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Before the Rev. Elaine Dowell entered the courtroom last Friday, she sat among a small group of supporters who felt she hadn't gotten a fair shake.

In a letter dated Aug. 3, Dowell was informed that her membership at First Baptist Church of Guilford had been dissolved by a quorum of members during the quarterly business meeting on July 17. and that her license to preach there had been revoked. The letter further stated that she would be treated as a trespasser if she entered the church.

On Aug. 9, Dowell entered during morning services, police were called and she was charged with trespassing.

On Friday, the church was seeking a permanent injunction to bar her from entering the church, following the expiration of its temporary injunction on Aug. 21.


"I just want the exoneration of my name and reputation," Dowell said in the midst of her supporters. "I just hope to have the Christian community, especially Baptists, take a look at the situation of abuse against women clergy and begin a grievance process in which people in the church have redress."

By her own admission, Dowell has had problems at First Baptist for years, calling her relationship with the Rev. John L. Wright, the church pastor, "antagonistic."

She told Judge Cornelius Sybert Jr., "(Wright) wants me out of the church, out of the Baptist denomination. They (the pastors) can make or break you. That is the shame of the Baptist church."

But Charles Fuller, Wright's lawyer, who is also a trustee at First Baptist, noted that the issue was "a simple matter of trespass," and did not concern church doctrine.

Dowell claimed that she had done nothing to warrant exclusion, but Wright charged that Dowell had been insubordinate to him, disobeying his order not to enter the pulpit, and that she had written at least one "threatening" letter to him, saying "my daughter would see me lying in the casket." Dowell did not deny she sent the letter to Wright.

Dowell further claimed that the church did not follow proper procedure for barring her. She noted that the letter she received barring her was signed only by Wright, and not by other officials of the church, and the corporate seal was lacking.

"I have Maintain(ed) that Baptist church business should not be conducted like secular business, but but based on the Bible," said Dowell. "It should be conducted spiritually." That lack of spirituality, she contended, results in confusion and chaos (at First Baptist)."

Countered Fuller, "The chaos is partly because of Mrs. Dowell and her letter-writing." Claiming that the church is a corporation, "This is the corporation's business," said Fuller, "and it's not about the doctrine of the church. This is not Rev. Wright's decision, This is the decision of the church. The property belongs to the corporation, and the corporation decided we don't want you here," he said, looking at Dowell.

Judge Sybert should make his decision on a permanent injunction by tomorrow.

Source: Patuxent Publishing 8/13/92 Howard County Times (MD)

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PASTOR WRIGHT'S CHURCH OF THE INSTANTLY DARKENING SKIN

The Baltimore Sun quotes 62 year-old Rev. John Wright, of Howard County Maryland's First Baptist Church of Guilford, as saying:

"Let me make one thing crystal clear: I'm not gonna let white folks tell us how to run this church."

That is surely a surprising racial statement. For we were not aware of any major (or even minor) movement or conspiracy of "white folks" to try to tell Pastor Howard* how to run his church.
*Article correction: Mr. Kinsolving meant to say, "Pastor Wright." /revld

So, I teleponed the Rev. Mr. Wright--who surprised me by asking me to FAX any questions--under our letterhead--which I did, asking:

1) Since you have confirmed to me by telephone the accuracy of the Baltimore Sun's quoting you as saying: "Let me make one thing crystal clear: I'm not going to let white folks tell us how to run our church," and since your church has a board of trustees who are responsible for the buildings and finances of the church, my questions--which you asked me to FAX--are as follows:

l) Are the said "white folks" allowed to worship at First Baptist Church of Guilford, or is your church racially segregated?

2) If the said "white folks" are not barred from attending worship services, are they ineligible because of their skin shade to be elected to your board of trustees?

Pastor Wright responded to both of these questions by saying: "I do have a white deacon." So I went to my third question:

" If some of the said 'white folks' are elected to the board of trustees because the congregation believes that they are devout and friendly Baptists, and that "In Christ there is neither slave not free" and in the words of We Shall Overcome: Black and White Together, do you have the power as pastor to rule that they cannot run the church as trustees because their skin is too light?"

