“George Bush did what God wanted him to do,” one U.S. voter told a reporter. “Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?”
Washington Post’s Jefferson Morely scares the crap out of us with a fantastic article that looks at the flip side of Bush’s much pondered over reliance in god – his borg. Morely views the Bush Faithful through the prism of various international reporters, who are freaked, to say the least:
Correspondents for El Correo (in Spanish) in Bilbao, Spain, and the Guardian in London attended Bush rallies in New Jersey and came away “shaken” by Bush’s religious appeal.
“What deeply alarms many non-Americans,” writes Toronto Sun columnist Eric Margolis, “is the prospect of a second Bush term dominated by a coalition of evangelical Christians, Christian ‘Rapturists,’ American partisans of Israel’s PM Ariel Sharon, and rural voters from the Deep South who reject evolution and think French is the native language of Satan.”