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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.
There are those who would scoff at the idea that an American general could be a prophet of God or that George W. Bush is a holy manifestation, but there are always skeptics. The Romans didn't believe Jesus was God's son and that old pharaoh wouldn't accept the fact that Moses had been sent back to Egypt by the Almighty.
There are even those who still don't believe that God appeared to John Denver looking like George Burns. There are always unbelievers.
The evidence of President Bush's Godlike qualities, however, is starting to pile up.
Republicans already consider Bush the savior of the Iraqi and Afghan peoples and two weeks ago, Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi unexpectedly announced that he was giving up his weapons of mass destruction in exchange for Bush's blessings.
Combined with the salvation of the Iraqi and Afghan people and the recovery of the American economy, the Gadhafi incident could be viewed as the third miracle that would qualify Bush for sainthood--and this guy still has another year to go in his initial term of office.
With the clear understanding that Bush is indeed the extension of God's hand into American politics, how then can we even consider removing him? Has any Democrat, especially those who now seek the presidential nomination, been declared a direct appointee of God?
No! If God had wanted a Democrat to be president, he would have told Pat Robertson.
The question now becomes, should we forget about next year's election and appoint George W. Bush president for life?
To some, this might seem unconstitutional.
If we are a Christian nation, however, who do we answer to, God or the Constitution?
But render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's.
Gen. Boykin has already told us Bush was put in office by God, so perhaps the president is no longer a part of the worldly government but rather a leader sent straight from heaven. This should cast new light on the above-mentioned biblical decree.
Never have we seen an American leader so acclaimed and so worshipped as President Bush. He is a man who has truly worked miracles.
Should he be president as long as he lives? I cannot say. That is for American people to decide.
Will Bush win in November? If God has anything to do with it he will. The Almighty has already informed Robertson of his plans.
Now, I am not a Bush man, but I would find it hard to vote against someone who was put in the White House through divine intervention.
Gen. Boykin, an important member of the federal government, has declared the president to be a leader appointed by God and Robertson has even discussed the matter personally with our heavenly father.
Given all this, wouldn't a vote against Bush be a vote against God?
Between now and November, maybe God will appear to some working-class Democrat and make a different prediction.
More likely, however, along about October God will reignite his burning bush and again whisper in Robertson's ear, this time something to the effect that if Bush isn't re-elected no more Americans--except Robertson and Boykin--will be allowed in heaven.
That should ensure the president's re-election landslide victory.
There may be a separation of church and state in this country but apparently our president has friends in extremely high places.
Pat Robertson apparently knows this for a fact.
DONNIE JOHNSTON is a staff writer with The Free Lance-Star. Contact him by mail at The Free Lance-Star, 616 Amelia St., Fredericksburg, Va. 22401; by fax at 540/373-8455; or by e-mail marked to his attention at gwoolf@freelancestar.com.