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."
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
E[c8
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!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.