The "You Can't Make This Shit Up" award goes to

[ashling]

[font size = 4] Sen. Tom Cotton Accuses President Obama of Trying to Undermine Israel’s Foreign Policies – Really[/font size = 4]

Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/sen-tom-cotton-accuses-president-obama-trying-undermine-israels-foreign-policies/

So, the guy who orchestrated a letter that essentially told the Iranian government that they shouldn’t trust any deal they might possibly make with President Obama, in a direct attempt to undermine years worth of negotiations concerning Iran’s nuclear program, is angry because this president’s policies might not be conducive for the policies of a foreign government?

Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/sen-tom-cotton-accuses-president-obama-trying-undermine-israels-foreign-policies/

[hobbit709]

1. I doubt he can even spell "irony" much less define it.

[Hekate]

9. "Irony" is something the dry cleaner uses on his shirts

[rpannier]

36. Special Iron dry cleaners use on just the lower leg of the pants

at the knees

[chknltl]

41. I know what the opposite of irony is:

Wrinkly

(Credit due here: fellow DUer Fizgig once posted a photo of herself wearing a t-shirt that had that on it)

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

55. My favorite quote about irony comes from Spider Robinson

He wrote a story, "God Is an Iron",

"God is an iron," I said. "Did you know that?"

I turned to look at her and she was staring. She laughed experimentally, stopped when I failed to join in. "And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?"

"If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron. Or else He's the dumbest designer that ever lived."

[world wide wally]

2. I wish this asshole would just move to fucking Israel

[L0oniX]

3. Cotton ...the next ambassador to Iran.

[rpannier]

37. I'm all in favor of him being the next Ambassador to

Atlantis

I'll chip in for the anchor and chain so he doesn't come up too early and offend Poseidon

[vlyons]

62. He is auditioning to be the spearpoint of the TParty

He has out-done Teddy Cruz for the position of most disrespectful to the black president.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I'm waiting for the Cruz - Cotton Celebrity Deathmatch

to see which one will win the Biggest Bullshitter award.

[Fred Sanders]

17. CNN is still working in the Bibi-Obama death match....and whose side they are on is clear enough.

CNN's Fox copy cat extraorinarily hyped-upped documentry, "Finding Jesus", is their latest tell.

[Cha]

39. You and I are thinkin' along the same lines there, BRDS.. from the get-go.. I've said cruz must

be soooo jealous of this latest sociopath to come down the pike..

And, this just now..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6402356

Like the death match pic..

[BumRushDaShow]

43. And the sad thing is

they both defile the name of their and the President's alma mater - Harvard.

[Cha]

44. Yes, they do "defile" the President's Alma Mater.. all that education might as well

have gone down the drain for them. smh

[Initech]

56. Bring it!

[n2doc]

5. I wasn't aware that Arkansas had a huge RW Jewish population

But I guess it must, given how hard he is working for them.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. He's working to keep the support of the fundamentalist Christians......

Who want to do their part to make New Testament prophecies become a reality.

Fundamentalist Muslims are doing their damn best to make their caliphate prophecies a reality as well.

Now if we can just keep these two groups from killing us ALL......

[erronis]

11. I just hope they all get swept away

Let the rest of us earth-loving creatures try to take care of what we have here.

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Too bad we can't just loan them a used sand planet somewhere

to fight it out without involving the rest of us. Fundamentalists of all sorts could just be shipped there.

[hifiguy]

19. It is imperative for humanity to abandon its childlike belief

in Iron Age fairy tales. The future of our species depends on it.

[angrychair]

22. exactly

All of this is about one thing:
DOOMSDAY POLITICS.

Nothing says "peace and love" like trying to force a series of events that a 2,000 year old book "says" are needed for your SkyDaddy to come down and kill, torture and gut everyone while you float away to never-neverland.

[smirkymonkey]

53. +1000

[Hekate]

12. It's all about the Rapture and Biblical prophecy, which is a fundy Christian mishegas

They don't give a rat's tuchis about the Jews. In the Talibornagain mythos all the Jews who don't convert to Christianity will fry in Hell for eternity when the Rapture comes.

But groups who differ on fundamental issues can use each other when they think it's to their advantage. What a shock.

[SCVDem]

20. Can you please show me

where in the bible the rapture is defined?

As far as I know it is made up bs.

