Blogometer PM Extra

BUSH: Third Time's A Charm?

President Bush waxed theological with conservative luminaries 9/12, on what he called a “Third Awakening” of religious fervor, the Washington Post reports. The Awakenings refer to waves of religious sentiment in American history, the first in the 18th century, the second in the 19th. How does the President reckon this is the third? “I think there’s change happening here,” he said.

Lefty bloggers picked up on the "awakening" with amusement and apprehension, mostly. Michael Van Der Galien at Liberty and Justice is somewhat perturbed: “I believe a democratically elected leader of a nation in which state and Church are separated would best refrain from using words like this…” Shakespeare’s Sister catches the obvious tie to the Terror War, saying “It’s bloody dangerous to identify terrorism as evil, which is an irrational concept, when it is, irrespective of our president’s opinion, a rational act with identifiable motivations.” The Smirking Chimp’s xxdr_zombiexx smirks back with: “It's quite apparent that, as religion is the last resort of a scoundrel, Team Bush, with its back to the wall, is playing the religious fervor card.” Shakespeare’s Sister adds: “Bush illustrates that he is patently incapable of engaging this complex problem with the rigorous intricacy it requires.”