Obama Slams Santorum, Says Both Parties Worship "God of Israel"

Denies Senator's Charge He Follows "Different Theology"

by Michael K. Smith
Legalienation News Bureau
Washington D.C.

President Barack Obama drew applause from across the political spectrum today when he rejected GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's claim that he leads based on a theology different from that in the Bible.

"I know it's an election year," said the president, "but the charge that I deviate from the theology of the Bible is scurrilous and irresponsible. I firmly hold to the view that Israel was ordained by God, who gave the Holy Land to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not the Arabs." He added that there was "no disagreement" between Republicans and Democrats about this, and that a "responsible consensus" had existed for decades that Palestine "belongs to the Jews by Biblical right."

Santorum had criticized the President for his "secular world view," which the Pennsylvania Senator said was based on the false idea that a monarchical God was not micromanaging the universe from Heaven, thus requiring a federal bureaucracy to fill the void. Obama shot back that he certainly did not believe that government was a substitute for the Almighty, but that in the absence of a Divine strike on Iran, Israel could not be faulted for "doing God's will by proxy."