A Good Son
I was dreaming and in that dream I was talking and walking with a man who suddenly asked if I wanted and old car that needed to be fixed up. I said yes, even though I did not know the man. It was an old jaguar convertible of some sort and the paint was ruined and the interior needed much work, but it was very sound mechanically.
So the man drove it over and dropped it off on a small backstreet near an old school and we began to work on it, or rather, I did.
I was painting the hood with long spraying strokes and hoping I did not put too much pain down. Then I had an appointment. When I came back it occurred to me that The Boy would like to work on it also and that I would need his help regardless.
I walked past the car and down the alley where I saw him shooting hoops with a friend. When he saw me, he said something to the other and dropped the ball and grabbed up his sweater. I draped my arm over him as we walked and I said “I have something to show you”.
“I already worked on it,” he said. I smiled down.
“Really”.
Sure enough when I got there the tail lights and various others aspects of the body had been masked off and the paint had been put down clean and true. I tosseled his hair and said “nice job son.”
The car was coming along and we just had the last few panels to paint when his sister trotted up, opened the door (we both cringed for a second) and plopped down in the front seat.
“How’s it going Mac?” she grinned.
The Boy looked at me and I him and we just shook our heads, smiled and kept on working.
Maugham Gets the Ball Back...Woof!
The Doghouse (and the parent site
doghouseministries) are meant to be both a critque and also an addtion and encouragement to the Church at large and not a political forum. But it has become that given the daily innanities of Sir Doug TenNepal and also the atrocities and arrogance of the current administration.
One of the things St. Paul stresses so is simply telling the Truth. These folk are not about that. Slander, shaming, blaming and finally (when you will not be shamed), banning.
All these tactics are born from fear, which is then translated into hate.
Well though Maugham is just a fictitious vehicle I use, it does give some distance from my real concerns which are more important to myself.
Sooooo, politics and daily refutations (for the most part, occasionally something really good is posted at tennapel.com) will be handled at the
White Chocolate Jesus blog. And I will return this blog to it's natural habitat.
There is also a new project....
SPOKE, which is a decidedly Christocentric Blog with many contributers to come. The first few are available now.
Thanks for your patience during the TenNapel Debacle. Closing the book on that at this site.
Stop Making Sense
Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by the Chicago Tribune
Day of Reckoning For the Current Occupant
by Garrison Keillor
Spring arrived in New York last week for previews, a sunny day with chill in the air, but you could smell mud, and with a little imagination you could sort of smell grass. I put on a gray jacket, instead of black, and went to the opera and saw Verdi's "Luisa Miller," a Republican opera in which love is crushed by the perfidiousness of government. A helpful lesson for these times. I am referring to the Current Occupant.
The Republican Revolution has gone the way of all flesh. It took over Congress and the White House, horns blew, church bells rang, sailors kissed each other, and what happened? The Republicans led us into a reckless foreign war and steered the economy toward receivership and wielded power as if there were no rules. Democrats are accused of having no new ideas, but Republicans are making some of the old ideas look awfully good, such as constitutional checks and balances, fiscal responsibility, and the notion of realism in foreign affairs and taking actions that serve the national interest. What one might call "conservatism."
The head of the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, Lt. Gen. William Odom, writes on the Web site NiemanWatchdog.org that he sees clear parallels between Vietnam and Iraq: "The difference lies in the consequences. Vietnam did not have the devastating effects on U.S. power that Iraq is already having." He draws the parallels in three stages and says that staying the course will only make the damage to U.S. power greater. It's a chilling analysis, and one that isn't going to come from the Democratic Party. It's starting to come from Republicans, and they are the ones who must rescue the country from themselves.
I ran into a gray eminence from the Bush I era the other day in an airport, and he said that what most offended him about Bush II is the naked incompetence. "You may disagree with Republicans, but you always had to recognize that they knew what they were doing," he said. "I keep going back to that intelligence memo of August 2001, that said that terrorists had plans to hijack planes and crash them into buildings. The president read it, and he didn't even call a staff meeting to discuss it. That is lack of attention of a high order."
Over the course of time, the Chief Occupant has been cruelly exposed over and over. He sat and was briefed on the danger of a hurricane wiping out a major American city, and without asking a single question, he got up from the table and walked away and resumed his vacation. He played guitar as New Orleans was flooded. It took him four days to realize his responsibility to do something. When the tsunami killed 100,000 people in Southeast Asia, he was on vacation and it took him 72 hours to issue a statement of sympathy.
