WP: News Reports Focus on (Bush's) Religious Tone

[truthpusher]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24962-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_world

The World Reacts

News Reports Focus on Religious Tone
Foreign Media and Analysts Also Note Bush's Many References to 'Freedom'

By Keith B. Richburg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, January 21, 2005; Page A23

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 20 -- As foreign governments pondered their reactions to President Bush's inaugural speech Thursday, newspapers around the world reported it with particular emphasis on the religious tone and Bush's 27 references to "freedom" in the United States and abroad.

Bush painted a vision of "an America that propagates freedom, democracy and prosperity around the world," an article on the Web site of the French newspaper Liberation said. "The problem is that with this speech, one has the impression of having heard it a thousand times, and no longer believing it."

(snip)

The French daily newspaper Le Monde, in its Web site edition, noted that Bush "made several references to God." European leaders normally do not mention religion in their public statements.

(snip)

In Mexico, some reaction was skeptical. "What I'm hearing and what I'm feeling is 'more of the same,' which in the case of Mexico means 'more of nothing,' " said Gabriel Guerra, a political analyst in Mexico City. "We are not on the list of priorities. We are not even on the radar screen."

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[NYC]

1. As soon as the speech ended,

a U.K. reporter said the people in the U.K. thought there had been far too much emphasis on religion.

I don't think today will count as a good day for Bush.

[Erika]

2. You mean his interpretation of religion

which includes bombing innocent societies for his broader purposes of corporate globalism.

[renaissanceguy]

5. That's because Bushie believes he is ordained by God.

But sometimes I wonder, if God were living here on earth, if Bushie would try to tell HIM what to do.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/479718

[BootinUp]

10. Ok I just laughed

nail meet hammer.

[daleo]

3. Bush is talking to himself again (or so he thinks).

"The French daily newspaper Le Monde, in its Web site edition, noted that Bush "made several references to God." "

[LynnTheDem]

4. bush sounds more & more like Hitler every time he speeches.

Guess the copyrights from Hitler's speeches have expired.

[renaissanceguy]

6. Does copyright infringement count

when you can't read the words to begin with?

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/479704

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. "We are not on the list of priorities..."

Mexico might want to count their blessings for that.

Or, as has been stated many times, "Be careful what you wish for."

[UL_Approved]

8. In the past...

Before Reagan, you couldn't mention religion as a platform and get very far in this country. Now its the hot selling item, or so they say.

And yes, this is looking like some of Hitler's pseudo-religious blathering. That is what the media doesn't want people to know about.

[Demeter]

9. Bush Is Praying For A Miracle

Well, so am I. I'm praying that some divine force relieves us of this oppressive, brutal and evil regime, before the 4 years are up if possible, and definitely after.

[Redstone]

12. Amen.

I don't think there are many religions whose God or Gods advocate mass murder. The Christian God certainly doesn't seem to, despite bush's use of His name to justify 100,000 dead Iraqis.

Redstone

[Catfight]

11. I thought he sounded retarded and he's speech didn't make sense. nt

[Redstone]

13. Why should this speech be any different?

He always sounds retarded, and none of his speeches make any sense.

Another thing that really bugged me during the debates (I won't allow him on my TV any other time), was that irritating "pigeon-neck" movement that he kept doing...

Redstone

[Supersedeas]

14. * trying stumbling mumbling abstract poetic images in mangled cowboy

dialect...never had a chance of being anything but chainwreck of bad annunciation.

[Voltaire99]

15. 27 references to "freedom"? Norman Mailer put it best...

"My feeling is that you're patriotic about America if you're obsessed with America because it's a democracy, and its obligation is to improve all the time, not to stop and take bows and smell its armpits and say 'Ambrosia!'"

--Mailer