President Bush in the Twilight Zone

I must agree. His sense of what is real and what the rest of the world knows is real are in such a disconnect. And he looks more reality based than Cheney.

Excuse but your voice has been loud and screaming in the government. And look where it has gotten us. You are the one who continues to be blinded and I for one am sickened by it. I hate to tell you this but DEMOCRATS and LIBERALS went down to New Orleans and dug in the muck and mire left by Katrina to save people. We collected food and clothes in the North for days on end. We let people come and live with us in the Satanic blue states. Don't think for one moment conservatives or evangelicals have done it all. How dare you continue to assault us with these lies. Our president is asleep at the wheel. He is in dream land and our country is in deep trouble because of him and the people who continue to deny the TRUTH of what he has done. I for one am very happy David has seen the light on this and speaks to it. Maybe other people will see these faith based initiative are as hollow as the words spoken by our president.

You are not alone.
Just as a note; some of those Democrats/Liberals were christian and some were not nonetheless all helped. American's are know to be generous. We can look to that and build on it. Generosity in helping, in spirit and in how we interact with one another.

Thinker, I think youve touched on something of great truth. I think the question boils down to this:
Which is superior in your heart, your politics or your faith? If they are tighly wound together, neither has any truth value.

Stephen Davidson, The Christian Right was busy blaming Katrina on homosexuals rather than climate change or bad engineering. How patently ignorant, stupid, and superstitious can your crowd get.

Stephen, "The Christians saved what the secularists watched go down." Simply not true. Just factually incorrect. Secularists and christians both worked tirelessly to help dig NO out of the mud. The government very plainly watched katrina happen. have you not seen the film of Bush getting briefed on what was coming, and then saying "no one knew what was coming?"
"What are the Democrats doing David? Nothing morally sound or decent." I don't know what you call your "faith" but it obviously includes judgement and lies. Democrats have values just like anyone else. They have morals just like anyone. They just have different morals than, perhaps, you. If you can say, with a straight face, the republicans who are profiteering off of iraq are "moral" or "decent" you are a better gymnast than I.
"You need to reexamine what side your on. Christians are not the bad guys that the Progressives and Liberals paint us out to be." Most progressives and liberals are christians. Get a clue already. More non-christians are liberal, but that doesn't mean more liberals are non-christian. Enjoy your ivory tower.

Some people worship Bush Republicanism above all else. In their minds, if you aren't a Bush workshiper you are "evil".

Morals and values.
Makes a nice campaign slogan. Which party advocates "alternative interrogation techniques"? When James Dobson threatened to withdraw support from John McCain if he didn't support the president's torture initiative I about fell out of my chair. That was the final straw for me. I remember Ronald Reagan comparing the US to the Soviet Union. The differences were profound. One was human rights. Renditioning suspects to secret prisons in eastern European countries for torture doesn't sound like the United States to me. I think the current administration uses faith as a vehicle and a cover for a lot of terrible behavior. Those who manipulate people using faith are not to be trusted.

Trey, if Kuo is not complaining about funding cuts, then either I (Yale and Berkeley grad) am a very bad reader, or he is a bad writer. Similarly, your first complaint about MCLB is that it is "underfunded." Is Andrew Sullivan's, Steven Bainbridge's etc. complaint about out-of-control domestic spending crazy? Or are you? I really don't know, but you don't advance the issue by saying, in effect: "They say Bush is spending too much, we say he is spending too little, but we all agree that he is a failure, so we must be right."

It seems to me that Bush has been out of touch with reality for quite some time. Andrew Sullivan has previously suggested that an intervention was in order. I can't believe that there is no one in the Administration who will pull the president aside and tell him to get a grip.

I'm glad his faith-based thingie has failed. Not because lots of people don't need help, but because the government ought not to be funneling tax dollars to the religious groups of its choice, for any reason, period. Full stop. Suppose an Unitarian somehow, magically, gets into the Whitw House and decides to start sending money tp Unitarians, Quakers, and Zen Buddhists. Wouldn't the right go nuts about that? Before someone leaps on the "He's bashing Christians!" table, he's not. People of faith, Christians and others, do wonderful work in this country, usually at their own expense and with their own resources. It's the deliberate mingling of government and religion that's evil.

As an atheist, who could only arrive at this point based on the filth and sickos that call themselves Christians, I think you are all delusional. PLEASE let us have the Rapture...and quickly. I think the rule is that we get your stuff.

As I type this, I am watching The Worst President Ever lead a "press conference" heaped with his hubris, ignorance and jingoism. It is nauseating that this man is President of the United States. And it is even more nauseating still that venomous far right "Coulter Christian" ideologues would have us believe he is a man of God in any way shape or form.

It's slightly surprising that Bush is still talking about "compassionate conservatism", because this was never really anything more than a slogan, standard deceptive marketing. ("Reactionary -- with a vengeance!" didn't do too well with the focus groups, I guess.) But other than that, it's long been evident that this administration is simply impervious to external reality, and will ALWAYS turn to comforting orthodoxy when inevitable difficulties arise. In this sense, they're really much more like 1920's Bolsheviks than anything else.

If President Bush thinks "Faith based funding" is the center of his legacy, he's talking about institutionalizing discrimination in federally-funded programs--taking us backward by almost a century. And as recently documented (http://sexualintelligence.wordpress.com/), the Supreme Court is on the verge of declaring his whole Christian gravy-train ediface unconstitutional.