Monday, September 15, 2008

Obama = Jesus; Palin = Pilate

Most of you have probably seen this (or at least heard about it), but here's another over-the-top attack on Palin-- from Rep. Steve Cohen (D-NY)...

Cohen compares Obama to Jesus and Palin to Pontius Pilate.

It's clever-- by half-- and thus way over the top.

With friends like Cohen (and the mainstream media attacking Palin and comparing her to Obama), Obama won't need any enemies!

4 Comments:

At September 15, 2008 at 6:47 PM , Blogger William Lang said...

That's of course a reaction to Palin's rather insulting treatment of Obama as a community organizer. But I think Obama was even less well-served by whoever it was that came up with his ad mocking McCain for being computer illiterate. This of course insults retired people, who are most likely to not use computers—and who also vote in large numbers.

 
At September 15, 2008 at 9:45 PM , Blogger Eric Schansberg said...

big difference between poking fun at a vague phrase (that supposedly provides him with the experience to be president) and making two deadly-serious religious references...

perhaps Cohen was trying to kid around?

 
At September 16, 2008 at 10:21 AM , Blogger William Lang said...

I'm sure he didn't mean to be taken too literally. But politically it was artless at best, because it feeds into the Republican theme that Obama is a messiah figure, a charismatic celebrity. And certainly it doesn't set well with religious conservatives. I suspect this line resonates best with liberal Protestants and liberal Catholics, who sometimes use Biblical imagery in this kind of political context.

 
At September 16, 2008 at 10:30 AM , Blogger Eric Schansberg said...

agreed!

 

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