Pastor Wright's response was ingeniously astounding:

"When they become members, they're no longer white folks--they're Children of God!"

There's just one very big problem here--which regards the millions of Maryland taxpayers who are still "white folks"--and thus non-Children of God--because they have not joined Pastor Wright's Amazing Church of the Instantly Darkening Skin.

For the General Assembly of the State of Maryland has appropriated more than one quarter of a million of the taxpayers' money (from mostly "white folks" and therefore non-Children of God) to build Pastor Wright a community center, that his church, rather than the State of Maryland--will own.

This begs the question: Where is the American Civil Liberties Union? Where is Americans United For Separation of Church and State? Why has there been no sound of protest or potential litigation to stop this use of the taxpapers' money to build the Rev. John Wright what is in effect a parish house?

Will he be allowed in this State-of-Maryland financed building to exclude the Rev. Lainie Dowell of Cloumbia, Md. who was licensed as a minister at First Baptist in 1985?

The Baltimore Sun quotes the Rev. Ms. Dowell as charging that she was arrested and barred from the church for trespassing--because she dared to criticize the national board of the NAACP and the National Baptist Convention--both of which organizations have been discovered to have criminals, or the criminally indicted , as directors.

The Rev. Ms. Dowell told the Sun that Pastor Wright: "Cannot be depended on to tell the truth if his life depended on it. I have been trying for the last six years to have the government investigate the false charges made against me."

When asked about this--which the General Assembly really ought to investigate before sending the money--Wright replied: "I have no comment about that."

Still another question the General Assembly should ask before sending the money: Will the Rev. Mr. Wright use this Maryland-taxpayer-paid-for-community-center-of-his to assemble supporters of Louis Farakhan--as he did during the alleged Million Man March?

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Police arrested a defrocked minister of the First Baptist Church of Guilford during services Sunday, removing her from the church grounds in handcuffs and charging her with trespassing.

The Rev. Elaine Dowell, licensed by the church in 1985 as a minister said she spent about three hours at Howard County Police headquarters before being released on personal recognizance.

The Rev. John Wright, who in addition to being the church's pastor is head of the state chapter of the National Asociation for the Advancement of Colored People, told Dowell in a letter dated Aug. 3 that Church members had voted to revoke her membership in the church and her license to preach the gospel.

The move, according to Wright's letter, came in response to Dowell's "failure to adhere to the directives of the pastor and disruptions to the service."

Wright's letter also warned Dowell to stay off church property, and told her she would be treated as a trespasser if she ignored that warning.

Dowell Monday acknowledged receiving the letter and said she had intended to stay away from the Sunday service, but "the Lord led me to go. I went there about 11:30. If I had planned to go, I'd have gone around 10:30."

Dowell said Monday that her expulsion from the church was the culmination of Wright's personal vendetta against her. She contends that the method by which Wright achieved her ouster was in direct violation of the church constitution and bylaws, and that Wright's contention that the church body voted her out is "a lie."

"The church body was not notified. A lot of them didn't know, anything" about the move to excommunicate her, including Dowell herself, she said. Dowell added that, according to church rules, removing a Minister requires a special meeting for which the congregation and the minister in question must be notified five days in advance.

The meeting during which Dowell was voted out was a regularly scheduled quarterly meeting on July 17. Dowell said such meetings generally are not well attended by church members, but that "I was told by a good source, a first-hand source, that (Wright's) men came prepared to vote me out it."

Dowell said her feud with Wright has been brewing for years because she resists what she sees as his dictatorial rule over the church. "Reverend Wright said in 1989 he would destroy my ministry unless I did what he said. He wanted me to shut up and do what I was told."

She said he has tried to intimidate her and others in the church. "There's a thing in the black church called 'preaching on' people, where you say things about a person from the pulpit without saying their name, Dowell said. Through this method, she claims, Wright impugned her character without having to defend his accusations.

Dowell cited as one example of Wright's heavy-handedness his directive that she stop sending "prophetic letters" to church members. "I'm a prophetess," Dowell said. "I've predicted everything, including (the expulsion)."

