Posted by
Michael on Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:06:03 PM
Sigh.
Apparently there's another
insider tell-all book about the Bush Administration, this one saying that Bush doesn't actually believe in the Rapture and the second coming and all that but is only using Christian voters to keep a Republican majority.
More than five years after President Bush
created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former
second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider’s
tell-all account that portrays an office used almost exclusively to win
political points with both evangelical Christians and traditionally
Democratic minorities.
The
office’s primary mission, providing financial support to charities that
serve the poor, never got the presidential support it needed to
succeed, according to the book.
This is the total opposite of the argument that I've heard for a long time: that the Administration hates science and believes in theocracy. We've been hearing that since Bush dared to suggest that teaching abstinence might help keep teens from having sex. What a radical idea...
You can hear the belief that Bush is a religious fanatic in
Christopher Hitchens' appearance on
Real Time with Bill Maher, where Bill Maher said:
Maher: “I was just saying what the President of Iran and the President
of America have in common is that they both are a little too
comfortable with the idea of the world coming to an end.”
I guess this means that if Bush has been playing the conservative Christian voters for fools, he has also been playing leftists like Maher for fools. Quite a good performance for a President that's supposed to be an idiot.