The Republicans tied their wagon to him and, as a result, their revolution is bankrupt. He has played the terrorism card for all it is worth and campaigned successfully against Adam and Steve and co-opted whole vast flocks of Christians, but he is done now, kaput, out of gas, for one simple reason. He doesn't represent the best that is our country. Not even close.
He openly, brazenly, countenanced crimes of torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram. He engaged in illegal surveillance, authorized the arrest of people without charge and "disappeared" them to foreign jails. And he finagled this war, which, after three years of violence, does not look to be heading toward a happy ending. And now it's up to Republicans to put their country first and call the gentleman to account.
The Current Occupant is smart about handling a political mess. The best strategy is to cut and run and change the subject. You defend the Dubai ports deal in manly terms until you lose a vote in a House committee and then you retreat--actually, you get the Dubai people to do it for you--and that's it, End of Story.
Harriet Miers was fully qualified one day and gone the next. Social Security was going to be overhauled to give us the Ownership Society, and then the stock market went in the toilet and Republicans got nervous, and suddenly it was Never Mind and on to the next new thing.
Let's bring the boys home. Otherwise, let's send this man back to Texas and see what sort of work he is capable of and let him start making a contribution to the world.
More Paranoia from Persecuted Doug
Religious persecution does happen in Islamic states and it is, indeed deeply disturbing that a man in Afghanistan is being persecuted for his faith in Christ.
Doug TenNepal actually published two articles in a row (before this one) that were well-reasoned and not an emotional ideological rant. Then I wake up this morning to this nonsense:
By the way my brother, the rest of us Christians may not be far behind you. Turn around when you're on the other side, my family, my church, our nation might be right behind you. Christianity has no guarantee that we would be able to freely display our faith in public, in fact, The Bible offers the Christian a promise: "Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." (2 Tim. 3:12)I have this sci-non-fi story I've been working on that is so silly I'll never finish it...but it's about American Democrats who hate Evengellicals so much that it becomes fashionable to become Radical Muslims (after all, who is my friend? My enemy's enemy.) The Secularist scientists that are always claiming to find "the God Gene" which makes one likely to be religious is detected at the fetal stage of human development and the Democrats have them aborted...after all, it's the religious who have been the primary killers of innocent life since the beginning...at least that's what my college professor says.
1) We are in no danger of persecution as Christians in this country. As usual the Fundagelicals, largely in power, need a politics of fear in order to gas up their whole operation. Thus, they...the persecuted..oops...could-possibly-someday-kinda-possibly-be persecuted (like someone disagreeing with them..."OH the horror!") must try and identify with a man who actually is being persecuted for his faith.
Get real. Yeah Doug...you've got it so rough.
2) "Evengellicals" is a nice Freudian Slip. "Gel'n" while E-venging". Doug is a prime example.
3) It's not just a silly story...it's plain stupid. Get back to Catscratch.
4) Lastly, in many centuries it has been the religious (not the spiritual mind you) who have been a major cause of death and dismemberment. That is not true of the last century unless you regard Modernism, in all it's forms, as essentially a "non-religious" religion (which many do).
In the "Evengellical world" Fear is more important than faith. Economic advantage is more important than justice. And Nationalism is more important than the Body of Christ.
Credit where credit is due
This little guy has been missing any meals.
Why the salamander? It's a TenNepal trademark. I put it here instead of sending him flowers.I have been critical of Doug TenNepal's politics for a good long year, but occasionally he comes out with something
appreciable. In the interest of fairness that needs to be pointed out.
His post today at tennepal.com on a Trinitarian God is a good one. God is inherently relational within God's own Self and seems to desire that we participate in that. Why? God only knows.
But we ourselves mirror this Trinitarian-ness. We are an indissoluble and mysterious trinity of mind, spirit and body. No scientist has ever been able to explain where one starts or leaves off in relation to the others.
There are many other examples, and I encourage you to look for three-patterns in relationship because we have become all-too Greek minded and dualistic. Yahweh (er, God) often reveals Himself in dualistic ways, but also not. There is a lot of room for mystery after reading the Bible. Trinity is a good example in that there is no overt doctrine taught about it in scripture. It's a later extrapolation from biblical texts by people who felt the need to "explain" the unexplainable (as Beuchner says, God trying to explain God's own self to us is like you or I trying to explain humanity to a "little-necked clam").
