Democrat Compares Obama to Jesus, Palin to Pontius Pilate on House Floor

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn): "Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor."

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September 10, 2008 at 12:32 pm - C-SPAN
Dateline: Washington, D.C.
carl   September 10th, 2008 - 12:41 pm

Another “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” moment from the disturbing Cult of Personality surrounding Obama.

jack   September 10th, 2008 - 12:54 pm

it’s against Congress’s rules to campaign on the floor of the House or Senate.

apparently the rules only apply to Republicans.

kick out the lying obstructionist Democrats

JAR   September 10th, 2008 - 12:56 pm

You have got to be kidding me. Have these people gone nuts!!

Desperate_DEMS   September 10th, 2008 - 1:02 pm

The Dems are sooooo desperate, OUCH!

Asta La Vista Baby!

edwin   September 10th, 2008 - 1:05 pm

Wow the dementiacrats are nearing terminal velocity

DCortez   September 10th, 2008 - 1:05 pm

Reduced to this…

Cool   September 10th, 2008 - 1:13 pm

I just love watching the Socialists – i.e., the Demonrat party – self-destruct like this! Your Marxist Messiah a like a one winged plane piloted by a moron. The quicker it falls, the faster you think you’re flying!

Shout-out to the liberal leftist losers out there – y’all might want to move to Indonesia if you want to continue your worship of your false messiah, B. Hussein Obama bin Lyin. He’s not going to be welcome in OUR country – America – much longer! C’mon November!

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peter c   September 10th, 2008 - 1:29 pm

More blasphimy be Godless Liberals.Obama himself has twisted the words of Jesus when he told a College crown in Ohio that Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount showed that Jesus supported abortion and Homo marriage. There is an evil force within the Obama crowd and the Dems.It is taking the side of satan and the Anti-Christ.They are full of lies about when a child is a child so they can kill them…about Homos and them being born that way so they can support them.They think Morals can be changed to fit their selfish lifestyles.
These same peole who hate Jesus and Christians now have the audadcity to use the names of Mary and Jesus to spread their lies???!! I am sure Jesus and The Holy Mother are weeping for humanity and it’s push towards the abys with sin.
Vote McCain Palin to stop this move before it’s too late for all of us.

Tracy   September 10th, 2008 - 1:36 pm

Obama=Jesus. I think NOT. Are you kidding?

Oh and what is wrong with this guys hair?

olddog   September 10th, 2008 - 1:41 pm

Maybe the congressmen was fortelling the future. Obama will be “crucifed” in the election.

Holy Smokes   September 10th, 2008 - 2:02 pm

It’s official. Liberals, Democrats, Orthodox Feminists, actors, et al, have all gone nuts.

Jesus follower   September 10th, 2008 - 2:03 pm

What a complete egghead. This judus is the poster child for all the doubleminded spineless linguini liberal men lacking wisdom rooted in willfulness rather than justice. Liberals like this should never be in positions of leadership because they aren’t leaders. Leaders can’t be bought and paid for with race cards and real estate discounts. Anyone who can’t see that Obama is a sincerely misguided still trying to find himself man is simply blinded and like lemmings most end up in the great jump, but hey its okay as long as we’re together, we can have “hope” and “change”. When I ask these simply libs what they like about him they immediately appeal to sentimentalism and say some sort of ‘I looked into his eyes and saw honesty” or “He’s just so new and fresh and he’s the kind of change we need” lol this is typical of liberals who by default more often subsitute what feels good for reason and rational solutions. Alan keyes mopped the floor with Hussein and many more will to come, so long as there is a God. Thank God.

Tony Rohl   September 10th, 2008 - 2:07 pm

Who does Rep. Cohen want for president, a man who fired missiles at America’s enemies or a man who fired staples at telephone poles in Chicago?

travis   September 10th, 2008 - 2:12 pm

Thank you, thank you, thank you. McCain/Palin can’t buy this good of publicity. Demos are digging themselves in deeper, and deeper, and deeper, and….

cv   September 10th, 2008 - 2:14 pm

Who the he** is he trying to win over? Christians? Jews? Women? Catholics? Does anyone have an idea?

