Bush Bible Comments Insult Evangelicals

[The Sushi Bandit]

Source: Raw Story and Current TV

George W. Bush's recent statement that he believes the Bible is "probably not" literally true has left many Christian conservatives reeling in shock.

Bush further stated in the interview, "I think that God created the Earth ... and I don't think it's incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution."

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The Shrub shows his true colors!!

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Chimpy doesn't have to pretend anymore.

Hey fundagelicals.... you got PUNKED. Remember that when the Moosekiller wants your vote.

[YOY]

5. Something tells me she is for real.

THAT is what scares the shit out of me about her.

[acmavm]

15. Well, they might have been had on the fundie end of the stick but hell,

they got to go out for that beer, didn't they?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. i think moosekiller does believe in the bible literally

[Juneboarder]

29. Hopefully...

she doesn't think she's the Virgin Mary re-incarnated!!

[Crunchy Frog]

37. I think she believes whatever is politically expedient for her to believe.

[Canuckistanian]

69. Exactly, that's the sum total of Palin

Everything Sarah Palin does.... is for Sarah Palin's career.

She's tucked this VP nom experience under her belt and she is going to try again.

And next time, she won't SEEM to be stupid.

[ProfessorGAC]

72. You Can Be Succesful If You're Stupid

Bush did it. Rod Blagojevich has done it. But, once people KNOW you're stupid, you're done. My prediction is that she's done.
GAC

[SmileyRose]

77. Caribou Barbie is the real deal

she really does believe there's a fossil of a dinosaur with a saddle on it's back so Adam could take him out for a ride.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. For once, I actually appreciate the guy! He totally snowballed the evangelical fuckstains

into thinking he was with 'em, just to get their vote. Now, in typical Republican fashion, he's cuttin' 'em loose and telling 'em to go fuck themselves.

"I got your votes, now go screw yourselves".

:rofl:

[ElboRuum]

45. I still think he sucks.

If he didn't snowball them, he wouldn't have won... or whatever that thing passing for the 2000/2004 elections were... I wouldn't have had to deal with him, and would have been an infinitely happier person as a result.

[opihimoimoi]

78. He sure did....I seriously wonder how easily he fooled them....him being a poor actor an all.

What a shock to find out he was NOT the REAL DEAL... but rather a phoney

They pay the price of "GULIBILITY"(#9)

[gratuitous]

3. I'm shocked

Color me shocked that the Christian conservative evangelicals would be shocked by this. Maybe they are as fucking stupid as their caricature would make them out to be. And all along they thought Bush was a good Christian man because he said that Jesus changed his heart.

Gullible little suckers, aren't they?

[DUlover2909]

43. He had a 79% disapproval from recent poll, could he have now lost the last 21%?

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

4. Bush got his mileage out of them...

for almost eight years. Wonder how they feel being used? (Some of us would add that gullibility is one of their strengths.)

[awoke_in_2003]

9. "gullibility is one of their strengths"

Well, they do believe in a big sky daddy, so gullibility is a given.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. that's the best statement yet.

so deep, yet so concise.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. Yeah,

but I am wearing my flame retardant suit, anyways. :)

[sellitman]

27. *Ding* Ding* Ding*

We have a winner!

Great comment!

Precisely the situation.

[bluestateguy]

6. I could stand up and defend Bush because I do agree with what he said

but I have other things to do.

[Blaze Diem]

7. LOL.........effing hillarious. EV's feeling a little duped, maybe???

Bush is such a dolt!!!

[Mist]

8. I thought these nitwits were beginning to understand they were being used

by the */Cheney cabal when David Kuo went public about the office of "faith-based initiatives."
But I guess to hear Dear Leader expressing such stuff is a rude wake-up.

[LiberalFighter]

33. They don't trust the media to tell them the truth. Just their minister.

[Mist]

53. David Kuo is an evangelical who was in favor of the "faith-based-initiative"

office, and worked as deputy director of the faith-based program. He learned that the reichwingers were simply using the evangelicals and fundies for political purposes, and wrote of his DC experiences in a book: Tempting Faith. In other words, Kuo would qualify as "one of them," and I would think his book would have been read and discussed by at least some of the evangelical/fundy community. But perhaps their denial is strong enough to screen out even one of their own, when he's telling them bad news.

