Bush’s Faith Worries Madeline Albright
LONDON, England (Reuters) — U.S. President George W. Bush has alienated Muslims around the world by using absolutist Christian rhetoric to discuss foreign policy issues, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.
“I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy,” she said, referring to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both Democrats and Christians.
“President Bush’s certitude about what he believes in, and the division between good and evil, is, I think, different,” said Albright, who has just published a book on religion and world affairs. “The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying to some of us.”
Thank you Madam Secretary for an unintentional glimpse into why Democrats cannot be trusted with national security. They cannot even bring themselves to call the throat cutting, hijacking, barabrians evil. Too many variables for a liberal to come to that conclusion. Maybe the jihadists had mean daddies, or grew up poor or blah, blah, blah. If they can’t recognize evil, how can they stop it?
And one more thing Madeline, being a “man of faith” is about how you live your life, your actions, not your empty rhetoric. Bill Clinton is a man of faith as much as George Bush is a man of MENSA.
For more on why Democrats are unable to manage a war on terror, click here.
UPDATE I: Jonah Goldberg and Matt Yglesias have more on the subject of moral relativism.
UPDATE II: Gregg takes his cuts,
Madge says: “The absolute truth is what makes Bush so worrying to some of us.”
That last sentence speaks volumes about the modern day secular humanist anti-theist left. This is the thing they abhor most about conservatives and Bush specifically.(One could include Ashcroft, Rice, Gonzalez, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc…all evangelical Christians whose words and actions are largely dictated by their faith in the Almighty.) They hate the fact that he views the world in terms of moral absolutes via a Judeo-Christian paradigm. This is why the left mocks him when he talks about the axis of “evil.” The left’s contempt for such a parochial and “unenlightened” view of the world is why they are so closely aligned with the ACLU and other anti-theistic organizations who are attempting to snap every cross and star of David from every church and synagogue in our country. What makes those such as Albright so “worrisome” to most of us right of center Americans is the left’s inability to recognize the existence of pure evil and the fact that pure evil cannot be reasoned with but must be annihilated from the face of the earth in order for Western Civilization and its liberal Democracies to live on.
So I guess in addition to supporting big intrusive Govt, higher taxes, abortion on demand, same sex marriage, open borders, cutting and running in Iraq, lefties like Albright now think that political leaders of the Christian faith and their belief in moral absolutes poses a grave threat to the world. Just when you thought the lefties couldn’t move any further left. I wouldn’t recommend advocating this belief if they plan on “reconnecting” to those red state values voters who happen to believe in silly anti-delluvian notions such as “good” and “evil.”
Notice how she had not one word to say about how the mullahs in Iran were making Jews and Christians wear colored headbands. Nothing about how many Muslims such as Abumenijad deny the Holocaust or how the throat cutters cut off womenâ??s’ heads for wearing nail polish, or be-head homosexuals. Lefties like Madge are so quick to condemn Christians and America in general, yet not a word of condemnation about radical Islam in the CNN piece. So people wonder when we discuss the domestic insurgents on our show who we are speaking of. We are talking about people like Albright who continue to assert, in essence, that it is fundamentally America and our Christian president who are the real reasons for all the evil in the world. Trust me this article and her words will be used as propaganda to aid and abet the enemy just like Durbin’s, Dean’s, Kennedy’s, Pelosi’s, Murtha’s, et al. These people will stop at nothing to take this president and the GOP down just to regain political power. It is sickening to witness. Madge should stick to making brisket. She did enough damage as the worse sec of state in our nation’s history. The thought of her clinking champagne glasses with Kim Jong Il disturbs me to this day.