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'God-drenched' speech is second nature to born-again Bush

Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday January 22, 2005
The Guardian

George Bush's speechwriter Michael Gerson suffered a mild heart attack while working on Thursday's inaugural address, and its fire-and-brimstone rhetoric seems to have been aimed at having the same effect on some of the world's leaders.

The declaration of an American mission to spread liberty around the world, combined with the religious rhetoric in which it was couched, gave the speech a scarily messianic flavour to many ears, and not just foreign ones.

In a column headed Way Too Much God in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Ronald Reagan's former speechwriter Peggy Noonan described the speech as "somewhere between dreamy and disturbing" and suggested that the Bush White House might be suffering from "mission inebriation".

"It was a God-drenched speech," she wrote. "This president, who has been accused of giving too much attention to religious imagery and religious thought, has not let the criticism enter him. God was invoked relentlessly."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1396203,00.html

THE FRENCH ambassador interviewed on BBC about this speech said "You can't bring democracy to everywhere in the world, just like spraying perfume here and there..."

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You know if Peggy Noonan is starting to feel uneasy, you displaying some serious right-wing extremism. :wow:

that bush is the anointed one.

they're all fuckin pigs.
and noonan? too fuckin little too fuckin late...
take some real responsibility for your descendant -- and help throw his miserable failure ass in jail.