Sen. Inhofe's "Jesus Thing"

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Sen. Inhofe's "Jesus Thing"
By Kyle | February 25, 2009 - 5:06pm

In December, the Oklahoman reported that Sen. James Inhofe had regularly been making trips to Africa, using taxpayer money, in order to spread the gospel of Christ

In the past decade, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Tulsa has made at least 20 trips to Africa as part of a mission that he frequently describes in religious terms.

Inhofe’s African trips have cost taxpayers more than $187,000 since 1999, according to a review of expenses Inhofe and staff members have submitted through the Armed Services Committee.

Inhofe insists that his trips have either been paid for personally or stemmed directly from his work in Congress on humanitarian, national security and economic matters. But Inhofe’s own words make it sound as if these trips are more about using his office and standing as a US Senator in order to evangelize:

Some of the trips have been taken on military planes that cost thousands of dollars an hour to operate. The military does not disclose the cost of flying members of Congress to their destinations.

The trips — which Inhofe has referred to publicly as "a Jesus thing” — have spanned the continent, though the senator has spent most of his time in a few countries, including Uganda and Ethiopia.

In an interview with an Assemblies of God publication in 2002, Inhofe said, "I’ve adopted 12 countries all the way from Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, and Gabon in West Africa as far east as Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. I’m planning to meet with nine presidents in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. My focus will be to meet in the spirit of Jesus.”

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In fact, in this video posted today by Faith and Action’s Rob Schenck, it sounds an awful like Inhofe is using these trips for exactly that purpose, as he relates how, before his first trip to Africa, he found out that his daughter was also going to be there doing missionary work and told her that “if you go with me, it’s free.”

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Related video also at link
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sen-inhofes-jesus-thing

[Xipe Totec]

1. The Power of Christ Compels You!

[Emit]

2. omg

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[Vickers]

3. "20 trips...have cost taxpayers more than $187,000"

Hey, that's only $9,350.00 per trip!

:crazy:

[a la izquierda]

4. Okay, so I owe the state of Oklahoma $600

in taxes.
Who am I supposed to raise holy hell to about this?

[madokie]

5. I say bust his sorry ass

[Catch22Dem]

6. Yeah, like I need an article to tell me Jim Inhofe is a fucking asshole.

That dude has been a douche nozzle his entire life.

[TlalocW]

7. Feh, it being a Jesus thing is what he wants you think it is

That way the story can be labeled in terms of God-haters trying to keep a good Christian like Inhofe from spreading the love of the gospel.

There's no way Inhofe is going over to Africa to spread the word of God or doing anything else humanitarian. Remember Pat Robertson supposedly sending a lot of goods and services to Africa, and it turned out to be about diamond mining with support from a dictator? I lay even money that it's something like that.

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