[Caliman73]

61. That is precisely what they do.

They screen out ALL information except that which feeds their need to feel important and powerful. Ev's are truly a pathetic bunch.

[shadowknows69]

10. Suck on it. You were used fundies.

[johnnyrocket]

71. Well, anyone who believe's the Bible literally should have NO political power, what-so-ever.

That means you fundies....to hide under a rock, you're powerless, now.

[soleft]

11. Realizing he wasn't the 2nd coming may have brought him down to earth

[The Sushi Bandit]

54. Yea, thats Palins gig!

[jeff30997]

12. Fundies are like Kleenex...

You throw them away after use.

[HillWilliam]

31. More like Q-Tips

Use both ends then throw them out.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. Is Bush trying to regain some sort of cred with the public?

trying to crack the 26% glass ceiling on his popularity?
Whatever the reason, this is just incredibly entertaining and amusing.

The nice thing about America's evangelicals? They are indeed the gift that keeps on giving. Pretend to mouth their silly ideas, claim to have family values, pretend to want to stop abortion, and ask for their prayers (they really think that getting on one's knees and begging a non-existent entity for help actually accomplishes something) and you have a christian warrior ready to do battle on your behalf.

[notadmblnd]

16. he.. he.. what does he care now? He doesn't need them anymore.

Fools, did they ever really think there was anything Christian about him?

[anonymous171]

17. lol Bush totally played them. nt

[stopbush]

18. Bush believes in evolution??

Hmmm. I may need to rethink my own deeply held belief that evolution is absolutely a fact...

[get the red out]

19. Scary

He is a small amount smarter than I thought. I don't know how to deal with that.

[FiveGoodMen]

49. My thought as well.

I'm surprised he's even considered that matter enough to have an opinion on it -- let alone a defensible one.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

22. Well now!

I shake my head at both Bush and his, dare I say, former supporters. What a tangled web they wove.

[antimatter98]

23. Hard news for Fundies to accept--their man betrayed them. n/t

[DebbieCDC]

24. Hey fundies, finally getting a peek behind that curtain huh?

Like what you see? A non-Xtian, drunk con artist.

I wonder if they will pray for him to see the error of his ways. :rofl:

[Bossy Monkey]

25. Shooting for that 0% popularity rating, are we George? Go for it! n/t

[Alexander]

44. ROFL - this might actually improve his numbers slightly.

Most Americans believe in evolution and didn't appreciate his push for creationism.

Then again, I don't think there's any way he could redeem himself at all.

[robertpaulsen]

26. Silly fundies! Who did they think they were, his base?

Perhaps if they had watched Fahrenheit 9/11 instead of boycotting it, they might have learned the truth four years earlier.

:rofl:

[aquart]

28. Remember when they thought God sent him to be our president?

And his pictures had halos?

I hope this leaves a bitter, unhealed wound.

[Nay]

41. Honestly, this video of him punking the RW fundies just cheers me up

beyond all measure! I told several of them at work that he was no fundie, didn't give a SHIT whether half the country had an abortion, and would just use them like toilet paper, but did they listen? Nah! Oh, well! Now you can take your shitty Bush economy and go live in a cave, just like Jesus!

This plus the "socialist" bailout, and his instant abandonment of the pig farm a month before he is even out of office -- I just laugh like a hyena. Remember all that crap about how he's a manly man, clearing brush on that goddamn place?? It made me want to puke. Real ranchers just bushhog brush and don't act like that. It was all for show, any farmer or rancher knew it, and they all voted for him anyway. Suckers. Now they can go on the unemployment line while their boy lives a life of luxury in Dallas.

[EFerrari]

30. LOL! Too good!

[KansDem]

32. Chumps! David Kuo spelled it all out in his book...

Book says Bush just using Christians
‘Tempting Faith’ author David Kuo worked for Bush from 2001 to 2003
By Jonathan Larsen
"Countdown" producer
MSNBC

updated 12:43 p.m. CT, Fri., Oct. 13, 2006

More than five years after President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider’s tell-all account that portrays an office used almost exclusively to win political points with both evangelical Christians and traditionally Democratic minorities.

