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State GOP chair: McCain 'kind of like Jesus'
State GOP chair: McCain 'kind of like Jesus'
By AARON GOULD SHEININ
Published on: 05/17/08
Columbus — Georgia
Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party's
presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.
"John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross," Everhart
said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. "He never
denounced God, either."
Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
"I'm not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I'm looking at the pain that was there," she said.
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Comments (9)
But according to the Bush administration, the enhanced interrogation techniques used on POW McCain didn't cause organ failure or death, so he wasn't in fact, and backed up by the Justice Department, tortured by his captors.
May 19, 2008 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Point.
May 19, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
And a damn good one that may make its way to a 527 near you if this campaign takes a real turn for the ugly and all sides go scorched earth nuclear. Something that I'd probably put at about 60-40 at this point now that its clear that McCain didn't mean a word of what he said about a "clean campaign".
May 19, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
But Jesus did complain about God, asking why he had abandoned Jesus on the cross. My God, My God, why have you foresaken me? I guess that Sue Everhart thinks McCain is better than Jesus. Tougher, at least, given that Jesus compained about being God foresaken.
May 19, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
The whole concept is just blasphemous on so many levels.
May 19, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, it's totally not blasphemous if you're convinced that the United States is the sacred vessel of God's will.
Fifty miles to my south, there's a 35-ft tall aluminum cross next to the highway. At the bottom there's a big sign with the motto "Let's roll."
That's the country we're living in, folks. God's will = nationalism, nationalism = God's will.
May 19, 2008 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's blasphemous to say that McCain's life is comparable to Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
But I know you're not a spiritual person.
May 19, 2008 11:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sure, some Christians will view it as blasphemous, or prideful.
But there actually are different theological stances on the "imitation of Christ" thing.
http://hugoschwyzer.net/2007/08/08/called-to-become-like-christ-a-long-post-about-john-stott-following-jesus-and-male-transformation/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_of_Christ_(book)
You're right that I'm not particularly spiritual. But I do know that Christianity has a long history and isn't univocal.
May 20, 2008 7:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
It was blasphemous, but not unexpected from a party that so easily mistakes the will of the GOP for the will of the GOD.
Thus, if anything was tortured, it was the Georgia Republican Party leader's analogy of McCain to Christ.
If McCain rose from the dead, does that make him the Manchurian candidate or the anti-Christ?
May 20, 2008 12:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
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