[bluesbassman]

23. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 is the most common citation.

13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,4 that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words

Revelations has some additional passages that booster this view, but to Fundies Paul's writings are the ones that they adhere to the most.

[Brainstormy]

61. Defined, perhaps

but the word "rapture" doesn't appear in the Bible

[angrychair]

24. you state the obvious

I assume on purpose.
Most importantly, it doesn't matter. Facts don't matter to a doomsday cult like Christianity and mean even less in DOOMSDAY POLITICS. All that matter are the 3 M's of DOOMSDAY POLITICS: Mayhem, Murder, Money.

[classof56]

25. As a former Rapture Rhetoric believer,

I can tell you it's not defined in the bible, but rather comprises a bunch of obscure, unrelated scriptures cobbled together and foisted upon "christians" by some pentacostal preacher in the early 19th century to give them something to look forward to besides their grim existences on this earth. Or that's how I now know it to be. Authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins jumped on the rapture bandwagon a few years back to produce the "Left Behind" series of books about events that take place post-rapture, after "christians" are snatched up and those convulted scriptures about the end of time can be fulfilled. Terrible theology and even worse writing, those LB books--but the rapture/end times fans have made them incredibly successful and are now the basis for what the end-timers are certain will come to pass in the near future. It's also the basis of their politics. Pretty sick folks, IMO, and I'm glad to no longer align myself with them. Actually, I wouldn't mind if they were all "snatched up". Maybe we'd have a shot at cleaning up their messes and leaving a better world for our kids/grandkids. As it is, they keep spreading their ugly doctrines and destroying the world we live in.

Sorry--probably more than you wanted to know, but sometimes I just get on a roll about this "stuff".

Cheers

[Hekate]

27. You did great in your reply. Additionally, a well-educated Lutheran pastor I used to know stated ...

...that around the time Revelations was written, it was part of a popular literary genre around the Mediterranean Sea.

That in itself is kind of a revelation, isn't it? When you wrap your head around that book of the New Testament being part of a literary genre, and not unique to John of Patmos, it gives it a whole different context.

Quite right about the Left Behind books, too -- those authors have made a pile of money off scaring the bejaysus out of the dimwitted, who then go forth and believe this highly-colored and violent fiction is part of the religion founded by Jesus, who was a nice Jewish boy who got crucified by the Romans.

Oh, LaHay and Jenkins, here's an actual quote from Jesus (probably): "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon this Earth..."

[classof56]

29. Hekate, I thank you for your response. Means a lot!

I did not know that about the book of Revelation, but glad to get the info your pastor shared. Makes good sense, and explains a lot. I have read that John of Patmos' book was a very controversial inclusion in the New Testament, made up as it was of mostly incomprehensible "visions", but lately my studies have cast doubt on many of the NT books and how they got where they are. I do like Reza Aslan's book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus. a great account of the "nice Jewish boy", as you say. I like that, BTW! As for LaHaye and Jenkins, I think they should be ashamed of themselves, as what Jesus said about treasures upon this Earth is spot on. Lots of verses in the bible about loving money, the root of all evil and the perils that come with it. L&J (as Patheos' Fred Clark calls them) really ought to pay attention!


Peace!

[Wounded Bear]

59. I've also read...

that if you ferret out the metaphors and symbolism in the BoR, they can be applied to good effect on Rome, the Emperor at the time, and the world in general, all coated with a thick slathering of local mythology, of course.

Or maybe he was just hyped up on marijuana or (insert hallucinogenic drug of choice).

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Republicans just don't want national interests to get in the way

of private profits.

If we can put the blame on the right party when everything falls to shit, we might have a chance. If only we didn't have Democratic politicians who are so agreeable to reaching consensus with Republicans.

[Sherman A1]

8. one wonders

what color the sky is in his world....

[Scootaloo]

31. Shit-brown, given where he keeps his pointy little head

[Faux pas]

10. Thanks for posting ashling

and turning me on to that site!

[lark]

13. Again, no caring about his own country.

It's all about what helps the Israeli war makers and we are supposed to just lick their boots and pay for all the crazy murderous things they do in that country and cover for them when they flout international laws.

[gregcrawford]

14. Pure evil wears a flag pin and carries a Bible

[Fred Sanders]

15. What is taking Netanyahu so long to form a 61 member coalition? All of us should be asking.

[mountain grammy]

32. Some resistance? Dare we hope?

or maybe just the Sabbath and celebration.

