{"id":1202,"date":"2004-03-29T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2004-03-29T16:38:27","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T23:38:27","slug":"thats-a-joke-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/03\/29\/thats-a-joke-right\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s a Joke, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002079\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4609893\/\">John Kerry cited a Bible verse Sunday to criticize leaders who have \u201cfaith but has no deeds,\u201d prompting President Bush\u2019s spokesman to accuse Kerry of exploiting Scripture for a political attack.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.  Somehow I imagine there are plenty of mailings going around to the true-believers regarding Abortion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At least John Kerry&#8217;s biblical quotations aren&#8217;t creepy as of yet&#8230; Remember Bush&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/inaugural-address.html\"> Inaugural Address<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><i>After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: &#8220;We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Much time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration. The years and changes accumulate. But the themes of this day he would know: our nation&#8217;s grand story of courage and its simple dream of dignity. <\/p>\n<p>We are not this story&#8217;s author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another. <\/p>\n<p>Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today, to make our country more just and generous, to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life. <\/p>\n<p>This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Biblical References for you:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all&#8221; (Ecclesiastes 9:11)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The Lord&#8221; is slow to anger and great in power; &#8220;the Lord&#8221; will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet&#8221; (Nahum 1:3)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Okay.  Google seaches tend to bring up interesting items&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemore.biz\/\">For Your Illuminati Needs.<\/a>  Thank you very much, you&#8217;ve all been good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry cited a Bible verse Sunday to criticize leaders who have \u201cfaith but has no deeds,\u201d prompting President Bush\u2019s spokesman to accuse Kerry of exploiting Scripture for a political attack. I don&#8217;t know. Somehow I imagine there are plenty of mailings going around to the true-believers regarding Abortion&#8230; At least John Kerry&#8217;s biblical quotations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}