Well, I happen to buy into their explanation and extrapolation. It's a fine piece of "inferred theology" (as opposed to "stated thelogy"). And a Trinitarian God is both something we would not project, yet ever-more expansive. To hone in on TenNepal's bead, it is simply more "poetic". And poetry is not necessary...it's just truth and grace.
Fascism and History
Hitler and Mussolini.
These guys Communists?
The Hittman is at it again, writing at tennapel.com:
And before anyone starts kneejerking and saying this movie is too liberal,
consider, for a moment, the fact that every openly fascist, inhuman government
of the past century has been COMMUNIST.
1) Communist governments have indeed commited the larger number of atrocities and do seem to exhibit a disregard for life in favor of ideology and, more importantly, power.
2) Fascism was a reaction to Communism. There are common elements of brutal "practice", but Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet, etc? None of them Communists.
Fascism is fed by Ultra-Nationalism and a Social Darwinism.
So, the above quote by Hittman is utterly false. Take a history course Kenny.
The Need to be Right
After a recent encounter with some of he folk at DougTenNepal.com I was relfecting on the obsession and need to be right. I am not talking political Right, just the need to be "right".
I can see it if you are in mathematics or a scientific endeavor. I think you also want the pilot of your 747 to be pretty "right" about his choices. There are absolutes and there are rights and there are wrongs and most sensible people have some idea of what those are, at least in the most glaring areas.
Those of the Rabid Right complain that Liberals are "Relativists", which, of course, is most often nonsense. Liberals have very strong opinions about what is right and true, and what is wrong and false. I more often align with them on many issues, but not always...you see because, gulp...sometimes I have been, er...wrong.
And I will be again. And so will Liberals I know as well as Conservatives.
But I remember when I was younger being right about everything. That was before I understood that when faced with God, we are all, in many ways, simply wrong.
Now I still work hard at the study of theology. I keep exploring and asking questions. But I no longer have to have the answers or "know everything". I really only need to be
known by a loving God, and have a deep connection and relationship with my girlfriend, my friends and my kids. Beyond that Jesus asks me to care for my neighbor and forgive and love my enemies.
So when I go to these rabid sites with their insistence on being "right" in all things I feel bad for them. But I also remember being that way myself. It was based in fear, not in faith or trust.
It doesn't stop me from arguing with them, but sometimes, just sometimes, they bring up a whole other way of seeing things I have not seen and have to turn on a dime and modify my own view.
This is not Relativism...it's an exploration of Truth.
But I have noted that really scares them. Never once has either Doug, or Kenny or the other more rabid members ever admitted I had a good point. They accuse me of being stupid, a faggot, immoral, psychotic, etc...which is what "shamers and blamers" do. Yet they asked me to write for them and chucked logic and reasoned argument fairly quickly on most occasions when I did.
But not all. I remember Kenny Hitt had a whole bead on the first few chapters of Genesis on the issue of death that I had just missed. He made a reasoned argument and it was a fine piece of work. It changed the way I now view those chapters.
But this admission went unnoticed and the abuse continued anyway. Which was fine by me because I'm not the least bit intimidated. With schoolyard bullies (and their "Forum" is just that...a schoolyard) you have only to stand your ground. You do not have to inflict the same abuse. Just stand your ground long enough and they will flee.
(And make no mistake, "banning" others from reasonable debate is fleeing).
In the case of both TenNapel and Hitt, they have both repeatedly tried to nuke me with words in emails then at the end they say "stop writing me" (even though they have just written me a long missive).
This is a sure sign of cowardice and fear. If they were so secure in their "rightness" they could hang for as long as it took and make their points. They would consider a reasoned argument and not try to slander other people.
But they can't.
They mistake emotional rhetoric for reasoned argument. It's an easy mistake to make when most everyone in your inner ring thinks like you do because it goes unchallenged.
But I could be wrong.
Untouchables and the Way of Jesus
The Untouchables in America.
Nationalistic Religion is a replacement for Jesus who is the Center. Having written for the Far-Right DougTenNapel.com blog I had missed this obvious fact. They can only talk around the periphery of an Old Testament judgmental God. They are not even for the justice such a God is passionate about because they would exact it upon their foreign enemies but give our own leaders a free pass simply because they are ideological counterparts with whom they agree.
