A politician makes stuff up? Are you Kidding?

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, released an Earth Day press release which contained a bible reference from the old testament. Below is the quoted text from her press release.

"The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' "

Now bible scholars are saying that this quote does not only not appear in the old testament...it doesn't appear any where in the bible.

Now I am not a bible scholar in any way shape or form. I do however have a computer version of the bible that contains 12 different versions and I did a search to try and find any hint that this text was taken from the bible. I too cam up with nothing even remotely similar to the text Ms Pelosi quoted.

According to the bible scholars that are calling her on this little mistake, they cannot even find anything even remotely like that text.

Claude Mariottini, professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theologial Seminary, calls it "fictional," saying, "It is not in the Bible. There is nothing that even approximates that.

So here we have a politician making things up to fit the need. Gee that never happens...does it?

Politicians do this all the time. The big problem here is that with the internet and its vast research capabilities it has become much harder for a politician to get this kind of trick past even the average US citizen. In fact I think it bears stating that whenever you hear a politician quote anything, especially the bible, it might be worth time to do your own internet search and see what you come up with.

A politician is a creature that says whatever they think the audience listening wants to hear. The politician does not want to lose their power. This means they do not want to lose the office they hold unless it is to move up the food chain.

It is time for all of us as responsible Amercians to start watching ALL politicians from whatever party and see if they are being truthful. If these scum will fabricate quotes they will sure as hell lie to all of us.

Remember that politicians want their power and that is power over you and me and the rest of us. Power to raise taxes...lower taxes...spend OUR money and pass ridiculous legislation that may not even give a damn about.

Its time for America to start watching politicians instead of blindly following them.

That is what I think. What do you think?