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The George W. Bush Thread.

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GUEST,Peter Woodruff 11 Apr 05 - 05:24 PM
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Subject: Review: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:11 PM

Here it is the thread we have all been waiting for, However been afraid to respond to. Can you possibly think of anything you would like to say to George W at this late date in his last catastrophic term of office. We will weigh all thoughtful responses with a grain of mercury.

Peter


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Subject: RE: Review: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Once Famous
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:13 PM

This has been moronically posted in the music threads by someone who is still just sour grapes still from last November.

How completely unoriginal.


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Subject: RE: Review: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:15 PM

Hi Gibson!

Peter


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Once Famous
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:16 PM

terrorists or insurgents, either way, they suck. fuck 'em


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Once Famous
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:16 PM

terrorists or insurgents, either way, they suck. fuck 'em

Howdy, pal.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:19 PM

Which one is Bush?


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Once Famous
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:21 PM

terrorists or insurgents, either way, they suck. fuck 'em


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:24 PM

I'm Peter, Martin Gibson must be George W. Bushes's alter-ego. What do you think? Am I a flame here or what?

Peter


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:28 PM

I was just wondering whether the bush is what one would call a terrorist or is he more an insurgent? You know, where one rises up against the people.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:28 PM

Let's get back to the thread. Bush sucks the life out of all of us! Right! With everything he does!!!

Peter


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,van lingle
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:50 PM

What would I like to say to him?

Sic Semper Tyrannus!


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:54 PM

Don't forget to put lead ball into the back of his head before you say it.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Once Famous
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 05:59 PM

He's not sucking the life out of me.

Greg F. you sound pretty dangerous. Perhaps the FBI would be interested in your post.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Peace
Date: 11 Apr 05 - 06:15 PM

Dear President Bush,

I believed you were doing the right thing by invading Iraq. Now, I think you did wrong. I wonder what there can be in a man that he would want to leave the world in worse shape than he found it? I listened to your speeches on TV and read some on the internet. You are not the greatest orator, but I would gladly overlook that if your words were kind and your intentions clear and peaceful. I fail to understand why you have chosen to surround yourself with people whom I consider to be dangerous. It makes the world insecure for future generations. I don't understand either why you are trying to destroy one of the greatest documents in world history; namely, The Constitution. I don't understand why you don't care that so many Americans are poor. I don't understand why old people cannot be cared for properly by your country. Under your leadership they could be. You could make the United States respected around the world, not feared. Yet you seem not to be doing any of these things. Who can people look up to if not their leader? And why does half your country's citizens have trouble looking up to you? I don't understand. Maybe you don't either.

I don't wish you any ill, but I hope you and the crew you are listening to have a very serious change of heart. I think you won't, but I will pray you do.

Bruce Murdoch


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: DougR
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:44 AM

Duplicate thread. See Amos' thread.

DougR


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Olivia
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 01:53 AM

Rule #1

If someone is sucking you you can't fuck 'em.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 02:07 AM

Olivia...it depends what body part they aree sucking and how limber they or you may be....


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: s6k
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 03:15 AM

hello bush. youre a twat. fuck off. cheers


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 03:35 PM

Only one thing. GOODBYE GEORGE!

Don T.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Once Famous
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 06:07 PM

Uh, George could give a shit and is not reading this.

Isn't there something else you can do?


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 08:07 PM

Lots of things I can do Martin, without overloading to the point where I can't spot a lying warmonger. Still, when George's couldn't give a shit hits the fan, I'll be out of range, and it's the American people who'll be covered in it.

Don T.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 08:24 PM

No, Martin, what you mean is, he couldn't give a shit.

I know this, because I grew up in an era when a fair number of people still knew enough not to say "lay down" when they actually meant "lie down". ;-)

I would say to him, "George, that must have been pretty cool running that baseball team back in Texas. I bet you had a lot of fun then. You must miss those days, eh?"


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 08:31 PM

I would like to ask him if he knew he looked like Norman Wisdom. Then chain him up naked and put a couple of snarling dogs in his face. Whilst smearing him in menstrual blood. I would then like to ask him if I can capture this moment on my kodak instamatic, just for the folks back home you understand.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 08:36 PM

Heh! Well, yes, that would be different, wouldn't it? You never know, he may have been into stuff like that back in the university days. I hear they did some pretty weird stuff behind closed doors. Skull and Bones, you know...


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 09:04 PM

Yo Goerge, first of all "you suck so fu*k off"...

Second, hope the next pretzel takes you down...

Third, you are a liar...

Forth, you are no follower of Christ, but an insecure little autocrat who happened to be born into wealth...

Fifth, you will not being sharing any quarters in Heaven with me 'cause you are going the way of yer hero, Adolf...

Sixth, you know what you are underneath yer crap and that's the best part about this...

Seventh, sorry to hurt yer head with big humbers like "7th"...

Eighth, you are a crook. You stole money from the empolyees at Harkin Energy with yer little Ken Lay thing that you continue to get away with because you have so much power that the courts can't touch you...

