High Ground Underground

Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast – the Audacity of Preaching Feb. 5, 2015 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/05/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast Following is an excerpt of another very long-winded speech, which according to one present, sucked all the air out of the room.  My rejoinders are in red – an appropriate color for my heated comments.  Less than 2 years to get my licks in, so I must make good use of my time. “…Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history.  And lest we get on our high horse [The less religious Left feels very uncomfortable when they perceive someone to have more moral compunctions – someone on a higher horse than they’re on] and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ .  [This follows the Howard Zinn radical view of the world, and plays right into the jihadis’ characterization