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Jul 1st, 2008 by Micah Tillman | 6 Comments |

“Obama to expand Bush’s faith based programs” -AP

Wha?

Tags: Barack Obama, Faith Based Programs, George Bush, Third Term

Posted in Politics, Religion

6 Responses to “Bush’s Third Term”

on 01 Jul 2008 at 9:11 pm1jeffsdeepthoughts

What a wierd election this is turning into!!! The Dem is going after the Christian evangelicals and the Rep. is going after the secular humanists!!!
on 02 Jul 2008 at 11:37 am2Christine

John Scalzi has an interesting analysis here: http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=966
(I find it interesting, at any rate. But I’m not really invested in your election except so far as it is amusing to watch).

PS. I just noticed your head up there. Creeptastic!
on 02 Jul 2008 at 2:47 pm3Amanda

ahahahahah. I heard about this.

ahahahahah.
on 03 Jul 2008 at 3:24 am4Renaissance Guy

Your succinct one-word question is more eloquent than what I wrote.

Three questions:

Are the Democrats snickering over it, because they know it is just empty pandering?

Are they angry because Obama is out-Bushing President Bush?

Or are they too stupid to realize that this is a policy that they have attacked for eight years?
on 03 Jul 2008 at 2:22 pm5jeffsdeepthoughts

I realize I’m in the minority on the whole Obama thing, around here, but I would like to point something out:
When he says he’s an agent of change and that he’s nonpartisan and he’s something of an outsider (when compared to say the Bushes or the Clintons) people treat these claims with cyncism.
When he actually suggests a policy that is associated with those across the aisles, though, everybody says things like “Doesn’t he realize that his party is snickering? Is he stupid?”
I don’t think that I’ll prove his sincerity, his preparation, etc., here. But adopting the faith-based initiatives achieve a number of things for him, not the least of which is to support his claims that he’s a bipartisan kind of guy. Borrowing something explicitly right out of Bush’s play book is also shrewd in that it says “Look, Mccain, I’m willing to borrow from Bush in those rare occasions when his policies work; you’re borrowing from Bush in all the places where his policies don’t work.”
on 03 Jul 2008 at 9:11 pm6Micah Tillman

Jeff–

Indeed.

Christine–

*grin*

Amanda–

Amen.

RG–

I was wondering the same kinds of things. :-/

Jeff–

You may be right here. It just seems so out of left field (which says something about how much of a bipartisan kind of guy Obama really is . . .).

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