George W. Bush…I’d do the jig all the way out of town.
Is he happy because he thinks he did a good job? He really wanted the job, and he thought that God was guiding him, you know?
Anyway, he’s not as happy as the American people that he’s leaving.
“Anyway, he’s not as happy as the American people that he’s leaving.”
Bush is giving up his citizenship? I hadn’t heard about that.
That reminds me: Will Alec Baldwin be coming back to the US today?
From 2008 Newsweek interview with Obama, http://www.newsweek.com/id/145971
“When these ideas merged with his more emotional search for belonging, he was able to arrive at the foot of the cross. He “felt God’s spirit beckoning me,” he writes in “Audacity.” “I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth.””
“At the point of his decision to accept Christ, Obama says, “what was intellectual and what was emotional joined, and the belief in the redemptive power of Jesus Christ, that he died for our sins, that through him we could achieve eternal life—but also that, through good works we could find order and meaning here on Earth and transcend our limits and our flaws and our foibles—I found that powerful.””
“He says he prays every day, typically for “forgiveness for my sins and flaws, which are many, the protection of my family, and that I’m carrying out God’s will, not in a grandiose way, but simply that there is an alignment between my actions and what he would want.” He sometimes reads his Bible in the evenings, a ritual that “takes me out of the immediacy of my day and gives me a point of reflection.””
Obama (like Bush before him) does, indeed, believe that God is guiding him also (see above ref. to beckoning, submitting, dedicating, transcending, carrying out God’s will, praying, reflecting, etc.).
I hope you are as condescending of Obama’s sprituality in the future as are of Bush’s.
I hope you are as condescending of Obama’s sprituality in the future as are of Bush’s.
I think there is a subtle but important difference. Bush apparently believed that his actions were dictated by God (“God told me to do this”); Obama prays that his actions are in accordance with God’s wishes. The former defies any chance to admit error (how can you both say you are doing God’s bidding and admit to error?).
I agree that Bush put his religion further “out there” than Obama.
I think this was Bush’s inability to express his thinking (unfortunately), plus, people/media that confuse Freedom OF Religion with Freedom FROM Religion in our country. Gotcha media, mixing Bush’s thoughts on sprituality and his Executive decision making process.
Bush does not believe that he is “channeling” God. To say that would require that Bush also think he is Jesus.
We all know Obama is that guy 