Now you are going to lecture me on love - hmmmm? I don't love pizza - I like and enjoy pizza. I don't love reading a good book - I like and enjoy reading a good book. I love a friend - both as a friend and as a human being. I love my children unconditionally and completely in every way. I love my husband unconditionally and completely in every way. I love all mankind - I don't 'love' the President. I truly do not understand that.
It's subtle, but some day you might think deeply enough to understand this complexity, and not be so confused and offended by the LOVE that so many of us (both male and female) share for our President..............even if we don't agree with his immigration policy.
I already think deeply enough and I realize that President Bush is a man, a politician. I love him as a human being - not as a President. I don't understand 'love' for a President. If you know him personally, then love as a friend - but as a President - no I don't understand it. I am, in no way offended by your love for the President - just completely puzzled by it.
But let me say, I am not sure I want to understand the 'complexity' that would allow one human being to say they 'love' a politician they don't know personally. You can like and admire his persona, his actions, his looks, his speech, - but love him - no I don't understand it and I have lived long enough to know love. I just don't use the word lightly.
I happen to say that I love pizza, and everyone I know understands what I mean by it........and not a single person has been offended by it that I know of (except you)........ just like everyone I know understands what I mean when I say I love this President.
They know that what I mean is that I love what he has done for this country, I love him as a brother in Christ, I love his honor and dignity, I love his love for and fidelity to his beautiful wife, I love that he is preaching abstinence to young people, talking about personal responsibility, and saving the lives of the unborn. I love that he respects the military (and those of us who sacrifice by having family members in the military), I love that he puts America first overseas, and that he is making the entire world safer because of his wise use of American strength abroad.
And frankly, I find it a bit odd that you cannot understand this at all.
I don't know if it's because those things aren't important to you......honor, dignity, respect, strength......or if you are hardened into thinking that NO politician can be an honorable person, or if it's just that you are so angry about immigrants around you, and the weak position he has taken on illegal immigration that it makes you dislike him so much that it doesn't matter to you what else he does that is good.
Regardless, I feel badly that you are going to spend eight glorious years angry because you 'can't understand' how deeply grateful millions of Americans are that God gave us this President, and that you will continue to misjudge and condemn good and thoughtful people because they use words differently than you do.
I'm sure you'll go on believing that you are superior to others, but I do sincerely hope that someday you'll wake up and see how petty and wrong you were.
In the mean time, my husband and I, my family and friends, will go on 'loving' President Bush, and being thankful for his life and service to the country we love.