Dowell said Wright's rule has created a severe rift in the church. "I was threatened," she said. "One member threatened to hit me in the face."

Dowell said she chose not to move on to another church because "there's no relief in any of these (black Baptist) churches" from sexist, authoritarian church leadership. "Somebody has to hold them accountable."

In 1988, Dowell began a newsletter for black Baptist women clergy called Zion's Gate News Digest. She said this week that the task force she formed the following year has elicited many stories of patriarchal despotism.

A woman who answered the church's telephone Tuesday and identified herself as Wright's temporary secretary said Wright instructed her to tell a reporter he would have no comment on the matter.

Police spokesman Sgt. Gary Gardner said Tuesday that police responded to a call from the church about noon Sunday. James Mott, chairman of the church's deacon board, and attorney Charles Fuller told the officers at the scene they had repeatedly asked Dowell to leave, Gardner said.

When the officers again told Dowell she had to leave the church, she again refused. The officers then escorted her from the building and arrested her for trespassing. She offered no physical resistance, Gardner said.

An officer drove Dowell back to the church parking lot after her release and waited while she retrieved her car, Gardner added.

Mott, reached by telephone Monday, declined comment, referring calls to Wright.

Fuller, who said Wednesday the church has retained him to deal with the Dowell matter, declined to comment on the specifics of the dispute, citing pending litigation.

Fuller said he currently is seeking a court injunction to keep Dowell away from the church.

He called "erroneous" Dowell's contention that the method of her removal broke church law. He said the church constitution has no provision for special meetings for votes on revocation of a minister's license, and that Dowell was removed in accordance with applicable rules.

"The constitution clearly was not violated, Fuller said.

Fuller said Dowell has tried to undermine Wright's authority as pastor, "Her freedom of speech was certainly recognized," he said. However, "the church is a corporation, and the pastor is the president of the corporation, He is the person who speaks for the church."

Source: Patuxent Publishing 8/13/92 Howard County Times, MD

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IT'S THE sheer spunk of the woman that I like.

Lainie Dowell, who will open her own church in Howard County on May 10, backs down from no one. The Rev. John Wright of First Baptist Church of Guilford in Howard County had her tossed out of the congregation in August 1992 for allegedly "disrupting" the service. Police escorted her from the property. Dowell says her only crime was "refusing to shut up and do as I was told."

See what I mean? Spunk. How can you not like the spunk of a woman who writes about liberal black leadership:

"If I owned NIKE, I would take every sneaker I ever made and kick their holier-than-thou butts because they use 'black' as a badge to pick on 'whitey' and cry foul when the brother points out the specks in their eyes," she wrote in an essay.

In January 1990, Dowell fired off a testy letter to Benjamin Hooks, then executive director of the NAACP, protesting "sexism in the black Baptist churches in the U.S." and charging the Rev. Emmett Burns, then a regional official of the NAACP, with excluding female pastors.

In July 1993, she sent a letter to then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer, portions of which are reprinted below:

"Dear Governor Schaefer:

Several years ago, I wrote to tell you, Mayor Kurt Schmoke and Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hooks that the problems we have across our state and this nation among the African-American population have been caused, primarily, by the lack of accountability of the NAACP and the black Baptist ministers, many of whom are in top leadership positions within the NAACP.

"Who oversees the accountability of the NAACP? To whom do the black Baptist ministers answer for accountability? These black leaders need to get their own houses in order before they are allowed to continue to snoop in other business and government files and shout them down in public about their discriminatory practices when they discriminate in the worst way with impunity and have been doing so for years. They are the new 'untouchables,' the black mafia who go underground, lie, cheat and steal and will look you in your eye and lie about what they have done."

Dowell considers herself a prophet. In this case, she was indeed prophetic. Soon the Rev. Ben Chavis - now Nation of Islam Minister Benjamin Muhammad - was head of the NAACP. He was ejected under a cloud of scandal and accused of misusing NAACP funds. The Rev. Henry Lyons, president of the National Baptist Convention USA, has been charged with theft and racketeering and accused of taking church money for his personal use. Dowell apparently wasn't just whistling Dixie in her letter to Schaefer. But her critics dismissed her as something of a loony.

