{"id":6586,"date":"2009-08-19T18:36:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/obama-to-rabbis-we-are-gods-pa.html"},"modified":"2009-08-19T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:36:06","slug":"obama-to-rabbis-we-are-gods-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/08\/obama-to-rabbis-we-are-gods-pa.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Rabbis: &#8220;We are God&#8217;s partners in matters of life and death&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atheists, you better be up in arms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0809\/A_call_with_the_rabbinate.html\">over this or you are utter hypocrites on the whole separation of church and state issue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    President Barack Obama needs some outside help pushing health care reform, and he&#8217;s turning to rabbis to get it.    In a morning conference call with about 1000 rabbis from across the nation, Obama asked for aid: &#8220;I am going to need your help in accomplishing necessary reform,&#8221; the President told the group, according to Rabbi Jack Moline, who tweeted his way through the phoner.    &#8220;We are God&#8217;s partners in matters of life and death,&#8221; Obama went on to say, according to Moline&#8217;s real-time stream.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/19\/obama-to-rabbis-on-health-care-we-are-gods-partners-in-matters-of-life-and-death\/\">via<\/a>)If Bush had said this, the MSM would have had a cow by now! The late night comedians would have been joking up a storm over the idiocy of the president, the left would have blathered on about theocracies and Reid and Pelosi would have called him delusional. Here&#8217;s what I think we&#8217;ll be hearing from all of them (that includes you, atheists):<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K8E_zMLCRNg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K8E_zMLCRNg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>And no, Mr. President, you are not a partner of God when it comes to matters of life and death. God has no partners when it comes to that, even someone who the MSM and his followers treat as the new messiah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atheists, you better be up in arms over this or you are utter hypocrites on the whole separation of church and state issue: President Barack Obama needs some outside help pushing health care reform, and he&#8217;s turning to rabbis to get it. 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