Awakening Quotes

“Good leaders set a clear path, show the way forward, and provide friend and foe alike with clarity and consistency that, like a northern star, can be reliably followed. We need leaders who say what they mean, who do what they say, and whose rhetoric provides a road map for how they will lead and where they will take the country. In this essential test of leadership, Obama has failed miserably, and I would suggest that failure has been deliberate insofar as he could not allow the American people to have insight into his genuine beliefs and intentions.”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness

“also reveal the lie of Obama’s posturing prior to the 2008 election and his comforting assurances that he deplored the Democratic Party’s past insensitivity toward religious belief. Obama’s God-talk, like all his other talk, bore no resemblance to what he actually did as president or the policy agenda he pursued.”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness

“Obama declined to hold public services in the White House commemorating the National Day of Prayer, which had been the practice of his predecessors. • In September 2011, his Department of Health and Human Services terminated funding to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for its extensive program to assist victims of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The reason? Objections to Catholic teaching on abortion and contraception.7 • In 2013 Obama’s inaugural committee forced pastor Louie Giglio, whose Atlanta church was nationally known for its efforts to combat sex trafficking, to withdraw from delivering a prayer at the inaugural ceremony after an audio recording surfaced of a sermon Giglio delivered in the mid-1990s referencing biblical teaching on homosexuality. When it came to praying at Obama’s second inaugural, no pastor holding to an orthodox view of Scripture had need to apply. • His Justice Department canceled a 30,000 grant to a program for at-risk youth because it allowed voluntary, student-led prayer, and the oath recited by its young charges mentioned God.8 • He advocated passage of a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act prohibiting private employers from declining to hire gays and lesbians that granted no exemption for religious ministries and charities. • The Defense Department canceled an appearance by Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse at a National Day of Prayer observance because of Graham’s alleged anti-Muslim bigotry. • Obama’s campaign removed a reference to God from the Democratic Party platform and only moved to reinsert it after news outlets reported the exclusion and controversy erupted. In rushed proceedings at the party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the name of God was reinserted to boos from the delegates.”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness

“Obama assured us, only the United States. He claimed to have worked across party lines in the Illinois state senate on bipartisan issues like ethics and health-care reform, when in fact he had a fiercely partisan voting record. As a legislator Obama voted against the death penalty for cop killers, against legislation requiring medical intervention to save the life of a child born alive during an abortion, and for raising taxes. His Senate voting record displayed the same pattern, and he was rated the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate by National Journal.1 No matter, for with Obama, style always trumps substance, and rhetoric always replaces the record. Facts and failure may shame other politicians into a reassessment of their policies, but not Obama. In his case, misleading the public is not a function of ego or a personality flaw. It is a deliberate strategy designed to tickle the ears with pleasing words while doing things radical and transformational.”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness

“Obama’s policies and public statements, therefore, raise serious questions about the true nature of his core beliefs and values. Who is he and what does he really believe? Knowing the answer to this question helps us understand the opposition. And the answer may surprise you.”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness

“While he professes to be a Christian, Obama has devoted great energy seeking to establish cordial relations with those who express hatred for Jews, Christians, and the United States. In his 2009 address in Cairo, he spoke movingly about growing up as a boy in Indonesia and hearing the familiar call to morning prayer. He sought common ground and mutual understanding with the Islamic world.”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness

“IRS. The agency’s persecution of Christian groups has grown worse under Obama,”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness

“modern U.S. history. For an American president to be this insensitive to the security needs of Israel at a time of such bloody turmoil in the Middle East is tragic, and it would have been unimaginable even a decade ago.”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness

“The Obama administration submitted a budget request to Congress in 2012 that called for cutting in half U.S. funds for Israeli missile defense—this at a time when Israel faced the threat of rocket attacks from Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as the midrange missile technology developed by Iran.30 • In 2013 Obama nominated former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense. Hagel had voted against tougher sanctions against Iran, was one of four senators to refuse to sign a letter condemning anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, and chaired an organization that denounced Israel for practicing “apartheid.”
― Reed Ralph, Awakening: How America Can Turn from Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness