The Accuracy of Mormon History

[_MCB]

With the political clout and power he will then have, I would not be surprised to find that the LDS leadership proves to be more deferential to him than he to them.

Well, if he had the courage to clean up corruption in the SLC Olympics, maybe....

[_Dcharle]

what is the grease spot prophecy?

Here is the prophecy:
"While discussing the petition to Congress, I prophesied, by virtue of the holy Priesthood vested in me, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that, if Congress will not hear our petition and grant us protection, they shall be broken up as a government, and god shall damn them. And there shall nothing be left of them - not even a grease spot." (Millennial Star, v.29, p.455)

And here is the explanation for the failed prophecy:

"This prediction doubtless has reference to the party in power; to the "government" considered as the administration; not to the "government" considered as the country; but the administration party, the Democratic Party, which had controlled the destiny of the country for forty years. It is matter of history that few years later the party then in power lost control of the national government, followed by the terrible conflict of the Civil war. The Party against which the above prediction was made so far lost its influence that it did not again return to power for a quarter of a century; and when it did return to power it was with such modified views as to many great questions of government, that it could scarcely be regarded as the same party except in name." (History of the Church, Vol. VI p. 116)

So the question, is being voted out of office the same as becoming a "grease spot"'?