by Rob Pue

Created on: July 02, 2008

They say if you want to lose friends, just start talking about politics or religion. I doubt I'm going to be very popular after this article, because I'm planning to step on some toes...but we will see. Here we are in the midst of another election year. It seems like only yesterday that evangelicals and conservatives were panicked at the prospect of a John Kerry presidency. Many of us jumped on the bandwagon for George W. Bush and elected him to a second term. We elected him with enthusiasm. We really believed in what he said he stood for.

In retrospect, we really had no choice - I still believe a Kerry administration would have been disastrous for America. But we haven't fared too well with "W" in the oval office either, have we? Our hero has spent more tax dollars and borrowed more from our childrens' futures in the past seven-some years than any other president in history. We have a major economic depression looming on the horizon as the housing market has crashed and the price of gas has skyrocketed. Repercussions from high fuel prices are impacting every single sector of our economy, and we recently learned that George W was "unaware" of the prospect of $4-a-gallon gas. What world is he living in?

Yes, I agree we need to fight terrorism, but we've so poorly defined our enemy that we cannot fight to win. Our Commander in Chief continues to call Islam a "religion of peace," and refuses to make decisive moves in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, because he fears offending people. So far, the only "shock and awe" we have seen happens at the gas pumps. A politically-correct war cannot be won, and this one is quickly bankrupting our country.

Shall I mention the NAFTA super highway? Illegal immigration? Public services and benefits for illegal foreign invaders, paid for by the American taxpayer while our American border patrol agents are persecuted and prosecuted by their own country for simply doing their jobs? The "dumbing down" and systematic lowering of the American standard of living to the level of third world countries?

And what about the key issues that American Christians voted on? Nearly eight years later, what do we have to show for our hard work in electing, and then re-electing George W. Bush? What ever happened to his grand ideas for "faith-based initiatives?" What about a marriage amendment? What did he do to end the horrors of abortion on demand?  What did he do for Terri Schiavo?

Many of us feel "duped," Mr. President. We believed in you and we elected

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