Political realism: A case in point

A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush

These are the people who insist atheism has no place in American life and secularists are a terrible threat to our society and even all mankind.

But people prefer to treat revelations like this of what’s really in the skulls of our political leaders as merely funny, kooky, an amusing glimpse of a moment of risible stupidity.

Just another occasion to denigrate a despised politician, in other words.

But certainly not something serious.

So right now, all over the web, people are reacting to this story - a downright scary story - as a good chance for a giggle or a snicker at GW's expense.

GW brought others just like him, in this regard, right into the White House and put them in charge of the domestic “war on terror.”

Remember John Ashcroft?

He was another man of shocking, frightening piety whom the media chose merely to mock for prudishness.

The neocons manipulated GW and bullied Ashcroft.

And here we are, ten years on, still with their wars on our hands, a trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives down the drain.

On the other hand, people gave a similar reception to the story of Nixon dropping to his knees in the Oval Office, inviting Kissinger to join him in prayer at some point during the Watergate crisis.

Nixon was not a praying man; this was not sudden piety under pressure.

This was a man on the edge of a terrible breakdown.

A man with the launch codes; a man with his finger on the red button.

But no one reacted to the story with alarm.

Anyway, not in public.

Often, it seems to me people are just too stupid to be scared.

And are not really brave, at all.

Or it was just a case of "not in front of the children."

Could be, after all.