Bush Pushes Jews for Jesus as He Competes for Worst Ex-President

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http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18310-bush-pushes-jews-for-jesus-as-he-competes-for-worst-ex-president



Bush Pushes Jews for Jesus as He Competes for Worst Ex-President
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Wednesday, 13 November 2013 11:20

After 9/11, then President George W. Bush spoke of leading a Crusade against Afghanistan and Iraq. His handlers quickly walked back the use of the word Crusade, given its connotations of endless bloodletting of non-Christians during several journeys of butchery conducted by Christian knights in the Middle Ages. Jews were killed and Muslims in the Holy Land were slaughetered mercilessly.

So it not surprising that Bush is speaking (his spokesperson won't say whether or not he is being paid his usual six digit fee) on November 14 at a Jews for Jesus fundraisier in Dallas. Of couse, the Bush public relations machine is crying fowl at criticisms, that this is just akin to the many other speeches he gives (and gets paid for) as he avoids the public eye (most of his gigs are closed to the press).

According to The Atlantic: "Bush's chief of staff Josh Bolten previously told the magazine that the Bush family is 'very open to and respectful of faiths of all kind, but particularly Judaism.' This decision, to say the least, complicates that reputation." Did we just hear something like, "some of my best friends are Jewish"?

Actually, Bush doesn't appear Anti-Semitic in the least (although you could say he wouldn't mind if Muslims disappeared from the face of the earth, except for the Saudi leaders that he literally held pinky fingers with as they posed for the cameras during his years in office), but he does apparently believe that Jews would be better off if they "saved themselves" by accepting Christ. Looking at the results of the reborn Bush from a few decades back, there might be a triple digit IQ loss through conversion though.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. He's the gift that never stops giving. K and R n/t

[Gothmog]

2. I am Jewish and I know some Jews who are big supporters of W

W has a number of Jewish supporters including among his rangers/pioneers. I imagine that these supporters are not happy about W's involvement with this group

[Gothmog]

3. I saw this on the Rachel Maddow show

Rachel had a good discussion about the right wingers who think that the existence of a state of Israel is necessary for the second coming.

"It was more than just news, it was actually kind of scary that the George W. Bush administration, when we learned how policy toward that part of the world was being made inside the Bush White House," said Maddow.

"These groups wanted the Bush administration to make sure that the borders of Israel lined up exactly with what they thought the Bible said it needed to be in order to bring about the apocalypse," she explained.

In light of the history of the group with the Bush administration, Maddow said it was not surprising that he would be speaking at the group's fundraising event.

"It's an amazing thing," Maddow said. "I mean, everybody's religious beliefs are their own, and by definition in this country, nobody's religious beliefs are better than anyone else's."

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/george-w-bush-administration-was-trying-to-cause-end-of-the-world-with-apocalyptic-christians-claims-msnbc-host-rachel-maddow-108556/#4COuycuMfijm4gW6.99

[GreenStormCloud]

4. Ignore him. He became a private citizen on 1/20/2009.

He speaks for no one but himself. If he likes Jew For Jesus, that is his freedom.