Posted on 05/22/2006 8:36:25 AM PDT by pissant
U.S. President George W. Bush has alienated Muslims around the world by using absolutist Christian rhetoric to discuss foreign policy issues, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.
"I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy," she said, referring to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both Democrats and Christians.
"President Bush's certitude about what he believes in, and the division between good and evil, is, I think, different," said Albright, who has just published a book on religion and world affairs. "The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying to some of us."
Bush, a Republican, has openly acknowledged his Christian faith informs his decisions as president. He says, for example, that he prayed to God for guidance before invading Iraq.
Some Muslims have accused him of waging a crusade against Islam, comparable with those of the Middle Ages. The White House says it has nothing against Islam, but against those who commit terrorist atrocities in its name.
But Albright says Bush's religious absolutism has made U.S. foreign policy "more rigid and more difficult for other countries to accept."
In her book, "The Mighty and the Almighty," Albright recalls how Bush, while he was governor of Texas, told Christians he believed God wanted him to be president.
She quotes from his speech to his party convention of 2004, when he told Republicans: "We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom."
"Some of his language is really quite over the top," Albright told Reuters on Sunday during a trip to London to promote her book. "When he says 'God is on our side', it's very different from (former U.S. President Abraham) Lincoln saying 'We have to be on God's side.'"
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He had faith alright, but it was in his abilities to remain hidden from Hillary. that failed too.
Secular Humanism
And brush up on the First Amendment while you're at it.
She is an idiot, although I do agree...we need to be on God's side, not worry about Him being on our side.
Halfbright has been completely discredited. The MSM just doesn't get it.
She's not even a shrewd socialist like most Clinton cronies. She's an empty skirt-suit.
Yet week after week, the MSM prominently features this airhead. Perhaps the worst SOS ever.
With BJ, it was all kind of shmooshed together and that worked out grat. Look what a great job he did on the follow up to the WTC bombing.
"We have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom." -GW Bush
"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights..." - T Jefferson
"The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying for some of us." - M. Albright
SUNG: "ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER...ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT THE SAME..." - Sesame Street (I think)
The "absolute truth" worries Democrats. That pretty much says it all.
Being a witch, certainly she is concerned about President Bush's faith.
Albright is obsessed with people of faith. She's more worried about people of faith than she is about al Qaeda.
The MSM love affair with the Clintonoids never ended. That they tout her is completely expected.
And the downside of that is?
"When he says 'God is on our side'..."
When did Bush state that? Or is it just another of the leftwing's lies?
"We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved
us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened
us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our
hearts that all these blessings were produced by some
superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with
unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to
feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too
proud to pray to the God that made us."
Abraham (Over The Top) Lincoln
Damn, that is HOT! (LOL)
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