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Why vote if Bush is God's choice?

Pat Robertson tells us God said president will win re-election by a landslide

Date published: 1/10/2004

SHOULD WE EVEN have a presidential election this year?

I know this sounds like a crazy question but perhaps it is an issue worth exploring.

How can we possibly do better than George W. Bush?

Just in the past year, Bush has led us to a great victory in Iraq, reversed our souring economy and prompted at least one evil world leader to become a good guy.

This man has to now be considered one of the greatest--if not the greatest--presidents in the history of our country. Suddenly, Bush has become more than a mere mortal. He is almost a god, a figure worshipped by many.

Perhaps there is good reason for this adoration. Last summer, Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin reportedly said that it was not Americans but God himself who made Bush president.

Now, Pat Robertson tells us that God spoke to him the other week (from a burning Bush, no doubt) and announced that the president will win re-election by a landslide in November.

Given this heavenly decree, why should we even bother to vote? God has already projected Bush as the presidential winner even before the first Democratic primary votes have been cast. Even CNN doesn't project that far ahead.

If God made George W. Bush president, do we as a Christian nation even have the right to consider his removal? If our president has been put in office by divine intervention would it not be sacrilege to even ask this man to stand for re-election? Perhaps we should allow Bush to stay in office until God (through Pat Robertson, of course) asks him to step down.

Given the miracles that Bush has performed during his presidency, perhaps we must consider the possibility that he actually is more than just a mere mortal. Could it be that our president is truly an extension of God himself?

Maybe those pregnant chads in Florida four years ago were in reality part of some modern day immaculate presidential conception. Perhaps God, not voters, was pulling those levers. Maybe Gen. Boykin is really the reincarnation of some Old Testament prophet.

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Date published: 1/10/2004