A frank talk with God

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http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres25a3772477apr25,0,520955.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

Jimmy Breslin
April 25, 2004

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In the still-dark part of the morning, I went up to the coffee wagon on Columbus Avenue and, finding nobody on duty, I called out. There was no answer, but I caught some motion in the street alongside the cart.

The coffee man was on his hands and knees, his forehead touching the street. A Muslim prayer. A bus went past him, just passed him, maybe missing him by a foot.

"You'll get killed," I told him.

He waved a hand to get me away.

When he resumed selling coffee, he said, "Once you start a prayer, you can't stop."

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All this comes out of a religious crisis in this nation. We have a president who says he talks to God. When he was asked if he had gone to his father to discuss starting the invasion in Iraq, George Bush said, no, I talked to a higher father. What he was saying is that God personally told him it was all right to send our soldiers into Iraq and start the War of the Children.

I can't believe that Bush is so dumb that he thinks he actually talks to God.

When I am the only one I know of who talks to God.

I can prove that because God told me that no one else in America speaks to him directly.
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Classic Breslin. Mods, there are do damn many paragraphs because of the way the column is written. I don't even have the best parts in here. Had to do it this way.

[Miss Authoritiva]

1. "Act like nobody dies. God is on our side and none of us die."

In his speeches, Bush always makes references to the "sacrifices" that the American people are making/must make. But it's just another word on the tele-prompter. It doesn't mean anything to him. If the Iraq War has been greatly sanitized for the American people, it has been even more so for Bush. It might just as well be a very expensive video game.