According to the Wall Street Journal, the President has deemed his debt ceiling efforts sufficiently arduous to merit a promotion.  President Obama has apparently made a sacrifice so great that we have been saved (again, as if that were necessary).  In reference to his recent efforts, the President commented, "There's no sense dying on a small cross." We know our President is a font of scarcely believable material, but this is really something.  Just how should a believer construe President Obama's analogy of himself to Jesus Christ? First, there is a notable major difference between the President's comment and the more common and irreverent quip, "Come down off your cross."  The President's comment is self-referencing; whereas the common quip is typically directed at another person.  More importantly, the President's comment seeks a parallel to Christ's cross and inflation of the President's ordeal; whereas the common quip ironically suggests perspective,...(Read Full Post)