{"id":415,"date":"2004-01-02T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/more_political_guidance_from_a\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T21:49:12","slug":"more_political_guidance_from_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/more_political_guidance_from_a\/","title":{"rendered":"More Political Guidance from Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uslatest\/story\/0,1282,-3578891,00.html\">revelation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Friday he believes God has told him President Bush will be re-elected in a &#8220;blowout&#8221; in November.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think George Bush is going to win in a walk,&#8221; Robertson said on his &#8220;700 Club&#8221; program on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded.  &#8220;I really believe I&#8217;m hearing from the Lord it&#8217;s going to be like a blowout election in 2004. It&#8217;s shaping up that way.&#8221;<br \/>\nRobertson told viewers he spent several days in prayer at the end of 2003.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Lord has just blessed him,&#8221; Robertson said of Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re lucky to have this former Republican presidential candidate to convey this unfiltered message from God, aren&#8217;t we?  But wait, Robertson has more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn&#8217;t make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him up because he&#8217;s a man of prayer and God&#8217;s blessing him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh?  <i>It doesn&#8217;t make an difference what he does, good or bad<\/i>?  From what I&#8217;ve seen, most hardcore Republicans like Robertson, have a blind allegiance toward Bush.  But hopefully God&#8211;and a majority of voters&#8211;are a little more discriminating in their assessments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/more_political_guidance_from_a\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to More Political Guidance from Above\"><p>Another revelation: Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Friday he believes God has told him President Bush will be re-elected in a &#8220;blowout&#8221; in November. &#8220;I think George Bush is going to win in a walk,&#8221; Robertson said on his &#8220;700 Club&#8221; program on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded. &#8220;I really believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}