Posted on 10/22/2004 12:53:00 PM PDT by cybersaint
NEW YORK TIMES AND VOICES OF DESPAIR LINE-UP AGAINST BUSH AND “FAITH-BASED” PRESIDENCY
Cover Story Says Bush’s Faith Makes Him “Just Like” Al Qaeda
Washington, DC – The cover story of the New York Times Sunday Magazine was headlined “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush” and it surveyed a long list of mostly liberal or disgruntled Republicans concerning the President’s religious beliefs.
“This is a vicious, last-minute attack on the President and all faith-filled citizens,” said Rev. Louis P. Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition.
“America was founded by people of faith and, if you believe George Washington, can be successful only as long as people of faith are its citizens.”
George Washington said, in his farewell address on September 19, 1796, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man ought to respect and to cherish them.”
“One ex-official interviewed in the article volunteers that George Bush is “so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy …because he’s just like them.”
“The New York Times should have called Sunday’s issue a ‘Special Bash Bush Issue’ complete with this story and its endorsement of the President’s opponent on the editorial page,” said Rev. Sheldon.
“From beginning to end of the article, there are complaints that the President is too certain about America’s future. There are anecdotes about mistakes the President has made and stories about how he has not heeded the advice of this liberal Senator or that liberal Congressman. All of this is blamed on the President’s ‘absolute faith.’
“Faith is depicted as making the President close-minded, arrogant and unreasonable. Real faith leads us to deeper reflection; the article quotes Jim Wallis of the liberal Sojourners. It does not lead us to the ‘easy certainty’ which he alleges President Bush and other Christians have about this world.
“But this article is replete with the liberal ‘easy certainty’ that religious citizens are without reflection and not nearly as sophisticated as their wiser liberal observers. It drips with the same condescending liberal viewpoint that religion is nothing more than the superstition of the uneducated.
“The bottom line about this article is this faith which causes certainty and clarity is a good thing. Faith is the basis for all true hope. America needs a leader who is soundly grounded in Faith and not shifting about trying to stumble on solutions and principles from which to govern.
“Given a choice between the President and any shortcomings he may have in his management style or his openness to liberal ideas and the litany of despair that we have heard from his opponent, the American people are faithful and therefore hopeful. The forces of despair may flourish in the Congress and at the editorial writers’ desks but not at the White House where certainty is required of the leader of the free world.
“The President is as prone to mistakes as the rest of us, but his deep Christian faith is not a mistake or a shortcoming. It is his greatest strength.”
Fred Barnes was livid about this NYT slime. I wont bother reading the crap and I doubt many swing voters will either. Sounds like meat for the dogs (liberals)
However, certainty is the opposite of faith, not its synonym. The article tries to make the case that Pres. Bush is far too certain because of his faith.
Oh well.... more of the same from the NYT.
The NY Times and MSNBC are going ballistic at the thought of another term for Bush. They can't stand that he believes in God. Even MSNBC or the NY Times believes that Kerry is a Christian. They know he is performing and will only believe what he has to in order to win the election. The MSNBC talking heads are going over the top on this subject.
NYT=666
Notice now how many people are talking about Bush's faith, and his "faithful supporters," and he certainty.
It's the religion card; it's all they have left.
Just goes to show how FAR TO THE LEFT THE RADICAL SOCIALISTS HAVE GONE IN THIS COUNTRY. The only God they worship is the monolithic god of liberal government power. The supreme force in their universe....
(just a good way to say they are behaving like Communists...)
The Christian Bashing shall continue and get worse if a Kerry is elected.
Which is why he must be defeated and we must continue to work to prevent Hillary from taking over.
amen
Actually, I semi disagree.
I do think it would be worse in the sense Kerry would use his 'power' to attempt to target people of faith, but if Bush wins because OF the faith block the anger is only going to increase.
You'll see Leftists simultaneously trying to "win" back this group for their votes, while making life as difficult for people of faith as possible.
There is going to be an all out assault no matter what happens.
Their opposition to President Bush has been reduced to nothing but attacking his "faith." They could care less about the fact that they're also attacking a majority of the voters' faith as well. Just so long as they (with malicious intent) slam GWB. They've got nothing else...it's come down now to attacking his faith, his "Christianity"....thus revealing their utter vileness. Take heart! Consider it an honor, a privilege to be so "crucified" in the eyes of the MSM/Left, etc., for the cause of Christ.
Desperate attempts by desperate liberal leftists people and organizations to slow da Bushman down. Go Mr. Prez go. The animals are on the run.
If left is saying that is faith is evil ... they have NOTHING left
They're pressing the religion card to keep the Jewish voters in line, er, in the Democratic camp.
How pathetic a statement about our society is it that the Left and the Democrats can call someone a believing Christian and think it is an insult?
A prayer attributed to George Washington, 1st US President:
"Direct my thought, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate Blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by Thy
Holy Spirit...Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of Thy Son Jesus Christ."
How the media must break His Holy Heart, but He loves them
just the same.
I agree. The left will accept nothing less than getting their way, and will become increasingly hostile util they do, no matter how clearly wrong-minded they are.
They are determined to destroy this nation one way or the other...either by taking it over and wreaking the their self-centered havoc or by focusing their destructiveness on those they hate more than the Islamofascists: Christian conservative Americans.
Either way, they will behave like the willful spoiled arrested adolescents they are until nothing recognizable is left of this nation.
I think the leadership of the Islamofascists know this, and are laying low letting the stupid fools feel fat and happy...laughing at pigs like Michael Moore when he says "there is no terrorist threat", knowing that such foolishness plays into their hands by increasing the liklihood of pansies such as sKerry getting elected.
In a sense, the Islamofascists could become a blessing in disguise, since these people are too self-centered not to be afraid if and when it things get to the point that their are bombings in our streets, malls and tunnels regularly. Nothing short of fear for their own annihilation could, at this point, bring them back from the self-absorbed illness known as "liberalism", IMHO.
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