Any one else notice how often * talked about churches,

[forintegrity]

religious congregations, God, faith, etc, etc.? Trying to appease all his "faithful" cronies and appear like he has some religion himself. What a fake!

He's so full of shit! Nothing but rhetoric.

Hey, George, we all know you don't have a clue about God because if you did, fewer Americans and Iraqis would be suffering today!

Stop abusing religion for political purposes!!!

I'm done ranting now, but this just pissed me off tonight!

[Az]

1. It wasn't just you

To hear the newest liberal tell it there was no humanitarian actions taken without a churchs guidance. It was irritating. It was expected.

[jwirr]

2. Amen.

[biscotti]

3. Faith based FEMA

[Peter Frank]

17. Ha! Ha!

...It'll take allota faith to believe in FEMA now.

[MountainLaurel]

20. You laugh, but

How much you wanna bet the feds start giving out grants to churches for emergency preparedness, while simultaneously reducing FEMA's budget?

[blossomstar]

4. Real christians don't talk, they ACT, just look at W's actions

christian? I don't think so... Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple!

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Exactly

Real Christians don't go broadcasting: look what I've done! They just open their doors and start taking collections both money and food and materialistic items. They don't want rewards. Just to help people. Real compassion and Bush abuses those who are really like that and they for some reason believe in him.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. He only does that when he's desperate

In the movie "The Architect" about Rove it shows how they always use the religious stuff (such as gays and abortion) when they are desperate.

[FloridaPat]

6. I thought he was warning them that a ton of cash is coming their way

so get ready.

He really likes that charity help thing and wants lots of federal money to go to help charities do all the work. All the work of relecting repubs that is from the pulpet.

[charlie]

8. Not only that

but did you catch the bit where he said we have to make sure money goes back to churches that have pitched in? I couldn't believe he was talking about government reimbursement for charity.

[BiggJawn]

14. Yeah, what was up with THAT?

Reimbursement for charitable giving?

Kind of sets a precedence, doesn't it? Does that mean when the paperwork is all done and the checks cut, I can drop by the Lutheran church and get reimbursed for the bleach and pampers we dropped off?

[Maru Kitteh]

9. How could one not n/t

[Az]

15. I can think of a lot of people that wouldn't have to

Not sure what you mean by this exactly.

[pepperlove]

10. That's when he uses "religion"

when he needs church support, he looks "religious" and speaks "faith-ese"/ Jerk.

Anyway, from Votetoimpeach.org:

George Bush went to New Orleans tonight. In the devastated city, he brought generators to provide electricity solely for his elaborate photo-opportunity.

Those guilty of criminal negligence rarely have an opportunity to go on national TV for nearly a half an hour to camouflage and conceal their criminal conduct. This is precisely what George Bush did tonight on prime time national television. Two weeks after the fact, Bush and the spin doctors at Fox News and other corporate media are now attempting to do damage control - that is, political damage control, not human damage control.

Bush's handling of the Katrina catastrophe, and the actions of the administration prior to the hurricane, constitute a clear pattern of criminal negligence and gross misconduct.

Here are just a few of the facts that highlight the criminal negligence and Presidential misconduct:

The Bush administration is spending $200 million each day or $1.4 billion each week for its criminal war of aggression in Iraq
Despite the fact that scientific experts had widely publicized predictions of the coming catastrophe in New Orleans, the Bush administration was hell bent on diverting resources to the Iraq war, while it slashed funds for flood control operations in New Orleans.
Bush's war on Iraq left the Corps of Engineers only 20% of the needed funding to protect New Orleans from flooding from Lake Pontchartrain. Before the Iraq war, FEMA officials warned of a looming disaster in New Orleans. The Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) is authorized by Congress to protect the people of New Orleans and the port facilities as well as oil refineries. After the start of the shock and awe invasion of Iraq however, SELA's monies were diverted. The Times-Picayune, the daily newspaper of New Orleans, published numerous articles during the last two years citing the danger caused by the loss of hurricane protection funds to the war in Iraq.
Bush has taken the money needed to protect and serve the needs of society and spent it on his war of aggression against the people of Iraq, on multi-billion dollar contracts for his corporate friends, and on tax cuts for the super-rich. Although he turned away as hundreds of people - including babies and the elderly - drowned and starved, now he is compelled to at least pretend to take action. This is not out of concern for the well-being of the suffering people, but concern for his popularity - the people of the United States have turned against his criminal administration.

The impeachment movement has responded powerfully to the criminal neglect and subsequent charade of the administration. Thousands of organizers around the country are preparing to make the trip to Washington DC on September 24. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark will be speaking at the White House on the Ellipse calling for Impeachment.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. He was trying to lesson the pain of all that money he was promising

He was hoping if he threw god in there enough people might get confused enough not to question him.

Didn't work, all I've heard is the right having a fit about the 200 million.

[fishnfla]

12. trying to reach out through black ministers

one of his black supporters told him that was the ticket

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

13. I did and I still want to know how come Operation Blessing got a

such primo spot on the FEMA page for donations. What about every other denominationin the world? Is this an instance of the "state" promoting one church above others? I really really want an explanationof this. By whose authority was Operation Blessing given such a preeminent position?

[kestrel91316]

16. It's just like the Magic Jesus Passwords.

[Lisa]

18. plus, he was standing in front of an actual church ...

I was thinking, with that backdrop, could he make this any more painfully obvious?

[Blue_In_AK]

19. Yep, and what I really didn't like

was that he was offering to reimburse them for their "charity." Am I right? Isn't that what I heard? I can kind of see reimbursing businesses for their part, but CHURCHES? I don't think so.