Thread: Candidate John Jacob Speaks of the Devil

To be honest, I know the feeling JJ is describing right now. I've felt it before on another immigration enforcement campaign I was close to when we were fighting the powers behind Bush and the OBLs. He should not have verbalized it to the press perhaps, but I know the feeling he is talking about and when I read this the hair on my arms stood up.

W


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The Devil Is In This Candidate's Details

All aspiring politicians out there take note: When dealing with the press, the best approach is almost always to avoid talking too much, lest what you say be taken out of context and the meaning twisted. Of course when you start talking about Satan’s impact on your campaign, that’s another matter altogether.

That’s what Utah congressional candidate John Jacob has been talking about to reporters lately. And while the conversation is getting him some attention, it might not be the good kind (hat tip for this story to Hotline’s Wake-Up Call, subscription required). Jacob is seeking to unseat Congressman Chris Cannon and here’s how the Salt Lake Tribune covers the story today:

As if beating a five-term congressman wasn't hard enough, John Jacob said he has another foe working against him: the devil.

"There's another force that wants to keep us from going to Washington, D.C.," Jacob said. "It's the devil is what it is. I don't want you to print that, but it feels like that's what it is."

Jacob said Thursday that since he decided to run for Congress against Rep. Chris Cannon, Satan has bollixed his business deals, preventing him from putting as much money into the race as he had hoped.
When asked if he really believed the devil is, well, bedeviling his campaign, Jacob told the paper: “I don't know who else it would be if it wasn't him. Now when that gets out in the paper, I'm going to be one of the screw-loose people.” Another lesson from campaigning 101 – if you think something you say is going to make you seem like you’ve got screw loose, you probably shouldn’t say it. Here's how one Utah political observer sees it:

University of Utah political scientist Matthew Burbank said Jacob's sentiment is unusual for a political candidate and might show his inexperience, but is unlikely to be a major issue for the conservative voters he is targeting.

"Given that, I don't think it's very likely to make a big splash among Republican primary voters, but certainly if he gets through to the general election it might come up again and he'd have to explain it more," Burbank said.
At least he could always say that the devil made him do it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/06/23 ... 6679.shtml

Shaking head....someone needs to help him pull his foot out of his mouth.

We work so hard to prop him up, and a remark like that threatens to topple all our efforts.

Originally Posted by PintoBean

Shaking head....someone needs to help him pull his foot out of his mouth.

We work so hard to prop him up, and a remark like that threatens to topple all our efforts.

John Jacob is in a place right now that few people ever go and he is facing dark and powerful forces that want to destroy his campaign. I've been where he is at before and although the words are better left unspoken, I know the feeling.

It is such a powerful and gut wrenching feeling that feels like a sickness in your soul. Sure there are physical aspects like the hair on your arms standing up, chills down your spine, weakness, confusion, nausea, a sick feeling in your gut. I guess some people can and have felt it in the presence of something like what JJ is facing right now. Others have not and it is not in the realm of their experiences.

I believe the archaic name for it is Fey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fey

A word that commonly means "magic" or "touched by magic."
A word (less commonly, from Old Norse "féigr") means "doomed, fated to die", often ascribed to supernatural causes, and evidenced by abnormal behavior.
"Fey" describing an individual (modern celtic) as having uncanny insight into both past and future.

If one believes in spiritual forces involved in the material world under any religious or belief system, then the feeling of Fey is used to describe noticeable feelings when one is close to something spiritual, supernatural, preternatural, ghostly or demonic.

On a similar campaign, when it felt like forces that defy human understanding reached in to take it from us I was almost overcome with these feelings and spent several days fearful of even trying to articulate what my instincts were telling me.

I've never felt anything as dark, evil, and powerful as the force that reached in towards us from the Bush administration's political machinery.

Something wicked this way comes.

W

That was deep W. I, too, have sensed a wickedness from this administration. I emailed the whitehouse weeks ago that in the future I believe history books will recall his administration as the worst ever. It isn't just illegal immigration but the globalization going on.
Thought provoking post W.