Tempting Faith, the book, moving up on Amazon

[Erika]

It's moved up 10 spaces today and it's not even released yet.

The evangelical right are to be pitied. They didn't know they were casting their pearls before swine when they married the GOP.

[AspenRose]

1. Is that 'marriage' a covenant marriage? Because if it is, they can't

divorce. }(

[Erika]

3. I think they were just doing a shack job

and it might now be over. Passions run strong but not deep.

[Human Torch]

2. Look for the inevitable freeping of the Amazon reviews on that book...

...once word spreads around RimJob Land, the little brownshirts will goose-step to the nearest PC and start churning out 1-star reviews. They'll also select "no" for the "Did you find this review helpful" option on every review that rates it highly.

Check this review out for "The Faith of George W. Bush"...

21 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
Four Stars, Solid overview of president's faith, March 24, 2004
Reviewer: Jim Greenhill (Durango, CO USA) - See all my reviews

http://www.amazon.com/Faith-George-W-Bush/dp/1585423092/sr=8-2/qid=1160715135/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-9999881-7841657?ie=UTF8

This is not a long read; I read it in one plane flight. It's a solid summary of the president's faith. The book has a realistic, middle of the road viewpoint, neither hero-worshipping nor denigrating the president. Mansfield doesn't balk at showing Bush led far from a spotless life -- and he doesn't rub his nose in it, either. For a quick-hit, relatively superficial book, this is surprisingly good. Better than I expected. This is not a homily to Bush and yet at the same time it managed to erase some of my recent doubts about the president. What I've liked about Bush since the first presidential campaign is precisely that he's a flawed human that I can relate to. He doesn't speak well (Mansfield suggests, interestingly, that he might be dyslexic). He's made mistakes. He is probably an alcoholic. He was not a picture of success at age 40. Yet he's turned all of this around and was president less than two decades after that midlife low point. Clearly part of the turnaround is confronting his alcoholism and finding a higher power. What Bush pulled off -- and the faith behind it -- is inspiring. DESPITE his family and wealth, he's a reminder that anyone can be president. The president's faith is not a scarey thing: One gets the impression of a flawed real person who probably has the same doubts many do even as he pursues a humble walk. It seems a deeply personal faith, not one he's trying to bash people over the head with. And Bush seems very far from trying to play the saint. It doesn't seem a scarey politicized facist sort of faith at all. It's not POLITICAL faith -- it's PERSONAL faith. Overall, this is inspiring and reassuring. And it's nice to have the details of the president's Methodism and his daily reading of Chambers. What's so fascinating in 2004 is the perspective that the president may very well be a bold leader who is facing a storm of criticism and passion precisely because he's a strong leader who does not slavishly turn with each subtlety of the opinion polls in a desperate effort to be all things to all people. He clearly doesn't care to please every critic. I suspect history will judge Bush more kindly than contemporaries, unlike say Clinton, who was clearly better liked by his contemporaries than he will be (or is already) by historians.

:spray:

[Erika]

4. Sorry, I can't stand looking at W, much less reading about him

Doesn't Iraq say enough about him?

[aquart]

5. They would have, if they'd actually read their Bible.