[Utah Girl]

Is it on the talking points from the DNC to question President Bush's wisdom in using faith related speech and quotes. This is the fourth or fifth article I have run across in the past couple of days, whining that it is causing divisiveness.

[2rightsleftcoast]

You may be right. I have seen this tactic lately too.
Looks like the Dems will stop at nothing to try to
undermine our President.

[republicman]

All one has to do is look at Clinton, Carter and Johnson, three of America's worst presidents, to know what praying at the golden calf of liberalism produces.

Bush is already one of America's greatest presidents and his first term isn't even over yet.

[xzins]

Christian ping folks

Sounds like something we can all sink our teeth into

[anniegetyourgun]

"God will hopefully serve Bush well."

I'd rather that Bush serve God well. Leave it to the media dunces to characterize God as a cosmic bellhop to the President.

[Mike Darancette]

I know that Bush's decision making to this point is sound and if is because of his faith then so much the better.

How refreshing to have a leader who's philosophy and decision making has a moral foundation.

Most of this bleating is originating from the Secular Socialists of Europe and now being echoed by the "useful idiots" in the American Media.

Europe's worst nightmare; "A Cowboy With a Cross".

[anncoulteriscool]

Dont you know that it is a violation of church and state for a conservative to read or quote Bible verses or say anything about God....if a liberal does it fine and dandy.. !

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[marron]

Funny that the writer uses Johnson as an example of an effective president.

Franklin, of course, is the guy that failed to end the Depression in two terms as president, failed to prepare us for war despite 8 years of fair warning. Sent Jewish refugees to their deaths. Opposed anti-lynching laws. Agreed to the partition of Europe.

[bzrd]

IMHO a Bible-based President is exactly what this country needs at the moment. Though I would certainly disagree with compulsory Bible study attendence by White House staff, it is good to know that some there take the time to study it.

The writer seems to suggest that evangelicals are the namby-pamby sort, who could react to a changing world if only they weren't paralyzed by their rigid, dogmatic, belief system.

Horse-puckey

The Bible is a profound source of wisdom that is timeless and adaptable to any circumstance---including the current crisis.

It is the secular left that is paralyzed to the point of inaction.

Brian.

[goodnesswins]

"Lyndon Johnson's un-Christian-like deviousness helped persuade legislators to pass the most important civil rights bills since Reconstruction.

What a line of crap....remember...it was the REPUBLICAN'S who got the CIVIL RIGHTS BILL passed.....not a "devious" President lacking Christian morals...the Republicans had the MORALS to do what was right....the rest of them were morally bankrupt. (And many still are.)

[aruanan]

Avid faith may hamper presidential decisionmaking [sic]

This is moronic on the face of it. Everyone has a set of beliefs about life that shapes his decision-making, presidential or otherwise. What this title really means is, "If you don't believe what I want you to believe, then you won't make decisions in the fashion that I want you to make them."

[Siobhan]

This really is the merde du jour.......

Please pardon my French.........gag.........cough.........sputter.........

[Chi-townChief]

"But the Bible would have offered President John F. Kennedy little practical guidance in removing Soviet missiles from Cuba."

It seems to me that another Cuban missile crisis is exactly what we're trying to avoid.

[the_Watchman]

Everyone wants to feel uncomplicated resolve. But sociological studies on the nature of professional conduct in organizational settings suggest that leaders who rely on religious templates when making decisions are less likely to make good decisions than those who consult experienced authority.

I suppose this means that the writer does not consider God an experienced authority?!?

[WriteOn]

Devil's been writing again...

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Kennedy wasn't a "good" Catholic, despite what the historians may say. His wife had to drag him to mass, every time, saying he MUST go, because that's what people expect of the first Catholic president. Carter is a "good" Baptist, by all accounts, and walks with Jesus. However, he was a terrible president.

I think what horrifies people the most is Bush's "good vs. evil" rhetoric, that he believes in evil as an entity, and doesn't believe in moral relativism. Simply put, good always prevails over evil. And to many, this is a threat in itself. Because by enabling the likes of Hussein, you may just be signing up with the evil side.

And most "spriritual" people do not believe that evil will be judged by the law. Only your intentions are judged by the law. You meant well, therefore God will give you a pass. Fortunately, Bush knows that Christianity trumps the law.

[Corin Stormhands]

But the Bible would have offered President John F. Kennedy little practical guidance in removing Soviet missiles from Cuba.

Yeah, but it might've kept him out of Marilyn's drawers long enough to pay attention to what was going on.

[Robert_Paulson2]

yes... yes it is.

they are grasping at everything they can to demonize a good man.

I wonder if they don't like his choice of toilet paper too? Perhaps he squeezes the charmin... unlike they, who routinely like to use the constitution for toilet paper.

The president is free to pray to three blind mice, if that is his choice. When the mice start talking back to him, I will get worried, but not until.

The haters of religious freedom will never rest, while the pushers of religious repression... commies, islamists and democrats... never sleep.
Terrorists all.

[M Kehoe]

Let the media and the Left ridicule this President for his belief in Jesus. For they who run scared from the Lord's name will have no rest. And they who come in the name of the Lord will have eternal life.

5.56mm

[Samwise]

Did I read this correctly? It's OK for a President to be religious, as long as he's a hypocrite?