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Did anyone notice Bush's oddly worded claims about our place in history, delivered close to the end of his SOTU address?
Today, having come far in our own historical journey, we must decide: Will we turn back, or finish well?
Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. Like Americans before us, we will show that courage and we will finish well.
He gives the impression that history will be finished when he is through doing what he is doing. I thought this wording so odd that it made no sense until I discovered this 1997 sermon by Jerry Falwell: "Learning to Finish Well;" the full text can be found at http://sermons.trbc.org/970713.html.
Bush's lines are reported to be a message in "code" to reassure his right-wing evangelical base that he loves them. While this may come as no surprise to some, one has to pause and ask, how come most of the rest of the world thinks he is loony? He sounds loony, that's why. They (and a whole lot of us) are not in on his private jokes. And his actions portray a mad man at the helm.
If Mr. Sands turns out to be correct, here is the final evidence to show that George W. Bush is a dangerous, tyrannical nut who will stop at nothing, has murdered countless human beings in his quest for power, and has put this nation on the brink of destruction. Enough! He must be stopped.
