Politics.

One thing that bothers me the most about the Bush administration is how it's enshrouded its machinations in so much secrecy. They have taken the executive privilege so far beyond what it was intended for and then some. They have extended it further than any other administration. ever.

Did you know that counsel to President Richard Nixon John Dean has written a book about the Bush administration and its obsessive secrecy entitled "Worse than Watergate: The Secret President of George W. Bush"? Worse than Watergate?

This is to say nothing of their politics of course, but you have to admit that there are probably some politicians on the opposite side of the fence that even though you disagree with them wholeheartedly, you respect them as individuals. For me, that might be McCain, for example, or Colin Powell before he stood passively as he was emasculated by this administration.

None of that for the Bush administration though. At all. Just a sickening, uneasy, nauseaous feeling in my gut. Just dirty, dirty politics.

And Bush being revered for being a strong Christian. Give me break. His chief political operative/hatchet man, Karl Rove, the "architect" of Bush's reelection (or election if you are of the opinion that he wasn't elected the first time) is not even part of the religious right. His religious beliefs don't inform how he lives his life unless he worships Machiavelli, not that they need to, but if you are President Bush and you are holding yourself out as some self-righteous, born-again Christian, but then you surround yourself with people who don't hold the same values, but can do your dirty work, isn't that just a bit, um, WRONG? Why can't people see that? Rove isn't some big champion of the Religious Right, like it seems that most think he his. He has no morals or values. He sees nothing wrong with smearing those who speak out against the administration.

Being a Christian is more than what you profess to believe, but also how you live out what you believe, how you treat and interact with people and the world around you. Even your enemies. Why don't people get this about President Bush? Argh.

And if I paid attention more in church, I'd be able to quote some stuff from the Bible to support this. Darn it.