No matter what anyone says, Bush is a good man

He's been derided, disparaged, distained, denigrated, laughed at, skewered, effigy'd, and hated outright, but the people who really know him, and the people who have met him and talked to him face to face, know that these are lies, and that President Bush is a very good man. He may not have been the wisest when it came to foreign affairs, or the most glib when it came to speaking in public, or the most polished when it came to being in public, but I cling to Bush's own quote from around 1998-1999 when he first made the choice of running for President. After much soul searching and prayer, he told his friends and family: "I think God wants me to be President." So run he did. And WIN he did. TWICE. God's leaders are many times not the leaders we want, or want them to be, but His way is the right way, and He only allows those to be leaders who He thinks we deserve. And only God knows things might have been different had Gore won the presidency, especially with 9/11 coming mere months into a first term.

Personally, I believe God raised up George W. Bush "for such a time as this." Our world, and our nation, are going mad. We need someone at the helm who will not waver, back down, crater, or crash and burn (unlike Clinton, who went down in flames, IMHO). They can say many things about George W. Bush, but one thing they can't say is that the man has no backbone. He has kept the country safe since 2001, and while he hasn't made everyone happy in the process, I believe he is just what this country needed over the last 8 years. I also believe that John McCain (and moreover, Sarah Palin, should it come to that) is the man who can continue our sense of safety and security in the face of growing globalization, lack of sovereignty, and U.N. enforced inclusion.

Remember what Christ said (John 15:18-21): "If the world hates you remember they hated me first."