Actually, she's more like the women prophets in Ayi Kwei Armah's novel "Two Thousand Seasons" who urged African men to abandon sexism, corruption and slavery before they destroyed their society. The men didn't listen, with disastrous results.

Dowell has long challenged the sexism she sees in the Baptist church.

In 1992, the Rev. T.J. Jemison was president of the National Baptist Convention USA and came under fire for kowtowing to Mike Tyson - then accused of rape - to get a large donation. Dowell was interviewed by the Washington Post about the matter.

Jemison's support of Tyson, Dowell said, was "typical of the sexism black women encounter regularly from some Baptist clerics" and "illustrates a continuing lack of regard for women."

Wright chided her after the April 1992 article appeared, Dowell recalled.

"Only the pastor speaks for the church," Dowell remembers Wright telling her. Then, according to Dowell, he wanted to know if she had contacted the Post or if it had contacted her.

"I don't have to tell you that," Dowell says she answered. "You don't tell me when you talk to the press."

With two wills this strong, a parting of the ways seemed inevitable. Wright is known for having more than a bit of spunk himself. The Dowell-Wright clash shows what happens when irresistible spunk comes up against immovable spunk.

A Howard County court handed down an injunction that prevents Dowell from setting foot in Wright's church, one she has sought to have lifted on grounds that her removal was unjust and based on falsehoods.

For those wondering why she doesn't simply forget about the injunction and move on, she has a revealing answer.

"I'm a pit bull on matters of injustice," Dowell said. "I'm not going to turn it loose until it's the way it's supposed to be."*


Source: The Sunday Sun, Baltimore, MD. Pub Date: 04/19/98.
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Photo of Rev. Lainie Dowell at home.
Five-Fold Minister

Religious Affiliation- Christian Baptist Cleric - Since 1985
Political Affiliation- Republican - Since 1984
Civil Rights Advocate and Community Activist over 50 years

Groundbreaker with ongoing life experiences during
the mid-1950s desegration era and in the following areas:

Family (1940s - maternal and fraternal)
School (1940's - education remains ongoing in everything))
Work (1960's +)
Political and community (1960's - present)
Ministry (1980's to present)
Participant in, and co-Founder of, various Beauty Pageants - Md
Former Member-Secretary, Maryland Suburban Mass Choir (Interdenom)
Member of Clergy and Christian Ministerial Advocate - (1985 to present)

Rec'd Honorary Botony Cross Award from The Md SCV
Member, On-Call Clergy, Local Hospital
Pastor to Pastors - Clergywomen Ministerial Advocate ( 25+ years)
Founder, The first Clergywomen Support Network-Resources on internet
(1996-present, Estab. "Firebrands-of-the-Lord Christian Clergywomen")
Former Member and one time Sec., NAACP, Howard County, Md, Branch
Former Member and one-time Asst. Sec. to local Pres. of NBC Inc. and affiliate Ministerial organizations.

Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Godmother of an Interracial Family
Life-long resident of Maryland - African-Cherokee Descent
Family Genealogist w/ her history researched to 1843, to date
Worldview developed through natl and internatl friendships

WHO IS THIS WOMAN?

Spiritually, Five-Fold Minister - Wearer of the Mantle of Office of Prophetess
Spiritually, she is the first woman licensed to preach by Rev. John L. Wright, Pastor, in 1985.
The church, at that time, had celebrated an 87-year history of The First Baptist Church of Guilford, located in Columbia, MD.  In 1996, Rev. Lainie Dowell established the first internet support network/resources for Christian Clergywomen and called it, "Firebrands Christian Clergywomen Support Network/Resources, because political correctness and sexism manifested all throughout God's House across this nation. That Godly direction resulted in Rev. Dowell introducing Erasinity, which is a brand new, never before known word given to her by the Holy Spirit along with the meanings and applicable derivative words.

