At a funeral for the fallen Americans, Bartlett reads from the gospel “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the Children of God”. I thought, now there’s a verse I don’t believe Bush has ever quoted. Not “battle” oreineted enough. The opening episode showed Bartlett having the military response ready and waiting for a signal, but earnestly seeking to bring the Palestinians and the Israelis to the table, while Congree drafts a strongly worded resolution calling on the President to act militarily.

When a delegation for Congress confronts him at the White House, Bartlett leaves the room and tells the delegation leader: “I’m seeking a peacful resolution to this, and when it happens, you’re going to have to go and televsion and say why you opposed it.

Renewed in my mind is a post I made a year or so ago, where I lamented how we have such a clueless, militaristic, unarticulate, weak president who has a machine around him convincing a scary amount of people that he’s strong and “doesn’t waver”.

As a Christian, I believe the hesitancy Bartlett showed to military action, and the forethought about consequences, and the urgency to avoid inevitable quagmire, is the choice and the stance of the sound and the moral mind. Bush is NONE of these. On top of those, his MO seems to be that it is all in order to hand control over to the corporations, making their desires policy, and laying a thick layer of nationalistic theocracy over top of it to convince the shallow that this is a “righteous” campaign. I had a friend respond to my lamenting how I wish we had a president who was truly respectable, intelligent, articulate, and moral, truly caring about the country, by saying the obvious: It’s just TV, and our REAL president (he’s a Bush supporter) has to deal with REALITY. Yeah. He does that SO WELL. I truly believe that Martin Sheen himself has more credentials to be a good president than Bush, who basically has NONE of those qualities, nor does he have the background or prior interest in the intricacies of government, and this is the person that is in the White House.

The level of irresponsiblility, lack of ability to weigh the possible outcomes (and refusing to listen to people who do and who warned him) is , instead, a sign of a dangerous and lethal president. He needs to go.