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January 31, 2004
Bush and the Christian Coalition
Some time ago, I blogged on Dubya's religious beliefs, and a report on the BBC web site today, Christian foot soldiers battle for Bush, indicates that his evangelical stance is set to pay electoral dividends in the southern states. George Soros, meanwhile, has other ideas. In an article appearing in the The Age, Bursting the Bush bubble, Soros (described by the author as 'probably the only US citizen with his own foreign policy') is reported as saying that 'ending the Bush presidency's "supremacist ideology" has become a "matter of life and death" for the planet's future'.
The Age piece goes on to make reference to Soros' new book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, in which he gets stuck into Bush's 'war on terror' and the way it has been used to impose US views and interests. Bush he sees as a classic "victim turned perpetrator" and an ideal front man for neo-con ideologues, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. According to Soros "It suits his personality because he's a born-again. He is a former substance abuser (alcohol) who has personal acquaintance with the devil because he has experienced it inside himself and then he has been reinforced by a devil (al-Qaeda), which tried to destroy him by attacking him in the White House." Needless to say, the bible belt are less than impressed with George S.
Posted by jeremy at January 31, 2004 02:13 PM
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Wow! Long live George S. He summed up the debate when he said that values transcend class and country. It then begs the question, How much has Dubya selflessly given to the world? How consistent and ethical have his contributions been?
Unfortunately, the pedagogy of big lies continues and I have to agree that in times like these with homo economicus in power and running rampant that success seems to be more important than the truth.
Posted by: C at February 1, 2004 06:38 AM
The issue is a more serious one than I believe anyone can imagine. It is a bit like the movie "The Matrix" where the world as be know it is not really as we know it. In the Matrix world we have all been plugged into a huge machine to generate electricity. In the world of George Dublya many of us, and most US citizens, are plugged into a surreal consumer world, where if the proposal is not in the interest of the US consumer then not only does the proposal need to be stopped but the promotors disadvantaged (even punished).
The human world is ready for something greater than politics, unfortunately the only way the human world has been able to transform itself in the past has been through blood shed.
Posted by: Matthew at February 2, 2004 06:29 PM
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