Community Organizer
Honestly, I believe that if a liberal mouthpiece or pundit were to say that the sky is green or that the state of Delaware was in the middle of a desert, a lot of people would be repeating it as gospel the next day, particularly if it could be somehow interpreted to the detriment of one or more conservatives.
I say this because I saw a letter in the paper this morning that ended with "Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor. 'Nuff said." Well, my response to that is "The Mississippi River runs backward." It's equally true, and equally relevant to the current presidential campaign, which is to say, not at all. (The river did in fact run backward for a few days following the New Madrid quake in 1812, so it might even be more true than the first statement.)
The community organizer/governor statement was already making the rounds, attempting to equate Barack Obama to Jesus and Sarah Palin to the Roman procurator who ordered His crucifixion, before Rep. Steve Cohen repeated the statement on the House floor September 10. But it is simply hogwash, and can be true only in the Joseph Goebbels sense of telling it big enough and often enough.
First of all, Roman procurators like Pilate were not democratically elected governors as we know them, but were appointed by the emperor. And whereas Sarah Palin enjoys overwhelming approval in her state, Pilate was popular only with the corrupt local leadership to whom he capitulated. Hmmm, that last part doesn't sound much like Palin, either.
But the more odious comparison is Obama to Jesus. Jesus was, is, and will be many things. In His earthly incarnation alone, he went from miraculous Child of a virgin, to carpenter, to Teacher and Prophet, to Suffering Servant, to Sacrificial Lamb, to Risen Savior, and finally to Ascended King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He was never a community organizer of any kind, let alone the kind that rabble-roused the populace to demand that the government support them at the expense of others.
Jesus called for people to be servants to others and generous givers of their resources, but Obama calls for people to demand to be served and given to. Jesus told a parable in which one talent was confiscated from the lazy servant who refused to do anything with it and was given to the productive servant who turned five talents into ten; Obama calls for confiscating the earned wealth of productive people and redistributing it to people who seem productive only in the sense of fecundity.
In short, the implied comparisons of the oft-repeated statement are illogical, nonsensical, demeaning, and borderline sacrilegious.
And by the way, I'm sure that it is Bush's fault that Delaware is a desert. You know, global warming and all that.
I say this because I saw a letter in the paper this morning that ended with "Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor. 'Nuff said." Well, my response to that is "The Mississippi River runs backward." It's equally true, and equally relevant to the current presidential campaign, which is to say, not at all. (The river did in fact run backward for a few days following the New Madrid quake in 1812, so it might even be more true than the first statement.)
The community organizer/governor statement was already making the rounds, attempting to equate Barack Obama to Jesus and Sarah Palin to the Roman procurator who ordered His crucifixion, before Rep. Steve Cohen repeated the statement on the House floor September 10. But it is simply hogwash, and can be true only in the Joseph Goebbels sense of telling it big enough and often enough.
First of all, Roman procurators like Pilate were not democratically elected governors as we know them, but were appointed by the emperor. And whereas Sarah Palin enjoys overwhelming approval in her state, Pilate was popular only with the corrupt local leadership to whom he capitulated. Hmmm, that last part doesn't sound much like Palin, either.
But the more odious comparison is Obama to Jesus. Jesus was, is, and will be many things. In His earthly incarnation alone, he went from miraculous Child of a virgin, to carpenter, to Teacher and Prophet, to Suffering Servant, to Sacrificial Lamb, to Risen Savior, and finally to Ascended King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He was never a community organizer of any kind, let alone the kind that rabble-roused the populace to demand that the government support them at the expense of others.
Jesus called for people to be servants to others and generous givers of their resources, but Obama calls for people to demand to be served and given to. Jesus told a parable in which one talent was confiscated from the lazy servant who refused to do anything with it and was given to the productive servant who turned five talents into ten; Obama calls for confiscating the earned wealth of productive people and redistributing it to people who seem productive only in the sense of fecundity.
In short, the implied comparisons of the oft-repeated statement are illogical, nonsensical, demeaning, and borderline sacrilegious.
And by the way, I'm sure that it is Bush's fault that Delaware is a desert. You know, global warming and all that.
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