Never let it be forgotten that George H W Bush was a white Christian supremacist: [sourcewatch.org]
Based on the Bush quote above, where he questions the citizenship and patriotism of atheists, and asserts that the USA is "one nation under God," I would classify him as a Christian nationalist. The fact that he also said he supported the separation between church and state I put down to pure lip service. He knew he would draw flak if he openly rejected any part of the Constitution.
One thing is certain: his two statements conflict with one another. You can't both reject the citizenship of atheists and believe in the separation of church and state. It is an incoherent position.
You put it most excellent well.
@anglophone Gracias amigo
It is hard to feel like a patriotic citizen when your own elected officials feel that way about you because you are an atheist.
Yes...a friend was a teacher in Texas. One day, Barbara Bush (The Quaker Oatmeal image...) arrived for some kind of event. The little children were excited and eager to see her and they rushed toward her. My friend clearly heard her say "Get those niggers away from me." SUCH a lovely family!
Anything you say or reference is easily forgettable.
Oh, how can such unworthy peons as we, ever repay you for deigning to grace our humble site with your overpowering and unmatchable intellect and wisdom?
Tell us oh great one, of which material shall we make your statue? Will the finest marble be sufficient, a bronze casting or must it be of the purest gold? Please tell us your magnificence. and we will sell our firstborn to procure funds.
@273kelvin I find that @Alienbeing can always be relied upon to flaunt his catastrophically flawed personality.
@anglophone, !273kelvin It is truly amazing that a person(@anglophone) who has been proven wrong numerous time is still pompus enough to attempt insult. Rant on anglo, you make my day.
If @anglophone thought I was the most flawed person on earth i would consider that a supreme compliment.
As respects @273kelvin, he has been proven to be ignorant of U.S. laws and customs, so if he chooses to identify with @anglophone, it would not be surprising.
@273kelvin Ignoring the fact that you proved you don't know U.S. Laws and even extolling the virtue of your ignorance is a poor way to make a point.
Most people when corrected use that correction to improve their knowledge, but you seem to want to wallow in ignorance, as does your very ignorant "friend" @anglophone.
@Alienbeing I shall accept your $20 with glee next year when you lose your bet (unless you want to increase it?)
@273kelvin Interesting, you don't seem to want to accept fact regarding anythng else.
@Alienbeing So do want to increase the bet or what?
@273kelvin You will never get a straight answer from the intellectual pervert and emotional pervert that is @Alienbeing.
@anglophone You might be right but I WILL get 20 bucks off a bet his money got put where his arrogant mouth was. (He said Trump won't win the GOP nomination)
@273kelvin You are in good company with the Socialist from Down Under.
@anglophone What you should have said is that one will never get a staight answer from you. However you have never been accurate previously, so what's new?
@Alienbeing I (and most everybody else on this site) think you are an overblown, self-aggrandising, arrogant, pompous idiot, with delusions of grandeur. And I will look for any future opportunity to take money from you when you inevitably get in front of your skies
Is that straight and accurate enough for yer?
@273kelvin Not at all true. I am sure that Socialists think so , no one else.
Last, if you think I care (even a litttle bit) about what you or other Socialists think of me or anything you are delusional.
YOU are the person who illustrates ignorance as has been proven.
@Alienbeing Yes you are right and I along with almost everybody else is wrong. I will not dare to offer my opinion in contradiction to any more of your momentous posts or comments in future because I and anyone else is not worthy.
Instead, I will wait patiently till the end of the GOP primary and DM you where you can send my money.
@273kelvin I see @Alienbeing as being far too dimwitted to see the sarcasm in your reply to him.
@anglophone Well you know what septics are like. Sarcasm and irony are as much of an anathema as the metric system.
@273kelvin, anglophone You each mistake my communications to you as interest in what you say. Nothing shoulld be further from the truth.
Whether you are serious, sarcastic, humorous, or attempt anything else, ALL my communications to either or both of you are only to point out that neither of you has a clue.
Please continue your mutual admiration orgy, you each prove my points every time you type.
In closing, Mr. Anglo, for a person who continually writes "I have no time for Alienbeing" you seem to have rather intimate kowledge of what I do. Of course your claim of having no time was long ago proven a lie, so what's new?
You both provde endless comical relief.
@273kelvin No everyone else is not wrong. YOU are usually wrong, but don't try to drag others down to your level.
I notice that after i correct your numerousl dissertatins on our Second Amendment by letting you know that your exact argument was rejected by our Supreme Court you went silent. Mmmmm I guess even you saw you were wrong.
As I PREVIOUSLY said, you are entitled to your opinion. I guess you have memory issues. I also have said you should base your opinion on fact (you never do) not on your silly emotions.
Are you thick, or just grasping?
@Alienbeing "in closing" ???
Don't get a sales job.
It should also be known that Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan, and the military covered it up, until the truth was later exposed...
@TomMcGiverin I remember that. They were also using Tillman's decision to sign-up as a recrutment device. So in that respect Tillman served in more than one way.