"I think it’s almost silly. I don’t believe the president is a religious nut. After reading a load of Bush’s speeches and interviews when he has talked about God and Iraq in the same breath, I see a guy who prays for strength and counsel and who has a religious faith that good will triumph, somehow. I don’t see a guy who thinks he’s God’s personal agent. And all presidents talk about God, especially in times of war or big trouble, not just George Bush. All the great old Founding Father types did. Lincoln did. Kennedy and Clinton did. Nixon did. Carter did, incessantly. There is undeniably a slice of a normally tolerant “elite” that has a strong visceral dislike and mistrust of Bush’s kind of Christianity, or at least it’s public expression. Liberals, for instance, who would be perfectly comfortable with a Buddhist or a Hindu President and a Muslim or Taoist Secretary of Defense, are scared of born-again Christians in high office. Having said that, I am suspicious of the White House too."
Seriously, all three Networks should be required to bid fer the broadcasting rights they now hold a FRee Monopoly on!! When the bidding rights--every five years, on a rotating basis--are publically bid, the income ($BILLIONS and $BILLIONS) will be used to ELIMINATE and Liquidate PBS as a Federal budget item, and then get together a coalition of folks who will out-NewsChannel even the mercurial Rupert Murdoch!!
Quite Sincerely...MUD