About This Book
2020 or My Name is Jesus Christ and I'm Running for President is the story of the return of Christ to Earth, just in time for the 2020 presidential elections. Yes, Christ's finally back, and He's running for president--as a Liberal Democrat, while Beelzebub, his stepbrother, is running against Him--as a conservative Texas Republican. And the battle for the highest office in the land is joined, taking the reader on jalopy campaign rides through the snowy minefields of the Iowa caucuses, the sticky web of the New Hampshire primary, and dangerous drive-bys of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, where Molotov cocktail-totting anarchists and good guy guerrillas abound. It s there that Reverend Al Gore mounts his second bid for the vice-presidency, Nobel Peace Prize in hand. Supporting Christ and his candidacy is a star-studded cast of future cabinet secretaries including, among others, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Mel Gibson, and Bono... (Yes, he will end AIDS in Africa.) After a hard-fought campaign and a not-so instant replay of the 2000 General Election, complete with oral arguments made before Chief Justice Clarence Thomas, who insists that the genuine Christ is, was, and always will be black, a landmark decision in US Supreme Court case, Christ v. Christ, is finally handed down. And the winner is... The novel within a novella is framed in a more contemporary context, featuring Jerry McClellan, based very loosely on former DNC chairman, Terry McCuliffe, who, on the day after the 2004 presidential elections, must come to grips with the devastating defeat of his candidate, John Kerry. Woven together, the two stories reinforce the novel s primary themes: Religion s intrusion of late into contemporary American politics, the salutary affect of democratic politics on the nature of tyranny, and the looming clash of civilizations between Muslims and Christians.
