roachboy

interesting.

so one thing i can conclude from reading through this is that the house lumpenconservatives don't like the story that opened the thread.
for them, of course this is pure hearsay blah blah blah: which i originally took at simply another series of rather sad accidental confessions concerning the nature of conservative political committments---but then i noticed that white house issued a statement yesterday that argued the bushclaim that the iraq war was inspired by god had been actually made (bush said it, yes), but that it was "not to be taken literally"....
so he said it
but "it" was a metaphor

which is, if you think about it, quite a mysterious thing to argue-----how could "god told me to..." be understood metaphorically? which part is metaphorical: "god"..."told"..."me"...."to"...etc.? metaphor for what?

one thing sure, however: i doubt seriously that the rovemachine would have found itself put in the position of trying to claim "god told me to invade iraq" as some kind of metaphor if the statements themselves could have been made to go away.

perhaps you could rationalize this in the context of the fallout from the meier nomination from the xtian right--no no, see i really am one of you, god tells me to do things and i do them---

so let's move beyond the right's first and often only line of defense--denial--to the question of what the bush supporters make of this statement and the requirement that "we" think of it as a metaphor? what on earth did bush mean? i mean, it could nto be the case that the rove machine is simply trying to spin this away, could it?

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