I didn’t see the debate last night (The election is 17 months away, can’t we just enjoy the summer?) But Andrew Sullivan did, and he believes he saw George Bush’s legacy on display:
He has decisively increased the religiosity of public debate – as well, of course, as its fatuousness. How can we “end poverty” in the next ten years, asked Jim Wallis? Umm: didn’t LBJ already try that? And, given the certainty and self-righteousness all around me, why not just end poverty, illness, and illegitimacy in the next ten months? Why not end tyranny as well, while we’re at it? (Oops: we just tried that. Never mind.) Jeez. Some people just keep putting boundaries on the power of God. When merged with government, what social ill can it not solve?
Fabulous.