Three guilty pleasures
February 15, 2008, 1:15 pm
Posted by Joseph A. Komonchak
To go from the sublime to the ridiculous:
From the Washington Post’s gossip column, I offer the following quips from speakers at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s annual Congressional Dinner. If you take pleasure in any of these, say three Our Father’s and three Hail Mary’s.
From Rahm Emanuel, proposing himself for Vice-President: “I’ve spent more time in the executive branch than Barack, and I’ve spent more time with Bill than Hillary.
From Sen. Mitch McConnell, on the race between “a New York senator who was born in Illinois, and an Illinois senator who was apparently born in a manger.”
Sen. John Cornyn, noting that the NY Times didn’t attend this year: “Their table didn’t go to waste. They just donated it to MoveOn.org at a discount.”
I didn’t think Mitch McConnell had a sense of humor.
Whats my penance?
Gladly say my penance. Born in a manger. Exactly right. I am reminded of the saying “If you see your guru on the road, shoot him.” The gurus have done such a great job in deletion that even google will not pick up the saying. Perhaps my penance is inadequate.
Bill, the saying you are refering to is “If you see Buddha on the road, kill him”. I don’t think Buddha was born in a manger though.
No word yet from the Obama campaign on whether or not he was born in a manger. However, if one follows the the indications of the Gospel of Matthew, where the wise men enter the house where the child was, then Jesus almost certainly was not born in a manger. Gotta admit, though, I think it is a funny line from the good Senator.
The Obama campaign will have to clarify that their candidate was not born in a manger. He was born in a stable and laid in a manger, which is the box of straw from which the animals eat and too small for anyone to be born in, even a skinny little guy.