Jesus had it easy...(American politics)...a bit rambly

Did the title grab you?  Good.  Because I want you to think about it as you read this...a little comparison.

JESUS:
*His birth is considered miraculous--essentially, he rises from dirt poor/born in a manger to temporal/spiritual pre-eminence.
*He worked a regular job...normally considered a carpenter, if you translate the Greek a different way, it comes out as "day laborer".
*Traveled around to do his work.  Used the phrase 'son of Man' a ton--with apparent colloquial meaning at the time that "Hey, I'm just an everyday schmoe"
*Of his works, many are skeptical, some accept them without doubt.
*He lives, is crucified--lives again.
*The Gospels are testaments to faith, not biographies.
*If you believe history--he was a product of his times.
*opposed the religious establishment and the wealthy
*deals with the merchants/moneychangers through intimidation and violence.

Okay--if you know your Christian history, you get all this.  If you accept historical research, you'll accept most of this.

And you know what--he had it easier than our last several presidents?

BWAH????  That's sacrilege.  Is it?
Think about what is expected of a President.

*solve national debt of a country of 300,000,000 people
*Health care for those same people
*find jobs for the 21,000,000 out of work
*protect the nation from attack
*be morally pure
*Don't respond to attacks from opposing sides/partisans

Want me to go on?  Think of all the things Obama or Bush--or Clinton, Bush, Reagan have been blamed for.  Nixon, too.  This is not a new phenomenon.  Americans expect a president to work miracles--but the moment the president metaphorically barges in and knocks over the moneylenders' tables--he's attacked for it.

Fight a war?  He's a murderer.  Don't fight the war--he's a coward or traitor.  Presidents are asked to perform more miracles than Jesus...even though they have to work within a system of three government branches, and a federal system to boot mirroring those three branches at a lower, diffused level. 

The worst?  Americans don't understand Jesus.  They don't understand the Constitution. Actually--that's not the worst.  The worst is that Americans who have not read any of those books and documents insist they are right, insist they know exactly what Jesus believed, what George Washington believed, etc...but they've never opened those books.  Instead they accept someone else's word for it.

That's the worst.  That far, far, far too many people are willing sheep.
Read the Bible.  Read the Constitution.  Read books like "God's Messengers" or the Federalist Papers.  But for God's sake, if you are going to comment on things--take the time to think.