Did anybody here read 'The Faith of George W. Bush'? It wasn't really that great of a book, didn't tell me much I didn't know, but it had one thing that sent a shiver down my spine. Bush was quoted, before the 2000 election and well before 2001, saying that, (to the best of my memory)
"I don't really want to run for president. I'd be happy wandering around wal-mart some day and having people say 'Hey, he was our governor once!' and all that privacy will be gone, but I feel that God wants me to...I THINK THAT SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND MY COUNTRY WILL NEED ME."
Vague? Yes, but I've heard similar things on a much smaller level, and know they are real. It really shook me reading that quote. I didn't think 2000 was a fluke anymore.
I'll say it again - GWB is the first president I've ever prayed for. I have never felt compelled to pray for the specific outcome of an election, but I did in 2000. And I mean it when I say 'compelled,' I truly felt forced to pray for this man to be elected and I am a person who struggles with her belief in God.
Maybe somehow I also felt that something big was going to happen. I don't know. I just know that this old Socialist found herself crying in her office, praying that George Bush win the election and believing it to be the most important thing in the world.
It would seem you were insinuating that "something big" mentioned in the book might be something as catastrophic as the 9/11 events.
For a Christian to say "I think something big is going to happen" would be a common thing to say when approaching any big decision. Going with a feeling that might be G-d moving you to act is not a spine tingling action. Going against the feeling is however.
"The Faith of George W. Bush" is a great book. We had the opportunity to interview the author on the air, and he was a very genial guest on our show.
I THINK THAT SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND MY COUNTRY WILL NEED ME."
Wow! Goose bumps here.
Re: your screen name-- maybe we're related. :-)
"I THINK THAT SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND MY COUNTRY WILL NEED ME."
I read that and it just fit. It reminds me of the Inaugural Address, which Bush ended with the quote "An angel still rides the whirlwind, and guides the storm."
There was much discussion here at the time about this mystical quote, but we learned what it meant in the days following 9/11.
I am as skeptical as any one of faith could be about God acting directly to intervene in worldly affairs in this world; but I do not doubt that Bush's 2000 election and the Court outcome affirming that election were acts of divine intervention.
I hope those 4 million "fundamentalist" MIA's from 2000 have gotten the message by now, and will do the right thing on Nov 2.