God Tells Pat Robertson America Will Accept Socialism
America is headed for Socialism, and also an economic rebound under Barack Obama. That’s what Pat Robertson says God told him. The preacher told his “700 Club” audience that the stock market will start to rebound by the second quarter.
“I say with humility, I hope I’ve heard the Lord. I spend time praying and asking him for wisdom and if there’s a mistake, it’s not his fault, it’s mine,” Robertson said.
Robertson said on New Year’s Day that “nothing will stand in the way of a plan by Obama to restructure the economy in the same fashion as the New Deal in the ’30s,” according to videotaped comments aired on Friday’s show.
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Robertson said on Friday that with a New Deal-style initiative, “you’re federalizing many of the things you’re doing. And it’ll be the largest transfer of power to Washington since the ’30s, but people are just willing to accept it because the pain has been so bad.”
Hey, don’t laugh. His predictions for 2008 were that oil would hit $150 a barrel (it got up to $147 last summer) and that gold would hit $1000 an ounce, which it did in March. He predicted a stock market crash, a recession and more world violence and chaos (okay, the last one was easy).
On Friday, Robertson said God told him Islam was losing its grip on Muslims repelled by the violence and bloodshed of a “religion of hate.”
He also said Russia would create a multinational coalition to gain control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.
I wouldn’t bet against Pat Robertson.
Poor Reverend Pat…he must have eaten some bad cheese or something.
Perhaps he can write a new Revelations, with a happier ending for the rest of us…
January 5th, 2009 at 12:35 am
I’m sorry but Pat Robertson is a nut case.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:37 am
wow his predictions are impressive… Pat I want the lotto numbers for the powerball.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Sad, his shotgun accuracy last year only justifies his continued use of fear as a tool to motivate his followers.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:34 am
He is such a scam artist. Either that or the OOIDA and economist also had a direct line to God regarding the 2nd. quarter. I’d go with the Astronomer’s Prediction first. Those who use people of faith to scam them really irk me! I believe some people are gifted, just not Pat Robertson.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Thank you, Pat. I have to return to Earth now.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:57 am
You know does anyone still take this guy seriously? I mean I can understand if Christians think God is ‘giving them a message’ when something coincidental happens after a prayer but actually ‘talking’ to him.. at that stage you’ve moved from the faithful to the outright delusional.
If he’s not completely insane then I agree with the scam artist comment, I’d put him up there with the ‘mediums’ whom can speak to ‘the other side’..
January 5th, 2009 at 3:44 am
I will treat this story like an f5 tornado ?
just a whole lot of wind and garbage ! now go AWAY pat
January 5th, 2009 at 5:00 am
Oh boy,a nut case preacher using GOD and they should tax his comments as well.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:08 am
If putting the working class families ahead of the rich and filthy rich is socialism, I’m all for it.
Robertson doesn’t need God to tell him how long the vast majority of Americans have been getting the short end of the stick.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Robertson is filthy rich and doesn,t realize that this country has seen the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of this country. To the rich at that.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Why doesn’t God tell him where Osama bin Ladin and Ayman Al Zawahiri are???
January 5th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Come on guys, give him a break. He is fallable just as you or I. Remember they laughed at the Wright brothers. I am not saying that I agree with him, but God does talk to you if you would just listen. I’m serious.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Hahahahe,it,s hard to give him a break. Atleast he is trying.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Old,
God isn’t a magic 8 ball. He tells us what we need, not what we want.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Willy:
Texas 41, Ohio State 14
Sincerely,
Pat
January 5th, 2009 at 10:11 am
NO PFKAM, Buckeyes 41 prime rib 14.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Doesn’t matter, Steve. The only game that matters is on Thursday.
GO GATORS!
January 5th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Gtaors should win. Only USC can match them. The Ole Miss win over Tech sent singles to me. Utah,s win over Bama was more convincing than the Gators win over them. I wouldn,t be shocked seing a split title. The BCS is far worst than liberaland where cons,libs and independents fuss at 1 another 24/7 and thank God for free speach and sports.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Utah beat a ‘Bama team that was without their best player and still devastated from the SEC championship whoopin’.
Five best teams in the country:
1. Eagles
2. Ravens
3. Steelers
4. Giants
5. Gators
January 5th, 2009 at 10:43 am
The titans and colts are not on your list
January 5th, 2009 at 10:58 am
The Bungels and Reds. I guess i love losing teams.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:59 am
I feel ya Steve…. Cardinals (baseball) and well im old school with my big red (football) ive talked with my arizona friends and they dont mind me rooting for THEIR team.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Blissful:
Colts got bounced out on Saturday. But Good News…here’s something we can probably agree on:
Tony Dungy is the classiest coach to ever stand on a sideline.
TaDaaa!
January 5th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I would bet against him. Google Stupid Pat Robertson Quotes.
Here’s a few to get started.
“Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up” –Pat Robertson, on nuking the State Department
“Wait a minute, I didn’t say ‘assassination.’ I said our special forces should ‘take him out,’ and ‘take him out’ can be a number of things, including kidnapping.” –Pat Robertson, clarifying his call to assassinate Hugo Chavez
“Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.” –Pat Robertson
January 5th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Those are precious!
Thanks, 4more.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
“”(In 2008) We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world”"
Whew, thanks Pat, just in time!
January 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Didn’t Pat Robertson agree with Jerry Falwell that the gays were responsible for 9/11? Why hasn’t Bush gone after the gays instead of attacking Iraq.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
John,
He meant L.A. was going to win the world series… and they did win the division. Nobody’s perfect.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
TDRO: Here’s the transcript:
Falwell: “…I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America…I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen.”
Robertson: “I totally concur…”
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/f/falwell-robertson-wtc.htm
It’s their right to disagree with the various groups named. But it’s despicable to blame other Americans for the crimes against humanity on 9/11. I guess these two held me to blame for being an ACLU member.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
” I guess these two held me to blame for being an ACLU member.”
Posted by The Liberal Curmudgeon
I wouldn’t take what those two clowns have to say. They usually talk out of their ass.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
The BCS needs to be scrapped. They need to find a better way to select a national champion.
I am a die hard here:
1-Buckeyes
2-Browns
3-Indians
4-Cavs
Hey PFKAM, you know why the Steeler emblem is only on one side of their helmets?
January 5th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
“”Didn’t Pat Robertson agree with Jerry Falwell that the gays were responsible for 9/11? Why hasn’t Bush gone after the gays instead of attacking Iraq.”"
That’s actually kinda funny :-)
Although sad when you think that either way he would be wrong. Iraq didn’t have anything to do with it.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
“Gays responsible for 911.” Guess I missed that one. I could have sworn that Clinton’s BJ was responsible for 911.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Willy:
On the Steelers helmet, what’s the deal?
January 5th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Please know that not all Christians subscribe to televangelist propaganda and that’s what this is – a bunch of malarky. He can’t predict the future anymore than I could win Miss America.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
PFKAM,
The reason that the Steelers emblem is only on one side of their helmets is so that they can tell their left side from their right. That way they know which way to run on particular plays.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
You know, I rather enjoy reading the posts about sports. They are rather pleasant. PFKAM, I’m with you….Go Gators!! My poor Dolphins bit it yesterday! And yes, Tony Dungie is a class act.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
“”Please know that not all Christians subscribe to televangelist propaganda and that’s what this is – a bunch of malarky.”‘
Nice to hear. Good point, Rise’..
There is nothing wrong with following the teachings of the Christ without all the biblical hooey as well…
It’s a great book(s)…but it’s time to put it up on the shelf for a while next to the Iliad, chaucer and Shakespeare, and start practicing what’s been preached!
cheers
j
January 5th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
“I could have sworn that Clinton’s BJ was responsible for 911.”
No, it was Clinton’s BJ that caused the current recession. the tanking economy and the housing crisis.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Well actually TDRO, Clinton is responsible for the housing crisis. He did have a little something to do with deregulation of the banks.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
he had more than a little to do with it. He, frank and dodd.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Blissful~ I know he had more then a little to do with it, I was being sarcastic, trying to any way. Oh well.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Hey GET:
Thanks for the shout out.
Yes. Sports are a great diversion. You can only argue politics so long… check that… some of these posters can go 24/7.
Fins had a great season and I knew they would as soon as Parcells left us in Dallas. Are you from Miami?
January 5th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
God told Pat Robertson the world was coming to an end in 1982. This guy is certifiably insane.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Too bad god didn’t save Robertson’s diamond mines in Zaire – you would think the divine spaceman would have told his humble servant that kidnapped pre-teen children scraping with their hands for diamonds just isn’t a great way to make money. Still Pat is Christ so it doesn’t matter does it?
January 5th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Yeah, God must have told Robertson to support his good buddy Chuck Taylor in Liberia.
Funny how you have to apparently insane to decipher the word of God. I am not sure what that says about either Pat or God.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
“Well actually TDRO, Clinton is responsible for the housing crisis. He did have a little something to do with deregulation of the banks.”
Posted by GET
Yes, we know, GET. Blissful reminds us daily that Clinton is responsible for everything bad and Bush is responsible for everything good.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
“Well actually TDRO, Clinton is responsible for the housing crisis. He did have a little something to do with deregulation of the banks.”
