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10/12/06, 11:28 pm
Countdown with Keith Oberman picked up the book "Tempting Faith" a week in advance by merely asking for it at a book store and they are now reviewing it on their show.

It is written by the former 2nd in charge of Bush's faith based programs and is an expose of how they exploited the evangelicals despite having no respect for them or their goals.

You will be hearing a lot more of this one...

-V-
10/13/06, 05:17 pm
White House denies book's allegations (AP)

WASHINGTON - A former Bush aide claims that evangelical Christians were embraced for political gain at the White House but derided privately as "nuts," "ridiculous" and "goofy."

The allegations — denied by the White House on Friday — are in a new book by David Kuo, a conservative Christian who was deputy director of President Bush's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives until 2003.
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Kuo singled out staffers in the office of Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser and deputy chief of staff, as particularly condescending toward evangelical Christians, viewing them as necessary to help win elections but ridiculing them behind the scenes.
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Kuo also described how officials from the faith-based office were systematically dispatched to hold large events in areas where there were key House and Senate races before the 2002 elections.
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Kuo's account of how the faith-based office has been regarded inside the White House recalls that of another high-level alumnus of the program. John J. DiIulio Jr., the faith-based office's first director, who quit in 2002, told Esquire magazine that "Mayberry Machiavellis" led by Rove based policy only on re-election concerns...

FDRfollower
10/24/06, 10:12 am
:laughing:

more strausian deception!

MAGI
10/24/06, 10:30 am
:laughing:

more strausian deception!

:sunny:

"There ya go agin." ..............educatin me.........

just got to get out and WALK this morning!

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