Paging liberals! When Bush said he prayed often, you mocked him. That he should commune with God on such issues as war, life and death - you mocked.
Now your Savior has said what amounts to something similar - although he does not mean it in the same way - in this, Obama is suggesting we are co-partners wirth God in deciding who lives and who dies, but we'll leave that aside given the lack of foundation for it.
August 19, 2009
'We are God's partners in matters of life and death'
A reader points out that President Obama's call with the rabbis today — as recorded in Rabbi Jack Moline's and other clerics' Twitter feeds — freights health care reform with a great deal of religious meaning, and veers into the blend of policy and faith that outraged liberals in the last administration.
"We are God's partners in matters of life and death," Obama said, according to Moline (paging Sarah Palin...), quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided "who shall live and who shall die."
The president ended the call by wishing the rabbis "shanah tovah," or happy new year — in reference to the High Holidays a month from now.
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