Bush and his "Simple-Minded Faith"

MSNBC - Scarborough Country | 10/15/04 | Sitewriter

[sitewriter]

It is a small minority of Americans who have the "simple-minded" faith that George Bush is talking about.

[sitewriter]

Did anyone else see Scarborough Country last night (Thursday) on MSNBC? They showed a clip of President Bush during the debate, where he was talking about his faith and how it impacts his policy decisions. After showing the clip, the liberal guest on the show stated that it is only a small minority of Americans who are that "simple-minded" to have the sort of faith that George Bush speaks about; laughing, in order to emphasize that they and their opinions should not be taken seriously.

Talking about elitist! He was obviously speaking from his lofty perch of intellectual superiority, not realizing that his entire liberal foundation is based on intellectual dishonesty ("you can't legislate morality," when all they do is legislate immorality). I'm going to stick with the Guy who said, "Unless you come to Me as little children, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God."

[no dems]

Who was the liberal guest?

[Prime Choice]

Thank God for "simple minded" faith of the Right. It has saved us time and again from the "nuanced intellect" of the socialist Left.

[sinkspur]

That was Lawrence O'Donnell. He has ramped up his invective toward Bush, and his reference to Bush's "Simple God" is especially gratuitous.

He likely knew that he was also ridiculing millions of other Americans who hold the same beliefs.

The Democrat internals must be tanking after the Mary Cheney remark.

[freepertoo]

I'm laughing too hard to be insulted.

[RightWhale]

Bush is turning out to be quite the philosopher. He may turn out to be a contextual relativist of the social Conservative type.

[hushpad]

He has ramped up his invective toward Bush, and his reference to Bush's "Simple God" is especially gratuitous<<<

I recall the King of Egypt thought Moses had a "Simple God" as well.

[Oldsailor]

That "simple" remark by O'Donnell simply defines how simple lawrence really is. I think Lawrence O'Donell is not only simple.....but as we simple farm folk say.... he is about as dumb a post.

[Woogit]

I pray all of us who hold to our simple faith in an Almighty God will turn out to vote on Nov. 2nd. We may be the silent majority but I fully believe we ARE still the majority.

[jcb8199]

Hey, I resemble that remark. I would say I am simple minded, compared to Liberals--no way I am slick enough to dupe, betray, distort, lie, obfuscate, reinvent and then JUSTIFY it all!

[LegalEagle61]

This alone should get the Christian vote out!

[formercalifornian]

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

That was Lawrence O'Donnell

Keep talking, Lar.

[Joann37]

Yes, sitewriter, I'd rather have the "childlike faith" that the Bible speaks of than be a clueless loser like Lawrence O'Donnell.

It amazes me when these people bash Christianity, yet profess to be Christians themselves. They truly know very little about the faith.

[DaveMSmith]

Personally, I believe the President's response to the faith question was his best of the debate:

SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, let's go to a new question.

You were asked before the invasion, or after the invasion, of Iraq if you'd checked with your dad. And I believe, I don't remember the quote exactly, but I believe you said you had checked with a higher authority.

I would like to ask you, what part does your faith play on your policy decisions?

BUSH: First, my faith plays a lot -- a big part in my life. And that's, when I answering that question, what I was really saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And I do.

And my faith is a very -- it's very personal. I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family. I pray for my little girls.

But I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit.

Prayer and religion sustain me. I receive calmness in the storms of the presidency.

I love the fact that people pray for me and my family all around the country. Somebody asked me one time, "Well, how do you know?" I said, "I just feel it."

Religion is an important part. I never want to impose my religion on anybody else.

But when I make decisions, I stand on principle, and the principles are derived from who I am.

I believe we ought to love our neighbor like we love ourself, as manifested in public policy through the faith-based initiative where we've unleashed the armies of compassion to help heal people who hurt.

I believe that God wants everybody to be free. That's what I believe.

And that's been part of my foreign policy. In Afghanistan, I believe that the freedom there is a gift from the Almighty. And I can't tell you how encouraged I am to see freedom on the march.

And so my principles that I make decisions on are a part of me, and religion is a part of me.

[Esther Ruth]

Democrats can't do anything simply. Nothing is simple to them, or clear. Their minds are confused and twisted and the solutions to every problem they come up with are complicated and confusing and a tangled mess, to the point where they don't even remember where they started in the beginning.

Look at the tangled messes and bureaucracies they create, look at their meetings and lack of organizational skills. This is their standard operating procedure; chaos and complications.
W's faith is perfectly simply easy to understand - and they have clearly and simply rejected it.