Who Came Up With That "One Heart, One Soul" Thing For Bush And Why Does It Bug Me So Much?

One flesh one bone
One true religion
One voice one hope
One real decision
Wowowowo gimme one vision

No wrong no right
I’m gonna tell you there’s no black and no white
No blood no stain
All we need is one world wide vision

One flesh one bone
One true religion
One race one hope
One real decision
Wowowowo oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah

I had a dream
When I was young
A dream of sweet illusion
A glimpse of hope and unity
And visions of one sweet union
But a cold wind blows
And a dark rain falls
And in my heart it shows
Look what they’ve done to my dreams

So give me your hands
Give me your hearts
I’m ready
There’s only one direction
One world one nation
Yeah one vision

No hate no fight
Just excitation
All through the night
It’s a celebration wowowowo yeah

One one one one...
One vision...

One flesh one bone
One true religion
One voice one hope
One real decision

Gimme one light
Gimme one hope
Just gimme
One man one man
One bar one night
One day hey hey
Just gimme gimme gimme gimme
Fried chicken

Heart and soul, one will burn.
Heart and soul, one will burn.

An abyss that laughs at creation,
A circus complete with all fools,
Foundations that lasted the ages,
Then ripped apart at their roots.
Beyond all this good is the terror,
The grip of a mercenary hand,
When savagery turns all good reason,
There's no turning back, no last stand.

Heart and soul, one will burn.
Heart and soul, one will burn.

Existence well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can.
The past is now part of my future,
The present is well out of hand.
The present is well out of hand,

Heart and soul, one will burn.
Heart and soul, one will burn.
One will burn, one will burn,
Heart and soul, one will burn.

The tear in my heart as you walk on by (more than an ocean)
I feel so low and your head is high
Everything you do convinces me more (keeps us apart)
Please, give me love, give me heart and soul
Looking to the day when I saw your face (I feel a tearing in half of my heart)
I wasn't in the running, I wasn't in the race
You move in a way that I've known before
Now I want your love, heart and soul

Tired eyes, tears that dried (leaving you ain't easy now)
On the bed, on the pillow, where the love has died (loving you's the harder part)
A turn of the key, through the door you go (you never want me for myself)
Don't look back, to hurt me more (now I've needed you right from the very start)
Everything you said was to the point
Can't you try to (oh won't you even try to)

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit of heart and soul

Walking on the water, walking on the air (a walk on the water)
That was the heart of the love we shared
Do you keep secret left untold (is all that I need)
Can't give love, heart or soul
I used to have a lover with a Midas touch (but miracles are not happening)
I turned to gold but he turned to dust
Left me for another, I turned to stone
Now give me love, heart and soul

Tired eyes, tears that dried (living in a fantasy)
On the bed, on the pillow, where you told your lies (there's never any room to breathe)
A turn of the key, my blood runs cold (hoping every waking hour)
Don't look back to hurt me more (you'll turn around and say that we can start)
Everything you did just said it all
Can't you try to (oh won't you even try to)

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit of heart and soul

Somehow, I lost my way
Looking to see something in your eyes
But love will never compromise
Now this is the politics of life, yeah!

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love tog row
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit, little bit

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit, little bit

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know, whoooah!
Give a little bit of heart and soul
Give a little bit of heart and soul

August 19, 2004
Bush Campaign Adviser Quits as Sexual Misconduct Case Is Recalled
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Deal W. Hudson, the publisher of the conservative Roman Catholic journal Crisis and the architect of a Republican effort to court Catholic voters, says he is resigning as an adviser to the Bush campaign because of a Catholic newspaper's investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct involving a female student at a college where he once taught.

"No one regrets my past mistakes more than I do," Mr. Hudson wrote in a column posted yesterday on the online edition of National Review announcing his resignation.

"At the time, I dealt with this in an upright manner, and the matter was satisfactorily resolved long ago," he wrote, without specifying the accusations. Mr. Hudson, 54, said he had been happily married to his current wife for 17 years. Called for comment, he declined.

Mr. Hudson did not name the publication. Others who said they had been contacted by a newspaper doing an investigation said it was The National Catholic Reporter.

Thomas Roberts, editor of The National Catholic Reporter, declined to comment.

At Fordham University, a Jesuit school in New York where Mr. Hudson taught from 1989 to 1995, a university spokeswoman confirmed that the episode had led to Mr. Hudson's resignation. The spokeswoman, Elizabeth Schmalz, said: "Fordham followed its policy rigorously in this matter and initiated an investigation upon receipt of the student complaint. The professor later surrendered his tenure at Fordham." A person involved with the university's investigation said that a freshman in one of Mr. Hudson's classes reported to the university that, after she had become drunk at a bar, Mr. Hudson made sexual advances toward her. After a period of weeks, she charged him with sexual harassment. The accusations were made near the end of a school year, and Mr. Hudson left academia.