[gordianot]

16. Republican tools are cheap and disposable.

All you have to do is get attention; be a bully, spout delusion, engage in jingoistic babble, promote ignorance as a virtue, find someone to ridicule. What you never have to do is say is what you intend to accomplish. Eventually Republican tools wear out all they ever manage to accomplish is make enemies from opponents as well as colleagues and competitors. Cotton has had a meteoric rise obviously manufactured his fall should be spectacular.

[Iliyah]

18. You guys ain't seen nothing yet. This is only the warm up.

Majority of the GOP congress is crazier than him. Wait for it, especially close to the Presidential election, and if a "women" wins the Dem primary, ya think a black man hatred is bad, its gonna get much worse.

[tomsaiditagain]

21. Republicanism is dying

thanks to their errant ways and to the fools like this clown.

[Major Hogwash]

28. Ha ha ha, this is hilarious.

Cotton does it again!

Incredible.
For 6 years!
6 years!!!

[Cha]

40. Let's hope he

implodes before then.. politically speaking.

So much gar-bage coming out of his cotton mouth that he just:nukes:

Hey, I can dream.

[Wounded Bear]

30. I'm pretty sure this could be a weekly award...

Perhaps daily as the 2016 election season ramps up.

[mountain grammy]

33. Those eyes!

creepy guy.

[Beartracks]

34. It seems Cotton forgets which country's legislative body he sits in. n/t

[Rex]

35. Whoever writes the GOP playbook is pretty smart. Commit a crime/immoral act, accuse your

opponent of that crime, repeat a million times until brain dead followers start moaning along in unison. Move on to next crime/immoral act. Repeat for decades.

[prayin4rain]

64. Ugh, so so true. n/t

[Cha]

38. Cotton mouth is just a ted cruz wannabe or vice versa.. they're two little gopees in a pod. The

pod people.

[chknltl]

42. And here to present the award are the ghosts of:

[freshwest]

45. Obama has been 'interfering' by not going along with Bibi since 2012:

It's Armageddon's Wet Dream!

By Pablo - March 6, 2012

Unleash Hell?

“This is not a game,” Mr. Obama said during a news conference at the White House timed to coincide with Super Tuesday voting in the Republican primaries in a number of crucial states.

Mr. Obama gave a staunch defense of his administration's actions to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions and said tough sanctions put in place by the United States and Europe were starting to work and were part of the reason Iran had returned to the negotiation table.

“The one thing we have not done is we have not launched a war,” Mr. Obama said. “If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people.”

http://pavlovianobeisance.com/

The Emergency Committee for Israel Cries Wolf

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-emergency-committee-for-israel-cries-wolf#ixzz1oMJGS8eY

Yes, Obama earned a Nobel and deserves it, considering what he's been dealing with since 2009...

[Cha]

46. Excellent, freshwest.. Mahalo for the timely reminder!

[freshwest]

47. The only grown up in the room, will leave office in 2017... n/t

[Cha]

49. And, I.. and a lot of peeps

won't like it one little bit.

[freshwest]

50. He's had our backs. I don't expect to see that again. n/t

[Turbineguy]

48. Soon people will start

leaving the fact that they went to Harvard off their resumes if this keeps up.

[smirkymonkey]

54. LOL!

Some of these clowns are doing some serious negative PR for the Ivy Leagues.

[sinkingfeeling]

51. I told you two weeks ago that Tom Cotton would rather be Israel's Senator than

Arkansas'.

[d_legendary1]

52. Who's side are these assholes on?

They're certainly not on America's side!

[workinclasszero]

57. Who cares what the traitor Cotton says about anything now?

His pockets stuffed with AIPAC/Israel cash...how much did they bribe you with this time Cotton??

Did you blow through the $$million$$ already #47traitor?

And WTH is a US senator so fucking concerned with a foreign country's business?

What about the USA Cotton? You damn traitor!

[Omaha Steve]

58. It should be an unhappy clown

Because he has been unhappy about the unintended consequences!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

60. Fuck Cotton. So tired of the Stupid in this Country.

[blackspade]

63. Asshat.

WTF?

[greiner3]

65. Sounds as though this asshat wants to jump aboard the clown bus in 2020.