The Body of Reagan

Mike Huckabee today criticized his opponents for the Republican party nomination, comparing them unfavorably to Ronald Reagan. He shared this well known Reagan anecdote:

"Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Reagan's mother was there, and Reagan and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran out, Reagan's mother said to him, 'They have no wine left.'

Reagan replied, 'Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.'

His mother told the servants, 'Whatever he tells you, do it.'

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Reagan told the servants, 'Fill the water jars with water.' So they filled them up to the very top. Then he told them, 'Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,' and they did.

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom and said to him, 'Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!' Reagan did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him."

Said Huckabee, "I'd like to see Mccain do that!"