<p>CGM I think allmusic is smart enough to realize that with her ridicule of Bush’s religion and then the reference to KKK that she wandered into the realm of intolerance. Throw in a Nazi reference and she would have scored the trifecta.</p>
<p>Yup, everything sucks. In Washington most colleges are looking at lower enrollments because so many HS kids are finding a good job market. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2006-05-16-graduates-salaries_x.htm[/url]”>http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2006-05-16-graduates-salaries_x.htm</a></p>
<p>FF - I think Allmusic was simply correcting your misspelling of Karl Rove’s name. (As in K-K-K-Katie) but you are free to take offense and spew accusations if you prefer.</p>
<p>“I think Allmusic was simply correcting your misspelling of Karl Rove’s name.”</p>
<p>If we merely start correcting each others’ spelling, grammatical errors and typos every thread would be triple the number of entries. So, she was being either very petty or displaying her lack of tolerance. With the snide remark about Bush’s religious belief, I’d go with intolerance.</p>
<p>Lack of tolerance? How so?</p>
<p>And Mr. Fundingfather, I don’t find you to be the bastion of civility, especially when it comes to opposing views.</p>
<p>I do try to be polite, to even those with whom I disagree.</p>
<p>Also, Bush himself said God spoke to him and told him to invade Iraq. How is my commenting upon that bigoted? It’s fact! I can find the exact quote for you!</p>
<p>I’ll be waiting for that exact quote.</p>
<p>"President Bush said to all of us: 'I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq… And I did.</p>
<p>“‘And now, again, I feel God’s words coming to me, Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East. And by God I’m gonna do it.’”</p>
<p>Except for when we start yelling at each other personally, instead of yelling at each other’s thoughts about Bush, I am enjoying this thread. </p>
<p>…I must be a masochist… :)</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that the administration contested the accuracy of the BBC story regarding what Bush told the Palestinians.</p>
<p>Oh, I know they did! :O</p>
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<p>FF, let’s be serious for a minute. Can you, with a straight face, say that Bush’s continued assertion that the invasion of Iraq was done for the right reasons and that he would do it again, is not politically motivated?</p>
<p>Of course it is! He cannot say that it was a mistake because it would essentially mean that he made one of the most serious strategic blunders that any President has made in the last 100 years. If Bush and his cronies knew ahead of time all that we know now - no WMD, an insurgency that is out of control, 2400 American lives lost, almost half a trillion dollars expended in the war so far, Iraq in a low grade civil war, unprecedented animosity against the US in the Muslim world, etc - are you seriously telling me that Bush would have still invaded Iraq? If you really believe this to be the case, then there is not much more to say.</p>
<p>Just for the record, it is not just Bush who has taken this politically motivated approach to holding to his view irrespective of the facts, because Hillary Clinton and some others are just as guilty.</p>
<p>To put it another way, if all of the above were known to the Senate before they voted for military action against Iraq, do you seriously believe that such a resolution would have passed?</p>
<p>So, when you say, “Bush himself said God spoke to him and told him to invade Iraq. How is my commenting upon that bigoted? It’s fact! I can find the exact quote for you!” you really don’t mean that Bush said it but rather someone else said that he said it. I see. Sometimes I wonder if the left were to have a lobotomy to exorcise all of the myths and lies that they carry around in their heads if their opinions would change. I doubt it, but it would be interesting.</p>
<p>It was widely reported at the time that Bush said this to a religious group in PA a month or two ago, but I don’t remember if it was to Quakers, Mennonites, or someone else.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, FF - I didn’t realize that you were there, and personally know what GWB did or didn’t say. Because most of what I understand people to have said comes to me second hand, through the media. Apparently when you say that Clinton, or Kerry, or Gore said something you mean that you were personally present when they made the statement, because otherwise you’d have to qualify your statement by acknowledging that your knowledge was second hand, right?</p>
<p>maybe the divine words that once issued from a ‘burning bush’ have been teased forward into george’s ear. Moses also was a poor public speaker,…this is clearly a case of mistaken attribution.</p>
<p>I found it; it was repeated a month or so ago, but happened in 2004. It was a meeting with an Amish group, reported by the Lancaster New Era. The exact quote was “I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/129/11.0.html[/url]”>http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/129/11.0.html</a></p>
<p>LOL! A lobotomy! How’s that for reasoned conversation? LOL!</p>
<p>Come on kluge you know better than that. This wasn’t a quote that a person from the BBC heard and then transcribed. It was from a third party who “claimed” that is what Bush said. Hence, the BBC wasn’t there either. Jeesh, talking about hearsay. This is a classic case of believing what you want to believe.</p>
<p>its a good thing FF knows exactly what bush says and doens’t say, i feel SOOo much better know</p>
<p>Bush has been saved, and it is HUGE part of his life, HUGE…</p>
<p>So does he think God JUST speaks through him, or are others allowed to converse with God as well</p>