Bush: "And you can count on both of us..." Guess who his partner is?

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

Yes, you win the prize if you guessed it was....God! Can I say for the billionth time -- can you imagine if any other politician said this? I don't care whether he is crazy enough to truly believe it or is just nervy enough to think his base believes it. How come nobody cares that he says such egotistical and just plain crazy things?

"Bushism of the Day
By Jacob Weisberg
Posted Monday, March 15, 2004, at 9:24 AM PT

"God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear."—Los Angeles, Calif., March 3, 2004 (Thanks to Tanny Bear)"

http://slate.msn.com/id/2097136/

[bluedeminredstate]

1. He's nuts!

I am so appalled and freaked out that I don't know what to say. I wish God would contradict him.

[NeonLX]

2. The lightning bolt generator must be down again...

God's just gotta get that thing fixed.

[Kinkistyle]

3. People believe him because he's so freaking audacious and arrogant.

Of course, no real Christian would ever put themselves on the same level as and speak for God, for fear of angering God. But Bush isn't afraid at all -- he does it all the time and he claims to be deboutly faithful. He's still alive and well and in the powerful office in the world, so it must be true!

[kayell]

4. How does this factor into the various personality disorders * has

been diagnosed with? Any psychiatrists out there want to venture another opinion. How soon can we confine him to St. Elizabeths?

As much as I hate having an illegally appointed corporatist for a president, it is even more disturbing to have someone who thinks they are on a first name chatting basis with their imaginary friend in the sky in that position.

[grannylib]

5. What an arrogant, incoherent little fraud....he parades his 'piety' in

public and discards any semblance of Christian values in his policy-making.
What a putrid excuse for a pResident...

[zbdent]

6. I heard one freepiot caller on a radio show say that Clinton said "God"

more times than Bush ever did.

Of course, that's Clinton over 8 years. I think that she was referring to the three months right after 9/11 regarding Bush.

[Jacobin]

7. Clinically, I believe he would be diagnosed as

having borderline personality disorder with messianic and paranoid tendencies.

Any trained clinicians out there?

[Arkana]

8. well, sort of

I have done some amateur work...just kidding. Sheesh, the references to Jesus make me sick so often that I have to go buy shoes every week because I keep ruining them. :puke:

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND BLOODY STATE!!!!!

[democrank]

9. What I want to know is....

Who would Jesus bomb?

[peekaloo]

10. Jesus' evil twin......

:eyes:

[jackstraw45]

11. And the message from Dubya is:

"My pinky has been to the darkest depths of my soul."

[peekaloo]

12. Is that Pickles on the left? Looks like her pinkie is poised for some

nasal mining.
Damn, ballpark food is so expensive so he smuggled in his own. :puke:
Or perhaps she offered to trade Georgie a red one for a greenie.

[Cocoa]

13. people who wonder about the future?

what is he talking about?

[Dhalgren]

14. O.k., a couple of things...

First: This statement proves to me (if nothing else did) that Bush is not a Christian - he is just pretending to be one. Not even the most drool-dripping 700-Club member would ever say anything like this. "Me and God"? No, I don't think so. It just points up the fact that Bush doesn't really even understand what Christianity is all about - he just mouths words that he "thinks" sound like what he has heard.

Second: This statement doesn't even begin to make sense - internally. At the end of the statement there has been no construction of any kind that resembles a human thought. This, again, is simply a string of words that sound something like something that might make sense - only it doesn't. How can this man be in charge of sweeping a floor, much less anything that involves issues important to others?!

[jokerman93]

18. content free hypnotic suggestion

"This, again, is simply a string of words that sound something like something that might make sense - only it doesn't."

Actually, it may be content free as far as linear, logical meaning goes, but if Bush were a hypnotist, as a hypnotic suggestion, the line works well enough to suggest a correlation between Bush and God, and addresses it to all those who have in faith in God and yet may be beginning to doubt their faith in Bush as an emmissary of God's will.

Once you've dismissed the line as transparent and meaningless, the subconscious mind is then free to integrate this suggestion into all the psychological complexes that dearly would like such a suggestion to be true.

on edit: I also agree with you. I doubt Bush is a practicing Christian of any stripe at all. He probably doesn't have the attention span to sit through an entire episode of Davie and Goliath!

[ElementaryPenguin]

15. Holy blasphemer! How can the Right not throw stones at this friggin' nut?

And to think this delusional twerp has his grimy fingers on the buttons of the most powerful nuclear arsenal the world has ever seen! YIKES! This insane little sleazebag is as downright scary as he is pathetic!

:crazy:

:scared:

:wow:

:puke:

[smirkymonkey]

16. It's Official!!

He's f**king INSANE!

Has any politician ever been removed from office for being severely mentally ill? I'm serious - It's well past the point of speculation. Our government is completely mad! :grr: :grr: :grr:

[swinney]

17. Billy Graham warned Bush

"quit playing God"

[indepat]

22. Maybe that's the only card GWB has left to play

[rucky]

19. God told me to tell Bush that he's not really on his side.

n/t

[shtinkycat]

20. HOLY sh*t!

If Kerry said this, or anything nearly as insane, it would be on the front page of the NYT and the headline at CNN. Why does the moron get a pass for this kind of crazy talk??

I am a trained clinician in mental disorders, and I diagnose * from afar with (at least) Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He may have a touch of Delusional Disorder as well. Sadly for him, these conditions are very difficult to treat, so he really should resign. ASAP.

[jackstraw45]

21. His finger is on the button so to speak...

so comforting.

What if God tells Dubya tomorrow to provoke nuclear war?

We have right wing extremists running our country and a nut in the White House.

Scary times.

This election is BIG for our future.

[dennis4868]

23. Why does the moron get a pass for this kind of crazy talk??

who is going to challenge him on this? The media has been sleeping for the last 3 years waiting for a dem to be back in office to attack, the repubs and Dems would not dare touch a "war" pResident.

[fob]

24. That's Nucking Futs!!

Sorry, just saw Dickie Roberts.

[Malva Zebrina]

25. He has said this before I think

a while ago. Slate does not mention the context of this speech. This article that I googled says he was pushing his faith based welfare and that the audience was full of clergy. I wonder who they were.

<snip>

In doing so, the Supreme Court-appointed Republican President seems to have placed himself on a level to which no other elected U.S. president has ever dared to aspire. Addressing his appreciative audience, one composed mostly of clergy eager to receive previously forbidden taxpayer funds, Bush assured his listeners: God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful message that people who wonder about their future can hear."—

But this article says he said it in Philadelphia on Thursday, He must be going all over the US promising our hard earned money to greedy ministers and priests who are clapping for him and promise to vote for him and tell their parishners to vote for him because he is going to get them out of the red .

I am extremely cynical about this--open this door and the tax payer is doomed to be squeezed in the pocketbook to fund religion he may or may not believe in. Further, as the Rev. Barry Lynn, director of Americans United states in this article:

"Under this scheme," Lynn charged, "taxpayers will be forced to support churches they don't believe in, and workers will be denied publicly funded jobs because they don't conform to religious mandates.Most religious and civil rights groups strongly oppose the Bush plan," Lynn added. "Even the president's own denomination - the United Methodist Church - is strongly opposed to much of the Bush initiative."

"Bush failed to get his controversial faith-based initiative through Congress, so now he's trying an administrative end-run."

I am glad to see that the Methodists oppose it--I don't remember reading any others opposing it.

http://www.gaytoday.com/events/121302ev.asp