Gene edward veith biography of barack obama

The parade of tech executives bending the knee to the president-elect, Disney announcing it is dropping a transgender storyline from an animated series, Target announcing it is cutting back on its LGBTQ merchandise, and corporations dropping their DEI policies might all be explained as pragmatic business decisions.  That’s revealing because it implies that their previous enthusiasm for wokery was also a pragmatic business decision.  Still, such economic decisions suggest a perception that there is a change in the marketplace and in their consumers.

As the panel’s Jessica Piper says, “Companies seem to be more concerned about conservative backlash than they were a few years ago.”  Beyond that, she observes, “Trump isn’t as culturally toxic as he was the first time around.”

This is evident in professional athletes celebrating with the “Trump dance,” and getting no blow back from the leagues or anyone else for doing so.  Reporter Shia Kapos from Chicago, “a hard-core Democratic town,” says that she is now seeing people wearing MAGA hats, “which would have been unheard of four years ago.”

Ian Ward from New York sees a different shift in fashion:

This may be colored by the fact of where I live (in New York City), but I’ve noticed a resurgence of preppy culture and fashion recently — expensive barn coats, those Ralph Lauren sweaters with American flags embroidered on the front. These are the clothes of America’s traditional elite, and I think that after the election, people are (somewhat paradoxically, given Trump’s populist rhetoric) less nervous about identifying themselves with that elite that they were before. There’s a sense that you don’t have to apologize for your privilege — and that it’s socially acceptable, or even fashionable, to embrace patriotic symbols. Thus the $400 American flag sweaters, I guess.

Well, I would say that this is more likely an assertion of being elite and trying to show the victorious pop

As you know, I supported John McCain for president. In his concession speech last night, McCain modeled the graciousness and respect that we should have for the president-elect, Barack Obama. The election of an African-American to the presidency is certainly a historic occasion, and a sign that we as a nation are maturing in terms of race relations. I’ll be praying for him.

Quotes from some other Christian blogs:

It is indeed significant to have elected our first black president. This will help in exorcising our racial demons. (I read a black journalist who said that if Obama won, which he could scarcely believe would happen, that it would show that everything he believed about white people would be proven wrong).

I think we will see in President Obama a repeat of the John Kennedy phenomenon: an upsurge of idealism that may sweep away much of our cultural cynicism, especially among the young and among our cultural elite. This would be healthy.

…I have misgivings and fears, but I’m looking for the positives, and I do think there will be some.

(Gene Edward Veith – Cranach)

Almighty and sovereign God, ruler over all that you have made: As we awoke today to a new president, some of us are surprised, but the outcome of yesterday’s voting is not a surprise to you, who know and ordain our beginning and our end.

Thank you for the precious truth that, in Christ, your mercies are new every morning. We confess that too often we have put our trust in chariots and horses—and presidents—instead of your perfect rule. We confess our fretting and, instead, rest this morning in your sovereign governing over all that you have made.

We pray for our new president, making intercessions and thanksgiving for him. Through our voting, you have appointed a ruler to govern your people; work through him to promote that which is good and to punish that which is evil.

Protect his and his family’s lives, and make him a defender of life.

Guide him as he

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