The office’s primary mission, providing financial support to charities that serve the poor, never got the presidential support it needed to succeed, according to the book.

Entitled “Tempting Faith,” the book is not scheduled for release until Oct. 16, but MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” has obtained a copy.

“Tempting Faith’s” author is David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian, Kuo’s previous experience includes work for prominent conservatives including former Education Secretary and federal drug czar Bill Bennett and former Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Kuo, who has complained publicly in the past about the funding shortfalls, goes several steps further in his new book.

He says some of the nation’s most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as “the nuts.”

“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ‘ridiculous,’ ‘out of control,’ and just plain ‘goofy,’” Kuo writes.

-more--
MSNBC

Fundies need to read more than one book...

[liberal N proud]

34. I am surprised he waited this long to piss them off

He was never a Christian, just needed their votes.

[madrchsod]

35. shredded logic that contains bits and pieces of the truth

[Crunchy Frog]

36. Hahahahaha!

Little parting shot on his way out. Sort of a "so long, suckers!"

[jetphixer]

38. So Long Suckers

And Thanks for all the fish

[NorthCarolina]

39. ANyone who EVER actually believed Bush to be a truly religious person

is pretty naive in my book. He found his "faith" after Rove told him he Needed to get Religion if he ever wanted to be Governor. Poof.....instant faith and a Governorship. For President he needed to add a truly "God Fearin'" quality, and what better quality for the pious to cling to than guilt-free "Hatred".....and so the Gays became the sacrificial lamb for the better good of the conservative movement. Nothing sells in the bible belt like a little good ol' down home style guilt-free hate.

[Baby Snooks]

40. Just someone else to shoot the bird at...

"One blogger at the conservative Washington Times, commented the next morning, "I already have an e-mail from a former Bush administration official who writes, 'This just completely alienated his evangelical supporters."

He no longer needs them. So he will shoot the bird at them as well as he departs for his helicopter ride around Washington on his way to Air Force One which will take him home to Dallas. Home of the hypocritical evangelicals who believe if you have enough money god forgives you of everything since obviously god blesses the righteous which is why they are rich. Their god, you see, is money.

The man should have been impeached. To at least have left a stain on his presidency. There is no stain. You can thank Madame Speaker for that. And he will be shooting the bird at her as well. Along with quite a few others I suspect when they realize there will be no investigations, no indictments, and probably a blanket pardon for his administration.

Smart people will boycott SMU for lending credibilty to a legacy of evil. Smarter people will boycott Dallas. Even smarter people will boycott San Francisco.

[trusty elf]

48. ...

[elshiva]

79. HAHA!

[Alexander]

42. Every Republican president has had this attitude towards the fundies.

Talk about Jesus and thump the Bible to get elected, and then throw them under the bus.

The fact that we now have the most right-wing SCOTUS in history and Roe v. Wade is still not overturned tells me this was always a "red meat" issue from the beginning.

What's really surprising is that Bush managed to get out a multisyllabic word like "incompatible".

[struggle4progress]

46. Bush boosts alternative evolution theory (WaPo 2005)

Aides say remarks not an indication of new policy plans
By Peter Baker and Peter Slevin, Washington Post | August 3, 2005

WASHINGTON -- President Bush invigorated proponents of teaching alternatives to evolution in public schools with remarks that schoolchildren should be taught about ''intelligent design," a view of creation that challenges established scientific thinking and promotes the idea that an unseen force is behind the development of humanity ... http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/03/bush_boosts_alternative_evolution_theory/

[8 track mind]

47. too freaking funny!!!!!! n/t

[man4allcats]

50. Heresy! Burn the little bastard at the stake!

I'm sorry I ever voted for him! Oh wait. I didn't vote for him. And I'm not an evangelical. In fact, I'm not even really religious - at least not in any conventional sense.

Oh well.

Never mind.

