GOOD GRAVY
GOOD GRAVY
For non-link clickers, it’s an interview President Bush gave to an Irish journalist:
REPORTER: Do you believe that the hand of God is guiding you in this war on terror?
BUSH: I think, listen, I think that God, that my relationship with God is a very personal relationship. And I turn to the good Lord for strength. And I turn to the good Lord for guidance. I turn for the good Lord for forgiveness. But, but, but, but the God I know is not one that, uh, that, uh, the God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. And, uh, but I get great sustenance from my personal relationship — that doesn’t make me think I’m a better person than you are, by the way, ’cause one of the great admonitions in the good book is, ‘Don’t try to take a speck out of your eye if I’ve got a log in my own.’
June 29th, 2004 at 3:40 am
‘Don’t try to take a speck out of your eye if I’ve got a log in my own.’
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I KEEP THINKING IT IS A FRACTURED METPHOR.
June 29th, 2004 at 5:58 pm
Its from the Bible. Sermon on the mount, I think. Jesus says, paraphrased, “don’t go bitching about the speck in someone else’s eye, look first to the beam (log) in your own.” In other words, take care of your own business before you go saying other people are messed up. Completely inapposite in the context of this interview, unless Bush is trying to say that he has a personal relationship with God while the reporter couldn’t possibily.
June 29th, 2004 at 7:25 pm
Bush has Jim Beam in his eye? I thought he couldn’t touch alcohol.