President Obama and senior members of his staff met with eight religious leaders at the White House on Wednesday to discuss protecting programs for the poor and vulnerable in deficit reduction and debt ceiling negotiations.At least selected parts of it.
The meeting occurred in the Roosevelt Room at 1:30 p.m., just before Obama met with Democratic Senate and House leaders about the debt ceiling and deficit-reduction talks. Obama stayed for 40 minutes of the hour-long session, according to Jim Wallis, president and CEO of Sojourners, a progressive evangelical organization.
The pastors represent a coalition of evangelical, progressive, Catholic and other religious denominations that have launched an initiative called “Circle of Protection,” aimed at preserving social programs like food and nutrition assistance.
According to Wallis, the attendees discussed the direction of deficit negations and participated in prayer and scripture reading.
Obama, Wallis said, affirmed his support for the group’s principles, “that low income people — the vulnerable — need to be protected in these debates about the budget and the deficit.”
The president also specifically expressed his concern for Medicaid, Wallis said.
“The shared sacrifice that he’s talking about, he said should not be just borne ‘by the least of these,’” Wallis recounted, saying that Obama was quoting a well known text from the book of Matthew in the Bible. “Of course as a minister, it’s good to hear a president who knows the Bible.”
First of all, let's not confuse Jim Wallis with Christianity. The guy's an out-and-out socialist who would rather you turn your life over to the government than God. Secondly, these religious lefties believe that all money belongs to the government and therefore should be "rendered unto Caeser". It is also, in their twisted view, completely okay for the government to take from one group and give to another in the name of "equality" and "charity". The rich are evil and the poor virtuous beyond question. They're foolish, but they're useful tools for Obama who can claim that God is somehow on his side in the budget negotiations.
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Useful idiots, these religious leaders.
Jim Wallis is easily impressed. Does he not know Matthew 4? The Devil knows Scripture too, and quoted it to Jesus. That should not offer us any comfort.
"... eight religious leaders at the White House on Wednesday to discuss protecting programs for the poor and vulnerable ..."
Any idea how poor those religious leaders are?
Reminds me of a Ray Stevens song: Would Jesus Wear A Rolex?
If he's so concerned about Medicaid, perhaps the President should review James O'Keefe's undercover videos. What an insult to the taxpayers of America!
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