futurebot - 2008-12-12
4:59 - "Q: Is it literally true, the Bible?
BUSH: Probably not. You know, the idea that... [trails off]"
He came SO CLOSE to saying something interesting there, and then you can almost see the remote controlled valve Rove installed into his voicebox clench shut. I choose to believe he was going to say something about the resurrection.
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futurebot - 2008-12-12 Also, I think that Bush comes off looking a lot less crazy in this interview than I would have expected. Dumb and inarticulate, but he also has moments of token self-reflection and even (!) a kind of faux intellectual humility. A lot of what he says about religion here are things that, for example, Hillary Clinton is also on record saying.
Compare this to the stark-raving-crazy of Palin, who definitely thinks that the Bible is literally true, that God has chosen her to lead Joel's Army, and who knows what else.
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Johnny Roastbeef - 2008-12-12 Really, this is one of the most reasonable things I've ever seen out of the guy. How is it that when he's finally leaving he comes back from the deep end?
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chumbucket - 2008-12-12
"god made me the anointed one - as long as I stop drinkin"
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kamlem - 2008-12-12
Well, he still has very strong faith, since he again linked Iraq to 9/11 even after all these years :(
He must be still praying to god for those WMD's to surface...
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TeenerTot - 2008-12-12
Jesus practiced waterboarding as a coversion technique.
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Bort - 2008-12-13
Bush has never come across better as a person, but I get the feeling he was coached on how to sound self-effacing. All reports are that, for the past eight years, he has been driven by stubborn unquestioning confidence in his convictions, and that doesn't track with down-home humility.
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