Chauncy Jones   September 10th, 2008 - 2:19 pm

Oh my gosh! Is this the Democratic Party that fought for equal rights and equality of religion? They are melting faster than the witch in wizard of oz. I don’t like McCain a whole lot, but he is light years ahead of Obama, and I a black man can realize that.

James   September 10th, 2008 - 2:24 pm

I’m guessing he gets the same warm, gooey feeling running down his leg each time he hears Obama speak, just like that tool Chris Matthews.

tozefs   September 10th, 2008 - 2:27 pm

Well if it’s true than I guess we won’t be able to say his name in schools anymore either.

Allan   September 10th, 2008 - 2:27 pm

At a chamber of commerce meeting this past Friday, one of our members who brags how he spent a week in jail during Viet Nam protests told that same stupid joke.

Peggy   September 10th, 2008 - 2:28 pm

OMG, it just keeps getting better! The nutwad in Congress just reinforced my opinion of the liberal looney tunes in both the House and the Senate. A McCain/Palin win will assure a pickup of several seats in Congress and, hopefully, one of them will be the seat of this moron!

Larry Talbot   September 10th, 2008 - 2:29 pm

I though McCain was running against OsamaBama. Liberals are losing it. I live their breakdown. Why do all you Liberals move to the left coast? You would be more than welcome there and I will help you collect money for yo moving expenses.

Ed   September 10th, 2008 - 2:52 pm

Jesus is LORD and when he comes back he will judge every idle word (Matt 12:36)

Scott k   September 10th, 2008 - 2:54 pm

How dumb can a democrat be?

Every remark like this only strengthen the Republican base. It converts female fence sitters into McCain Volunteers.

Obama will lose, as Did Kerry, as Did Gore. You people just do not get it.

Conservative America is the largest voting block. Middle America, the silent majority. All the same thing.

Obama’s ship is sinking fast. and ignorant democrats are to blame. You talk about Sarah not being vetted, who vetted Obama?

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John   September 10th, 2008 - 3:11 pm

Pass the popcorn. This Democrat Implosion is getting real good! OMG, who knew? A Republican female? Time to PANIC!

hairloss=braindamage???   September 10th, 2008 - 3:18 pm

lol! wth? This guy makes Matt Damon seem like mensa material.

StopTheDonkey   September 10th, 2008 - 3:29 pm

Stop the donkey today – see Liberalism for what it is – a mental disorder. VOTE GOP to save our values, our culture from becoming the cesspool of the rest of the world. Remember – the rest of the world wants Obama, and the rest of the world doesn’t know who committed 9-11. Recent poll results on the WORLD community.

Mark   September 10th, 2008 - 3:30 pm

Obviously a Biblical Scholar!

LauraDill   September 10th, 2008 - 3:39 pm

This is the same guy who voted to apologize to blacks for slavery…

CARL6352   September 10th, 2008 - 3:54 pm

HARKEN AMERICA A GREAT CHANGE IS IN THE WIND. THE CHANGE MCAIN/PALIN. THE LIBERAL ACTORS AND THERE TYPE HAVE ALL PROMISED TO MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND MAKE AMERICA CLEAN AND HAPPY AND FREE OF GLOBAL WARMING FROM THERE MOUTHS BEING OPEN. GOD CAME TO ME IN A REVELATION SAYING THE LEFT COAST WILL FALL IF THE WEIGHT IS NOT LESSENED. MCAIN/PALIN 2008 AND BEYOND. ONE CAN NOT GO AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD! DUNE FOR PUBLIC SCOOL KIDS!!!

carljr   September 10th, 2008 - 3:59 pm

WOW! for a moment I thought the guy was serious. :)

BILL5321   September 10th, 2008 - 4:03 pm

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn) Please, please do another funniest political bloopers. I love watching this stuff on TV.

fred   September 10th, 2008 - 4:12 pm

ok, so can we vote BHO to be “messiah pro tempore” or something. something meaningless. anything to keep him away from the reigns of power. and let pontius pilate be president, or would that be vp? maybe if pontius pilate had looked like SP he might have been treated so badly in history. who knows.

