"Christian soldiers for the Bush campaign" Blumner, St. Pete Times. [View All]

[madfloridian]

One of my favorite columnists.

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/13/Columns/Christian_soldiers_fo.shtml

SNIP..."The byplay was as inevitable as chickens being provided to the barrios of Mexico just before the eleccion. President Bush first opens the spigot of public money to churches and other faith-based groups to the tune of over a billion dollars last year, then he knocks on the faith community's door for a political favor, por favor.

The Bush-Cheney re-election campaign is not a bit embarrassed at being caught trying to organize a brigade of (mostly) Christian soldiers in houses of worship throughout Pennsylvania who would act as point people for the campaign. After reports emerged that the Bush campaign's national headquarters asked the Pennsylvania contingent to identify "1,600 "Friendly Congregations' in Pennsylvania where voters friendly to President Bush might gather on a regular basis," Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for the Bush administration, told the New York Times: "People of faith have as much right to participate in the political process as any other community."

Of course they do, Steve, but that misses the point....."