Our Holy-Roller-in-Chief

[kerrygoddess]

Our Holy-Roller-in-Chief
October 15th, 2005

Derrick Z. Jackson has an OP/ED in today’s Boston Globe that is worth noting particularly for the moniker he pinned on George W. Bush. It’s so fitting… Beyond the moniker Jackson points out Bush’s intentions for faith-based initiatives, and other manipulations of faith on the American public in the Bush agenda.

BY THE TIME our holy-roller-in-chief leaves office, we will really be confused about the role of religion. That is how President Bush wants it, starting with his faith-based initiatives that were merely an excuse for gutting government programs. In recent weeks, this blessed agenda has bumped up against unavoidable hypocrisy.

The most obvious is the Supreme Court. Bush named John Roberts to the court under a massive smokescreen. In July, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, ‘’Judge Roberts has said in previous testimony that personal beliefs or views have no role whatsoever when it comes to decisions that judges make.”

The ‘’no role” ploy was meant to fend off liberal critics and hide as much as possible from them about Roberts’s personal feelings in his Senate hearings. But when Bush’s new pick for the court, Harriet Miers, was criticized as a lightweight conservative by some on the far right, the White House performed what Bush himself called an ‘’outreach program” on Miers’s religious bonafides.

Moving past Bush’s inferences of religion in politics at home, Jackson points out the inferences on politics abroad… noting that famous quote that sounds a lot like “God told me to do it.”

The manipulation of religion is even worse (given the fatal consequences) for his adventures abroad. When journalist Bob Woodward asked Bush if he consulted with his former president father about invading Iraq, Bush said, ‘’He is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher Father that I appeal to.”

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[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. The wrong father?

You know what? That's a crock. That is lip service. George Bush pretends to be a Christian in order to secure votes. Period. He is a nominal Christian. Name only. It is all about politics. All of it.

[wisteria]

2. I always felt Bush was a cold person, but I am now going to add

scary to my assessment of him.