Posted on 12/24/2004 8:21:47 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
President Bush has implemented economic policies that resemble those of the Roman Empire, which forced the baby Jesus into homelessness on the night of his birth, former civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a pre-Christmas rant late Thursday.
"In the last [Bush] budget, we cut housing again, and that was Jesus' dilemma. In Bethlehem, his family ended up homeless," Jackson told MSNBC's Campbell Brown.
"Rome was a wealthy country that left Jesus and Mary and Joseph, in a sense, homeless," he complained. "He was born an at-risk baby."
The GOP bashing Democrat said that while Bush's reelection campaign had been successful in "marketing the language of religious values," the Bush White House isn't practicing what it preaches.
Jackson charged that under Bush's policies, the U.S. "appears to be indifferent toward the poor as we seek tax cuts and no-bid contracts for the wealthy; as we engage in wars of choice - driving our nation into isolation."
"Today we are celebrating the wealthy and war, not the poor and peace," he contended, while urging the Bush administration to "restore the Lyndon Baines Johnson vision where we wipe out poverty - not wipe out the poor."
Jesse Jackson would have tried to extort $$ from Jesus. I'm not so sure he's not trying that now on some level.
What a dumbass. Jesus's home was/is Heaven. He left it voluntarily to cleanse even idiots like Jesse Jackson of his sins.
Can't we somehow get rid of this guy? He's a waste of good skin.
Jesse would have had Jesus aborted with tax-payer funding.
If you're not a good liberal, you're heartless and cruel. Like I want to see the poor suffer and children starve. Hey Jesse, its a view that's sadly out of date.
Bump that! Right in the ten-ring.
Dan
what can ya say about someone who has made his contribution to society by birthing babies out of wedlock and lived off the generosity of others thru extortion and lies?
now he 'almost' has to beg for media coverage.
Oh how the mighty in their own minds have fallen.
Je$$e,, yur mealticket sailed long ago and left you and the rest of the rats back at the wharf.. get used to it.
More likely he'd have offered to provide Mary with a state funded abortion.
"In the last [Bush] budget, we cut housing again, and that was Jesus' dilemma. In Bethlehem, his family ended up homeless,"
Dumbass.
It was meant to show Christ's humility. It was planned to occur that way by our Sovereign Lord...it had nothing to do with housing.
What a cheap, pathetic shill to use such a blatantly inaccurate tactic.
What supreme and utter nonsense. Jesus wasn't "homeless." And the government was more like the Democrats, imposing a burdensome requirement that everyone go to their city of origin to be taxed. But for the taxation, Jesus would have been born in his parents' home. Joseph and Mary wouldn't have been forced onto the road, looking for space at an inn.
Jackson is a moron. He's always using big words that he obviously doesn't understand. He apparently doesn't know much about the Bible, either. If he were white, he would have been laughed off the national stage a long time ago.
Would the Three Wise Dogs had the bling?
Liberals like Jesse would have had him aborted for the sake of the mother.
Right, wasn't Joseph on his way to pay his taxes? Wasn't Joseph's family sort of well-to-do?
Despite the lofty gaols and the transfer of trillions of dollars, the poverty rate remains about the same. Time to try a different track Jesse?
No doubt.
Jesse Jackson is the biggest joke around. If there were anyone who cared about him [family-wise], they would shut him up. He's just a clown, and he's the only one who doesn't know it.
Then let's put Mary on WIC and problem solved.
Je$$e Jack$son would have crucified Jesus for being moral and Jewish and poor.
Sounds more like the Romans were DemocRATs.
Even though Jesus didn't have all the benefits of Jesse ( mansions, limosines, bastard children, grifting), Christ still did pretty well for himself.
Okay, I will proudly step up for all the brain-challenged and say.... uhh, what is "WIC"?
Dan
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Not being able to find a hotel room is now homeless?
Maybe JJ should read Matthew 2.
After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
irrev Jesse "Hymietown NYC" Jackson = racist, criminal, poverty-pimp, lib-dem garbage.
The Reverend Jackson hasn't read the Bible lately. They were not homeless, they were travelling, and would have stayed in the Inn except for the fact it was full.
This is really beyond the pail for someone who claims to be a man of the cloth.
Jesus wasn't homeless. His parents didn't have a reservation at the inn. And the only reason the family was in Bethlehem is because Joseph had to leave where he was and go to where he was born in order to pay taxes.
Sounds like a liberal tax plan - force tax payments and more expenses just to get the money to the tax man.
The hopeful news is that fewer and fewer folks and, most especially, increasingly fewer black folks pay any attention to this moronic gasbag, but, as usual, politicians and corporate directors are the last to catch on. That's especially true for the media people, so we'll hear from this buffoon until the laughter finally grows loud enough for the "elite" to figure it out.
Were you here back during 2000 when Hillary said that Mary and Joseph were homeless and unwed?
Jackson must be feeling a pinch since he has to cough up for his out of wedlock child.
Bump!
Supplemental food program for Women, Infants, and Children.
It only shows the void in his soul. The moniker "Reverend" is only to fool those who he pretends to crusade for.
If Jesse Jackson had been Judas, he never would have hung himself.
Just a question, does anyone listen to him anymore or does he just say whatever the highest bidder pays?
State funded program to provide food stamps and other goodies to the above. Badly abused.
Exactly, Jesse is an A**.
Amen, brother! Can I hear an Amen?
All I want for Christmas (wael, maybe I do want a little more) is for the irreverent reverend Jackson to enjoy at taxpayers expense a full IRS tax audit and a summons from a federal grand jury. Come on, Santa, deliver it up!
Je$$e Jack$on is using the name of Jesus to line is own pockets....
Nothing new here.........
It's the Women with Infant Children program...or something like that. Supposedly designed to help poor women who have children, and I'm sure in many cases it does for those who are honest on it, but by my observation it is largely a cigarette-buying welfare program.
What makes you think he's paying? It's clearly the states problem and if they're short of funds the mother can shoulder the burden. Heck just make the little squirt eat dog food. That's the republican way.
Are you sure Jeese was refering to the president and not one of his on hand skeezers or perhaps a bastard child?
What a Clymer!!
I thought that was Gore...but whoever it was, yes, now that you mention it, I do remember someone saying something to that effect.
WIC = Women, Infants and Children. It's the gubbmint program for free food.
Biblical prophesy dictates that the Massiah would be born in Bethlehem. Shows you how much time Jessie spends reading his Bible, NONE.
That is what happens when you can make up the title of reverend and anyone can call themselves one without actually working for years to EARN the title.He says some amazing things but this one has to be at the top of the list.
Imagine living in a society where the king can make a woman about to give birth walk for miles just to be counted and then have to worry about all your newborn babies being murdered because the king is worried that said baby will take over the Kingdom.
To register for taxation, yes.
Wasn't Joseph's family sort of well-to-do?
The Gospel is not explicit on that question, but there are hints. First, Joseph was "of the house of David," which means his extended family was hot stuff, even if he was (as it were) from the hillbilly branch.
Second, St. Luke tells us that the sacrifice they offered for their purification was "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." In Leviticus, the sacrifice prescribed is a lamb; the birds are an alternative for those "too poor to afford a lamb." So we know Mary and Joseph were short of cash, at least at that time (40 days after Jesus' birth.)
Finally, in Luke 2, we learn that "His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover." Obviously, this required some financial resources, and probably well-off relatives in Jerusalem with whom they would board during the feast. The overall picture is of reasonably well off working people, with fancy relatives.
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