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I would truly welcome sincere and true faith in this administration. Unfortunately, I am not convinced that there is faith at the top. GWB is going to inherit the whirlwind alright, but it won't be as he supposes. It began from his Inaugural address when he slandered republican conservatives for not caring about the poor. How despicable . And think how the GOP would have reacted if a President Gore had uttered that condemnation. Furthermore, If in fact GWB was practicing in faith, he would not be so busy keeping hold-overs (who are clearly not in faith), nor failing to prosecute out-going non-faithful criminals, and allowing abortions to be federally funded, etc. GWB is making no effort to stop partial birth abortions while we still have enough votes to ban it.... And more insidiously he is lying to us about national security...and violating everything the Bible teaches about 'putting our trust in princes', and having hindered adequate defense budgets from the first. Do you remember at all in January 2001 how shocked every conservative was when GWB refused to do an immediate defense budget increase...and in fact offered ZERO? And then when the midyear budget time came, all that was added was a paltry $18 billion? Inflation alone would have accounted for all of that. Well, I guess I'm still shocked. Now he is busy unilaterally dismantling our nuclear security...with no NMD deployed. And letting Karl Rove continue playing politics with our unique and extremely vital naval firing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico. It just goes on and on. A profound lack of seriousness from the purported 'adults' in charge.

Sorry you don't see faith. I do, at every single turn. Politics is politics, and many things, such as the makeup of budgets, is irrelevant in the long run.

The war we are now fighting would NOT be substantially helped by throwing more money at the military. Rumsfeld himself said we did not need the Crusader, a bloated, massive (slow) artillery piece that did NOT give substiantial improvement over what we have, and will be WAY below what we will have.

But don't hold your breath waiting on Bush to "reap a whirlwind."

So much of what you say is correct. It is not heresy to find our 43rd president wanting. An improvement over what we had? Hell, yes! But an effective fighter for all that conservatives believe? No, I'm afraid GWB has seriously disappointed on many fronts.
And I'm sorry but so many of these posts strike me as racist. C. Rice is an intelligent, articulate National Security Adviser. But just because she is black and all these other things doesn't mean she is of presidential timber. So many of us wanted to anoint Powell as the first black president until we learned more about him. Let's wait on Rice too. This sermonette makes her look very promising but let's watch her real world achievments and then "judge the content of her character".