Tom Fox wrote in one of his last journal entries before he was abducted and killed by Islamic extremists:
The only way we will gain love is by giving it to others, even those we
disagree with. Love of country must always be subordinate to love of God. Love
of country alone sets us on a course towards the disasters that have befallen
other counties over the centuries. Charting a new course must begin now before
it is too late
I suppose this is what I have been trying to get at in citing Bonhoeffer's
Ethics on the Ultimate and the Penultimate. It seems, on the outside, to be just a literary argument (anyone who has studied accenting in Ancient Greek will appreciate this). It isn't. It's a huge paradigm shift from one to the other.
Fox is correct. Love for country, any country, should be a reflection in a smaller degree for our love for God. By supplanting God with Nationalistic Pride we become idolatrous. Then we justify acts of violence under the idol of Nationalism.
Then comes the blood and the killing.
These ways are as far from Jesus as can be fathomed by any rational person. Fear and hate based, they repudiate faith, hope and love.
Yesterday I printed a part of he Sermon on the Mount. I received an angry letter from the young man who I was addressing. He made no argument...and he stayed as far away from Jesus' words as he could.
There they stand.
I do not deny that the way of peace-making and non-violence is not itself fraught with peril. It's instructive to note that where non-violence has worked best against oppressive regimes there is some context already for Gospel. Ghandi understood this in India with Imperialist Britain. The blows they received haunted the conscience of a nation that was still somewhat informed by Christianity and the notion of justice.
This also happened in the Philippines in a revolution that was primarily spiritual and based in non-violence.
But it did not work in Tienneman Square. The Communists simply ran over the protesters and never gave it much thought.
I suppose the answer is once again found in the words of Jesus "Be innocent as doves but wise as serpents."
In our case we are dealing with Extremists who, as Hitt so aptly describes, are so rabid that they will kill without remorse or thought.
This does not absolve us, but it is cause.
In the meantime many innocent people are dying or being maimed from a war that is unjust from both sides. It's an old fable that there is a good side and a bad one. War is simply evil, like sin and death.
Jesus made sure to meet the "Untouchables" of his day, who were seen as evil and beyond redemption.
Tom Fox mirrored that in his own way and it cost him his life. Some will say that was foolish.
Some think Jesus foolish.
I don't.
Deal.
Word.
The Enabler on the Mount
Kenny hitt, at Tennapel.com, writes, in his youthful ignorance about the death of Tom Fox. Fox was a peacemaker who lost his life for the sake of a Gospel of faith, hope and love, rather than one of fear, control and hate.
Young Mr. Hitt thinks he was an Enabler. Well we would have to go back to Jesus, the greatest Enabler of all in His Sermon on the Mount:
1Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His
disciples came to him,
2and he began to teach them saying:
3"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
5Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
7Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.
11"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Today Mr. Hitt added insult to the death of a faithful brother who had the courage to try and bring peace, reconciliation and Gosepl to a horrible situation. It's an almost unfathomable cowardice on his part. It is also a repudiation of the Sermon on the Mount and what Jesus taught.
If you had them write it, Jesus would nuke all his enemies (instead of pray and die for them) and the war-mongers would inherit the earth and take it by force....the "Chicago-way".
Just read their writings. It's disgusting and filled with hate, not faith.
http://www.tennapel.com/index.shtml
It's very instructive... It's all there.
Hate and fear.
Faith is not required, nor is hope or sacrificial love. Cetainly Jesus is not involved (note He is never mentioned).
Tom Fox was a peacemaker who had far more courage than I have ever had. He is now called a "son of God" just as Jesus said. He actively made peace. That is rare in these days of acrimony and fear. Let us pray for Tom's family and his friends who are now in mourning.
Thank God for Jon
Here is what you will not see:
You will not see a comedy show run by Conservatives that invites Liberals to the show and actually allows them to speak freely and in a respectful manner. Yet today I watched Stewart interview a Libertarian Conservative and he gave him open passage.
No shaming. No blaming. No attacks.
To listen to Hyper-Conservatives you would think that they are the underdogs. They are the "persecuted". The "Liberal Media" has it out for them as does most of America.
Er...you guys own the White House, and Congress, and soon the Judiciary.
Oh you poor down-trodden victims!Show me a Conservative Show on such marginalized networks as FOX that actually give a fair shake to Liberals and we can talk.
