New Canadian PM finds out Dubya is a few bricks short of a load.

[JohnyCanuck]

From the Toronto Globe and Mail.


Though it wasn't publicized at the time, Prime Minister Paul Martin got a sense of that sanctimony when he met with Mr. Bush in early January in Mexico. Mr. Bush let the Prime Minister know that he believed himself to be on the side of God and tending to God's mission.

The Canadian side, while aware of the President's penchant for religiosity, had been expecting to talk more about softwood lumber than the Ten Commandments. The Canadians didn't expect the morality play. Nor did they expect that, almost in the same breath, Mr. Bush would be filling the air with the f-word and other saucy expletives of the type that would surely leave the Lord perturbed. Nor did they anticipate a pointed attack on French President "Jack Cheerack," as Mr. Bush called him, for his views on the Middle East.

Mr. Martin was somewhat taken aback by what he heard. After the meeting, he was barely out the door before he was asking someone in his entourage what was to be made of all the God stuff. In meetings of presidents and prime ministers, religion has rarely been at the forefront. Business is conducted on the basis of knowledge and logic. With the Bush White House, the visitors must bear in mind that there is a third force.

<snip>

With U.S. voters, he scores well for his religious views. It gives him moral clarity. In Canada, it hasn't helped his image. As a Maclean's poll reveals this week, this President is one of the most disliked in history. His sense of sanctimony combined with the right-wing warrior mentality is a potent non-seller. So much so that Paul Martin need not worry about rushing back to see him any time soon. If the Prime Minister wants to hear morality plays, there's a church just up the street from his Sussex Drive home.

Christian soldier Bush swears by the Lord

[colonel odis]

1. forget the other reasons. now bush is just plain embarrassing. n/t

[Punkingal]

2. Bush is nuts....

just nuts. What an embarrassment!

[Beetwasher]

3. He Thinks He Can Get Away With the Same BS

he uses on idiots in this country to convince them he's a god fearing, good Xtian and thinks he can use it in order to convince intelligent world leaders of the same thing.

He's too stupid to realize that these people are actually intelligent and don't buy it, and he's too boorish to realize it's in bad taste to do this to world leaders.

Bush believes in all this religious crap about as much as he believes his tax cuts are really good for the common man. It's all cover to fool rubes. He's too stupid to realize that Martin isn't rube.

[peekaloo]

4. Isn't this the same meeting where he "complimented" Martin's

assistant?

Freak.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. That's the one n/t

n/t

[Pegleg Thd]

7. Definitely shows that

shrub has learned well from robertson and foulwell.

[Sinistrous]

15. For those out of the loop, as I was on this "compliment"

Here is a cite:

http://ericbrian.com/blog/archives/000141.html

[calimary]

17. Ah yes, THIS is what is representing America to the world and

other world leaders.

Good HEAVENS, I am ashamed!!!

Shit, he even makes the rabid religiosos look bad.

JEEZ when will this end? November isn't soon enough!

[grannylib]

6. Worse than an embarrassment; he and the others who like to wear their

religiosity on their sleeves (Robertson, Falwell, Dobson, et al) are doing more damage to faith in their supposed beliefs than anyone. The focus for these people seems to be "What's in it for me?" Christianity has been reduced to prosperity theology, with God "richly blessing" true believers. The poor are thus by definition "not blessed" and probably their own damn fault too...if they were living right, God would have richly blessed them too, wouldn't he?
The "ministry" that these types promote is nothing more than the perpetuation of the money-making machinery; there is no ministry happening with these charlatans...
And Bush is simply the most visible of these pharasaic frauds...outward demonstrations of piety, but no connection between his supposed faith and his actions....
The wrong-wing faction in this country wants to display the Ten Commandments, have Christian religious displays at Christmas, the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegience and on our coins, prayer breakfasts for legislators and prayer to open Senate sessions, and they want to proclaim America as a "Christian Nation" but they really don't want to live as though they believe it...
Hatred, bigotry, discrimination, greed, gleefully proud ignorance...these are the true values promoted by the so-called Christian Right

[JohnyCanuck]

19. Exactly how I feel about it

but could not have expressed myself quite so eloquently. Thanks grannylib.

[drdigi420]

22. yep

Hatred, bigotry, discrimination, greed, gleefully proud ignorance...these are the true values promoted by the so-called Christian Right

those ARE the true christian values

[izzie]

8. Well with Bush ruling from God and the terrorist ruling from God

Where the hell does it leave all us others? Just being blow to hell I guess.What madness. How did we ever get this 9 year old running this country?

[glarius]

9. If Christ, who Bush professes to follow, was on earth, he would be against

the war in Iraq....Whatever one's religious beliefs...it is known that Jesus Christ was a man of peace....

[SpiralHawk]

10. Revelations Ver. 6.66

Bush believes he, like the Blues Brothers, is on a "Mission from God."

Can you spell c-r-u-s-a-d-e?


Pontifex Maximus Rex Americanum
The Priest King of America

- An unknown but highly literate DUer

[terrya]

20. And he can pick up the phone and order a nuclear strike.

This "mission from God" crap scares the hell out of me.

Terry

[snippy]

11. Bush is a seriously fucked up madman.

[xray s]

12. Bush is delusional and dangerous

November can't get here fast enough.

[Minstrel Boy]

13. "Fuck Saddam; we're takin' him out.

It's, uh, God's will."

Bloody hypocrite.

[NewJeffCT]

14. did he also ask...

If there are black people in Canada?

Did he get upset if a US reporter asked a question in French at all?

Did he tell Kim Jong Il that he'll huff & puff and blow his house down?

[calimary]

18. He asked if there were black people in Brazil. He asked the president

of Brazil that question. Actually I think it was a statement - along the lines of "I didn't know there were black people in Brazil." And our dear darling adorable CONdi Rice was with him and, I believe, whispered in his ear that there is a huge black population in Brazil.

Dear God!

[Malva Zebrina]

16. Sounds llike he was drunk

[drdigi420]

21. anyone who claims that god speaks to them

is immediately suspect

when someone promotes such an obvious lie, they are either insane, dishonest, or both.

[notadmblnd]

23. Heres a photo of Bush' Religiosity