PBS program on Bush and his Messiah complex

[Bullshot]

Who watched the PBS program "Frontline" Thursday night? It covered Bush and his alleged faith guiding him in his presidency.

The thing that galled me about that program is that the clergy wackos who stuck up for Bush kept politicizing the discussion, saying the liberals can't accept the fact that somebody (Bush) could have such a deep faith that he follows Jesus' lead in making his decisions, and has dialogue with Jesus.

It's hard for me to believe that Jesus told Bush to continuously lie about Iraq's WMDs and invade that country and kill and maim thousands of its citizens. It's hard for me to believe that Jesus preaches the arrogance and contempt of the Constitution that this administration has regularly had.

As stated in an earlier post, Bush knew Iraq had no WMDs. There have been several times on the news when somebody is showing satellite footage where they identify Osama bin Laden or some other prominent person the U.S. is pursuing. If this technology can enable us to identify individual persons, it certainly could enable us to find sites where WMDs are being produced and transported.

[Wright Patman]

1. Jesus Christ said

that in the latter days those in power will kill you and claim it is being done in the service of God. If that doesn't describe *, I don't know what does.

[jean]

4. Welcome! And that would be a fab JC(Bible) quote to have on hand

[DemLikr]

12. Thank you, Patman, and welcome!

I hate that JC's name is constantly used by these bastards as they attempt to cover for the most horrendous acts.

If JC came today, Bushco would have him in chains in Guantanamo; and Ari Fischer would definitely warn him to "watch what he says."

[0007]

2. I started to watch and could only take about ten minutes

of this condescending documentary. I'm lost for words.

[Warpy]

11. I sympathise.

I kept having to take minibreaks to get that man's mean, ugly face off my screen, too. However, you should have stuck with it. The real criticism was at the end, about how Idiot is playing fast and loose with the bible and with god. The picture was not a flattering one.

My only real criticism is that they neglected Timothy LaHaye, the one responsible for Idiot's descent into religious lunacy since he's been in office.

[dbt]

3. I think it was John Prine who explained the bu$h-Jesus connection:

I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my Plastic Jesus
Ridin on the dashboard of my car.

That's the only sort of Jesus that would be "speaking" to bu$h-- a convenient little graven image. Sort of an Old Testament Jesus!

:freak:
dbt

[T Bone]

5. If any of us went around playing the 'God speaks to me' card

in our daily lives as much as Bush does -- how long before we would be in a psych ward for a few weeks at least ? Especially if we used the 'God speaks to me' card to justify a lot of bad decisions that get a lot of people killed, cost a lot of people a lot of money, and just generally wreck a lot of lives?

[Warpy]

9. That was Stan Freburg

...the lyrics are out on the net, along with verses added over the years by Freburg fans.

If you don't know who Stan Freburg was, check him out. His political and social satire is legendary.

[Triana]

6. any 'God' I know would not approve...

...of W's allowing people to starve and live in the streets here while others live opulently (himself, for one), or of his handling of the economy resulting in hundreds of thousands being without jobs and his lack of sympathy or action for their plight, or his invasion of Iraq based on lies, or a myriad of other things like giving gov't no-bid contracts only to he and Cheney's big business buddies and then allowing them to rip off the American people, whose tax dollars are paying for all of it, etc. etc. etc.

NO 'God' I know of would approve. W's 'faith' is fake, politically and monetarily motivated, and less than skin-deep. He's 'Christian' when it is expedient for him to be. He neither acts, or lives like one. He's in fact the OPPOSITE of it.

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[Claire Beth]

7. I agree...

and that lady in Texas (I think it was TX) said God told her to kill her kids.

[snippy]

10. I now call that the "Bush Defense."

This seems to cause freepers and other shittoheads to become angry, but given that hate filled anger is their natural condition I may be wrong about that.

[skippysmom]

8. Interesting show

And scary too. What are us non-fundies supposed to do? Just sit down and shut up, while they turn this country into a theocracy? Don't they realize that god and government are a horrible mix?

[Cascadian]

13. Makes me wonder if these pics were deliberate.

John