The Morals of the “Morality” Voters

Daveid Weinberger of JOHO has few choice words for the Bush crowd that express a lot of what I would say to the same crowd:

Joho the Blog: Terms we need to re-own

We’re as moral as the people who claim to have voted for Bush for moral reasons. What they really mean is that they voted for Bush for fundamentalist religious reasons. Let’s call ’em “intolerant moms” instead. How do you like them apples?

Here, David comemnts on the “morality” of this “war on terror” (aka in BushWorld as “The War in Iraq; one and the same)

Bush uses “war” to justify the diminishment of liberty and economic sacrifice that we expect in real wars, as well as to hold out the false promise that we can someday be safe from bad people doing bad things to us.

And OH YEAH:

When it comes to fighting terrorism, strength is overrated. You don’t out-strong terrorists. You out-smart them. When Bush talks about a strong America, he often really means an America that doesn’t listen to anyone else.

I ranted this morning in my grief and rage about the audacity of these “Religous Right” folks who voted for Bush in droves because Bush says that “Christ changed my heart”, and claims he reads the Bible (seeing how much Bush actually does read, I doubt it for both sincerity reasons as well as for intellectual reasons (his staff has been known to say “The Presdient is not a big reader”). But Bush betrays all this talk with his actions, and his complete lack of a moral compass in his leadership (or lack therof) and his shameless selling of favors and positions and tax breaks to all his elite, corrupt, corporate friends (one of whom is the VP). When I hear the pollsters talk about “moral values” as a reason for voting Bush, my blood boils. The Religious Right has forsaken the teachings of Jesus for an American Civil Religion; this obviously comes first. I call it heresy.

Great list herE. Another gem:
Whenever Bush says “resolute,” substitute the word “stupid.”

BTW: I can’t see where the two commenters to this piece got their impresion of what DW was saying. Saying that “there are bad people who want to kill us” is certainly not accepting or internalizing “their rhetoric”. People who wan to kill people ARE bad people. Terrorism is wrong. But DW’s problem is with the response Bush has made, and so is mine.

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