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White-guy Methodists
Daniel Burke
June 21, 2008

President Bush tossed quite the rhetorical question at the British press the other day.

“Perhaps freedom is not universal,” Bush said. “Maybe it’s only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it’s only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government,” he said, according to AP.

Thankfully, the president then said: “I reject that notion. I think that’s the ultimate form of political elitism, and I believe an accurate reading of history says that freedom can bring peace we want.”


Maureen Dowd’s take: “If there’s one thing W. and Cheney have proved, beyond a sliver of a shadow of a doubt, it’s that at least two white-guy Methodists are not capable of self-government.”

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