Sinners in the Hands of a Greedy Trial Lawyer
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John Edwards has been talking with Jesus again. Not only have his prayers for more campaign cash been answered, in the form of Ann Coulter at CPAC, but it also turns out that Edwards has been truly clued in to the divine. Move over, Dan Brown. Step aside, Shirley Temple. It’s the Gospel of That Other John.
According to an interview on BeliefNet.com, Edwards had quite the sermon to deliver from the high mountaintop of his own delusions. It seems his faith has come roaring back. Just in time to start pandering to Evangelical Christians.
Read on . . .
“Q) What parts of American life do you think would most outrage Jesus?
“Edwards’ Answer) Our selfishness. Our resort to war when it's not necessary. I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs. I think he would be appalled, actually.”
All of which makes me wonder if Jesus spoke to John Edwards, Esquire tongue-in-cheek. John Edwards voted for that ‘unnecessary war’. John Edwards satiated his own short term-needs by buying a 28,000 square-foot monstrosity of a house.
I think Jesus would tell John Edwards to go forth and find a more talented architect. The place looks like it was designed by William Burroughs in the midst of an angry heroin fix.
For our continued pleasure and amusement, the interview went forward.
Q) “In what ways do you feel God is happiest with you right now?”
Edwards’ Answer) “I think he would be happy with the fact that I have focused on people who live in poverty here and people without healthcare. And the suffering of others in other parts of the world, like some of the work that I've done on humanitarian issues in Africa, for example, and going to the slums outside of Delhi and India.
Focusing on problems in a very personal way that exist, and without regard to my own selfish ambitions, talking about things that may not seem so politically powerful, but are important to me, and I think important to God.”
Personally, I believe God would be even happier with John Edwards if he had paid his Medicare taxes like the poor, suffering masses in that other America. People who utilize tax dodges not to pay healthcare-related taxes are probably not on God’s A-list. This is particularly true, while they are lobbying to tax the rest of us to pay for more government healthcare programs. Edwards should get himself in good enough shape to fit through the eye of a needle.
I doubt Saint Paul wrote any letters to the Corinthians about hypocritical Wal-Mart bashing, but there were certainly Biblical admonitions against casting the first stone. This would particularly apply to someone who bashes Wal-Mart one day and then tries to cut in line there the next to buy his boy a PlayStation. What about that other America, John? They need one too.
So meanwhile, Edwards rakes in the Coulter Cash. Like a moneychanger at the temple, Edwards rolls in his pile of filthy lucre. Perhaps David Kuo of BeliefNet should ask PlayStation Johnny what he thinks of that piece of scripture.
Edward's has most likely spent too much time with his former bloggers. He obviously doesn't know how to use "Jesus speak" when talking about Christianity.
Here are his quotes from the AP story (March 5)
"I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs," Edwards told the site. "I think he would be appalled, actually."
Edwards also said he was against teacher-led prayers in public schools, but he added that "allowing time for children to pray for themselves, to themselves, I think is not only OK, I think it's a good thing."
First, you don't speak of Jesus in the past tense. Doesn't he think Jesus is still around to have a current opinion?
Secondly, When a Christian child is taught to pray it is not "for themselves" and it is not "to themselves". Prayer is an unselfish act when humility is expressed before the Almighty. This is the reason people kneel and bow their heads. Prayer is not meditation. Edwards has a lot of work to do if he wants to fool the Christian voters.
Then I guess Johnnie could never truly pray.
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Jus' warming cakes on the griddle while preaching the homespun virtues.
You can't argue with a guy who makes you want to upchuck!
Kyoto Now! (Because only pollution from the US hurts the planet)
money probably got him better heroin and small boys than it got him the Nob Hill of northern Morocco! Not ready for Architectural Digest!
Also, didn't he send a go-fer laddie to get his play-station at Wal-Mart, not wanting to sully his manicured hands himself in such a Temple of Money-Makers?
This hairdo matches Kerry for follicle-excellence as well as for preaching shallow class-war populism while living high off the hog.
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Is that everything on his list has to do with government. In his perverse world, we're measured by how much we give because Caeser extracts it from us under threat of imprisonment. I will bet my last non-taxable dollar that this is how he justifies his house and not paying Medicare taxes -- it was legal, therefore it is moral. A wonderful journey into the twisted moral sense of a liberal.
He forms an S-Corporation instead. Rendering is for the suc...er I mean the working classes.
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is what Prince John is after. He figures if he can get to Heaven, he'll hardly have any lawyering competition.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
awaits John Edwards in the hereafter. I hope he beings his suntan lotion, it'll be hot where he's going. The boss is a real devil.
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David S
I've come to this sight to try to understand how conservatives think.I hope this thread is not an example of that.
Anyhow,having been raised in a Christian tradition and reading the Bible,I think Mr Edwards has a good point about what Jesus would think about greed and materialism in our culture.it's easy to throw the first stone(seen a lot of that above)but what do you think.
Came to study Conservatives in the Mist, eh?
You'll be on the outside looking in, soon enough I'd wager.
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So libs, how's that Congressional Resolution to end The War™ coming along?
Reconcile your statement with this, or admit that Liberal hypocrisy has once again been exemplified.
Two options - pick one, or go away.
We expect you to walk the walk, as well as talk the talk. Don't give people crap about healthcare while you hide from the Medicare Tax in a tax shelter. Don't call other people greedy, while you live in 28,000 ft^2 home.
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You want to "understand how conservatives think?"
One way we think is logically. That is, a statement like "[Jesus would be outraged by the following parts of American life:] Our selfishness. Our resort to war when it's not necessary. I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs" causes us to first think if the words make any sense. Do they agree with our observations of the real world?
So, in this case, we answer, "No, they don't." Americans are among the most UNselfish people in the modern world. We donate to charities of all kinds, we give immediately to help survivors of disasters thtoughout the world, and some of our taxes are even directed to other countries to help them protect themselves and strive for a better life. So the first and third statements are nonsense.
As for war, only a political partisan would imply that we go to war without necessity. Obviously Edwards is referring to Iraq; equally obviously, he has forgotten the months spent in trying peacefully to get Saddam Hussein to comply with his UN mandates, months which Saddam may have used to move his own war machinery out of Iraq.
And as to "casting the first stone," it seems to me it was Edwards who did that, with his own words.
That's what I think.
Democrats on Iraq: "We don't want to win. We just want to quit."
They just get a vein or an artery with too much pressure and pop.
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