Jews for Jesus

In a strange confluence of events, the attacks by the Obama campaign against governor Palin seem to have switched sides. In the last few days, we have heard from the Obama surrogates that Governor Palin was a religious extremist since there had been speakers from Jews for Jesus at her church in Alaska. While that attack had little traction (Jews for Jesus are hardly extremists), things seem to have turned around. One talking point put out by the Obama campaign is the claim the "Jesus was a community organizer while Pontius Pilate was a governor." This has been the tag line of a great many e-mails and blog entries. Now, the slogan has made it off the web. Congressman Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, used the slogan in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. Cohen, who is Jewish, stood in the House and compared Obama to Jesus and Governor Palin to Pontius Pilate (messiah complex anyone?). Forgetting for the moment that Jesus was a carpenter and not a community organizer, the irony of the Obama campaign using representative Cohen as its own Jew for Jesus is great. Honestly, don't they have anything better to do with their time?