[Pokey78]

Ping.

[VaBthang4]

Bump it up homeboy!

[summer]

Thanks for the flag, Pokey.

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"I believe you are God's man for this hour. God's hand is on you."

The president nodded. "I accept the responsibility," he replied.

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PS To Frank Rich -- It is tough to write better dramatic dialogue than this, Frank.

[WomanofStandard]

Awesome Article.........thanks so much!

[gcruse]

Now, where are all those Andrew Sullivan antagonists....?

[snorkeler]

bump for the morning

[lawgirl]

He WAS the eldest. Robin, who died of leukemia was his YOUNGER sister. A huge DUH!!!!!!

[Valin]

I do believe that this war is why God gave us George Bush. This guy seems so at ease with himself.

[McGavin999]

This is a good one. Despite the frustration of the slow going war, I too have faith that we will win this war.

[Cicero]

This is on the money all the way.

[Darlin']

Since 11 September Andrew Sullivan has consistently written some of the most reasoned and intelligent accounts of the attack, our reaction and the President's leadership. He continues to do so in this very thoughtful story.

[Wait4Truth]

Great article. I really appreciate the way Andrew writes. The one error in the article is about President Bush's sister. She was not older than him. When she died, she was 3 or 4 and President Bush was 7. Other than that, it's a good look into his faith - and fully explain why most in the media don't understand him and don't accept him. He is indeed a gift to us all. I am also beginning to have trouble calling him W or Dubya these days. He seems too large for those terms now.

[George W. Bush]

Andrew Sullivan is gay homosexual.

He is the gayest.

He was probably having gay homosexual anal sex when he wrote this piece of fluff.

[mombonn]

It's between the frenzied fanaticism of one man, and the calm, sustaining faith of another.

Amen, and amen! Thank you, Lord, for our wonderful President. Please continue to guide him as he leads this nation.

Please continue to keep him safe, and fill him with your wisdom and discernment.

Please keep him humble, realizing that he needs You for this strength.

[carpio]

BUMP

[desertcry]

WOW! Thanks very much for this post.

[x]

Stimulating article that makes GWB look deeper and more intriguing than many would have thought. I'm not sure how much I buy it. Some of his earlier comments, like the "please don't kill me" line in reference to a condemned murderer make me skeptical. One thing that does distinguish recent generations of politicians from previous ones though, is their great reliance on speech writers and ghost writers. GWB may very well have spiritual and emotional debts that he might find very difficult to express. If things go bad, though, Bush's faith will be used against him by his political opponents.

BTW, the word "pious" has changed it's meaning radically in the last century. The original meaning was reverent, religious or devout. But so many people have only heard the word used in phrases like "pious hypocrite" or "pious fraud," that they presume it means hypocritical or fraudulent or sanctimonious.

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks very much for the post.Sullivan is right about Laura.She, like GWB,is underrated.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

It's absolutely uncanny how the United States attracts British saprophytes like Sullivan to our shores-- projecting their frustrated desire for their lost Empire onto our domestic political and cultural battles--battles about which Sullivan knows little and cares less--sanitizing them for the benefit of the folks back home (back home in ENGLAND, of course.)

Sullivan, the latest in a long line of Limey "Athenians" who view the United States as their useful little Roman--hearty, rich (far too rich -- must skim off some of that fat--for our own good, of course), naive, childish, easily flattered and even more easily led--nothing but a Roman fist that will deliver the superior British/Athenian sensibility to the solar plexus of the whole, wide world. A little flattery is a small price to pay to get someone else to rule the world for you.

Is it just my imagination or do these British boosters love the American politicians best who most eagerly ditch The Old Republic on the mission du jourto make the world safe for---safe for all the things British parasites like.

Don't you love the facile caricature of aspects of American "conservatism" which Sullivan neither understands nor approves?

Don't you love the way he "loves' George Bush? For his "simplicity", his lack of unsettling depth, his laser-like focus? (no nasty complexity to muddy the mission)

He's not like all those disturbing Americans who are so distastefully American. George Bush is a man the British can work with. He's a man on a mission. The right kind of mission.

Does anybody else wonder why Andrew finds Shoeless George's ecumenical embrace of Peaceful Islam so admirable, but deems his ecumenical embrace of Bob Jones University a "campaign disaster"?

Because Sullivan was trying so hard to mold Bush into someone of whom he could approve, he inadvertantly made Bush seem even more superficial and silly than his enemies try to portray him..

[ArGee]

Whatever others think, this is what Bush believes; not in a messianic way but as one of those odd occurrences that the Almighty sometimes decides to bestow on the unlikeliest of people.

Despite what anyone thinks of President Bush, it should be clear to everyone that it will take more than a great man to carry out this mission. I for one am glad that this President understands that there can be no success if G-d does not grant it. That kind of humility is probably the most important ingredient that makes W. "The man for this hour."

Shalom.