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Posted on 11/02/2011 5:29:14 PM PDT by rjsclassics
President Barack Obama Wednesday said even God wanted to put Americans back to work, invoking divine blessing for his joust with Republicans over measures designed to slice into high unemployment.
Obama also taunted his foes with historic arguments in favor of repairing vital infrastructure once made by conservative icon Ronald Reagan, as he stumped for a $60 billion infrastructure bill being taken up by the Senate.
The president rebuked the House of Representatives for passing a bill reaffirming the US motto "In God We Trust" rather than getting to work on his stalled $447 billion jobs program.
"That's not putting people back to work. I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work," the president said.
Obama's spokesman Jay Carney denied that Obama had perhaps gone too far by dragging the Almighty into a fierce political spat.
"I believe that the phrase from the Bible is 'the Lord helps those who help themselves,'" Carney said.
"I think the point the president is making is that, you know, we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people."
The White House was later forced to clarify however that the phrase Carney used, though often mistaken for scripture, was not in fact biblical.
Obama ruffled Republican feathers with his remarks as he appeared in front of a commuter bridge between Washington DC and Virginia, which is in need of repairs, to call on Republicans to back a $60 billion jobs and infrastructure bill.
"There's no good reason to oppose this bill, not one. And members of Congress who do, who vote no, are going to have to explain why to their constituencies," Obama said.
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Having been a member of Jeremiah Wright’s church, the Food Stamp President is tempting fate by invoking God’s name. I can just imagine a crispy critter standing behind a teleprompter.
Holy Cow. I he talking about himself again. We all know he thinks he is god. Does this mean he has begun talking about himself in the 3rd person?
Jobs plan? Job didn’t have a plan. He was minding his own business and his children were slaughtered in one day. Job lost all of his wealth in one day. Then Job was struck from head to toe with boils. What made you think he had a plan? But God restored him other children and more wealth later after he repented of think his own goodness would merit favor with the Almighty. But I don’t think he had a plan.
nobama has done nasty things.
nobama has done illegal things.
nobama has done unconstitutional things.
nobama has done arrogant things.
But until now he has never called down blasphemy upon himself. Good luck nobama. God is not mocked.
You can scream and yell and mock God all you want, the pubbies aren’t gonna do nuthin’ about your crony phoney jobs bill. Get used to it.
Correct ‘the Lord helps those who help themselves,’” Carney said. This statement doesn’t come from out of the Bible. It’s a Roman Catholic school training lesson.
Other than the fact this lying ballsack said the first $800 billion was for "shovel ready" jobs. More like payoffs for the Democrat Party.
barqy is mocking the creator.
NOT a smart move, there baraq.
And where are all the separation of church and state whiners?
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