George W. Bush is a 'God'

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yep....the left believes him to be a 'god'....he is so powerful he controls the entire world economy. even after he left office 3 years ago.

true story.
 
Christian Nationalists Believe Bush Was Chosen by God, not by the People

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An important facet of Christian Nationalist ideology is the principle that God selects the nation's leaders. When leaders are good, it's because God wants them to lead the nation to victory. When leaders are bad, it's because God wants them to lead the nation to defeat as punishment for its sins. The idea that a nation's leaders are divinely selected is probably as old as religion itself. It allows for tighter integration of religious and political institutions, with religious figures backing the leader's claims to divine election and the leader backing the religious figures' claims to divine authority.

If people believe their leader is placed in charge by gods, they are less likely to question, challenge, or oppose his decisions. This is what makes such beliefs popular with authoritarian, totalitarian, theocratic, and fascist rulers; it's also what makes such beliefs inimical to democratic systems. Democracy requires the principle that citizens, not gods, choose their leaders and that the government is founded on human reason rather than divine agency. Both the American Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were written under a conscious rejection of Europe's long-standing belief in the Divine Right of Kings -- the idea that monarchs owe their rule to the will of God rather than the will of the people.

Unfortunately, over 200 years of democratic tradition have failed to extinguish the religious impulse to attribute divine agency to democratically elected leaders. There are many who believe God is responsible for George W. Bush being president -- including, it seems, George W. Bush himself.

This is a problem because if God, not the people, is the sovereign power responsible for Bush being president, then it means Bush is ultimately responsible to God rather than to the people. Bush's job becomes doing the will of God, at least as he interprets it, rather than the will of the people or to serve the interests of the people. This is fertile ground for Christian Nationalism and Christian Fascism because it allows for the excision of democracy, democratic elections, the separation of powers, constitutionally protected rights, and everything else which makes America a secular and free nation.

The above image was created from a World War I poster describing how the "Victory Fund Campaign" (and presumably religious faith) "sustained him" and "supported the war-time agencies that helped him."

By Austin Cline
 
Yurt said:
yep....the left believes him to be a 'god'....he is so powerful he controls the entire world economy. even after he left office 3 years ago.

true story.
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Yet no doubt you would say that Clinton signing the act that repealed Glass-Steagall is still relevant and that was over a decade ago.
 
he's been hiding in the White House basement channeling through Obama and making him do everything he's done in the last three years.......if we don't get rid of Obama, Bush will continue to run the country for four more years........
 
I am old enough to remember how Reagan and his gang blamed the terrable economy during his first three years on President Carter!

It takes three to four years to turn a regular recession around, this was no regular recession!

I guess they thought Carter was a God!
 
Jarod said:
I am old enough to remember how Reagan and his gang blamed the terrable economy during his first three years on President Carter!

It takes three to four years to turn a regular recession around, this was no regular recession!

I guess they thought Carter was a God!
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MOM....they do it too!!!
 
Jarod said:
I am old enough to remember how Reagan and his gang blamed the terrable economy during his first three years on President Carter!
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and I'm old enough to have survived the Carter presidency.....there was good reason to blame him.....the difference is, Reagan fixed the terrible economy and by the time for re-election every state but Minnesota voted for him......you think that will happen this year?.....

Jarod said:
Nope... It's simply a true point that three years is not a lot of time to turn such a bad recession around!
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Reagan did it.....
 
Yurt said:
when is obama responsible?
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It's clear that a single president is. Never fully responsae for the entire economy but the longer he serves the more effect he has on it, especially counting time when he is not being obstructed by the other party. Reagan had a Demorcatic congress, but they worked with him.

If you look at almost any chart of economic data you will see steady turning around for at least the last two years. At first the rate unemployment increased slowed, then it started decreasing and continues to do so!
 
Jarod said:
It's clear that a single president is. Never fully responsae for the entire economy but the longer he serves the more effect he has on it, especially counting time when he is not being obstructed by the other party. Reagan had a Demorcatic congress, but they worked with him.

If you look at almost any chart of economic data you will see steady turning around for at least the last two years. At first the rate unemployment increased slowed, then it started decreasing and continues to do so!
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Of course the rate of unemployment has slowed.
So many people have run the length of their available benefits, that they're no longer listed as receiving unemployment and thereofore aren't counted.

Kind of like the number of people losing their jobs has decreased. There aren't that many left to lay off or fire, without the businesses closing their doors.
 
The Dude said:
Yet obuma's bum bet of billions on GM gets a pass. So do the dog shit investments in solar.
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How many billions of dollars have they Subsidized the Oil and Gas industry? Solar and GM are chump change compared to the subsidization the oil and gas industry recieves. If GM get's a pass then why does the oil and gas industry recieve a "Get out of jail free" card?
 
PostmodernProphet said:
and I'm old enough to have survived the Carter presidency.....there was good reason to blame him.....the difference is, Reagan fixed the terrible economy and by the time for re-election every state but Minnesota voted for him......you think that will happen this year?.....


Reagan did it.....
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1) NO HE DID NOT YOU IDIOT, The recession Reagan was dealing with was nothing like the one President Obama was dealing with.

2) Look at the numbers, it took Reagan a little over three years to get any signifigant signs of recovery!.
 
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