Posted on 06/15/2007 8:24:22 AM PDT by Stoat
That would be highly non PC, but you are right. DOWN with PC.
Turning the other cheek when you are slapped is one thing. Forcing an entire nation to turn its other cheek, when it is slapped, is quite another.
And coming down hard on the face of your supporters with your boot-heel is another thing yet again.
Please do not sully the Christian faith by looking there for the motives of what this President has done in recent years in defending and coddling the worst of our adversaries here at home while betraying, at least twice, those who have been his most ardent and zealous supporters.
Bush has made a political calculation. I have read many theories here on this site regarding what that calculation might be. I personally have no idea what the real calculation is. It remains a complete mystery to me. But one thing I am sure of, it does not involve the Christian faith.
Take the case of Libby, just for one small example, to show you how far down Bush has gone and how the reason can’t be Christianity. Here is a man who is being railroaded into prison for making “mistatements” in a case in which the underlying crime isn’t solved, is never going to be solved, and appears, if it were to be solved, to have absolutely nothing to do with the person going to prison. This is a witch-hunt, pure and simple. This case isn’t jurisprudence, it’s a case of Left-Wing Pagan Idolatry.
The Left has created a Pagan god out of the office-worker Valerie Plame and they need a human sacrifice, someone to throw into the mouth of the volcano.
Now, it’s possible that Bush may eventually pardon Libby. But I do not look for him to make a speech condemning the tactics of the Left in this case. And I will not be surprised if there’s no pardon at all.
The fact is, there should be a pardon right now. This is not “turn the other cheek”. This is the Romans throwing a Christian to the lions and Bush obediently opening the lion-cage-door to let the beasts out.
There’s no explaining this. Not by any of us here. Because we are not insiders, we don’t know what all the inside deals are and who he’s cut them with and what’s really going on, in this, the most disappointing administration in the history of the American Republic.
It’s been said that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
There’s a ring of truth with that regarding Bush, and his dealings with the RATs, but in his case it might be more like this:
Bush never misses an opportunity to pull his enemies back from the edge of the abyss, while deceiving his friends and telling them he’ll save them next.
What a terribly unkind thing to say. OF COURSE I wasn't "sullying the Christian faith", only exploring possible explanations within Scripture for some of President Bush's perspectives for an internet poster who had expressed some confusion in previous posts....not the strident tone that you now project.
The fact is, there should be a pardon right now. This is not “turn the other cheek”.
Of course he should pardon him, and of course the concept of turning the other cheek doesn't even remotely apply here because it's a matter of overturning a bad, politically motivated court decision, not demonstrating the moral superiority of your own position by accepting abuse from others.
There’s no explaining this. Not by any of us here.
If that's how you feel, then I don't see the point in pursuing this any further and I'm not sure why you engaged in the conversation to begin with. In fact, if one can only know the truth about such things by being an "insider" then I fail to see the value of coming to Free Republic or any other political forum at all, because under your definition, public discourse seems to all be irrelevant if someone isn't an "insider".
I wasn’t really arguing with you as much as just trying to make a point about how inexplicable Bush’s actions are. I’m sorry you took my post as a personal criticism of you. I sincerely did not mean it to be.
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