He added, “At some point, we have to ask the question, who’s not giving forgiveness here?”
“If his Mormon faith led him to want to convict the president, I don’t know if that is an indictment of Mike Lee’s Mormon faith because his fellow senator from Utah, I don’t know if he is implying Mike Lee didn’t rely on his prayer to come to his conclusion for acquittal,” said Short.
And he ripped the hypocrisy in the media that is quick to condemn politicians who cite their faith in supporting conservative causes but herald others who use it criticize Trump, like Romney did.
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