[Proverbs 3-5]

I love and respect Billy Graham immensely, but for the life of me I cannot understand his chumminess with two examples of the worst that humanity has to offer

I have to assume it's because Billy Graham loves people. Didn't Will Rogers say "I never met a man I didn't like"?

The article also said this:

...The book makes clear that Clinton is not the first candidate to have a relationship with Graham amid the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. Dwight Eisenhower asked Graham to assist with speeches in the 1952 race (Graham declined). Lyndon Johnson invited him to spend the weekend at the White House before the 1964 election because aides were hearing warnings that he might come out for Goldwater. Nixon recruited him to carry a secret message to Johnson during the 1968 campaign; Gerald Ford sought his advice in 1976 when he faced a born-again Southern Baptist challenger in Jimmy Carter. On the weekend before the 2000 election, amidst roiling charges about a buried drunk driving citation, Graham appeared at George W. Bush's side after a private breakfast together — in the soon to be contested state of Florida — and said, "I believe in the integrity of this man. I've known him as a boy. I've known him as a young man. And we're very proud of him."

[weegee]

On the weekend before the 2000 election, amidst roiling charges about a buried drunk driving citation,

It was an October suprise and it wasn't a "buried" citation, not like the hidden Clinton documents. That October surprise certainly cost GWBush some votes. If that amounted to as little as 0.51% of the voters then it cost him the popular vote that Al Gore Junior loves to brag about.

[mimaw]

Of course he would have to love the sinner but hate the sin. I think however it is very dangerous to join at the hip with such powerful people that can do so much harm to the moral climate of this country. Maybe being in the limelight colors one’s vision and causes one not to want to fall out of favor with the powerful.