Posted by GET
Only Clinton? Bush had nothing to do with the housing crisis? Let’s look at the record:
“One of the larger obstacles to minority home ownership is financing. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have committed to provide more money for lenders, they’ve committed to meet the shortage of capital available for minority home buyers…”
-George W. Bush, 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW9viaJatpo
“We can put light where there’s darkness, and hope where there’s despondency in this country. And part of it is working together as a nation to encourage folks to own their own home.” — George W. Bush, 2002
“[Bush] pushed hard to expand homeownership, especially among minorities, an initiative that dovetailed with his ambition to expand the Republican tent — and with the business interests of some of his biggest donors. But his housing policies and hands-off approach to regulation encouraged lax lending standards.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/21admin.html?scp=5&sq=bush%20housing%20crisis&st=cse
January 6th, 2009 at 12:36 am
You’re both right, Clinton encouraged Freddie and Fannie to get more low income people into homes late in his term. So did Bush, for political reasons.
Democrats in congress had a hand in it too, killing efforts to tighten up regulatory pressure on Freddie and Fannie while Republicans stripped out protections against Fannie May securitizing “predatory” loans.
Add in some good ol’ Wall Street greed, lax market regulation courtesy of a Republican administration that has done it’s damnedest to wreck the regulatory and bureaucratic framework of the government and the housing bubble finally bursting after YEARS of the Fed and the SEC getting it wrong in regulation and interest rates… and you have one hell of a powder keg for economic ruin.
This is a crisis born from everyone sticking to their ideological guns, and playing politics… instead of asserting some common sense.
Some reading I’ve done recently that’s helped me understand the back drop for the crisis: “Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve” by William Fleckenstein, “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” by Thomas Frank… even Dick Morris has a few decent points in “Outrage” and “Fleeced” (despite me not being a huge fan of Morris).
January 6th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Pat is right. America will accept socialism if it is imposed upon us one little piece at a time. Government looks for any little reason to snatch away a little piece of freedom. A little piece here, a little piece there and before you know it we will become a socialist nation, with government controlling a very big chunk of our lives. This is becoming a very bad situation.
Socialism has never worked any where. It won’t work here. Man was created to be free. Socialism is just a step away from a totalitarian dictatorship. Just look at Hitler and how he gained control of the Germans.
Do we really want this in America? People better wake up and stop this overreaching by our federal government before it is to late.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am
~PFKAM – Grew up in Ft.Lauderdale, have been and always be a Miami fan. And sometimes that is a tall order. lol
TDRO- I’m simply saying that you can’t blame Bush for every wrong in the world.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
None of you have the faintest clue as to what socialism is. Just talk when you know your subject.
England is socialist – where is the failure? Most European countries are democratic socialist countries, doing a heck of a lot better than the USA, despite writing your own PR.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Hey GET:
I haven’t seen you on here before yesterday. Welcome to Liberaland if that’s in order. Hope you stick around. Most of the conservatives give up on us after a while (LOL).
I’m from Clearwater and still go back on business every quarter or so. I don’t think I’m allowed back to Ft. Lauderdale since Spring Break of ‘86… but that’s another story.
Keep posting,
Mark
January 6th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Most European countries are democratic socialist countries, doing a heck of a lot better than the USA
Yea, Europe is more socialist than the US, and some European countries are doing better in some things than the US is (especially education and health care). I’m pretty fond of the US standards of living in the US as compared to what I have seen in Europe, however.
Where are you from, Faith?
January 6th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
It’s certainly sad to see the ignorance on Socialism and the ignorance regarding ’socialized healthcare’ where its viewed somehow as a failed system despite those making the judgement having no experience of said system and usually taking facts out of context.
As someone whom has experienced both Socialist government and non-Socialist government as well as socialist and non-socialist healthcare, I’m undecided
on which government system is better as a whole but I’m
firmly decided that on balance, socialized healthcare is a much more efficient, fairer and effective system.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I read a post from someone (Willy, I think it was you)on another thread and now I can’t find it, but it basically iterated that “socialism” is not what our founding fathers had in mind (or words to that effect).
Up until now I would have said I completely agree with statement. Now, I don’t claim to be an intellectual on anything – especially on political ideology but I have been trying to educate myself on just what our founding fathers really stood for.
Did you know that George Washington himself supported expansive federal powers, assumption of state debts AND (I almost choked)… a national bank!
So… I’m just wondering, wouldn’t that have been considered “socialism” by today’s term?
January 6th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I don’t care what You call Yourself—a liberal, a conservative, a Democrat,or a Republican, People don’t look to the gov. to fix everything because it’s not going to happen! My New Years resolution is to try to reach out to Someone that really needs help,and You dont have to look far to find someone. They could be living right next door.
Happy New Year Everybody!
R J
January 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
“”I read a post from someone (Willy, I think it was you)on another thread and now I can’t find it,”"
Yes, Alan needs an index of older thread topics, like on the Ebay fightin’ boards!
January 6th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Hey Frosty:
I left you a love note on the other thread.
Mark
January 6th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Alan needs an index of older threads, like on the Ebay boards.
There, you can flag threads you’ve posted in, and if there’s a reply from anyone else it indicates it in the list., although i guess most aren’t, lol
Some topics are worth revisiting, although I guess most aren’t, lol
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