Moreover, through God's grace, Rev. Dowell is~

Not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Full of faith in God as a Christian Clergywoman.
Free-thinker in Jesus, her Lord and Personal Savior!
Highly Favored of God!
Friend to the Friendless - Empathetic and compassionate.
Faithful to serve any and all where God guides.
Frequent guest on The Laurie Roth Radio Show.

Some Noteworthy Contributions to Society via Newspaper articles about this Christian Warrior Woman of God ~

NOTE: SINCE GEOCITIES CLOSED ITS SITES DOWN, THESE NEWS LINKS ARE RELOCATED HERE. CONTACT REV. DOWELL THANK YOU.

"Dowell Sees The Face of Jesus" Testimonial by Rev. Lainie Dowell

*"Minister Arrested in Church" by Doug Miller.

*"Church Seeks To Bar Former Minister" by Diane Brown

*"Pit Bull Challenger of Church Men Full of Spunk" by Gregory Kane.

*See Article written by Les Kinsolving  about Dowell and her court battles to alleviate problems in the church and the community. Les Kinsolving, a White House correspondent during the administration of President George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as well as a noted radio personality.

*CHURCH VINDICATION OF DOWELL VIA SUBSTANTIATING PROOF!

Dowell exposed Rev. John L. Wright's documented political abuses used to try to defeat her ongoing quests for Godly Ministerial justice. (Sept. 4, 2008 court document - excerpt)

The First Baptist Church of Guilford (MD), was sued by several different contractors (mechanic's liens) for failure to pay for work performed. Their next court date, October 3, 2008, 9 a.m. EST, HoCo Circuit Court. The church removed and no longer had online their notices and photos about their so-called "ongoing" church construction.

Update:
Oct. 3, 2008 - More Church and MD Government Corruption Afoot!

Their contractor's lawsuit included complaints against them during my lawsuits but they never once contacted Rev. Dowell to let her know. And, the late evening before the show cause hearing, they came to an agreement. Rev. Dowell only found out about it when she went to the courthouse the next day, where she learned that her case against the church was cancelled by consent. She did get a copy of their agreement from the Clerk's office (1 page). How are we to deal with courts that are corrupt? Just keep documenting and filing briefs. Somebody is bound to read those reports one day who will recognize that injustices were committed, with impunity. Even if we are no longer on this earth, justice always prevails.

Years ago, Rev. Dowell had written, also, to Rev. Jeremiah Wright and she spoke out about the many problems with the Black Baptist denomination during that same period that Barack Obama is now known to have sat in his congregation (Rev. Jeremiah Wright whose own father is a Baptist Cleric, as is was Wright, Jr.). Obama did not speak out against the Black Liberation Theology era. In fact, we now know that he, in fact, had pushed it on the church for monetary reasons via. Its outlined in a retrieved copy of a paper Obama wrote during that time using his Saul Alinsky doctrine methodology. Yet, during all that time (1980s- ), Rev. Dowell had never heard Barack Obama's name mentioned among any of the ministers either on the local or national scene or by any politicos -- until Barack appeared at the DNC in 2004, to give a speech. We have to wonder why Barack has not produced anything about his mysterious past and why he persists in labeling anyone else who speaks about it as being people who are trying to smear him.

The links cited above include various other aspects about Rev. Dowell's experiences in fighting against the Black Liberation Theology being preached where she served as Associate Minister and advocated nationally for affirmation of Black Baptist women clergy during the 1980s and beyond, during a time when that was not a widely accepted practice in the Black Baptist churches. As well, Rev. Dowell's ministerial advocacy has long been extended to all Christian Clergywomen, Clergymen, and laity (male and female).

The collective personal, religious, and political work involves continuing to speak out against civil rights injustices and any unlawful practices whether they involve homosexual attempts to gain "special rights," and in the areas of Pro se litigation, academia, legislative, medical, banking, debt collections, housing, voting, land management, poverty, school curricula, or prayer support, networking, and resources.

