That "values" thing again

[illflem]

From an early October Associated Press article on a visit to Iowa by President Bush:

Bush introduced Mike and Sharla Hintz, a couple from Clive, whom he said benefited from his tax plan.

Last year, because of the enhanced child tax credit, they received an extra $1,600 in their tax refund, Bush said. With other tax cuts in the bill, they saved $2,800 on their income taxes. ...

Mike Hintz, a First Assembly of God youth pastor, said the tax cuts also gave him additional money to use for health care.

He said he supports Bush's values.

"The American people are starting to see what kind of leader President Bush is. People know where he stands," he said.

"Where we are in this world, with not just the war on terror, but with the war with our culture that's going on, I think we need a man that is going to be in the White House like President Bush, that's going to stand by what he believes."

And from a report Tuesday on KCCI-TV, Des Moines:

A Des Moines youth pastor is charged with the sexual exploitation of a child.

KCCI learned that the married father of four recently turned himself in to Johnston police.

Rev. Mike Hintz was fired from the First Assembly of God Church, located at 2725 Merle Hay Road, on Oct. 30. Hintz was the youth pastor there for three years.

Police said he started an affair with a 17-year-old in the church youth group this spring.

[Kat45]

1. "Do as I say, not as I do."

That is the way of the neocons/repugs/fundies.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. What does their political associations afford people like him?

Access to power and the power they derive from those associations. Those who would do Bad Things have always been attracted to relationships with powerful people, as a bulwark against accountability.

Yes, it even happens in the Dem party.

It is up to us to make sure that it happens as infrequently as we can make possible.

One thing: these people, like this guy, are canny and sly, but they sure ain't particularly smart. That is usually their downfall. Sociopaths usually have problems with impulse control and insight.

[movonne]

4. I find this to be rampart is the Church community.

[movonne]

3. This should be sent out all over the net....and E-mailed to all

your address book... This is absolutely the greatest article for bush's family values...I love it!!!