Ronald Reagan VS The Chicken of Kiev

I rarely get into politics in this blog, mostly because I want to remain God centered and if I veered off into politics I'd be moving far, far, far away from God because that's where our leadership is taking us. However, recently situations have come to light that allow us to compare national leaders when faced with similar crisis, to evaluate their words and actions when faced with similar circumstances.

As we all know things have gone to pieces in the Ukraine, the Russian army has invaded and our leadership in the United States is profoundly befuddled. The United States government knows exactly what you emailed to Aunt Clara last week, but they appear to have been taken by surprise that an unapologetic Communist running the largest military in the world attacked a neighboring country the day after President Barack Hussein Obama announced massive, unwarranted cuts in the defense of the nation he was elected to run. So while people die in the streets of the Ukraine Obama's primary response was to say "Any violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity would be deeply stabilizing," Too little, too late, and don't you mean "destabilizing" Mr, President? Sometimes its hard to keep the Holy Spirit's directions in mind as he wrote through Paul's hand;

1 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. (Romans 13:1-2)

No need to reflect on the words of President Barack Hussein Obama, they're still fresh in our ears. But I do want to reflect on the words of another president, one who's foreign policy was not based on playing golf while terrorist slaughter our ambassadors and threatening Israel while Russia runs rampant over eastern Europe

      I believe that faith and religion play a critical role in the political life of our nation – and always has – and that the church – and by that I mean all churches, all denominations – has had a strong influence in the state. And this has worked to our benefit as a nation... Those who created our country – the Founding Fathers and Mothers – understood that there is a divine order which transcends the human order. They saw the state, in fact, as a form of moral order and felt that the bedrock of moral order is religion … Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. - Pres. Ronald Reagan, August 1984

      There are a great many God-fearing, dedicated, noble men and women in public life, present company included … The basis of the ideas of those ideals and principles (that brought us into the public arena) is a commitment to freedom and personal liberty that, itself, is grounded in the much deeper realization that freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and humbly accepted. - Pres. Ronald Reagan, March 1983 (The "Evil Empire" speech)

      “I still can’t help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by crucifixion. Where … is the miracle I spoke of?
      Well consider this and let your imagination translate the story into our own time – possibly to your own home town. A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father’s shop. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father’s shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the while, even though he is not an ordained minister. He never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing – the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.
      End of story? No, this uneducated, property-less young man has, for 2,000 years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers, kings, emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived – all of them put together. How do we explain that – unless He really was what He said He was?” –President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 

Wouldn't it be refreshing to hear President Barack Hussein Obama speak in the manner of President Ronald Wilson Reagan?

I believe that faith and religion play a critical role in the political life of our nation – and always has – and that the church – and by that I mean all churches, all denominations – has had a strong influence in the state. And this has worked to our benefit as a nation.
Those who created our country – the Founding Fathers and Mothers – understood that there is a divine order which transcends the human order. They saw the state, in fact, as a form of moral order and felt that the bedrock of moral order is religion … Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2004/06/25246/#MoxBdVDdXX3qXuvR.99

I believe that faith and religion play a critical role in the political life of our nation – and always has – and that the church – and by that I mean all churches, all denominations – has had a strong influence in the state. And this has worked to our benefit as a nation.
Those who created our country – the Founding Fathers and Mothers – understood that there is a divine order which transcends the human order. They saw the state, in fact, as a form of moral order and felt that the bedrock of moral order is religion … Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2004/06/25246/#MoxBdVDdXX3qXuvR.99