>>Daniels,
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>>>> -- faith based government
>>>How do you figure? Seems we've gone to great lengths to separate church and state.
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>>That has been reversed ever since GWB choose to appeal to the neo-cons to win the last election. If you compare the the clinton administration and even the GWB sr, administration, you'll see that GOD has taken a very strong base in the white house. Just count the number of relious statements spoken by your own president. We talked about the bible belt before. Are you denying that got more influence than before the last election ?
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>>Walter,
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>Religious statements by the president hardly equate to a faith-based government. Separation of church and state is mandated by the Constitution, and enforced by the courts. Nothing I've seen in the last several years indicates that we are drifting to faith-based government.
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>The term "neo-con" is to liberals what "boogeyman" is to small children. The term is overused and generally misunderstood. It also has little to do with religion. All politicians pander to the religious block to some degree, but that hardly equates to more power for that block in government. So yes, I will deny that the "religious right" has more influence now than before the last election. Prove it otherwise.

Bush apealed to the religious right. That is crystal clear. It was part of his election program to get him re-elected. Bush is advocating a strong religious society where. What did bush answer to the question of who is his most popular philisoph ? ......... He almost says "What I do is because God tells me to do so", yeah sure. History tells me some less nice things about people who more or less said the same. Can you explain why still 80% of the religous right still is supporting bush while every other group has no confidence in Bush anymore.

I'm not fully aware about the background of the term neo-con. If you've got a better term, please tell me.

Walter,