Jesse Jackson: Bush Would Have Left Jesus Homeless

NewsMax ^ | Dec 24, 2004 | Limbacher

[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."

[txrangerette]

"During the DC convention (I forget what year), the democratic party set up free food tables a few blocks away from the convention so that the homeless wouldn't be seen."

Must have been '96, when Clinton ran for re-election against Dole...

[Robe]

If it was up to Jessie and his ilk......
Jesus would have gone to a public school that left HIM marginally literate and without the skills of a carpenter which HE received Via HOME SCHOOLING !!!!

[Klatuu]

If jesse wants to disregard the fact that Jesus' birth in the manger was part of God's divine plan, he should at least acknowledge that Mary and Joseph were not homeless. They lived in Nazareth and only went to Bethlehem because the Roman census being taken at the time required them to return to Joseph's home town to be counted.
Bethlehem was a small town that didn't have a hotel/motel industry capable of accommodating all the returning expatriates. Which is why there was no room at the inn.
For the "reverend" jesse jackson to suggest otherwise is either a blatant illustration of his own ignorance, or a sad example of how stupid he thinks the rest of us are.

[superskunk]

Jesse HiJackson should see "Ray." His Mother kept insisting that her blind son never be made a "cripple," and so trained him to be self-relient. No great society in that household!


That's the whole point. We don't want to teach the poor how to continue being poor (they already know how to do that). We want to teach them how to be wealthy and offer them a tax system that will encourage it rather than punish it.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or they decided to settle there for a while which is what I always thought. The wise showed up anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of years later. Remember they had created a scandal back in Nazareth what with the baby coming early and all.

Also traveling with a newborn would have been a major pain.

[M Kehoe]

Since it is Christmas, I won't tell the good reverend to sit down and stfu.

5.56mm

[lwoodham]

This just may be the end of his worthless a__. People are sick and fed up with his nonsense. It's time to mobilize if you know what I mean.

[jimfree]

Jesse's really lost it. This is the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard from him.

[superskunk]

"Rev" Jesse Jackson obviously hasn't read a Bible or any scholarly literature......EVER. What an idiot....

Like Bill Clinton, he's a charismatic speaker. It's an excellent skill to have, but is no proof of intelligence or scholarship. What an idiot.

[weshess]

Some more intelligent musings from Jesse Jackass.

[superskunk]

Since it is Christmas, I won't tell the good reverend to sit down and stfu.


I will...It would be a Christmas present to myself.

[Conan the Librarian]

ACtually, Jesus was a wandering Rabii who WAS homeless. Jesus would have told Jesse to shut up and get out there and help people instead of spounging off the public trough. I get tired of people who say they know what Jesus would have done, without reading about what he said and did. The government is NOT suppose to take care of the poor, sick, or otherwise needy. WE are!

[Lemondropkid31]

They were there for at least a year. I am not sure they ever left actually because Jesus's Bar Mitzvah was in Bethlehem wasn't it? Isn't that what you have when you turn 13? According to scholars the wise men showed up something like 8 months later, so Jesus was already a toddler. Hahaha traveling with a newborn is hard now, I cannot imagine how it was back then.

[Lemondropkid31]

He needs to be checked into a hospital, because he is sick. How can anyone lie so badly? That is just not right.

[stop_fascism]

The sacrifice of turtle doves always seemed incongruous for a family that otherwise seems fairly well-to-do. Perhaps they were cleaned out by the taxes they had to pay in Bethleham.

[TheRatHunter]

[Tax-chick]

Or just hadn't made it back home between the birth and the Purification. They probably buried their money in the kitchen floor, if they had any actual coinage.

[Drew68]

State funded program to provide food stamps and other goodies to the above. Badly abused.

Actually WIC is slightly different. Unlike food stamps which can be used to procure anything consumable short of liquor and tobacco. WIC checks itemize *exactly* what the holder may purchase. A WIC check will have necessary items like 14 oz. dry cereal, 12 eggs, 5 lbs flour, 1 gal whole milk, etc. and these are the only items which may be purchased. I've never collected WIC but I did work at a grocery store many years ago. Things may have changed.

Incidentally, food stamps are a thing of the past. Too demeaning to use. Now recipients receive a debit-card and can take cash out of an ATM in leu of food stamps. This is horribly abused as the cold, hard American cash can be spent on anything (like drugs).