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10/15/2003 Archived Entry: "Schanberg outlines the Complete Skeeriness of George W. Bush."
Schanberg outlines the Complete Skeeriness of George W. Bush.
The Voice's Sidney Schanberg tells of The Whole Scary Agenda in this piece, and reveals that Bush really, really did sacrifice for the troops!
People close to the president say that his conversion to evangelical Methodism, after a life of aimless carousing, markedly informs his policies, both foreign and domestic. In the soon-to-be-published The Faith of George W. Bush (Tarcher/Penguin), a sympathetic account of this religious journey, author Stephen Mansfield writes (in the advance proofs) that in the election year 2000, Bush told Texas preacher James Robison, one of his spiritual mentors: "I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. . . . I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it." Mansfield also reports: "Aides found him face down on the floor in prayer in the Oval Office. It became known that he refused to eat sweets while American troops were in Iraq, a partial fast seldom reported of an American president. And he framed America's challenges in nearly biblical language. Saddam Hussein is an evildoer. He has to go." The author concludes: " . . . the Bush administration does deeply reflect its leader, and this means that policy, even in military matters, will be processed in terms of the personal, in terms of the moral, and in terms of a sense of divine purpose that propels the present to meet the challenges of its time."
He refused to eat sweets??? It's true - no sacrifice is too great for our Godly preznit. I'll just bet he broke out the bon-bons when that statue came down.
Oh, and while you're over at The Voice, check out Ward Sutton's 'Dumbo'. Sad but true.
Replies: 7 people speak up
...he refused to eat sweets while American troops were in Iraq
I suppose that would explain why he was so quick to declare an end to major hostilities.
Posted by Mario @ 10/15/2003 04:10 AM NY
Hmmmm, it would appear that the Supreme Being of the Universe is sending out mixed signals. Back in November 2000, Sweet Baby Jesus told me to vote for Al Gore. Oh, Sweet Baby Jesus also told me to download copious amount of Japanese porn. Go figure, but who am I to argue with the Almighty?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 10/15/2003 09:09 AM NY
Guess he's still not eating sweets then. Why is that sentence in past tense?
Posted by Pipsqueak @ 10/15/2003 10:40 AM NY
they should have called the book "the madness of king george" but i guess that was already taken. its interesting to live in a period of time that you know will be remembered differently than it is seen now. bush will be remembered as the psychopathic nazi zealot that he really is, i just hope the perceptual shift will happen in my lifetime, so i can say i told you so. i just wish he would eat more pretzels
Posted by justin @ 10/15/2003 11:33 AM NY
I think those of us who want to bring about peace in the middle east should start sending cartons and cartons of gummi bears, tootsie rolls, jelly beans, bon-bons and other sweets to the white house immediately. He'll never be able to resist the temptation and will be forced to bring our troops home!
Posted by Dissento @ 10/15/2003 12:27 PM NY
He abstained from sweets, but the daily blowjobs for his dog were something he refused to give up, even for God.
Posted by Paul @ 10/15/2003 03:24 PM NY
Laura, safe in France, is not as upset as one might think.
Posted by julia @ 10/15/2003 05:08 PM NY