Ninth, how does it feel knowing that should America survive your administration intact, which is doubtfull, that historians will rank you as the worst president ever...

and

Tenth, where's Ken Starr when we need him the most???

Bobert


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 09:19 PM

Now, Bobert...judge not, lest ye shall be judged. ;-)

Disagree with the man's actions by all means, but have caution about denigrating the man. Most people, George Bush included, do what they think is right at the time from their own perspective, and they all have their own very good reasons for it. They may be crazy in your terms or mine, but they do feel justified in their decisions and actions.

Fear produces aggression. Extreme fear produces extreme aggression. Hitler, for example, was tremendously fearful of Jews, Commmunists, and anyone he regarded as a threat to "Germany and Western Civilization" (as he saw it). He was in extreme fear largely because of his own youthful experiences in and after WWI, which he blamed on certain symbolic enemies he made up in his own mind. He BELIEVED those enemies were absolutely real. They weren't. His real enemy was his own fear and desire to protect himself against mythical "forces of evil" that he conjured up out of his own fear.

Concentrate on what you love, not what you hate. Hatred is not a useful emotion with which to fuel one's purposes in life. (And yeah, I'm still learning that too...bit by bit.)


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 09:37 PM

Yo Goerge, first of all "you suck so fu*k off"...

Second, hope the next pretzel takes you down...

Third, you are a liar...

Forth, you are no follower of Christ, but an insecure little autocrat who happened to be born into wealth...

Fifth, you will not being sharing any quarters in Heaven with me 'cause you are going the way of yer hero, Adolf...

Sixth, you know what you are underneath yer crap and that's the best part about this...

Seventh, sorry to hurt yer head with big humbers like "7th"...

Eighth, you are a crook. You stole money from the empolyees at Harkin Energy with yer little Ken Lay thing that you continue to get away with because you have so much power that the courts can't touch you...

Ninth, how does it feel knowing that should America survive your administration intact, which is doubtfull, that historians will rank you as the worst president ever...

and

Tenth, where's Ken Starr when we need him the most???

Bobert


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Apr 05 - 09:59 PM

Hey, LH, though it may sound as if I hate George Bush, I don't... I just disagree with him and feel sorry for him with his personality disorders... Unfortunately, the world shouldn't have to suffer along with him...

And don't know how that echo happened...

Bobert


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 08:16 PM

Oh Well! Most of you are pretty drunk but you are right, no I mean you are left. You need to do more activism online! George is a big mellon out there for you to squeeze.

Peter


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: dianavan
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 01:11 AM

Yeah, he was born into wealth but even that couldn't get him elected. He had to be tutored by Billy Graham to make him palatable for the masses. None of that would be so bad if it weren't for the fact that he has no conscience.

I have come to believe that he not only lies to us but to himself. What is hard to understand is how so many Americans believe him. My daddy warned me that it would be the marriage of business and politics that would destroy the U.S.A. I didn't see how it was possible but I certainly see it now.

I don't hate Bush either but I do consider him Public Enemy #1.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 07:35 AM

Well, your daddy was right, d... But this is nothin' new... Hitler knew that he would need the industrialists in order to centralize power... My dad, before he died two years ago told me the same thing and my dad was also very scared of not only Bush but the folks he had surrounded himself with... And this from a Nixon Republican businessman...

Same tune, different day...

And what is so scarey nopw is seeing what these autocrats are trying to do with federal judges... This is definately brownshirtism at its best/worst... I'm just hoping that Joe Sixpack will come out of the trance long enough to come to the defense of democracy but at best, that;s just a hope as Joe seems to caught up in consuming, workin' his butt off, being in debt over his head and the usual: NASCAR/Budweiser/coutry music...

Bobert


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 12:20 PM

Most really effective liars are quite good at lying to themselves, given what I've seen. Or else they know they're lying...but they figure the end fully justifies the means. Or it's a mixture of the two.

Well, I'm not gonna worry about it. I'm gonna go and make some music.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: DougR
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 05:13 PM

dianavan, bobert. L.H., Greg F., Peter:I assume you are aware that neither of you will probably be invited to a White House dinner while GWB is president.

DougR


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,*Laura*
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 05:51 PM

Ask him if the French have developed a word for entrepreneur yet!?!?

xLx


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Once Famous
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 05:55 PM

What a joke this thread is!

Bush doesn't care what your little group of radicals thinks and he is not reading these posts so why don't you find something to do that just might enhance your unhappy little lives because we have a president that you don't like.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,*Laura*
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 05:57 PM

He also doesn't particularly care that you support him, and probably wouldn't think twice about bombing you if you got in his way.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 06:22 PM

Lol, Laura!!!

Personally, i'd ask him if i could use his toilet. I imagine the presidential crapper must be quite impressive.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Peace
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 06:27 PM

Well, BI, the Presidential crapper would have to be quite impressive considering the amount of shit that comes from the White House.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 06:28 PM

Lol...reckon he's got a bidet?


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 06:36 PM

Maybe he has a bidet that flows with mouthwash...


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 11:21 PM

( ...ooooohhhh!!! Mustn't make drinking fountain joke about president's bidet... mustn't... make... joke!!!!)