[earth mom]

51. I've known that * was faking it all along.

First clue was that he doesn't talk the fundie talk. When * talks religion, he stumbles and mumbles like he hasn't cracked open a bible more than once or twice in his life.

Watch * lie his a$$ off in the interview here:

President Bush's Unshaken Faith
Pres. Bush reveals the guiding role Christianity played during his Presidency.
http://abcnews.go.com/nightline


Check out this disgusting quote that should be applied to * himself:

"'I think that anybody who murders innocent people to achieve their objective is not a religious person. They may think they are religious, and they may play like they are religious, but I don't think they are religious. They are not praying to the god I pray to. The god of peace and love. And that's one of the great ironies about this. You know, we're in a so called Religious War-I don't view this as a war of religion. I view this as a war of good decent people of all faiths against people who murder innocent people to achieve a political objective.'"

What * has done himself, he accuses others of doing. Which is absolutely stunning in it's brazenness. :wow:

[BrklynLiberal]

52. Duh. Only the totally unaware would be surprised at this.

I don't think * actually has ANY true beliefs...except he believes he will get another drink.

[Dorian Gray]

55. Isn't that what the majority of Christians believe?

It certainly seems to be the case for Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Orthodox, and other mainline Christian religions.

Who is shocked by those comments?

[anonymous171]

56. The fundies. nt

[tanyev]

59. The ones who make pilgrimages to the Creation Museum.

[Dukkha]

57. I guess he lost some faith from his abysmal approval ratings

yup, even God thinks you're an asshole now

[ACTION BASTARD]

58. The fact that Bush PUNKED the fundies has earned my respect for him...

a little. I was even fooled that his mongoloid pandering to the fundies was real. Hahahaha! Stupid fundies got played and thrown to the side like a Hong Kong condom.

*LAUGHING & LAUGHING at stupid drooling fundies.*

[SalmonChantedEvening]

60. Dear Fundies: You've been had.

He never believed what you hold dear, you were simply a means to an end.

We tried to tell you who this phony was, but your minds were made up. Now your jobs, your savings, and the future your children counted on having are all but gone.

Blame yourselves.

[Regret My New Name]

62. Ohhhh, time to go check out what they're saying on the rapture ready forums...

:D It's hilarious.... I would link to it, but I don't know what the rules are exactly for that.. If you're easily amused and bored, then it's worth looking at. ;)

[Starry Messenger]

64. It's allowed.

Please do post some of the choicer bits. I like reading the ones I see posted here, but I'm usually too lazy to wade around over there. I just looked over Free Republic but they are just getting into a silly argument about Lot for some reason. Denial takes strange forms I guess. :hi:

[AspenRose]

63. SUCKERS!!!

Obama acts more like a Christian than Bush ever has (you know, "By their fruits," blah blah blah) and you STILL have the nerve to hang on to every word Bunnypants says, not to mention ignoring Obama's claiming to be a follower of Christ.

SUCKERS.

[NeedleCast]

65. Dear Fundy Conservatives

You got played for eight years. Thanks

Sincerely,

George W Bush

[mentalsolstice]

66. Boosh has a brain? Who knew? eom

[AwakeAtLast]

67. He's been hammered since election day.

It tends to loosen one's lips. :D

[ProfessorGAC]

73. Which One?

You said since election day, but you forgot to say which year's election day!
GAC

[AwakeAtLast]

74. Eh, you got me there

Pick one, I guess. :D

[MellowDem]

68. No surprise

He was always and still is just the face of the neo-con agenda. The evangelicals continue to shoot themselves in the foot, what with so many of them suffering from right-wing economics. I always knew he wasn't some dumb idiot. He's no smarty, but his image was totally faked and ate up by the media.

[Lifetimedem]

70. I always figured

he was playing Evangelicals like a violin

[nolabels]

76. Yea, but maybe we could just keep on egging him on.........

Who knows what other whoppers might accidentally get cross referenced :evilgrin:

[SoCalDem]

75. No skin off his nose.. He's not gonna run for anything anymore

Now he's going to set himself up as "truth-teller", as he tries to burnish his "legacy"..:rofl:

[20score]

80. I have no respect for Bible literalists, and animosity for the sociopaths that use them.