Invoking The Dreaded “R” Word
As in religion. Funny, isn't it? The left never, ever misses an opportunity to bash religion in general, but Christianity with special fervor. But then along comes campaign season.
And their favorite candidates fall all over themselves trying to wrap themselves in religion to appeal to a wider base of voters.
And so we have John Edwards playing a self-righteous and self-serving mockery of "What would Jesus do?". Or in this case, what would Jesus denounce.
While I think it’s universally understood that Jesus would want us to give more of ourselves than some of us do (it says as much in the Bible), where on earth did candidate Edwards get the idea that Jesus “would be” upset with the country’s willingness to go to war [with Iraq] when it’s not necessary”? as if to suggest that Jesus would be anti-Iraq war? Has he had a personal talk with Jesus where Jesus informed only him of his feelings about the Iraq war? Here was my comment at Hot Air:
That’s interesting. If President Bush were to come out tomorrow and say that “Jesus would have wanted this war because it freed people” we’d never hear the end of the screaming from the left that GWB was thisclose to turning this country into a theocracy. There’d be hearings, calls for healing, naked nutroot lefties laying in the street in protest. But John Edwards, politician and trial lawyer, can stand there and say that he knows Jesus would be against this war, with the implication being that for that reason, we shouldn’t have started it, and the usual suspects don’t view that in the same light.
Will their hypocrisy never end?
It astonishes me on a regular basis that the Democrats continue this transparent pandering. Do they honestly think that little of voters? But what's really funny here is the cognitive dissonance it must be causing for their ardent, left-wing supporters. Edwards wanted to keep a blogger on staff who has a rather blatant anti-Christian and especially anti-Catholic set of beliefs, then tries to play to the religious shortly thereafter. Astounding.
