By:
SilentPatriot on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 1:10 PM - PDT
Jesse Ventura announced to the world last night that he will not challenge Norm Coleman and Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race, and managed to get a funny jab in at President Bush’s “personal” relationship with God.
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And so I will tell you now, I am not going to run at this moment. But if between now and 5:00 maybe God comes and speaks to me like he did the president, and tells me I should run, like he apparently told the president to invade Iraq, well, then maybe at 5:00 tomorrow, Larry, don’t call me a liar, just understand God sent me to file.
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Thank goodness The Governing Body got rid of that awful goatee.
Will Captain Freedom endorse a candidate?
I’m waiting for God to tell me to rob a bank.
Proves he has better judgment than Nader.
God came to Bush and told him to pollute his planet and kill hundreds of thousands of his people.
That wasn’t God, it was the devil, and Bush is the anti-Christ.
zing!
I don’t always agree with him. But, ya gotta love Jesse! LOL!
To some, Jesse the Body may be a wacko, but I find myself agreeing with A LOT of what he says. Too bad he was once a pro wrestler, that seems to automatically disqualify him from ever being taken seriously.
He was a Navy SEAL, and unlike McC*unt, actually completed his missions.
Veep! Veep!
Thank heavens he isn’t going to run! He was fun for a little while, but after the 8 Bush years, we need mentally sound candidates! Jesse Ventura is a big, loud blowhard! He looks down on all of us, and is incapable of looking in a mirror! Kind of a crazed Bill O’Reilly!
Good quote from Ventura. I don’t alway agree with him, but he makes sense and bases his opinion on evidence.
By the way, good news out of Oregon. Jeff Merkely (D) has pulled even with the incumbent Gordon Smith (R). Merkely trailed by 5 two weeks ago, now is two points ahead but within margin of error (I believe). Smith has been desperately trying to run away from his and George Bush’s record, but we won’t let him.
It’s nice to have an occasional refreshing “wacko” in a sea of boring, compromised pragmatists.
That was a classic shot at Bush. Funny stuff…
That’s not God who speaks in Bush’s ear, it is the ghost of Adolph Hitler.
Sig Heil!
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 2:
Too late, the Bush regime beat you to it.
E. coli ascending, economy descending
Are we going to survive to see the rapture
when Gabriel blows his horn
and heralds the battle of Armageddon?
* “…And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Failure, who called, and said:’ Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.’ So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was terrified, and fell upon my face; but he said to me: ‘Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end…” (Daniel 8:15-17)
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this is a huge blow to the truther movement…he was their shining star
unrepentant expat @ 15:
I have read this post 3 times and I still don’t know what the fuck it means.
If you believe in the rapture you are as nutty as a fruitcake.
Aanya @ 9:
Whoa! Way off base with that comparison. Ventura actually tells the truth, how does that make him a “crazed bill O’reilly” ?
calling jesse a wacko?
pffft
…we’d all be better off if more of us poked fun at any adults who choose to believe they have an imaginary friend in the sky…jebus!
how come Jesse looks better? Did he lose weight? Have plastic surgery?
Glad to see that he agrees with the vast majority of people that Dumbya is religious FAKE.
Show ‘the body’ Jesse Ventura a shiny wrestler’s belt , he might change his mind.
Go Al Go. Thank god Jesse isn’t running.
Jo @ 17:
At first, there was only the Word; and what was that word? Hot dog! Yes, dear friends, a mighty hot dog is our lors. And then did we eat of the word….
Good one, Jesse!
Jesse is a human being. Putting him in the bag with politicians just because he was an independent governor isn’t polite. The only people in politics that deserve anything “polite” are those that:
1. Do what they say. 2. Leave gracefully when they show their constituents that the system is corrupt from the core and that nothing can be done lawfully. He did that all ready.
What else can you ask from a person if they give you the truth? He apparently isn’t a crook. He can’t fit in with the criminals any more. Smart guy.
Mickxotic @ 25:
You dare blaspheme the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his meaty goodness?? May you be touched by his noodley appendage.
Mickxotic @ 25:
Hot dog is two words.
Mickxotic @ 25:
Nice Firesign Theatre reference, Mickxotic. Love live Porgy Tirebiter!!
this just in: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
Jo @ 13:
or might be the evil dead eye doctor death Dick Cheney.
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 2:
God told me to bake a pie.
It was delicious.
If we had a president who claimed he got guidance to run the nation from the voice of God he heard speaking to him through his hairdryer it would be considered a national emergency. I hardly see how removing the hairdryer from the equation makes it any less a national emergency.
Anne @ 21:
here’s what you do…get a career in professional politics…then retire…after a few years out, i’ll bet you look better too :-D
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 2:
You better not. You can’t claim executive privilege to avoid being brought to justice.
David Hill @ 35:
It’s what being part of the good fight does for you, the other sides morphs into hideous trolls like Jesse Helms and Rupert Murdoch.
Eric Almighty @ 28:
RAmen brother.. aaarrrrrggggggg…
Jo @ 17:
I bet you’re still trying to figure out that ‘New Yorker’ cover too
If an investigation ever takes place, I feel confident that the voice telling Bush to invade Iraq belonged not to God, but to Dick Cheney.
Bush can teach Jesse how to get divine messages.
Bush claims he passed many successful religious courses on the subject given by visionary pastor Pat Roberston .
Hard to believe Jesse would have won so of no consequence. Franken will still lose. Two other candidates filed. One will probably take some Coleman votes, the other some Franken votes.
The Truth Hurts @ 7:
That is a low blow. Say what you want about his politics, his record in the senate, but attacking his military record like that makes you no better than the people who attacked Kerry’s wartime record.
Liberal AND Proud @ 6:
Ventura is an asshat.
yawn!
not the gipper @ 43:
Not at all. McCain did indeed fail his mission — he was shot down and held prisoner. Was that entirely his fault? Of course not. Anyone could have been shot down in this situation. However, it is also not to his credit.
Of course, McCain’s mission was to bomb innocent civilians, so perhaps we can credit him with felicitous incompetence.
Ah, how refreshing! A crazy person involved in politics who ISN’T destroying the country/killing us. Oh but for the good old days.
Good. I agree with a lot of what Jesse says, but I think I disagree with an equal amount of what he says. And to whomever said it’s the pro wrestling background that discounts him, not in my case. I’ve been a fan of wrestling since I was six, and I applaud Jesse for speaking out in favor of unionization and labor rights for wrestlers, of which there is absolutely none. McMahon and other promoters treat their workers like livestock and it takes guts for someone like Jesse to speak out about that.
That being said, Jesse’s also an arrogant as all get out blowhard who unfortunately sounds half-crazy half of the time. Declaring to Larry King last month that he’s “the most powerful man in America” comes to mind. Also he perpetuates that independent myth that there is no substantive difference between Republicans and Democrats. Sorry, but my uterus tends to severely disagree with that assessment.
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 2:
I’m waiting for God to give me the winning numbers for a multimillion dollar lottery!
Good one, Jesse!!!
Would you please support Al Franken, pretty please????
Wee Mousie @ 40:
Whats the difference?