Great Christmas songs #3

This was going to be a daily project, posting songs for Christmas. But haha, who am I kidding.

"The Hallelujah Chorus" is such a well-known piece of music, but there are many other choruses in Messiah that I love more. So here are a bunch to listen to.



For Unto Us a Child is Born (the favorite in this house):



All We Like Sheep



And He Shall Purify




Really Messiah should be listened to from start to finish. I used to get a little snoozy in some spots when we'd see it performed live, but that was probably from the lateness of the hour and the wine at dinner.

It is, of course, not a Christmas "story" at all. But this is when we tend to listen.

VDH: "The Messianic Style"

From The Corner: Victor Davis Hanson on Obama's Messianic style.

Individually, the extra-electoral efforts are irrelevant. But in the aggregate, they start to add up. In 1996 Obama goes to court, challenges the petition signatures of mostly African-American voters, and gets all his rivals eliminated from the ballot and so de facto runs unopposed.

In 2004 sealed divorce records were strangely released destroying the chances of his chief Democratic rival Blair Hull; then in the general, lightning again struck, and Republican front-runner Jack Ryan's sealed divorce records were likewise mysteriously released—and he too crashed, in effect, leaving Obama without a serious primary or general election rival.

There's more.