You know the one: Jesus was a community organizer an Pilate was a Governor. The left, now from the floor of the House, is comparing Barack Obama to Jesus and Sarah Palin to Pontius Pilate. Do they really want to go there?
Christ knew when life began and Pontius Pilate thought the issue above his pay grade.
Of course the left, which has rejected Christ for the One, probably does not know that, so they think it works for them.
What’s even more interesting though is that even Barack Obama has never been able to explain what a community organizer does. Well now we know. A community organizer saves men’s souls, delivering them to eternal life.
Who knew?
How long before the lefties throw off their change rings and replace them with WWOD bracelets?
See Jeff’s post for the video ofCongressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) repeated the growing lefty meme from the floor of the House today.
First they compare Sarah Palin to a pig. Now they compare her to the man who sent Christ to his death.
Daniel Horowitz
Neil Stevens
Steve Maley
Jake Walker
Liberals
Maggie_in_Indiana (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 12:18PM EST (link)reference the bible only when it suits their agenda. And then only in paraphrasing.
On the floor this uncalled for and I hope someone said so.
Maggie in Indiana
What in Gods Name are the
PaRep (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 12:51PM EST (link)Democrats doing???
Their Internal Polling must be HORRIFIC to go this NUTS !!!!!
Jesus
ProudRedStater Wednesday, September 10th at 12:53PM EST (link)Jesus used more than just words. He used actions. He also endured torture for a cause greater than himself.
McCain/Palin ’08
Here is the big problem with
blueteapot Wednesday, September 10th at 12:56PM EST (link)the “Jesus was a community organizer” meme.
Community Organizers are about showing folks how to GET….
Jesus said GIVE…
“give unto Cesears what is Cesears”, “go and give all you have to the poor”, “if they ask for your clock, give them your shirt as well”.
WDJD? (What DID Jesus DO?) Give….
Anyone notice Obama’s charitable giving records? Not much giving going on there…
A random thought on dogwhistles.
birdmojo (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 1:00PM EST (link)You know… when people say this but there is a really hateful message in there (or red meat) for the wicked base that the swing voters just won’t hear… and, more importantly, has much plausible deniability.
So people can say “what, you thought that when he said X, he was really talking about Y? That’s insane.”
In recent memory, you could swap “State’s Rights” for X and “Separate Water Fountains” for Y.
Anyway, the whole “lipstick on a pig” is an example of this. It’s red meat for the base (hey, he’s fighting back!!! WOOO!!!) while, at the same time, plausably deniable (hey, I have video of Cheney talking about putting lipstick on a pig, Bush using the phrase, Trent Lott using the phrase, and RONALD REAGAN HIMSELF USING THE PHRASE!!!! Are you telling me that Reagan was sexist?) and people can hammer out whether he really meant THIS or THAT when he said what he did.
The Pilate/Jesus thing?
That strikes me as much less fertile ground upon which to have this particular fight.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. –Voltaire
Erick, Pilate also voted "present."
MCM (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 1:04PM EST (link)And was personally opposed to Christ’s crucifixion – washing his hands of it and all. But far be it from him to impose that judgment on the people. He deferred to their right to choose (Christ or Barnabus).
this is just stupid
streiff (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 1:12PM EST (link)really, profoundly stupid. Not just run of the mill stupid.
Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” was clearly a dig at her convention statement about the difference between hockey mom and a pitbull being the lipstick lipstick. That is the sexist angle. He’s clearly calling her a pig. He knows it. The crowd knows it.
In the other instances people are talking about projects and programs. There is not a single instance you pointed to where the inference is to a person.
If you aren’t bright enough to figure that out you really should go somewhere else. But since I’m pretty sure you are smarter than that and just think it’s cute to flog this particular lefty talking point to your own ends I’d suggest you go use it on people who will be really amused by it.
I’m not.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
Completely misread my post.
birdmojo (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 1:22PM EST (link)I was not saying that the “lipstick on a pig” thing was not a dogwhistle.
The wacky thing about dogwhistles is that one can never know whether a dogwhistle really was a dogwhistle or not. That’s where the plausible deniability comes in… but, interestingly enough, where the “Dude, he was REALLY saying this other thing here” comes from.
