Saturday, October 6, 2007

Bush's Legacy?

I can't decide whether this USA Today article, titled, Bush's Legacy: Faithful Conservatism, is snide and condescending, neutral, or supportive. Clearly, a lot of folks don't like the colleges that educate young people who are evangelical Christians as well as conservative in their politics. The press has recently uncovered a nefarious and troublesome plot - a true conspiracy - that some colleges (even law schools, heaven forbid) seem to have an agenda that includes graduating politically conservative, evangelical students with goals that include influencing government. Imagine! The message is clear: if you're a conservative evangelical Christian, you need to shut up and get in the corner while the grown ups - Methodists, Presbyterians and Catholics - handle the hard stuff.

I certainly don't want to be overly suspicious, but it seems to me an effective way to discredit someone or some group right now is to show them as aligned with President Bush, or worse yet, as potential Bush torchbearers (ie, "Legacy"). Bush Derangement Syndrome will only be cured by a government-wide purging of Bush hires - a Bush enema, if you will - just as soon after Jan 20, 2009 as humanly possible, so it's not too soon to begin identifying those to be flushed.

It's a short article, so read it. McLean Bible Church even gets a mention,
Among themselves, evangelicals at the White House would joke about "outing" each other. You only knew about another evangelical, one Patrick Henry intern at the White House told me, if you ran into him on a Sunday morning at McLean Bible Church in Northern Virginia, a fancy megachurch attended by prominent conservative lawmakers. I once heard a Patrick Henry senior who had just finished a White House internship explain testily to a sophomore that no, he should not write on his application that the Bible was the book that had influenced him the most.

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