A little clarification here for you David.
"They can’t stand the fact that he is a nice, honest, decent, CHRISTIAN man. "
No, David this is not the reason that people object to him although they are all good reasons based on his history. People that have an issue with Bush generally dont need to resort to questioing his religious beliefs just the manner and the forums in which he chooses to express them.
God should have no bearing on foreign policy, domestic policy, or for that matter politics in general.
Of all the reasons I object to Bush, his religion is by far and away the least.
That said invoking “his god” in every speech is irritating and certainly if I were of another denomination I might find it insulting, but what concerns me more are the fact that he takes advice from known fundamentalists / extremists on the Christian Right who in no way represent the majority of the 47% of people that misguidedly elected him in to office.
The presidents personal beliefs, ethics and morals are not reasons that he is elected in to office. The person elected in to office is there to lead this country domestically and internationally and create policies that make America a better place to live. They are entitled to their beliefs but they are not elected to profess them and certainly not to impose them or use them to guide political policy, and clearly the single biggest issue here would be abortion.
I wont knock the man for his beliefs, I could not care less, but when people like Karl Rove, Jerry Fallwell, Bob Jones, Franklin Graham and Deal Hudson, none of whom are moderate about anything, are the people that he meets with regularly and listens to I have a huge problem with this. These people are not the sort that would, or could be elected in to office for their incredibly extreme views and as such these are not the people that the leader of this country should be consulting with on policy.
At least 2 of the people listed meet, or used to, with the president weekly, neither of whom are representative of the majority of Americans.
Bush is free to practice his religious beliefs and invoke god weekly if he feels the need to but I dont want the leader of the free world looking for God to solve or dictate his foreign and domesticl political policy.
Anyway, lets be honest to date most people have not had to resort to questioning Bush’s christianity to make the case against him. Although many dont think his religious beliefs have any place is politics. I dont care if he prays to Mecca 5 times a day and I dont care if Clinton gets BJ’s under the desk in the oval office. Neither has, or should have, a bearing on the mans ability to do the job, although I’d certainly think that Clinton would probably be a little more relaxed, but there it is.