Letters to the Editor
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"I felt drawn to seek something different"
Like bourbon instead of vodka?
So many drunks replace a scotch on the rocks with Jesus on the rocks. Its one crutch for another. Personally, I don't buy the Christian thing with Bush at all. He may have found Jesus for a while when he had the dt's, but I doubt it lasted. And there is just something very artificial and disingenuous when ever he talks about his faith. Notice whenever they show him in church. He's always standing there with a surly smirk on his face. He doesn't seem engaged at all.
He had an epiphany alright, but it was a PT Barmun epiphany not a Jesus epiphany. He saw gold in those delusional Christians and road it all the way to the White House.
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There is no MORALITY anymore
the right believes whatever junk they are fed, the left is no better. Most of the stories around Billary are made up too, I am certain of this.
Pity, y'all single source DepRep party control the dialog and the nation, but the nation is failing us ALL, not just you true believer pinheads.
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Twisting the Cross
I don't think I have to remind anyone of the chilling historical precedence of a leader who claims Christ's guidance as he lies and invades. Bush is twisting the cross once again.
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the heroic vs the mundane
It doesn't surprise me at all that Bush - ok, Hughes and the team that wrote his 2000 bio - would repress his 1984 conversion in favor of the more stately 1985 Billy Graham version. The 1985 version is far more heroic and a lot less desperate-sounding than the meeting with Blessitt (mazola oil? hippie cafes? bikers? Chrissakes!). Ever since Hitler penned Mein Kampf (which similarly fashions a heroic conversion story out of Hitler's decision to go into politics - the reality is actually more murky and mundane [see Ian Kershaw's excellent _Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris_]), smart politicians have known that selling themselves entails crafting a seamless, heroic narrative out of the messy, tattered and unruly strands of real life. Say what you want about this criminal of a president, but he was good at marketing himself in 2000.
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GHWB at War
Actually, he wasn't at Midway, he completed flight training and went into action a couple of years after that, using a TBM Avenger to bomb one of the bypassed islands held by Japan. The plane was shot down and the two other crew were killed. There have been some claims that he hurriedly bailed out, leaving the gunners to plunge to their deaths. But nobody knows, and that could be just a supposition because he's told several different versions of how it happened -- as many do. Back in `92 some author claimed that he had information that GHWB and another pilot had strafed Japanese lifeboats deploying froma sunken ship, and said this was an issue in the `92 campaign. As little as I like the Bushies, I couldn't see where that was an issue -- by that standard we'd have to find and prosecute all the American pilots who were at the 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea, during which a Japanese troops convoy was sunk and strafed. As previous writers to this post have said, that was then.
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Born Again 20-some years ago...
Bush has supposedly been with Christ for 22-23 years now.
Even though I'm not a believer, I often find stories of a person's spiritual awakening to be fascinating, even inspiring.
Yet after two faith-based decades, Bush never seems to demonstrate his Christianity with any depth, or show any ability to describe it in a way that seems remotely convincing, let alone inspiring. He doesn't even seem to have the chops to quote a little scripture to sell the myth. Still, for some reason people buy this idea that Jesus is his "favorite philosopher."
I've always figured Christ is, to Bush, just another necessary political accessory, like a flag lapel pin, like the photo-op ranch. And just as he doesn't ride his ranch's leased horses, he doesn't ride with JC either.
Sadly, I think, for a lot of people, as long as someone pins on the flag, talks with inauthentic folksiness about a vague, simplistic religious faith, it's enough.
Bush's true savior is Karl Rove, and the gullibility of the general public.
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like MAV, i heard that as soon as he (the Elder) was rescued he went up again
looking for downed japanese pilots to strafe while they were helpless in the water. that might very well have been U.S. military policy. (it hasn't changed all that much). and no, i don't think he's that much different (in empathy) from the son. there was a program after his term in office where he was to go to japan in some sort reconciliation with the japanese pilots he fought. of course there was kumbaya at the end, but in the beginning he said he thought he never could forgive them. that was how many years ago? 50? never having been to war i don't know how easy it is to forgive but the vets i know didn't hold grudges that long - again similar to the son.
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Funny!
This is sooooooooo funny.
But how did Bush make it through Harvard Business School? That is a tough program. Can someone research that phase of his life?
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I'd like that
It is all arrogance. If you are a Christian solely to go to heaven, then I fail to see how you truly have the spirit of Jesus in your heart. The idea of Jesus is a selfless devotion to other people. Alas, GWB does not possess this devotion to other people, but he is full of arrogance.
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Bush is an average, normal human being
Bush's biggest sin is being kind of a dullard, which is probably, alas, beyond his control.
But, as long as we have the rather anti-democratice office of POUS (pronounced "puss"), we will need someone above average and better than normal to staff it.
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Talk about 'mano a mano'
"I knew I was in the presence of a great man ..." Bush wrote. "He was like a magnet; I felt drawn to seek something different... Billy Graham didn't make you feel guilty; he made you feel loved."
Dude, that is soooo hot!
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Jesus a Terrorist.
Bush would not know Jesus if he bumped into him behind one of the bushes on his Texas 'ranch'. Jesus, or a born-again Jesus, would be identified as a terrorist (he does 'look like Osama'), rendered to Poland, waterboarded and eventually dumped, broken and mentally stripped, somewhere in the world. Bush could then continue to be acclaimed as the greatest war criminal and mass murderer in the history of our nation in the name of Jesus.