And thus you can have arguments over the semiotics of the statement. What was said, what was signaled, what was intended to be heard by one audience, what was intended to be heard by yet another, so on and so forth.
What I am saying is that the lipstick on a pig statement is a much richer mine for this particular fight than the Jesus/Pilate thing. There were a lot of signals in that statement and the discussion of what was received vs. what was sent WILL REAP BENEFITS (for Republicans) AMONG SWING VOTERS while, at the same time, will fire up the base.
The Jesus/Pilate thing?
Not so much.
Do you really think that me saying “dude, you should hammer THIS because it’ll help but not THAT because it won’t” is an example of a (let me cut and paste this) “lefty talking point”?
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. –Voltaire
Yes! He voted "present"
rguyshipe Wednesday, September 10th at 1:25PM EST (link)From John 19:6: “As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, ‘Crucify! Crucify!’ But Pilate answered, ‘You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.’”
Who's the real pig?
NotARobot Wednesday, September 10th at 1:27PM EST (link)Senator Obama did not refer to Sarah Palin as a pig. That’s just a another lie manufactures by the “leftist” media, right-wing blogs, and McCain’s spokeman Brian Rogers. Obama was actually referring to McCain’s policies, which echo Bush’s issue by issue. His actual quote on Tuesday:
“John McCain says he’s about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out George Bush — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics — we’re really going to shake things up in Washington,’ That’s not change. That’s just calling something the same thing something different. You know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You know you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it’s still going to stink after eight years. We’ve had enough of the same old thing.”
Senator McCain also used the phrase in Iowa last year to discuss Hillary Clinton’s current health care plan and the one she championed in 1993: “I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it’s still a pig.”
The phrase has been used repeatedly by both candidates, but only McCain’s party lied about how it was used in an attempt to pull focus from the real issues we face right now…
…our failing economy, our reliance on oil & the cost of gas, health care for every American, education & basic infrastructure support in America.
When will McCain and Palin stop spreading lies, pulling focus with personalities and start talking about the issues?
Not until it stops making you guys squirm
Bill S (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 1:32PM EST (link)It is a blast to see you Obamabots squeal and gyrate about how horrid we are. Sucks to be on the other side, doesn’t it? As a Dem said somewhere in the last few days: “We’re on defense – we don’t do well on defense.” Amen to that.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
"NotARobot"
MCM (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 1:36PM EST (link)That’s exactly what the robots would have us believe…
Translation: "The Scary Woman frightens me."
Moe Lane (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 1:40PM EST (link)“Make her go away.”
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But Pilate won
Michael Schuyler (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 1:42PM EST (link)Jesus was a Community Organizer and Pilate was a Governor. The thing is, Pilate won. It took 300 years before Christianity took hold somewhere else, and that was a politically expedient accident on the part of Constantinople, the pagan who was most responsible for the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire. (The Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantium lasted another 1,000 years.)
Yes, Obama DID call Palin a pig. He can ooze out of it on a technicality, but there’s no doubt he used the metaphor she started and tried to fling it back at her. Stupid, stupid man. Just let him keep talking.
Those who do not read good books have no advantage over those who cannot read them — Mark Twain
I'm sorry, but
redheaded_texan Wednesday, September 10th at 1:47PM EST (link)comparing Barry to Jesus Christ is BLASPHEMY. I’m appalled.
“John McCain can’t get me to vote for him, but the prospect of an Obama Presidency can.” ~Thomas Sowell
was Jesus a community organizer?
Ausquad Wednesday, September 10th at 1:52PM EST (link)I thought that the Pharacies were community organizers and Jesus was more of a maverick.
This blog should be at the top of the page.
Wintergreen (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 2:02PM EST (link)In defense of Obama though, it actually fits.
Don’t you people remember when Jesus said, “Thou shalt abandon babies in linen closets to die?”
Jesus Knew When Life Began?
pac_NY (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 2:04PM EST (link)This is not the Jesus Obama knew.
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. -Psalm 104:32
"Take heed that ye harm not one of these little ones"
kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 2:13PM EST (link)for it would be better that a millstone be tied around your neck and ye be cast into the sea.”
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
I must take better care of my Bibles.
Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 2:36PM EST (link)Perhaps buy some new ones for reserve because if this sort of thing continues on the left, our Bibles will be rewritten just like the history books have been. I don’t remember the history that’s being taught today as what I learned in school. I don’t remember the story of Jesus and Pilate as Cohen depicted.
It all smacks of a huge rewrite on the horizon.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
You know those "Jesus was a liberal" stickers and whatnot?
jarrod21 Wednesday, September 10th at 4:52PM EST (link)I suppose it’s just a good thing his unwed, pregnant, teenage mom wasn’t.
You know those "Jesus was a liberal" stickers and whatnot?
jarrod21 Wednesday, September 10th at 4:58PM EST (link)I suppose it’s just a good thing his unwed, pregnant, teenage mom wasn’t.
Lucifer was a community organizer
DonS Wednesday, September 10th at 4:59PM EST (link)LGF has this link.
Given that, I’d argue that Lucifer was the first community organizer.
Lucifer was a community organizer
DonS Wednesday, September 10th at 5:00PM EST (link)LGF has this link.
Given that, I’d argue that Lucifer was the first community organizer.
Lie?
DonS Wednesday, September 10th at 5:04PM EST (link)I saw the video.
While technically he didn’t call Palin a pig, the implication was clear. The audience “got it”. He smirked.
Got it?
NotARobot Wednesday, September 10th at 5:16PM EST (link)Your powers of mind and body language reading are astounding. I always thought that when someone says or means something and then someone else claims that he or she said or meant something otherwise that it’s called a LIE.
So tell me … what does McCain REALLY mean when he claims to be a Maverick for change in Washington? Where do McCain & Palin’s policies differ from the failures of the last 8 years?
I've done this in several places...but I'll do it here anyway...
AceInTX (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 5:18PM EST (link)“I know Jesus Christ, Jesus is a friend of mine….Congressman…Obama is no Jesus Christ!
Now Congressman Cohen…can we leave my Lord and Savior out of this discussion and stop trying to elevate the Golden Child to his status?
55555....not enough 5's to express my solidarity with your way of handling this......;^)....n/t
Attack Mode (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 5:30PM EST (link)n/t
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
What it means is...
Bill S (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 5:34PM EST (link)…we’ll do anything necessary to kick your guy’s azz. We really don’t care what you think. This is a war (something that you on the Left aren’t too familiar with, except when you’re running away from it).
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
I suppose you would make the same argument if McCain did something similar
AceInTX (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 5:37PM EST (link)about Hillary? or Michelle?
Excuse me if I don’t believe that…but I don’t!
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BS Indeed
NotARobot Wednesday, September 10th at 5:45PM EST (link)So you admit that the party of “morality” will once again LIE it’s way to the White House? I am honestly more sad than scared. I thought our country was better than that. I don’t need to prove my machismo with victory. I just want America to prosper under some real leaders.
I loathe passive-aggressive insults, NotARobot.
Moe Lane (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 5:55PM EST (link)Please apologize to BS now for the machismo crack.
Thanks in advance.
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The Dems must mean a different Jesus...
furious (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 9:03PM EST (link)…than the one I snoozed through Sunday School hearing about:
Mark 9:36-37 – Then He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, “Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.”
…you know, that anti-matter-upside-down-Spock-with-a-goatee-universe Jesus who defended infanticide, compared babies to sexually-transmitted diseases, and considered them a punishment.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
The Dems must mean a different Jesus...
furious (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 9:08PM EST (link)…than the one I snoozed through Sunday School hearing about:
Mark 9:36-37 – Then He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, “Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.”
…you know, that anti-matter-upside-down-Spock-with-a-goatee-universe Jesus who defended infanticide, compared babies to sexually-transmitted diseases, and considered them a punishment.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
The Dems must mean a different Jesus...
furious (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 9:26PM EST (link)…than the one I snoozed through Sunday School hearing about:
Mark 9:36-37 - Then He took a little child and set him in the midst of them. And when He had taken him in His arms, He said to them, “Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.”
…you know, that anti-matter-upside-down-Spock-with-a-goatee-universe Jesus who defended infanticide, compared babies to sexually-transmitted diseases, and considered them a punishment.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
sorry for the 3x posting, I'll log myself off...
furious (Diary) Wednesday, September 10th at 9:32PM EST (link)…now.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader