He must have been reading "Robin Hood" and thought it was the New Testament! Easy mistake ya know! 
Posted on 05/31/2005 6:29:53 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who lost this crucial swing state in November, sounded Friday as if he were still stumping for Florida's votes.
The Massachusetts senator, at a National Head Start Association conference to tout his plan to provide health care for uninsured children, hammered on familiar themes of values and unity while repeatedly criticizing the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress.
"I went back and reread the whole New Testament the other day. Nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did I find a suggestion at all, ever, anywhere, in any way whatsover, that you ought to take the money from the poor, the opportunities from the poor and give them to the rich people," Kerry said.
Kerry has yet to officially announce whether he's in the running for the 2008 nomination, and he didn't take questions from the media Friday.
But while speaking to the educators and child advocates gathered in a hotel ballroom, it wasn't difficult to imagine his rhetoric, unchanged, being said at a campaign rally.
"We need to enlist and join together in a great cause across the country that puts a simple choice before our fellow Americans. It's a choice that, I think, is based on values," Kerry said.
Following Florida's 2000 election debacle, in which Bush emerged the barest of winners over Al Gore after five weeks of partisan fighting, the Democratic Party made capturing the state one of its highest priorities.
But Kerry couldn't pull the state into his column, despite the millions spent on advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts. Bush prevailed by almost 381,000 ballots, for a margin of five percentage points.
"The fact is, 10 million more Americans voted for our idea of what we wanted to do than voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 when he was the sitting president of the United States," Kerry said. "The fact is, a million people volunteered. The fact is, across America we created an energy.
"And that energy is going to keep on going and keep on fighting until we achieve what we want to."
If Kerry decides to run, possible competition for the party's nomination include his former running mate, ex-N.C. Sen. John Edwards; N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton, and retired general Wesley Clark.
I went back and reread the whole New Testament the other day. Nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did I find a suggestion at all, ever, anywhere, in any way whatsoever, that you should not expose your genitalia in Times Square."
You're behind the times! Kerry signed the form 180 a week ago Friday. Of course, he has yet to send it in to the Navy for processing.
"Nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did I find a suggestion at all, ever, anywhere, in any way whatsover, that you ought to take the money from the poor, the opportunities from the poor and give them to the rich people..."
Well, John, sell all you have and give it to the poor!!!!
John 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
He must have been reading "Robin Hood" and thought it was the New Testament! Easy mistake ya know!
My kids have a children's picture Bible. The New Testament might be about 20-40 pages. That's probably the version he covered "the other day".
The fact is, Kerry, that you lost by over 3 MILLION votes. You don't get extra credit for gaining more votes than Clinton of 1996...he wasn't your opponent.
" All in one day?!?!?!"
It was probably the Cliff Notes.
I wonder which black church Kerry attended this past Sunday. None, you say! Well, it must not be an election year.
He has supposedly signed it, but he has yet to turn it in
Well, number one, does this mean that Kerry and the lib Democrats are going to force their religious beliefs on the rest of us?
Number two, nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did Jesus suggest at all, ever, anywhere, in any way whatsover, that the government ought to forcibly take money from anyone, the opportunities from anyone and give them to anyone else.
Number three, did he happen to catch from St. Paul that homosexual behavior is morally wrong, and that public approval of immoral behavior is also a serious moral wrong? Did he understand that the apostles, at the First Council of Jerusalem, stated that fornication was morally unacceptable? Did he also, while in Acts, see what happened to husbands and wives who preach the piety of poverty, but who hypocritically retain their wealth with selfish rationalization through deception?
What a geek Kerry is.
I am still looking for the part where Jesus says to slaughter 40 million unborn children.
Memo to Mr. Kerry: You still have a Senate job. Focus on that.
Yea that's what I heard on Fox and Friends a couple of weeks ago. Haven't heard anything else on that yet. I bet you he didn't sign it.
(MA generally known as the shallow end of the gene pool in New England)
The Jews had a practice that after the fields were harvested there was always some left behind, the poor were welcome then to go to the fields and harvest this for themselves. In other words they were welcome to work to provide for themselves. They were probably thankful for the opportunity to provide for their families in a way that was not charity, but gave them some pride.
Your post is excellent. LBJ singlehandedly wrecked the black family with his Great Society. The road to hell and good intentions, (buying votes).
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