He sleeps with the extreme right singing him lullabys.

Is all funny money anyways. Is why the dollar keeps dropping since they can just keep printing.

You're assuming he has the moral judgement to realize that he's a human monster. Evidence suggests otherwise.

Its definitely a sad state of affairs. Unfortunately, most in the U.S. don't pay attention to any of this or even bother to vote. Its absolutely despicable that the Republicans want to spend so much on a completely unjustified war and cut the medical funding of the needy and elderly.

I'm going to fight like hell for a change. 

Essentially the reason no one cares is because there is such a large and healthy middle class. We're all fat and happy, have flatscreen TVs, McDonalds, nice cars, we are living in the lap of luxury at a relatively modest price. Why do we care what's going on outside of our own lives?

Some non-Christians feel left out of election

By Ed Stoddard Sun Feb 3, 8:48 AM ET

DALLAS (Reuters) - In a U.S. election campaign where presidential candidates from both major parties have talked openly about their Christian faith, some non-Christians feel shut out or turned off.
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Despite the constitutional separation of church and state, religion plays a big and sometimes decisive role in politics in America, where levels of belief and regular worship are far higher than those in Europe.

"Non-Christians are concerned that they will be excluded from the process," said Ahmed Rehab, a spokesman with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

"I welcome faith values if they inspire candidates to do good things. But I worry if it is used as a litmus test to include someone in political participation."

About 75 percent of the U.S. population, long a melting pot of immigrants from around the world, identifies itself as Christian, according to several estimates.

That is a huge but divergent source of potential votes for Republican and Democratic candidates in their long contest for the nomination to run for the White House in the November election.

U.S. politicians are not shy of talking about their religion and regularly appear in church.

In recent decades, part of the American political drama has been scripted by the "religious right" -- mostly white evangelical Protestants united by strong opposition to abortion and gay marriage who have been a key base of support for the Republican Party.

Republican hopeful Mike Huckabee, who scooped up strong evangelical support but whose campaign is fading ahead of next Tuesday's nominating contests across the country, is a Baptist preacher who peppers his speeches with Biblical allusions.

Mitt Romney is a Mormon who was moved to address questions about his faith in a speech in December. John McCain has long sought to smooth relations after including leaders of the religious right among those he called "agents of intolerance" during his failed presidential bid in 2000.

The leading Democratic presidential contenders have also been open and candid about their faith.

That faith, and that of the Republican candidates, is Christian, although candidates have also spoken about the need for religious tolerance.

A false rumor that has circulated on the Internet about Democratic candidate Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, is that he is Muslim who has lied about his religion. The rumor appears to illustrate the importance some voters attach to a candidate being Christian.

LEAVE RELIGION OUT, SOME SAY

Estimates of the numbers of non-Christians in America vary. Some put the percentage of atheists, agnostics or "unaffiliated" at between 15 and 18 percent of the population of 300 million.

Jews, Muslims, Hindus and people of other religions make up fewer than 10 percent of the population.

Standing in a Hindu temple in a Dallas suburb before statues of his religion's deities, Tejas Karve says he understands why the candidates stress their commitment to Christianity. But it does leave him with a sense of exclusion.

"I think it's geared more towards Christians because that's the majority. It's incomprehensible for them (Americans) to have a candidate who's not Christian," the 26-year-old pilot, who immigrated from India eight years ago, told Reuters.

"I do believe they leave (non-Christians) out to a point."

Political professions of faith leave some unmoved.

"Why is that relevant? Who cares? The great issue is where do we stand on Medicare and Social Security and immigration ... Why inject religiosity into that?" asked Paul Kurtz, chairman of the Council for Secular Humanism.

"Are we (secular humanists and atheists) marginalized? No. Are we turned off? Yes!"

Atheists and agnostics have long been targets of the religious right who see moral decay in secularization.

Some critics say those without a religion were singled out in the speech by Romney in which he sought to ease concerns among Republican evangelicals about his Mormon faith.

He said "freedom requires religion" -- implying that it could not exist without it -- and criticized those who "seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God ... It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America -- the religion of secularism. They are wrong."

A Pew Research Center survey last year found that 63 percent of those polled said they would be "less likely" to support a presidential candidate who did not believe in God.

But those who say they are "unaffiliated" or atheist are very keen to cast their ballots. Pew data shows that 82 percent of them are very or somewhat likely to vote. At 90 percent, evangelicals are the only group more likely to vote.

(Editing by Frances Kerry)

(For more about the U.S. political campaign, visit Reuters "Tales from the Trail: 2008" online at http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/)

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Bush can sleep at night because he knows the American constituents care more about electing a Christian president than the more important issues at hand (I don't want to generalize but that's how he got elected)

You do know that the Democratically controlled Congress must approve his budget. So if it does goes into affect, blame them too.

But OMG THEN WE CANT BLAME BUSH FOR EVERYTHING LIKE AIDS IN AFRICA!!!

 QTF. No one can say it better...

I'm sure he sleeps very comfortablly.

But i'll say this again. If Obama or Clinton get office I'm moving to Canada... Mexico will even work for me.

hmm, economy and the budget is all a very strange circumstance,
as far as cutting funds to medicare and medicaid, it makes sense in that medicare and medicaid are 2 of the most wasteful government controlled institutions (they'll spend 2 dollars on a bandage the army pays 30 cents for) as far as damage of this spending, well that is business as usual, the only reason Clinton had any surplus is that he did some screwy things with social security while fulling backwards into the internet boom, which by the way a recession began at the end of Clinton's term when that bubble burst
anyway spending is one big screwed up mess if the government stops spending money starts to deflate, people panic like idiots and pull investments and you get a recession, basically it is one odd paradox, if the government spends it eventually leads to a recession, if it pays back it's debt it leads to a recession
and another thing Clinton bomb the crap out of Iraq repeatedly under the pretext of weapons of mass destruction so this current war is as much his fault as it is Bush's, regardless of what lies he and his lackeys spout today