on Apr 18th, 2006
Thievery: Doomsday
The Washington Post recently penned an article discussing the bird flu, mad cow disease, and other end-of-days events that are sure to really ruin your Tuesday. One comment from the Dubya himself had me smirking in a suspiciously sardonic manner:
When President Bush went to Cleveland on Monday, a questioner asked him about a claim “that members of your administration have reached out to prophetic Christians who see the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism as signs of the apocalypse. Do you believe this, that the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism are signs of the apocalypse?”
“I haven’t really thought of it that way,” the president said. “The first I’ve heard of that, by the way.”
I doubt very much that I am the first to utter the following reaction upon reading the above quote; that, however, doesn’t diminish my desire to do so:
Bull-poopies.
I’m not surprised that much. I bet there are a lot of things you could tell Bush and he could quote “The first I’ve heard of that, by the way.”