TNR publisher Marty Peretz has an amusing blog post making fun of some John Kerry’s statements meant to jumpstart his run for the 2008 presidency:
JOHN KERRY AND JESUS: . . .
[1] According to The New York Times yesterday [4-8-06], in what appeared to be rather inchoate remarks, Kerry used Iraq as a trope but offered a ten-point plan for the nation from soup to nuts … well, from getting Osama bin Laden to legislating lobby reform. The Times alluded to Kerry’s well-known verbosity. So it wasn’t surprising that he also went off and said, “Not in one phrase uttered and reported by the Lord Jesus Christ, can you find anything that suggests that there is a virtue in cutting children from Medicare.” I’d actually go Kerry one further: I doubt that Jesus ever mentioned Medicare at all. . . .
[2] Kerry is not only a Roman Catholic but also an ecumenicist. Once again I rely on the Times: Kerry asserted that “the Koran, the Torah, the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles had influenced a social conscience that he exercised in politics.” My God, what bullshit politicians feel obliged to utter! Or maybe the bullshit is already second nature, or even first. But since Kerry raised it, let me ask: What hadith of the Prophet influenced him the most, and why? And here I have a personal interest: Which of the injunctions of Leviticus and who among the Prophets have the most meaning for him? Ordinarily, of course, I wouldn’t ask such personal questions of a politician. In the spirit of Jesus, Kerry will certainly forgive me for doing so.
Peretz’s post is several months old, but I just came across it (tip to Barnett at Hewitt). And given Kerry’s recent unfortunate statement about the Hezbollah-Israeli War, I thought it was worth mentioning.
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