Bill Clinton told an audience Thursday that all politicians need to be Baptists because they need so many second chances that they have to belong to a church that allows deathbed conversions.
At the rally in Owensboro, Kentucky, Clinton started by speaking fondly of his days working in the Senate with the late Wendell Ford. He even attended Ford's funeral in 2015.
Ford is very well known around the state of Kentucky because during his time in the Senate he famously said, "I wasn't interested in national issues. I was interested in Kentucky issues."
Clinton touched on the divide in Congress while comparing it to Ford.
"He knew that America would be in trouble if more than half of the people in Congress got up every morning, looked in the mirror, and said, ‘Oh, goody! I can go out and spend one more day of my life making sure nothing good happens for America,’" he said. "And that's a big problem in America today."
He then went on to say why politicians should be Baptists.
"Wendell Ford wasn't like that. He was, I think, a Baptist," he said. "And, all politicians need to be Baptists because we need so many second chances, we need to be in a church that believes in death bed conversions."
The crowd laughed at this.
He continued.
"But, we're in a Methodist college today," he pointed out. "And, he lived, as Hillary did, and does, by the admonition of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, do all the good you can to all the people you can for as long as you can," he said.