Until then, quit whining about being the disenfranchised when you are totally in control...start telling the truth instead of lying, and get ready for the backlash against incompetence.
Wake up and smell the poop. It's yours and happened on your watch.
Questions?
There is a funny and bizarre scene in an old Woody Allen film called Stardust Memories. Yes, I know he’s a pervert, but he’s also bold in both asking real questions and he was damned funny for a time.
In the scene he is faced with space aliens and he starts to ask all the real core existential questions about life, meaning and God.
The aliens reply “You’re asking the wrong questions!”
I sometimes think we are asking the wrong questions.
“God’s ways are not our ways, neither are his thoughts our thoughts.” Well thank God for that because God would be obsessing on dark-haired beauties like Jennifer Connelly and wishing eternally to have a really fast car with a vertical gate shifter and ladder bars.
Apparently God has better things to think about.
So the real issue is death. Well, death and suffering. Both of which are pretty unavoidable sooner or later being human.
I was thinking about Lazarus the other day. He got sick, it got worse. It was painful…everyone was weeping…the end is coming and then it comes. He’s dead. He’s dead like every one of us will be in 10-70 years. I have a picture in my bathroom that I look at everytime I, er…sit down. It’s of the San Francisco Playland by the Sea in 1920. There are throngs of people.
They are all dead now. Okay, not all, but Bessie will pass on soon enough.
It’s not pleasant. It’s frightening because we have no real idea what comes next…just faith and guesses.
So Lazarus dies and they wrap him up and take care of the body and then Jesus trots in…late I might add…and tells him to get up and he does.
Weird.
But nobody ever thinks about how Lazarus feels. I mean now he has to go through all of it again? It’s like déjà-vu-death all over again.
I don’t think he’s too happy with this. In fact, later he gets in a big argument with his sisters about it because they complain he’s behind on his chores.
Shifting gears violently here (I have a friend who had a vertical gate shifter..it was damned cool) I turn to Peter Berger and his notion of resurrection. He asserts, and it is quite possible, that nothing we face is ultimately tragic in the light of resurrection. He asserts that our lives are far more like comedy than tragedy…and we all know the two are irrevocably joined together..I mean just look at the masks thing…
This life, even for the most privileged of us, is a veil of tears and ultimately loss. We wait, in faith, hope and love, for resurrection by the One in Whom, through Whom and for Whom we were created. Unlike Lazarus, He promises a more complete job and to wipe away every tear and make us other than we are, which is what we all want (are you really satisfied with who you are?) This is decidedly good news if it is true, and I personally believe it is.
We see in a mirror dimly not only what we shall become but what is now. We mistake the cocoon…the shroud of death for the end when it is only the beginning.
So in answer to many questions I suggest panning back and taking the larger view. Of course, this can only be done by faith, but faith is a spiritual optic. As an Old spiritual writer once said “where reason may wade their faith may swim”.
Well, that is the possibility and the hope.
Like Clockwork
"I fear that liberal indoctrination may lead to a similar phenomenon among conservative students. The negative reinforcement experienced by the students, whether in the form of peer alienation, negative criticism from teachers, or even academic penalties, could potentially lead them to withdraw, becoming passive sheep who will accept leftism with the consent of silence, for fear of retribution should they dare to break the rigidity. While liberals claim to be about individuality, they enforce a system of conformity so rigid that it is almost cult-like in both its reverence for its basic tenets and its vitriol toward opposition. If situations like those detailed abaove are allowed to become the rule instead of the exception, the resulting apathy could very well mean the end of America's monopoly on socioeconomic freedom."~Kenny Hitt from http://www.tennapel.com
We need to get something straight. Liberals do not enforce a "system of conformity". That is a projection. As a Liberal I can, and often do, break ranks with other Liberals on many issues.
There are no repurcussions.
I was speaking with a friend of mine this week about the ordination of homosexuals. We differ on this issue in that he is sure and I am unsure and still have questions. He noted how he has been vilified by Conservatives. I noted that I still had questions but I saw no need at any point to do anything but follow by own conscience and be open.
It's an ongoing and respectful discussion.
That's how Liberalism in a Christian context works. We can differ, disagree, listen to other points of view and also know (and note) that we have often been mistaken and have to modify our position on any given issue.
