The latest bit of oblivious bigotry from the Commander in Chimp.
It’s easy, dude. George Washington did it. Thomas Jefferson did it. Abraham Lincoln did it. None of those guys had much relationship with Jesus. Jefferson and Lincoln both specifically rejected Christianity, and guess what…ALL those guys were WAAAAAY better presidents than you.
Oh…and any time you want to start protecting all those religious rights of others will be just fine with me.
That’s not the part that bothers me.
(emphasis fearfully added)
That’s the part that bothers me.
What? Presidents aren’t supposed to be Christians? Then why are we living in a theocracy? What’s that… oh… never mind.
Well, at least he hasn’t tried lumping us in with the terrorists and sending us off to the Gitmo death camp. Yet.
Hmm, there’s a knock at the door…
I disagree with Bush, and would leap at the chance to vote for a politician who would keep his faith personal.
However, I hardly think this is “oblivious bigotry.” He didn’t categorically state, “You must believe in JAY-SUS to be POTUS!!!,” he qualified it with a “from my perspective,” and it seemed to be a respectfully offered personal opinion rather then any kind of official platform statement. On my list of things I don’t like about Bush, this ranks somewhere between the topic of Reeder pit thread #1.832e38 and Reeder pit thread #1.832e38.
It’ll be good practice, a warm up. Hell Lite.
Wait a second - your president thinks that religious people are more patriotic than non-religious people?
So, you have to have a relationship with the Lord to be president. Which Lord is that - the Christian God, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Allah, Buddha, Zoroaster, or AmenRa? Does it matter which one, as long as you have a relationship with one of them?
Like father like son, I guess.
When Rising Democratic Star ™ Barack Obama was running against certified lunatic Alan Keyes in Illinois’ bizarre senate election, Keyes said that Jesus wouldn’t vote for Obama. I pitted this at the time. Obama’s response would have made me cheer, had I been present: “I’m not running to be the minister of Illinois. I’m running to be its United States senator.”
Praise be.
Sounds like an opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
You aint from around here, are ya boy?
Best not be around here much longer, niether.
A particularly stupid opinion.
Why does George W. Bush hate America?
Regarding the OP, can someone please point out to me where Bush said only Christians should be president?
Do you think he was talking about another the Lord?
[QUOTE=GWB as quoted by the Washington Post]
“On the other hand, I don’t see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord.”
[/QUOTE=GWB as quoted by the Washington Post]
In Christian Evangelical America, “the Lord” is commonly used in place of “my Lord”. It’s rather like the subtle difference between “Jeffery is bring a friend to dinner” and “Jeffery is brining his friend to dinner”. The first might be anybody, the second is Jeffery’s SO.
He’s been in office four years, and people are still surprised to learn the President is a wild-eyed religious fanatic who thinks he was Chosen By God to lead a crusade against the (Christian- ) Godless heathens?
What have you been washing your hair or painting your nails since 2000?
Perhaps this one?
Pash
Now *that’s * an exmple of Crappy Coding. Can we have a mod in here for a cleanup?