From Fox News:
Bush to Act as Key Negotiator at Mideast Peace Talks in Annapolis
Does the headline fill you with confidence that there will be a successful outcome to the peace talks?
I hope against hope that there is a coming together, but it's difficult for me to wrap my head around the idea of our dear leader as a successful negotiator. But then, perhaps the fault lies in my lack of imagination.
This simply becomes another venue for Bush et al. to orchestrate (i.e., manipulate) agendas to their benefit (i.e., financial gain and egomaniacal power) at the expense of human rights and our delicate planet. Remember, he said he is the "decider." Lord, have mercy on us all, and fast!
ReplyDeleteYour imagination is just fine.
ReplyDeleteAs is your instinct to shudder. Eek.
As Christians, we must hope despite the evidence, which is more than plentiful in this case.
ReplyDeleteI remember Godde's ways are not ours, and think, "What could be more unlikely, and therefore like a Godde of surprises, than to work good through this most disgusting of presidents and world leaders, he who is so blindly and stubbornly committed to evil?"
So pray, sisters and brothers, and prayer that is all the harder for it being impossible, to all except Godde.
Hope in the face of hopelessness is a mark of a Christian. Godde's ways are, indeed not ours.
ReplyDeleteLord have mercy on us all, and fast is right.
It's beyond me how even Fox can put that up in a headline, except in irony, but I'm sure they're quite serious.
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ReplyDeleteGirls, calm down, please.
ReplyDeleteThe headline fills me with trepidation, as well as something like heartburn.
ReplyDeleteBut, well, Fox News always does that to me.
The combo of him acting as lead to the talks and the photo of him talking with Al Gore about global warming evoked these Spanish words from me: No se puede. It's impossible.
ReplyDelete"Lord, have mercy on us all, and fast!"
ReplyDeleteIn both senses: Perhaps like the Ninevites, we ought to fast -- not to turn away God's wrath but in prayers that God's mercy will *hurry up*.
We should all be in sackcloth and ashes. But shouldn't the king join us? Shouldn't the king call for the fast? But he won't.
ReplyDeleteLord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
I thought the headline was a bit of satire. Too bad it's not.
ReplyDeleteNot much surprises me anymore with this Administration. It's sad I've become so jaded. Despite the awful legacy Bush and Cheney have left us, I do have hope for better leadership in the future.
Suzer, I thought it was a joke, too, when I first saw it. Alas, we wish that much that we see about this maladministration that we wish were jokes.
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