Here is another example. Dougy T (and I admit, his hyperbole makes him almost emblematic) and a
few of his more rabid followers, wish the world to be strictly dichotomous with them as the "we" and the rest of us as the "they". This makes them (the "we") feel safe and secure from the evils us ("the they").
But as free people we do not shake out that way in time and space. I may very easily take a Conservative position on a given issue as a Liberal. I may vote for a Republican (and sometimes do). But can a rabid Conservative do the same?
I dunno. I suppose it is possible, I have just yet to see it.
Are some Liberals ideologues just as myopic as Conservatives?
Certainly. They are basically the same animal in different fur...or as Benjamin Franklin said, "like foxes with their tails tied together." Both are a nasty bunch.
The Progressive agenda is far more open. It's open to discussion on each issue that faces a free people regardless of the past. To cite an example, I happen to oppose abortion in many cases, perhaps most. I also strongly support advocacy for women who are faced with such a choice. So in this one issue I actually, to some degree, agree with Dougy T and some of his folk. Their desire to protect unborn children seems good to me (how they go about it may not be so).
That is what a true Liberal can do because we are not passive sheep, as Kenny Hitt suggests. We have the option...daily, of being open to new ideas, information and to being persuaded by an argument.
When I was writing for Dougy T's Blog and on the Forum there (before I was banned) it was Kenny who brought out a whole new way of seeing the reality of death in Genesis. If I was the characature of the "Liberal" that Kenny and Doug envision I would have stayed my ground. But I didn't. His point was superb and well-reasoned. So, I now view otherwise based solely on that.
And it doesn't even matter to me that Kenny is an ass. It was just a good argument that I had not seen or heard before.
I realize this is not everyone's experience. One of the other writers at Dougy T's Blog is a college Prof. I believe him when he says he gets hammered by Liberal Profs. But they are Modernists and the day has turned on them. Modernism was/is a failed experiment both for the Left and the Right.
We have yet to see what will replace it, but it may well be more open and exploratory than anything we have yet seen.
I don't have "vitriol against opposition". I think sometimes those who want the "we-they" wish it so. I am just trying to enjoy that I live in a relatively free country (I feel certain
your phones are tapped) where I can express my views and have them enjoyed and challenged by others.
That is one, among many, benefits of being an American.
The other is to openly question our leadership. Dougy T and his more rabid followers denounce this. They give George Bush carte blanche simply on an ideological basis. Performance is ignored. Any legitimate criticism is seen as "hatred" for a person rather than the free disagreement with policies that effect the entire world, and policies which we have some ownership of as voting members of a free society.
So they shame and blame and pretend that they are victims.
They are not victims.
They are simply rhetorical.
Bush's Psychic Powers
"I see....the ALAMO...."
Dougy TenNapel in his usual hyperbolic style writes the following about recent revelations that Bush knew quite well about the impending disaster of Katrina.
So Bush was warned (as he is warned during every storm) that levees could break, though he still claimed he didn't anticipate the breach. Is it just me or is the left expecting Bush to be a psychic? So when his aids tell him that Iraq has WMDs and he does something about it he lied, but when his aids tell him that levees could breach and he does nothing about it...he lied? Wow! You must really hate Bush. He's stupid, he's smart, he's a Texan, he's a fake Texan, He uses fear, he's not afraid enough of Arabs running our ports; I'm confused. Maybe if Bush would just rape some women like Clinton and the Kennedys he'd finally gain some status from you people.
His logic, as always, is flawed.
1) Bush is not warned about levees breaking in every storm. Only the ones where levees could break. They call them advisors.
2) Bush is not expected to be a psychic. It's why we see a room full of people on the video talking about what could and would happen. No psychic powers needed...just ears.
3) Bush lied because there was intelligence which said there were no WMD but he was so intent on attacking he ignored this intelligence...which was not so intelligent and has cost a lot of lives and much of your children's financial future.
4) He lied about not knowing the levees would be breached. Plain and simple. Hate or non-hate has nothing to do with it. We are talking facts here.
5) It is true. Doug is confused.
6) No one excuses either Kennedy or Clinton for any personal wrongs they have done. But on a scale, Bush is trying to do to the world what Clinton tried to do with Lewinsky. Such deflection does not alter that simple fact.
Read the transcipts
HERE of what Bush was told and what concerns were raised BEFORE the hurricane hit. No need for psychic powers at all...just responsible leadership.
