USA: Beacon of Stupid - Leveraging the Lord

In his attempt to get elected to office, Congressional candidate Ed Martin takes to the airwaves to give new meaning to "lowest common denominator." Using the tried and true strategy of fear, combined with unwavering devotion to Christ, he delivers quite an astonishing message to his prospective constituents:

One thing I like to say is: America is great, not because of our genetics. We're great because we created a place and space where people can be free. And they can choose Christ, they can choose to be faithful. They can worship, and they find their way to the Lord. And -- or some of them don't. We sure want them all to, but some of them don't.

And part of that freedom -- when you take a government and you impose, and take away all your choices. One of the choices you take away is to find the Lord. And find your savior.

And that's one of the things that's most destructive about the growth of government. It's this taking away that freedom. The freedom -- the ultimate freedom, to find your salvation, to get your salvation. And to find Christ, for me and you.

And I think that's one of the things that we have to be very, very aware of that the Obama Administration and Congressman Carnahan are doing to us.

Now, if I read this right, it sounds like Ed is saying that Obama is actively inhibiting everyone's ability to become a Christian.

Are you kidding me?

I'm not sure which bothers me more: The unequivocally high level of fuckery of his statement, or the jaw-dropping level of ignorance of the people who would totally fall for this shit.

[H/T to C&L]