Aide: Bush Faith Has Been Misunderstood

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's religious faith is "mainstream America" and no different from previous presidents, the director of his Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives said Friday.

"The president's faith has been misunderstood," said the White House aide, Jim Towey. "I don't see him as any different from his predecessors, both Democrats and Republicans." Towey cited Democrats Jimmy Carter and Franklin Roosevelt.
.......

"He does not believe God told him to run, or told him he would win, or that God told him to drop any bombs anywhere in the world. That's not his theology, his philosophy, his ethos," Caldwell said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-bush-religion,0,2234499,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[BadGimp]

1. well..

Only in that he uses his supposed adherence to his faith as a weapon upon this nation.

[tom_paine]

2. Wow, they don;t ind lying even WHEN the quotes are out there

that demonstrated the lie.

Now they have to pretend for a short time not to be Theological Fanatics ("For Christ and Liberty!" which is laughable considering every time religious fanatics got in charge, Liberty was the first thing to go) to sucker people...again.

So they lie, KNOWING that AP writer (note he is a religious writer, and thus as schooled in investigative technique and fact-checking as Faux News or 1978 Soviet Pravda) won't check their statements.

Can a Free Nation survive the Sovietization of media?

We are going to find out.

[Catfight]

3. Then explain his "God told me so," statements? Could we please

have Bush's hand on that very bible he alludes every chance he gets?

[soleft]

4. Not according to Prime Minister Abbas

http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2003_10-12/mirra_theol/mirra_theol.html

The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz (26 June 2003), reports that Bush told Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas that, "God told me to strike Al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did." Bush’s theological musings may be a bit brazen, but they are perfectly consistent with religious metaphors that are deeply embedded in America’s foundation

[LeftHander]

5. I guess we misundersetimated....(nt)

[MrBenchley]

6. And yet previous presidents were able to muddle along

WITHOUT an "Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives"....

Nor did they ever say to reporters that Jews were going to hell because they weren't saved....

[lakemonster11]

18. Did he really say that? (nt)

[Magleetis]

7. liar

It is amazing how the repugs are reinventing Bush* to make him appear as a decent person. Shameless liars all of them.

[lovuian]

8. I agree we don't know What Bush really Believes

He definitely doesn't Believe the Poor will Inherit the Earth

He believes that the Richer you are the Better

[GOPAgainstGW]

9. WE UNDERSTAND IT - SEE PHOTO

These banners were on a street outside the Rep Nat'l Convention in NYC.

[rocktivity]

10. It's taken them three years to figure that out?

Sounds more like the Pretzel-Dunce's fundie fanaticism is turning off the undecideds.

:puffpiece:
rocknation

[xxqqqzme]

11. wait just a minte there, jimmy rayjoebob,

Didn't squatter just tell a group of Amish that 'God spoke through HIM'? I am almost certain that was the quote. So now they're lying about what the liar claims?

After the lies to cover the lies to cover the lies of the liars.....do we ever get close 2 the truh?

[Charlie Brown]

12. If he is misunderstoood,

then why does he have an Office of "Faith-Based and Community Initiatives?" We all know which religion benifits from this "aid," and it ain't Budhism or Islam.

[JoFerret]

13. Why are they being so

uncharacteristically defensive? What's eating them? God's wrath with her unfaithful servant in the WH? The oncoming landslide of defeat?

[JerseygirlCT]

14. Does it piss anyone else off to see him try to use Jimmy Carter -m

and Franklin Roosevelt to justify his radical fundamentalist take on religion?

[maxsolomon]

15. are they saying there's something WRONG with visions?

isn't direct communication with the divine something america WANTS in a resolute leader?

[dmr]

16. Wait just a minute!

"He does not believe God told him to run, or told him he would win, or that God told him to drop any bombs anywhere in the world. That's not his theology, his philosophy, his ethos," Caldwell said.

Has he not said God told him to run? Or something similar to that? I'll have to Google it later, unless someone else comes up with quotes before me.

I am mainstream America. Mainstream Christians hold their beliefs close to their hearts. It is a personal faithing process.

Bush* is not mainstream. His behavior is not mainstream. I have no idea what his personal beliefs are; he could be faking it for all I know, but nothing about his public display of religion is mainstream.

I not only resent his past behavior and this flip-flop for Christ press release, it insults my intelligence.

[vogonity]

17. In my "Zell Style" reading of that quote:

"God told him to drop any bombs anywhere in the world."

Worst President in American History. Period

[lakemonster11]

19. You know...

You know, I'm an ancient history student and my projected specialty is ruler cult---let me just say the subject's a lot less fun when I'm confronted with it in my own time and country.

[leesa]

21. I'll bet. But what a thesis you will be able to write (if we survive him)

[Politicub]

20. Bush is a deranged megalomaniac

that's what I understand!

And now CBS has exposed him as a liar and a fraud.