"A Rookie President"

Read here a pointed critique of BHO. Here's a taste:

Barack Obama is a rookie in a sense that few other Presidents in American history have ever been. It is not just that he has never been President before. He has never had any position of major executive responsibility in any kind of organization where he was personally responsible for the outcome.

Bye Bye, Johnny Calvin; Hello, Johnny Chrysostom

Well, I gave up on reading the Institutes. Something about Book I that kills me every time. I just don't find all his debates with strange heretics all that interesting.

Instead, I found a biography of John Chrysostom, biship of Antioch, then bishop of Constantinople, by J.N.D. Kelly, called Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom - Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998). What a fascinating life! I'm hooked. I can't read enough about this guy. And Kelly's bio reads like a novel: engaging, suspenseful, dramatic. I may have to re-read it simply because it was so good. Now I'm sampling some of his sermons which appear in translation in the Nicene/Post-Nicene Fathers collection. He was the first major exegete to write a full-length commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.

Well, more on him later, I hope.

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King Obama

I have NEVER seen such an exercise of raw power as what we are witnessing in the new Obama administration. A president fires a CEO??? Does this not bother anyone? Maybe next he'll decide to fire Dr. Bill Jones at CIU. The arrogance and audacity of it all... People are going to hate this man before long. I was inclined to give him a lot of grace and room to make some initial blunders, but he used all that up in about the first two weeks of his reign. I think we're living in a dictatorship now.

First he bribes companies by giving them money, then he takes them over by telling them to do what he says or else... How many companies has he run before? Ridiculous!

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