From teen years to early adulthood, she was a Jehovah's Witness and while she loved serving the Lord, their stringent man-made rules gave her cause for pause. However, before Jim Jones and his temple came on the scene, she dropped out of JW's when she decided she had to maintain control over her own mind -- and she stepped away. Nevertheless, so entrenched was their propagandist training that it took her 20 years to get rid of and to dispel her fright of the future that had gripped her life.

As a middle-aged adult, she became affiliated with AMWAY but for only a short while because of their stringent man-made rules, also. Once again she decided to maintain control over her own mind rather than go along with the crowd.

In her 40s, she associated with the First Baptist Church and the NAACP and voted for the first time in her life during the Reagan Administration. And, she continued to maintain control over her mind and met with more problems in both organizations. She does not subscribe to the HERD mentality. And, when she became free in the Lord Jesus, she began to understand why she is free.
FREE AT LAST!!

UPDATE: ON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - GUILFORD (COLUMBIA, MD) - Jan. 28, 2010.

Rev. John L. Wright, Pastor, (73 yrs old) died and the historical church was now meeting in a neighborhood school while the church construction still remained incomplete just as Rev. Dowell had prophesized by God's decree and warned Rev. Wright, but he refused to believe it or obey.

Extracurricular Activities:

A self-taught piano player. A self-taught artist, pastels.

Composed music and Dedicated an original musical album to her youngest granddaughter, Hannah, before she was born eight years ago (As of May 2014). Composed songs dedicated to her grandson, Thomas, five  years ago (As of May 2014). We now have another grandson, (Jak Jak), three years ago. (As of April  2014). We have a beautiful granddaughter 29 years old. A proud Godmother, also, to two beautiful daughters.

Wrote and Composed A Christian Musical (dialogue and song). (unpublished)

Wrote and self-published, over 40 Christian books, to date, made up of her original poetry, prophecies, and parables. This is just one url of self-published books: http://www.blurb.com/user/store/clergywomen

Compiled and created, to date, over 50 video montages, using music and graphics from other sources. Hosted at You Tube - Clergywomen.

The following description of Rev. Dowell is Reprinted from the Daughters of Eve Website. Copyright © 2000 By Tywebbin.creations.

"Rev. L. Dowell is known as a modern-day Sojourner, Rosa, Harriett, because she has continued the fight on the front lines without the support and voice of many Christian Preachers (male or female). She has continued fostering credibility for the black woman clergy in the church and all Clergywomen around the world. Fighting to end sexism and racism in the church and communities, she strives to lift up downcast Preachers (male and female) who have been treated as outcasts by their own (both clergy and parishioners alike).

Many of these Preachers have kept silent in the face of oppressive situations. They have enjoyed "comfortable" battles, if engaging in any at all. They have not lent their voices to the cause of justice and God's liberty and mercy for all and, in fact, have either ignored or told others to "shut up, be quiet, be seated, go away" who have gone up against the establishment.

She is a David (even though very much a woman). Injustice in the church is Goliath (male or female). "Giants do Die!" Mountains do move and get out of her way. People do come down off of their self-appointed thrones in their little kingdoms. God alone is Sovereign. God is not a man that He would lie.

Rev. Dowell says, "If you truly want to see a 'Daughter of Eve,' hold her feet to the fire. Hold her accountable instead of holding her up, when she is not. Keep the mission and the message and the messenger in the forefront whose name is Jesus. Daughters of Eve breed sons and daughters of God in their loins of Living Water-- as disciples of Jesus. God births the sons and daughters into His Kingdom. Daughters of Eve (male or female) nourish them with the milk and meat of God and watch over their souls, bodies, spirits lest they be carried away by the wolves of this life. Daughters of Eve go down into the ground crying, "Even though they slay me, yet will I trust you (God)". Daughters of Eve truly reflect the light of Jesus in the eyes of the Master. And I say to you, as Daughters of Eve --- keep on shining!"
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As a longtime member of the Christian Clergy, her ministerial gifts, and callings of God are many, which also include the healing and deliverance ministries.

