Wednesday, January 07, 2004
The mainstream media won't report it, it seems, and so it falls to those of us with an ear to the ground to say anything good about President Bush. While AOL news falls all over itself painting Howard Dean up as a non-extremist (there's a good one), you will find nary a trace of the story Chuck Colson told in his Breakpoint commentary yesterday afternoon. It seems that among the countless thousands who distributed gifts to children of prisoners with Angel Tree, two at least should have stood out to the media: The President and the First Lady. They visited a church in Alexandria, VA on December 22nd and distributed gifts to forty children. The press was there--they are always there when the President moves--but they didn't report it. Why? Chuck Colson has the answer: "Because our President doesn't do this for the cameras; he does it because he's genuine. And the papers just can't handle that." Rather than leave with the media, the President and his wife stayed to visit with the children, even speaking to the Hispanic children in their own language. But don't expect Dean's fan club known as mainstream media to tell you anything about that. They're too busy assuring you that Dean is "inspired" by the life of Jesus, whatever that means. Perhaps he wants to be crucified or something.
Andrew Jackson did something similar in his days as president. Growing up as an orphan, the President understood the needs orphans have at Christmas time and so he invited the inhabitants of a local orphanage to the White House for a big snowball fight and then a party where he distributed gifts to them. Historians today don't talk much about this, nevertheless it was an essential part of who Jackson was. Like him, our current President is also a real person, not one who claims the "example" of Jesus while living like everyone else in the world. Historian Stephen Mansfield commented, "Americans seem to want their president to believe in God, but not to act like it once he's in office." That's the real story of why Dean needs to claim Jesus "who serves as my example" (Jesus serves Dean?). Hopefully the American people will look for someone who really means it.
Andrew Jackson did something similar in his days as president. Growing up as an orphan, the President understood the needs orphans have at Christmas time and so he invited the inhabitants of a local orphanage to the White House for a big snowball fight and then a party where he distributed gifts to them. Historians today don't talk much about this, nevertheless it was an essential part of who Jackson was. Like him, our current President is also a real person, not one who claims the "example" of Jesus while living like everyone else in the world. Historian Stephen Mansfield commented, "Americans seem to want their president to believe in God, but not to act like it once he's in office." That's the real story of why Dean needs to claim Jesus "who serves as my example" (Jesus serves Dean?). Hopefully the American people will look for someone who really means it.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 9:51 AM 