Earl   September 10th, 2008 - 4:25 pm

Are you kidding me?

beverly   September 10th, 2008 - 4:34 pm

dems = P A N I C

Phillip Lee   September 10th, 2008 - 4:38 pm

So let me get this – Obama is Jesus, born in a manger, born of a virgin, and conceived by the Holy Ghost? No wonder the Democratic party is all screwed up.

Bob   September 10th, 2008 - 4:46 pm

I’ll say one thing — Obama maniacs are sure good for comic relief. If they ever got the chance to run the economy the way they’re running their campaign, then we’d all end up just like all of them — LOW CLASS.

Jamesb   September 10th, 2008 - 4:54 pm

Gosh, a 40 something Mom from Alaska and the LIBERALS/DEMOCRATS/HOLLYWOOD go this CRAZY? You’d think she was the next Ronald Reagan…or maybe that’s what worries them…hmmm.

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scott   September 10th, 2008 - 5:03 pm

He’s “god” now. wow! the wheels on the bus go round and round

Intellectual   September 10th, 2008 - 5:04 pm

Wow, I was amazed at the hateful and insult-riddled comment section here until I realized Breitbart is conservative news, and so this is just business as usual.

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Neil   September 10th, 2008 - 5:23 pm

http://jimtreacher.com/archives/001534.html

What a stupid congressman.

Albacheeser   September 10th, 2008 - 5:38 pm

Barrabas was the community organizer.

Jesus is more a akin to teacher or rabbi.

Burke   September 10th, 2008 - 5:41 pm

I noticed that as soon as he finished that stupid comment, he quickly left the podium. I guess he wanted to avoid the lighting strike!

Steve   September 10th, 2008 - 5:42 pm

Hearing a Democrat talk about Jesus is like hearing a fish talk about a bicycle.

Then again, the senator was merely describing the belief system held by 90 percent of America’s journalists.

John M   September 10th, 2008 - 5:49 pm

What a moron. Obama and his Democratic friends are losing it. Go to his web site and make more comments.

N Waff   September 10th, 2008 - 7:01 pm

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Jesus was the Christ – Obama thinks he’s the Christ
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PaleRyder   September 10th, 2008 - 8:26 pm

Are you sure you want to go there,comparing Obama to someone who preached “love thy neighbor”,while the Obama campaign is trying their best to crucify this woman’s life and family.I might add with every single effort the pure and honest analysts at msnbc and cnn can give them.This is not just an attack on Sara.It started by blatantly ignoring a woman who got 18 million votes in the dem. primaries,in favor of a 30 year “:old boy network” that got 9000 total votes.His own party rejected him.But do us all a favor and keep it up,your “Screw America First” efforts are working out well for you so far.

El Capitan   September 10th, 2008 - 8:45 pm

And we can also compare Obama to Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Stalin, Hugo Chavez, Castro, etc etc

So what?

Phillip Cohen   September 10th, 2008 - 8:56 pm

What the heck was Rep. Cohen…no relation… thinking?

I’m assuming that he, like me, is Jewish or of Jewish parentage….. where does he get the CHUTZPAH to comment on someone else’s religion?

Even if he was “merely drawing an analogy” it was/is in terrible taste….. and will do nothing but stir anger among many Christians.

One only hopes that there won’t be a nasty reaction towards Jewish people because of this individuals rude and ill-considered remarks.

Bill Chicago   September 10th, 2008 - 8:56 pm

Look at the video closely. Does this nutjob have a Mohawk?

As far as his comments go, that is so pathetic, it’s not even worthy of comment. I’m sure his home district is proud of him.

Bill Chicago   September 10th, 2008 - 9:09 pm

Phil,
Nobody is going to blame the Jewish people for the freakshow his weirdo put on.

Even money says he’s in the JFJ just to cover his bets.

Craig Allen   September 10th, 2008 - 9:11 pm

No, Jesus was a community DIVIDER.

Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division

But Comrade Obamanation said one truthful thing

Put lipstick on the democrats, and they do indeed remain pigs

Bulk Trash   September 10th, 2008 - 9:32 pm

At least the Blues Brothers admitted they were on a mission from God….why doesn’t Cohen?

