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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (681047)	4/29/2005 9:06:38 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769670

Jesus loves Democrats (Joe Scarborough) Media outlets and Internet sites are crackling with warnings of a religious theocracy on the rise in America. The New York Times has been warning its readers since the reelection of George Bush last November that an extreme religious dictatorship is just around the corner. The intensity of those warnings have greatly increased over the past few days. Damn those crazy conservative Christians! How dare they come together in a peaceful, political assembly. Forget about the First Amendment. The Times keeps telling us that these Christian assemblies are un-American. Would it be cynical to suggest that it may be because those church meetings are led by conservatives like James Dobson or Pat Robertson? If a preacher pushed a liberal agenda in God's house, would we hear a discouraging word? Well, let me ask you this. How often have you read the word "theocracy" in stories reporting on church speeches by Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or Bill Clinton? Probably never. But while the Times reporters and Internet gadflies like Andrew Sullivan are working themselves into a lather about the coming Bush theocracy, isn't it interesting that no elected GOP leader has ever claimed an exclusive hold on godly favor? Guess what. The leader of the Democratic Party has. On April 11, DNC Chairman Howard Dean told a newspaper reporter the following: "We need to talk about Christian values and how they're Democratic values...The Democratic Party is the party of those values, not the Republican Party." Imagine for a moment if the head of the Republican Party claimed that Christian values were the exclusive domain of your Party. Go ahead. Try to do it. I know some of you in the media think claims of liberal bias in the press is lunacy, but look yourself in the mirror and say three times that there is not a double standard on this outrageous theocracy story line. Feel free to leave your computer, go to your bathroom mirror, and say it three times with a straight face. Go ahead. I'll wait. Well, actually, no need waiting. Many in the MSM are so brainwashed by what they have heard in their elite schools, read in newspapers, heard in the newsroom, listened to at cocktail parties, and said on the air that there is little hope they will see themselves as the rest of us do. But that doesn't change the fact that the current leader says the Democratic Party embraces Jesus and the Republicans don't. No GOP leader of any weight has ever said that.