Bush Preaches Tough Love to NAACP: Sark Preaches, Too!

President Bush, in a gesture of cross-racial understanding, spoke at the NAACP, an assembly he had never before addressed as President. Nor, as governer. Nor as a candidate for either office.

I, Paul M. Sark, addressed an assembly of African-Americans recently, too. I'm running for the office of President of the Union Street Block Association, and perhaps the presidency of the United States in a couple of years.

Me & George W. know that there's a time to burn bridges and a time to build them. We're in the building part of the cycle now.

Anyway, what Me & George W. said was remarkably similar. Read the last paragraph of George W.'s address, then the last paragraph of mine. See if you don't agree:

PRESIDENT BUSH (speaking to NAACP): There's an old Methodist hymn that speaks of God guiding us with a hand of power and a heart of love. We cannot know God's plans, but we trust in his purposes, because we know that the Creator who wrote the desire for liberty in our hearts also gives us the strength and wisdom to fulfill it. And the God who has brought us thus far on the way will give us the strength to finish the journey.

Thank you for having me. May God bless. (Applause.)

PAUL M. SARK (speaking to a group of African American bicyclists in front of Dixon's Bike Shop on Union Street): There's an old Methodist hymn called "The Old Rugged Cross" that speaks of the cross as an emblem of suffering and pain, or maybe shame. We cannot know God's plans for how much pain He intends for you to bear, but since he's the Decider, you people have got to understand that He's gonna decide how much more you're gonna have to take. We all have our crosses to bear, some bigger and scratchier than others, true. But we're all Americans, and that's what we can never forget.

Thank you for having me. May God bless. (No Applause)

Me & George W. know that tough love is the love that gets things done.

Masculine Christianity. That's what we practice. Sure, God's merciful, but only up to a point. And we've more than reached that point now.

God passed out the crosses in a reasonably fair and equitable manner. And now we get to bear them for Him. End of story.

So, God bless freedom and liberty and the suffering and pain necessary to promote and defend them!

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