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March 11th, 2008

Your bipartisan jokes of the day, courtesy of Jim Wallis, author of The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America (…the first as told to Jim Wallis by The Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land):

Two senators - one a Republican and the other a Democrat - were eating together in the Senate Dining Room. The Republican senator said, “You Democrats know nothing about religion!” “That’s not I true,” insisted the Democratic senator. “We know a lot about religion.” So the Republican issued a challenge, ”I’ll bet twenty bucks you can’t ¬cite the Lord’s Prayer!” The Democrat said that was easy, and began, “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.” The Republican then reached for his wallet and replied, “Darn, I didn’t think you could do it!”

A man was drowning in the Potomac River, about one hundred feet offshore. The Republicans ran down to the river, saw his predicament, threw him fifty feet of rope, and yelled out to him, “The rest is up to you.” The Democrats then heard about the drowning man and the Republicans’ failure to rescue him. When they reached the riverbank, they saw that the poor guy was about to go under, still about a hundred feet offshore. So the Democrats threw him two hundred feet of rope-and let go of their end.

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