Mr. Hudson, a former Southern Baptist who converted to Catholicism at the age of 34, has been an influential adviser to President Bush and a close friend of the White House political strategist Karl Rove since the late 1990's. Mr. Hudson first caught Mr. Rove's attention by publishing a study in Crisis in 1998 arguing that Republican candidates could make inroads among traditionally Democratic-leaning Catholic voters by focusing on regular churchgoers, a strategy that dovetailed with Mr. Bush's emphasis on "compassionate conservatism."

Mr. Hudson signed on as an adviser to Mr. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. For the last four years, he has been a prominent participant in a weekly conference call held by the Republican National Committee each Thursday with influential Catholic supporters.

William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said Mr. Hudson had played an almost indispensable role reaching out to Catholics for the White House. "He had become the point man,'' he said. "If you wanted to get something to the top inner circles of the White House from a Catholic perspective, you could contact Deal Hudson and it was delivered."

Mr. Donohue said that Mr. Hudson's resignation would inevitably set back the Bush campaign's efforts with Catholic voters. "He was the ultimate networker," Mr. Donohue said. "I think it will be hurt because of the ties that Deal had."

The Republican National Committee did not comment, and Terry Holt, the Bush campaign's spokesman, did not return calls yesterday.

Friends of Mr. Hudson said that over the last four years he had become particularly close to Mr. Rove. In an interview with The Austin American-Statesman after the last presidential election, Mr. Hudson said of Mr. Rove, "I have to be careful what I say because I might make him sound like he is God or something." He added, "He has just been so great."

The fight for the roughly 64 million Catholic voters is intense. Mr. Bush, a Methodist, is running against a Roman Catholic, Senator John Kerry, and church doctrine has at times become part of the campaign. Roman Catholic officials have criticized politicians who favor abortion rights, as Mr. Kerry does. At the same time, the pope and other Catholic officials have spoken out against the invasion of Iraq.

In his column on the Web site of National Review, Mr. Hudson portrayed himself as a target of politically motivated "personal attacks" because of his steadfast support for Mr. Bush.

He said a reporter for what he called "a liberal Catholic publication" had begun inquiring into his personal life, including questions about the annulments of his previous marriages, before his conversion, as well as questions about the incident with his student.

In his column, Mr. Hudson said that in his book, "An American Conversion," he had discussed his "past mistakes" and "the role they played in my conversion through the grace and the forgiveness I have found in the Catholic Church."

At one point in the book, published last year, Mr. Hudson wrote about the cooling of passion in a long marriage. "I experienced, the hard way, that passion does subside, and I was foolish not to realize that the love that follows is better," he wrote.

"No doubt this led to unfortunate and destructive behavior on my part," he added. "I am blessed that I have not gotten what I deserve."

He concluded the book by recalling a romantic episode that took place a year before his conversion: "I was jolted by the sudden departure of someone I loved but who I had not treated well. The hurt was compounded by my sense of failure. I spent many months hoping to win her back but without any progress. I was to blame and I knew it."

He wrote that in despair, he prayed to the Virgin Mary at his local parish, the Immaculate Heart of Mary. "My prayers brought me both relief from my loss," he wrote, "and a sense of forgiveness for my failure."

One love we don't need another love
One love one heart and one soul
We can have it all
Easy peasy

Hold that thought.

yup. Read Slacktivist for all sorts of dirt & analysis of this:

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/

(p.s. a lot of bush's speeches are "coded" with biblical references for his evangelical fanbase.)

and what does it mean as part of a Bush campaign speech?

xposts galore

My vision includes everybody. It's described as compassionate conservatism, but I emphasize the compassion. The problem is government is not a very compassionate organization. We can fund -- and we should -- budgets, there is a lot of talk about budgets. We've submitted budgets that increase spending on social services. We've got what's called a compassion fund, that matches -- a $500, a million-dollar fund that will encourage faith-based initiatives throughout the country.

But the dilemma and the problem in the past has been that somewhere along the line everybody thought government could make people love one another. And that's not the way it works. And if part of the future of the country is to love a neighbor like you would like to be loved yourself, it seems to follow then our government must welcome, not discriminate against, faith-based organizations who are providing that. (Applause.)

I think there is something unusual about the way Bush uses religious rhetoric, though I can't say exactly what it is offhand. But I think actually it may have to do with his playing to a particular segment of Christians, instead of just using Biblical phrases because they are part of the cultural background in general. Maybe it comes down to precisely the idea that it is a coded message to a particular group. He uses Biblical language in a way that is more divisive than I can remember it being used before, though I may simply not know enough history.

There's something about the one-at-a-time thing that also reads into the conservative culture fantasy (small-town community with a certain individualism to it as well); one of the problems with the left is that the theory is all about systems and structures, whereas the rhetoric has to be scaled down to individuals and communities to really get across to people. ("Communitarianism" = worst bid to accomplish this in recent history.)

During the last mayoral election in Philadelphia, I got a pre-recorded phone message from Bill Cosby talking about how lots of politicians go around hugging children, and that Mayor Street's way of doing that was by making the streets safer, and so forth. So I guess it can be done. (This is just an example. I am not at all a fan of Street.)