Demagogue
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The fine people over at Google have a funny way of picking the word of the day. By “funny,” I mean “dead on.”
Isn’t the President declaring a national prayer day kind of against the separation of church and state thing?
Posted: September 8th, 2005 under life.
Comments: 4
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Comment from Coley
Time: September 8, 2005, 5:08 pm
Really, very sadly, dead on. 
You HAVE TO accommodate everyone, George. It behooves us all to remember that not every American believes in a god or the God of Bush.The umbrella of what it means to be an American is closing. Lots of people are getting rained on.
Comment from Jeff
Time: September 9, 2005, 10:02 am
i don’t think it’s a seperation issue. it’s not a mandatory day of prayer. it is after all called “National Day of Prayer and Rememberance“. it’s simply the goverment memorializing the event. but that’s just my opinion.
speaking of bush though…
btw, the word of the day is provided by dictionary.com and not google. so it’s the “fine people” at dictionary.com.
Comment from Adam Weigert
Time: September 9, 2005, 11:53 am
Show me where in the constitution that there is supposed to be seperation of church and state.
The closest you will get is that the government is not supposed to establish any form of religion, as happened in England and thus why the “pilgrims” left for the Americas.
Comment from Coley
Time: September 9, 2005, 2:32 pm
I’m pretty sure Eric knows that it was just a happy (not really happy, but ironic) coincidence that “demagogue” appeared next to the calling of a *national* prayer day. I like to call this prayer day Bush’s “Save My Ass by Playing Pious Day” or Bush’s “Suck Up to the Religious South Day”. It’s his (his crew’s) attempt to counteract the anger people rightly have for Bush’s (and co.’s) brain state of oblivion and lack of immediate action to a huge natural disaster and its aftermath.
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