There. I didn't. My conscience is free of guilt.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Public Domain
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 12:13 PM

I'm thinking of inviting George W. to my party and I'll introduce him to Smith and Wesson, Colt, Luger......


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 01:00 PM


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: dianavan
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 12:58 AM

Dinner at the White House?

I thought they just called him to the trough.

What about you, Dougie? Did you get an invite or did you just heed the call?


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 01:07 AM

"I'm thinking of inviting George W. to my party and I'll introduce him to Smith and Wesson, Colt, Luger......"

Ya just broke a Federal Statute.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,pete
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 02:58 PM

what if you just offer him a pretzel?


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Public Domain
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 03:27 PM

around his neck


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 03:31 PM

Then you have really fucked up according to Miss Manners.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Once Famous
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 03:43 PM

Actually guest Laura, I only voted for Bush to keep Kerry out. Looks like every vote counts. On the contrary, I do believe he cares that I voted for him. Of course it's just typically childish of you to assume he doesn't, you being the expert on American politics and all.

BTW, I hear even though you share the same name as the first lady, you are deteriorating at a much more rapid pace, especially around the corners of the eyes and above the upper lip.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Public Domain
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 11:16 AM

You're a dreamer to think he cares about your misguided vote.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: *Laura*
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 03:50 PM

Miaw.
and HA - I'm not a guest! I can log in again now.

xLx

and I suppose you ARE an expert aren't you? yes, yes, I thought you were.


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:51 AM

In yet another stunning display of cerebral short-circuitry, our Furless Leader spoke thus:

"I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the Mother in me."—Washington D.C., April 14, 2005

IS this a gender problem? Or just a Freudian issue?

Sheesh!!!



A


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:54 AM

Oh and this one:

""I understand there's a suspicion that we—we're too security-conscience."—Washington D.C., April 14, 2005

and "I want to thank you for the importance that you've shown for education and literacy."—Washington, D.C., April 13, 2005

and "I repeat, personal accounts do not permanently fix the solution."—Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005

Why do we need a dictator who cannot compose a simple sentence?


A


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From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:56 AM

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."—Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 2004

"They can get in line like those who have been here legally and have been working to become a citizenship in a legal manner."—Referring to immigrant workers, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2004

"And so during these holiday seasons, we thank our blessings. ... "—Fort Belvoir, Va., Dec. 10, 2004

"I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere. And they say 'man, you're looking pretty.' "—Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2004




"Wodda marooon!"

----Bugs Bunny, 1951


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From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:58 AM

"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."—Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2004 .

"That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental—supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel."—Erie, Pa., Sept. 4, 2004


Yep!! Ghoulish preee-version, I reckon....


A


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 12:48 PM

By contrast to this foot-in-mouth moron, try listening to someone more articulate who has actual values.


A


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Subject: RE: The George W. Bush Thread.
From: Amos
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 04:23 PM

From my favourite New York doyenne, Maureen Dowd:

The white smoke yesterday signaled that the Vatican thinks what it needs to bring it into modernity is the oldest pope since the 18th century: Joseph Ratzinger, a 78-year-old hidebound archconservative who ran the office that used to be called the Inquisition and who once belonged to Hitler Youth. For American Catholics - especially women and Democratic pro-choice Catholic pols - the cafeteria is officially closed. After all, Cardinal Ratzinger, nicknamed "God's Rottweiler" and "the Enforcer," helped deny Communion rights to John Kerry and other Catholic politicians in the 2004 election.

The only other job this pope would be qualified for is "60 Minutes" anchor.

President Bush has also long acted as if he channeled the voice of God. And now Tom DeLay and Bill Frist are also pandering to the far-right-wing and evangelical Christians by implying that God speaks - and acts - through them, too.

Mr. Bush's more subtle obeisance to the evangelical right is no longer enough. Puffed up with its electoral clout, the Christian right now wants politicians to genuflect openly.

The doctor who would be president is down on both knees. He's happy to exploit religion by giving a video speech on a telecast next Sunday that will portray Democrats who block the president's judicial nominations as being "against people of faith."

A flier for the Christian telecast, organized by the Family Research Council, shows a confused teenage boy with a Bible in one hand and a judge's gavel in the other. The text reads: "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith."

The born-again Tom DeLay has been fighting his ethical woes by acting like a martyr for some time. Dr. Frist, by contrast, was not known for playing the religious card before. But he is clearly willing to turn himself over, lock, stock and barrel, if it will help him marginalize such Christian-right faves as Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback, and garner support from those who always vote because they see elections in terms of eternity.

Even Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Bible-Belt Republican, seemed surprised by the brazen move by Dr. Frist, the Senate majority leader. He told Newsweek: "Questioning a senator's motives in that way is a very dangerous precedent."

And, of course, the Democrats are apoplectic. "I cannot imagine that God - with everything he has or she has to worry about - is going to take the time to debate the filibuster in heaven," Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois said.

As they toy with less lofty multiple-anchor formats, the networks may be more open to women. But at the Vatican and in the Christian right's vanguard, we can be sure that the voice of God is not female. ...


A


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