I have long believed that it is well nigh impossible to be a practicing Christian and a successful politician at the same time: either Christianity impedes practical politics or practical politics kills the Christian spirit. Whether I’m right or wrong in that belief, GWB is the example of what I mean by that sentiment - and you’ve nailed it. Thanks.
It is ironic that the left could not stop fretting that George Bush was leading the country into fascism when his whole Christian experience dictates that that was a moral impossibility for the man. Because Bush was spiritually alive, he grappled with determining that which was god' s and which was Caesar's. That is a definition of humility.
Barak Obama is not encumbered with such humility and its absence is a signal that he is a risk for fascism. Obama is not troubled to distinguish between God's realm and the realm of the practical politician because he is a God player and a stranger to the first two commandments.
We voters are a hypocritical bunch. On the whole we Americans say we want religious men to hold public office. So Bill Clinton makes broad his phylacteries by carrying the world's largest Bible ostentatiously to church. We complain when Senator Ensign does in the bedroom what we often want our politicians to do in the Oval Office, that is, render unto Caesar that which is not his.
We have gone from a president in George Bush who eschewed loyalty to party to a president Obama who will exploit party loyalty to make himself a god.