Mike   September 10th, 2008 - 9:34 pm

Wow…people in Tennessee actually elected this guy? What district does he represent? I’ve been looking at various retirement locations in the southeast and want to cross this one off my list.

Juan McCain   September 10th, 2008 - 9:42 pm

He is a member of “JEWS FOR JESUS”

http://www.PetitionProject.org

theaxeman   September 10th, 2008 - 9:50 pm

What’s wrong with that dude’s hair? Didn’t staple it shut when the lobotomy was finished?

juggernaut   September 10th, 2008 - 9:57 pm

Here’s something that should concern us about Obama, Mr. Cohen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTuh7MIv9-E

Carla   September 10th, 2008 - 10:09 pm

Oh My, the Dems just KEEP sticking their foot in it don’t they? Keep it up, your helping us out!!!!!

Gregory Scott   September 10th, 2008 - 10:20 pm

The idea that Jesus was a ‘community organizer’ is derived from liberation theology, which is the only type of religious thought that Democrats are open to. He was not a community organizer— this is a twisting of the Bible. Silly rubbish.

nren5000   September 10th, 2008 - 10:27 pm

Pontius Pilate may have been a Govenor, but the Democrat from Tennessee is a true imbecile. You people in Tennessee ought to be proud of yourselves. And don’t you people know anything about a comb? Damn, at least if he’s gonna get up and represent you, have him looking neat and combed. He’s now a double embarrassment. Looks stupid, talks stupid, too.

Tim 88   September 10th, 2008 - 10:36 pm

Can you say panic?
Democrats are not good in a crisis. They are almost even in the polls and they are hysterical already.

Average Reader   September 10th, 2008 - 10:37 pm

Ummm, let’s see here. Now I take it Barack is to Jesus as Sarah Palin (Governor of Alaska) is to Pontius Pilate, right?

Well, we all know how that turned out for Jesus now don’t we?

Average Reader   September 10th, 2008 - 10:49 pm

Isn’t Barack gay?

Joe   September 10th, 2008 - 11:24 pm

Well it’s clear that there’s something more hated than the “white Christian male”, a “white Christian woman who’s not afraid to say abortion is wrong”.

It’s also clear that although Senators, Congressmen and Governors are all politicians, the former two really dont think the latter are really as qualified, by virtue of the office of governor, to lead.

The Democratic party is filled with “wolves in sheep’s clothing. They are truly evil-hearted, childish, morons.

Jess   September 10th, 2008 - 11:38 pm

Jesus like a community organizer & Sarah Palin like Pilate. Whoa! Democrats are like really deep thinkers. What profundity! Such stellar analysis from a U.S. congressman! My head is still spinning…

JoeMac   September 10th, 2008 - 11:56 pm

Mr. Cohen ought to spend a little more time with the Bible. Jesus a mere community organizer?! Sheesh.

JM

Al Gore   September 10th, 2008 - 11:57 pm

What happened to the separation of church and state? Did he just say Jesus on the floor of the house?

johnseeking   September 11th, 2008 - 12:19 am

Wow… you guys have idiots in Tennessee too? It’s not a East/West coast monopoly thing?

youdumbme   September 11th, 2008 - 12:31 am

This is just crazy — let me tell you Barak is No John Lennon!

The comparison is just nuts.

Texan   September 11th, 2008 - 12:53 am

Rep. Cohen has just finished loading the Obindberg zepplin’s cargo bay with a shipment of TNT to join Biden’s pallet of kerosene and last night’s unexpected shipment loaded by Obama himself of matchheads. Next stop: Lakehurst, New Jersey!!!!!

the rationalist   September 11th, 2008 - 1:07 am

Oh please…..The mythology of christianity is as good as any other to use in the rhetorical arguments for political candidates. The very fact that any thinking person can cling to this biblical nonsense that has been rewritten, revised and re-rewritten over the past 2000 years as if it were in any way factual is laughable. Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate are fictionalized characters and just as useful as examples in rhetorical commentary as Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn or Satan for that matter. Lets all try to stick to a rational decision making process that does not rely upon the mortality pacifier of religion. Conservative wackos, ditto heads and Fox-a-holics you may now begin my chastisement…

Neal E   September 11th, 2008 - 1:16 am

You are seeing desperation and flop sweat from the libs today. Obama bin Biden are done for.

