With Christian Friends Like These ...

I think that Dick Morris, former friend of Bill Clinton, is a total slimeball. I constantly see him on FoxNews and his only area of expertise is bashing Bill and Hillary Clinton. It is almost rather scary because he seems thoroughly obsessed. I realize that his friendship with The Clintons took a beating when Bill fired him. But, as a friend, he should have understood the climate and moved on like a big boy. Instead, it appears that he is going to spend the rest of his life trying to get them back. We all have spats with our friends but his behavior, after a decades long friendship, is traitorous and I flip the channel every time I see him on somebody's panel.

Now it seems that President Bush has his own traitor. Naturally, I was intrigued and hoping for something juicy when I heard that there were tapes of President Bush. But my glee immediately disappeared when I found out that a so-called friend had been secretly taping him. The man had been an evangelical minister at that. His excuse was lame because there is no excuse for this.

"'I didn't want them to become public,' said Doug Wead, 58, an author, former minister and one-time spiritual adviser to the American president.

'They were (a) personal record for me,' Wead, who recorded nine hours of his private conversations with Bush, told CNN television.

Wead taped the conversations between the summer of 1998 and 2000, while Bush

was the governor of Texas and a candidate for the US presidency.

Wead's just-released book, 'The Raising of a President,' draws on the recordings, which were made without Bush's knowledge.

In the tapes, Bush appears to strategize about the best way to finesse answers to potential campaign-trail questions about marijuana and cocaine.

'I wouldn't answer the marijuana question. You know why? Cause I don't want some little kid doing what I tried,' Bush is heard to tell Wead."

I am still a rabid Bush detractor but even foes need friends they can trust. Doug Wead was thinking about his own future and used his friendship with the Bush family to secretly secure fodder for what he thought would help him write a historic book. Again, I ask, what kind of Christian is this? What kind of friend is this?