Her motto is: "I'm not going to let up until I'm let down into the ground."

clergywomen and clergywoman have remained her ONline identities since 1996.
Commentary: http://www.voiceink.blogspot.com/  

Since 2011, she has maintained her original self-published books (front to back). http://www.blurb.com/user/store/clergywomen

Since August 2012, she has a radio broadcast. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/clergywomen

Her Ministerial life is on duty 24 hours a day. She delights to serve. She prays for you all of God's continued peace and blessings.

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THE CHANGE WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT!


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With apologies to the Reverend Jesse Jackson for the Democrats' pick of Barack Hussein Obama as the first black Presidential nominee while continuing to viciously reject him as a schemer. It seems the Fourth Estate has become the new voice of all American citizens to bring about change through their own wide-spread access to the world. They have appointed themselves as the new unelected decisionmakers in America.

Under far different circumstances, tonight could have been a truly momentous occasion on the American political scene. Instead, we have witnessed confirmation that the Democrats will allow anything and everything to take the place of truth in order for them to attempt to win the White House at any price.

"By acclamation," was a motion placed by New York State Senator Hillary Clinton and that contingency, on the floor of the Democratic national Convention being held in Denver, Colorado. And, with those words, the state delegate counts to nominate came to an expected, pre-arranged halt. And Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL) became the first black man to ever become the Presidential nominee.

Stained through and through by his shameful character, attitude, and policies which still remain unarticulated by this supposedly articulate man. And, it is a signal of what lay ahead for this nation, as Obama flaunts his arrogance in the face of all those who vehemently objected to his nomination to a position for which he is not qualified.

America, I am deeply ashamed for the black people who have not enough sense to realize they have given us less than our best who have pressed for this mess.

Aided and abetted by Senator Clinton, herself, add to that farce the mainstream media that, for reasons known only to them, actually believe they have fostered civil rights by advocating for Obama in the name of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and all those who marched and died for the cause of truth and righteous indignation. Has it occurred to anyone that whenever you have to cheat to win, you start out as a loser?

Now -- on to the Republican Convention and Senator John McCain (R-AZ). I pray the citizens will be able to understand there is no confusion as to who will be the better choice for America to be our President in the White House.

Keep on researching. The truth is out there and it's going to take a heavier dose of it to get through to Americans that Barack Obama's chief weapon is to shut down debate by starting a controversial topic and then blaming those who address it by shamelessly labeling them as the instigators!

America. This nomination represents shameful behavior in the midst of the Shameless!!! The name of Obama shall go down in the annals of American history as the one who pulled the greatest sham of all on America. Worst, yet, Former President Bill Clinton spoke and reminded us why he was named, "Slick Willie" during his eight years in office.

While the dems are accusing the Republican Presidential nominee, Senator John McCain, of becoming the third term of the current President George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and the rest are feverishly advocating for Obama's readiness to occupy the White House based on him operating from the standpoint of his (Clinton's) own pitiful record while he was in office. And, if that wasn't bad enough, Clinton cited a laundry list of all the things he had done in office, which actually helped to turn this nation upside down -- but he attributed those failings he cited and more to the Republicans and, specifically, the current Bush Administration.

I hate liars with a passion. They are deadly and destructive, because they instill distrust and dislike in people and situations that ought to be trusted. And, I would be hardpressed to have to think about going through the next four-to-eight years of Democrat spin and deception. Nothing less than another total Republican upset will do for Election 2008. God grant it to be so.


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A Reminder -- 8-29-2008 - Friday
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"Nothing less than another total Republican upset will do for Election 2008. God grant it to be so." - August 27, 2008. -Rev. L. Dowell, Five-Fold Minister

http://www.voiceink.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-coronation-by-dems.html (And, today, so it begins!)

I am praising and thanking God to the highest for this ray of sunshine! It just feels right! And I'm smiling a whole lot, too, since very early this morning (EST) when Fox News -TV started announcing this totally surprising Election 2008 upset, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), as McCain V.P. Pick! All aboard!

As one newscaster said earlier, "Obama WHO?"

Happy Birthday, Senator John McCain! Welcome aboard, Governor Sarah Palin!

God bless America!

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