When President Obama recently lined up God on his side by saying, “Even God wanted to put Americans back to work,” his opponents thought he might be going to far.
Coming to his defense, Obama spokesman Jay Carney denied that Obama had perhaps gone too far by dragging the Almighty into a fierce political spat.
“I believe that the phrase from the Bible is ‘the Lord helps those who help themselves’,” Carney said.
“I think the point the president is making is that, you know, we have it within our capacity to do things to help the American people.”
The White House was later forced to clarify however that the phrase Carney used, though often mistaken for scripture, was not in fact biblical.
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