Juan Cole, professor of history at U. Of Michigan asks “Is Bush Shortchanging Our Troops”. It would fit Bush’s pattern of failing to implement even the more blatant of his “promises” and his many empty “Show of Strength” which are backled up by absolutely NOTHING. Informed Comment Kerry said in the first presidential debate, KERRY: The president just talked about Continue Reading

A comment a few posts back asked this question, so I am taking a few moments to “count the ways” that Bush is an evil and inept President. Anthony says: Can you demonstrate to me how John Kerry has demonstrated or exhibited a greater witness as a Christian? Yeah, Anthony, Kerry is a greater witness by NOT BEING evil. Bush Continue Reading

Now Jim lets it out: High Stakes For Church and State, Sojourners Magazine/November 2004 Now we are in a real mess and George Bush should not be allowed to get away with the deceptions, incompetence, and consequences of this awful war. The war in Iraq was wrong from the start, and most every religious body in the world has said Continue Reading

Wallis says what I thought as well when I hear Bush talk about being with people who have lost loved ones in Iraq: High Stakes For Church and State, Sojourners Magazine/November 2004 Even as an opponent of the war, I found the most moving part of Bush’s convention speech to be the stories of his times with military families who Continue Reading

Here I believe Wallis is FAR too kind. Perhaps (and it is likely) that he is much more diplomatic and charitable than I. High Stakes For Church and State, Sojourners Magazine/November 2004 From what I have seen and heard of George Bush (including in small meetings and personal conversations I’ve had with the president) I believe his faith to be Continue Reading

This quote from the Wallis article, High Stakes, is refelective of the stats that Glen Stassen gave us in his article published in sojomail last week. High Stakes For Church and State, Sojourners Magazine/November 2004 Someday, a smart Democrat will figure out how both pro-choice and pro-life people could join together in concrete measures to dramatically reduce the abortion rate Continue Reading

Via MIke James Bush ‘goes against values I treasure’ Good leaders listen to others, ask questions and encourage dissenting opinions before making important strategic decisions. They know how to manage ambiguity. President Bush has no concept of ambiguity. Everything is black or white, good or evil. If you are not 100 percent for him then you are against him. A Continue Reading

The more I hear Bush echo this, the more disgusted I get….it reminds me of how completely hypocritical and deceptive these evildoers really are. They speak of “the light” so much, I keep thinking of the Biblical phrase “Angels of Light” in reference to Lucifer, and I see one of the more powerful embodiments of this. This article runs through Continue Reading

The Atlantic Online | November 2004 | Karl Rove in a Corner | Joshua Green Karl Rove is at his most formidable when running close races, and his skills would be notable even if he used no extreme methods. But he does use them. His campaign history shows his willingness, when challenged, to employ savage tactics

Faith heals the heart and the spirit, but it doesn’t do much for analytical skills. from the article I’ve been reading today (see previous postings) This is only true when one uses the case of Geroge W. Bush as a litmus test (and , to be fair, also applies to a widesread tendency in the Religous Right to give up Continue Reading

The evildoers hate the light. Anybody who have some sort of “devious” intentions, like asking for facts to back up the assertions by the Bush administration, are shunned in this administration. Suskind relates how the Bush administration refused to be involved in this article about “Bush’s faith”.

Bush often finds himslef in one of those awkward moments (which seem plenty with him) where he asked to explain one of his bumber sticker slogans.

For the Religious Right, it seems to be enough for Bush to have said two things: “Christ changed my heart” and “I prayed over it”, and they throw their allegiance to him down on the altar of nationalism, “powered by faith”. They seem unaware that this is a classic case of what Jeremiah warned against: 4 Do not trust in Continue Reading

KOS has a good discussion going under his posting of Suskind’s NYTimes article I link to in the previous post. There are, of course, some who show contempt for “Faith-based” talk, which doesn’t bother me, except to the degree that it has been “hijacked” by the Bush/Rove/Ashcroft/Delay/Falwell mentality (or Post-Diulio faith-based intiative). People forget that some of this “faith-based” talk Continue Reading