[Victoria Delsoul]

What's more, Lincoln adds, his primary orientation also holds that "the U.S. is the new Israel as God's most favored nation, and those responsible for the state of America in the world also enjoy special favor. . . . Foremost among the signs of grace—if I read him correctly—are the cardinal American virtues of courage, on the one hand, and compassion, on the other." For Bush to waver would be to tempt God's disfavor; what's more, we can speculate that the very act of holding to his resolve—what his critics identify as stubbornness and arrogance—becomes, tautologically, a way of both producing, and reassuring himself of, his special place in God's plan. The existential benefits are obvious. "Wherever the U.S. happens to advance something that he can call 'freedom,' he thinks he’s serving God's will, and he proclaims he's serving God's will."

I believe so too, and the liberals know it as well. No wonder they hate him so much.

[ohioWfan]

I think that the vast majority of Americans resonate with President Bush's words that freedom is the God-given desire of every person on earth.

It is noble, and it is right...........and both those things are anathema to the left.

You're right, Victoria. It's no wonder they hate him.