Mr. Humble Opinion   September 11th, 2008 - 1:25 am

Stupid, stupid, stupid.
And you just can fix stupid! (or that bad hair)

Burke   September 11th, 2008 - 1:25 am

Next time, perhaps he should point out that it was a woman that first ate the forbidden fruit and got us all tossed out of paradise.

What a jerk.

JimmiP   September 11th, 2008 - 1:26 am

Trotsky was a community organizer.

Reagan was a Govnor.

Try again.

BTW was it windy on the floor of the house today?

Lee   September 11th, 2008 - 1:32 am

People actually elected this doofus? Suppose he actually thought about what he was going to say or did he just “wing” it? Either way — PATHETIC!

Steve   September 11th, 2008 - 1:32 am

Sorry, I meant congressman, not senator.

unclesmrgol   September 11th, 2008 - 1:59 am

So, let me get this straight — Palin is crucifying Obama?

dNova   September 11th, 2008 - 2:04 am

A comment to be expected from people with no core principles or beliefs.

Kay B. Day   September 11th, 2008 - 2:14 am

What are they smoking up there?

FreezerBurn   September 11th, 2008 - 2:29 am

“They” hate religion and God but “they” always bring Him into the picture.

Eileen   September 11th, 2008 - 3:32 am

Blasphemy……Let me remind the good Senator from Tennessee that Jesus Christ was the “Son of God” not a community organizer…The Flim Flam Obamaman is a community organizer! It is quite obvious that he is not a Christian or he would definitely know that!

If it were Mohammed he were referring to and the Muslim faith, he would be in deep trouble. But as Christians we are to love those say things against in the name of Christ.

Linda in Missouri   September 11th, 2008 - 4:54 am

Now we know what it is actually being accomplished in the House. Besides naming post offices. Geeezzz..our taxes are being used for this?? What oil crisis, what economy crisis? I guess they don’t really have much to do since Nancy P says no way are we going to vote on off- shore drilling, we need to spend this time slamming the conservative canadiates!
Actually how low can their poll levels go??
(negative)-18%??
But on the up side.. I don’t think I have ever laughed so hard, my sides are hurting!! Keep them coming!

[...] been reading it on more than a few Christian blogs and now a Democratic Congressman has said it as well: “Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor.” [...]

Maggie   September 11th, 2008 - 11:19 am

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and be presumed a fool than to open it and remove all doubt !!!!

annie   September 11th, 2008 - 11:28 am

Well Tenn. have you had enough of this guy and what did he say to get him elected to office ear marks anyone

shayj   September 11th, 2008 - 12:14 pm

All Christians are supposed to be like Jesus… and like Jesus, we all should be community organizers. “He that has ears, let him hear.”

Potlicker   September 11th, 2008 - 12:22 pm

That set Tennessee back about a hundred years.

Michael   September 11th, 2008 - 2:29 pm

Pontius Pilate was only acceding to the wishes of the Sanhedrin – the Jewish Senate. Jesus said that Pilate’s authority came from God but it was the Sanhedrin who was the guilty of the greater sin.

DemsCallWomenPigs   September 11th, 2008 - 2:57 pm

Cohen is a Holocaust denier.

maggie   September 11th, 2008 - 7:25 pm

I think we should dump them all in the john and elect MICKEY MOUSE !~ Or maybe GOOFY,
At least we would KNOW what we are getting!

Kudzu Fire   September 13th, 2008 - 9:25 am

Did someone say Governor Bill Clinton and Governor Jimmy Carter Betrayed the Marxist Messiah? Democrats to the barricades! Defend President Karl Marx Hussein this instant!! Besides, that Pontius Pilate Governor Bill Clinton has a very strong woman for a wife, and given how you demos disrespected Hilary, and attacked Palin and her family, we know how much you hate strong women!!!

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