Will the Real God Please Stand Up

[rolanni]

Sigh.

So, on CNN this morning, we find Pat Robertson asserting that he had talked with the President about the present war and advised him to prepare the American people for casualties. To which the President answered, "We're not going to have any casualties." Presumably the President had received this information from God, Who, he has reported elsewhere, speaks through him. Robertson, on the other hand, goes on to explain that God had told him that the war was going to be "A, a disaster and B, messy."

I wish God would get Their story straight, here. Is this too much to ask of an omnipotent being?

Comments

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

I never thought I'd say this about Pat Robertson, but I think that in this case, at least, he's the one who's been listening more closely. Any omnipotent being who talks to G. W. Bush almost certainly has to do a lot of the celestial equivalent of tapping the microphone and asking, "Is this thing on?"

ROFLMAO

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Can I quote you?

The Onion could use you right now...

After all, unless the country REALLY wakes up this November, George of Arc will be leading the "free" world for another four years.

(If suri is reading, please pardon the quotes, but I feel uneasy right now when I type that phrase...)

Re: ROFLMAO

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

Can I quote you?

Feel free.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm.

Was this a _recent_ conversation? The one between Robertson and Bush, that is, not the various and contradictory revelations from On High.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

From the CNN story:

Pat Robertson, an ardent Bush supporter, said he had that conversation with the president in Nashville, Tennessee, before the March 2003 invasion U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He described Bush in the meeting as "the most self-assured man I've ever met in my life."

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

>He described Bush in the meeting as "the most self-assured >man I've ever met in my life."

This is because, to borrow Shirley's description of Squiggy, Bush has "the uncluttered mind of a tot."

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear it was pre-invasion. While I know there are anti-bushite forces out there who would believe he _still_ thinks there won't be any casualties, I suspect an actual current presidential statement along those lines would bring out the trank guns and straitjackets. Even from his own staff.

You didn't see the Sunday Times, did you?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Ron Suskind's magazine article:


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?oref=login&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

Tres Scary....

Re: You didn't see the Sunday Times, did you?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Anne Compton is a White House Press Corps member who phones in once a week to Spike O'Dell's WGN-720 morning show. She said that when reporters expressed a desire to interview Suskind, he requested their questions in advance. Compton felt this damaged his position--she stated that overall she felt him not credible.

I don't know how to take this. Compton's membership in the Press Corps tends to make me wonder how credible are her reports--I had heard that the skeptics and questioners in that gang tend to get blackballed, and overall she hasn't impressed me as someone who is inclined to be critical. So does she know something the public doesn't about Mr Suskind, or is she mouthing the party line to maintain her position?

Re: You didn't see the Sunday Times, did you?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I've seen other columns and articles about this information--also, it's been pointed out that Pat Robertson, of all people, mentioned that the President was airily confident about low or no casulties in the Iraq conflict way back last spring. The White House is trying to spin that away now--but why didn't the say this 18 months ago when Robertson first implied that Bush was in ga-ga land about the coming war?

So, I'm looking at it this way--this is like when there's a King with some real power to banish you, damage you in some way--and you're close to the throne. YOu don't BELIEVE his delusions, but you keep your mouth shut, you do what he says and protect him/explain away his behavior, because you have power and you're getting a lot of what you want. His staff are not all religious hysterics--but maybe he is...

Like the fundementalists who are joining forces with radical Islamists because they are both into oppressing women, etc.--those people hate each other, but they're both getting something out of the equation.

I've had a very bad feeling about Bush for a long time...his health frightens me even more than this article...why won't he get his usual summer check-up? Because there's something no one wants on the record. Has he had a small stroke? Not necessarily incapacitating for an executive CEO--but the President of the Free World? That's a problem.

What if they intend him to resign after the election--and Cheney becomes president?

That REALLY scares me....