Would he swear on the Bible?

February 11, 2008 9:52 AM

"We have the chance to accomplish two other things: to provide a model for what a truly sincere, forthright, and courageous Presidential candidate might look like, and to demonstrate how desperate America’s voters are to see one." Jesus in 2008!
posted by not_on_display (21 comments total)

Try as I might I can't find the old flash vid "Jesus: wrong for America". Does anyone have a link to it?..
posted by clevershark at 10:17 AM on February 11, 2008

Just what we need -- another candidate who didn't do anything much before age 30, cruising on his family connections, who's still going to be hailed as Jesus on Fox News.
posted by PlusDistance at 10:20 AM on February 11, 2008 [3 favorites]

Jesus would never be hailed as Jesus on Fox News. They'd play the clip of him smashing the money changers tables over and over to torpedo him a la Dean's YEARGH.
posted by DU at 10:24 AM on February 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

The media will crucify him.
posted by never used baby shoes at 10:25 AM on February 11, 2008 [2 favorites]

He'd be gunned down cold by the C.I.A.*
posted by grabbingsand at 10:35 AM on February 11, 2008

Oh great, if this goes forward, we are going to have to deal with four years of hearing about Magdalen-gate.
posted by quin at 10:38 AM on February 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

Some of the issues He raised in his last major stump speech seemed interesting, but I suspect the crowd might go with Barabbas again.
posted by Abiezer at 10:43 AM on February 11, 2008

well, with Richardson gone, we could use a Latino candidate....oh.
posted by jonmc at 10:52 AM on February 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

Jesus? I thought he was dead!
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 11:07 AM on February 11, 2008

Is it this one, clevershark?
posted by whir at 11:15 AM on February 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

A warning to Jesus, from Mike Tyson:

"When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again."

...and I agree
posted by BozoBurgerBonanza at 11:38 AM on February 11, 2008

Is this semitic Jesus or republican Jesus we're talking about here?
posted by maxwelton at 11:44 AM on February 11, 2008

A Jewish President. . . in America?? Not likely.
posted by Lord Chancellor at 11:47 AM on February 11, 2008

wait, if this is a gag, then who won maine last night?
posted by Hat Maui at 11:50 AM on February 11, 2008

Umm... at 33, isn't he two years too young by Article II? Let's be realistic, people.
posted by Navelgazer at 12:00 PM on February 11, 2008

I had a lot of trepidation going to the site, but looking through it, the idea, from an intellectual standpoint, is kind of appealing to toss around. They've eliminated miracles and Rapture from the platform; maybe it will cause a few people to think about Jesus as the socio-political aikidōka that he (or elements of his original composite figure) was, rather than the Messianic figure he became.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 12:06 PM on February 11, 2008

Is this the same Jesus that Bush has been talking to for the past 7 years?

Do not want.
posted by monospace at 12:06 PM on February 11, 2008

Can we please stop all these pro-Obama posts?
posted by rusty at 12:09 PM on February 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

Kinda sorta related - Jesus re-imagined in magna.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 12:32 PM on February 11, 2008

Woody Guthrie thought this up a long time ago.
posted by eustacescrubb at 12:46 PM on February 11, 2008

FAIL(TLDR)
posted by finite at 7:06 PM on February 11, 2008