I think he and his gang are so convinced of their righteousness that lying is neither here nor there. Why baulk at an untruth when you're doing God's work?

That's the core of it. If God's on your side, you can do anything you like.

Know what brings me a little bit of solace? I keep going back to your statement that we are in a transitional time; and that, taking the long view, there is hope someday for a world government.

There will be someone else in four years who will keep us Americans happy and sanctimonious in the New Dark Ages, and it won't matter if it's a Bush. We'll find somebody just like him.