Read the interview here:
Reconsidering Bushs Compassionate Conservatism
If youd like to order the book, click on this link to Amazon:
The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era
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Heres an excerpt where Timothy talks about resigning from a plagiarism scandal and how the President forgave him and showed concern for him and his family. Its pretty touching!
So surely this, I thought, would be the woodshed moment, and again I completely deserved it. I expected other people to be there, but when I got to the Oval Office the only other person there was the executive assistant. I thought I must have come on the wrong daybut the President called me in. I thought: This is going to be really bad. I went in and closed the door.
I turned to him to apologize, but barely got the words out before he looked me in the eyes and said, Tim, I forgive you. To say I was stunned would be an understatement. I tried again to apologize, but he wouldnt let me. He said, Tim, Ive known grace and mercy in my life. Im extending it to you. Youre forgiven.
I said, You should have thrown me into Pennsylvania Avenue. Again he said, My friend, youre forgiven. We can talk about all of this, or we can talk about the last eight years.
As I turned to head out, though, he said, I want you to bring your wife and boys here, so I can tell them what a great job youve done.
I was stunned and speechless. The leader of the free world, the most powerful man on earth, wanted to affirm me before my wife and children. Sure enough, my wife and boys came, the President gave them a great amount of time in the Oval Office and gave them gifts.
The way so many on the Right viciously turned on GWB less than a year after his reelection is why I've largely given up on politics.
I'm a political conservative, but no longer consider myself part of the modern conservative movement. I know that might be hard to understand, but basically it means I'm now an independent who has little patience for rabid ideologues and demagogues on either the Left or Right.
That’s the way he rolls! God love ‘em!