{"id":1447,"date":"2011-11-03T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/03\/making-it-up-as-we-go"},"modified":"2011-11-03T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:00:01","slug":"making-it-up-as-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/making-it-up-as-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Making it up as we go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nObama’s spokesman Jay Carney denied that Obama had perhaps gone too far by dragging the Almighty into a fierce political spat.<\/span>
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“I believe that the phrase from the Bible is ‘the Lord helps those who help themselves,’” Carney said.<\/span>
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“I think the point the president is making is that, you know, we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people.”<\/span>
The White House was later forced to clarify however that the phrase Carney used, though often mistaken for scripture, was not in fact biblical.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/span>I wish politicians would just stick to politics. \u00a0Or at least actually <\/span>read<\/span> the Bible before {<\/span>mis-<\/span>}quoting it.<\/span><\/p>\n
Source: Yahoo! News article: Obama: God backs jobs plan<\/a><\/p>\n
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