Posted on 06/26/2004 1:10:53 PM PDT by BigWaveBetty
On June 14th of this year President Bush welcomed Bill and Hillary Clinton back to the White House for the unveiling of their portraits.
Being the gracious, polite adult that he is, President Bush had some kind words for X42 and that made some people very unhappy. President Bush had done the right thing being gracious to his guests and I disagreed with those who would have had him exoriate old X42. However, each time I heard a sound bite of the president's speech it became clear, someone with an imagination and knowledge of clinton could interpret those words in another way.
Here are my interpretations of some of President Bush's remarks.
The years have done a lot to clarify the strengths of this man.
As we republicans predicted it would take time to see the real damage done to our country and this White House, how do you like your boy now? Still think his presidency was chock full of peace and prosperity? Oh, and some of you still can't name three accomplishments of that Administration.
As a candidate for any office, whether it be the state attorney general or the President, Bill Clinton showed incredible energy and great personal appeal.
Nothing of any significance was accomplished.
As chief executive, he showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great compassion for people in need, and the forward-looking spirit the Americans like in a President.
Again, nothing of any significance was accomplished.
Bill Clinton could always see a better day ahead -- and Americans knew he was working hard to bring that day closer.
Looking past the terror threat doesn't make it go away. Thanks to the media many were lulled to sleep and received a nasty wake up call that morning in September.
Over eight years, it was clear that Bill Clinton loved the job of the presidency.
What better way to feed his huge narcissistic appetite?
He filled this house with energy and joy.
Too bad so much was wasted keeping this slug out of trouble and the only good times came from saving clinton's bacon from the fire.
He's a man of enthusiasm and warmth, who could make a compelling case and effectively advance the causes that drew him to public service.
Boy he loves to charm the ladies and what's the ultimate chick magnate? The White House of course.
President Bush is a smart man, he knew clinton would sink himself with that stupid tome of his. Why in the world would President Bush attack clinton when clinton does it so effectively to himself?
Thank you President Bush, it was a refreshing change from trying to parse all that bill clinton speak.
Our last trip to the airport was to pick up and my son was going through his punk faze. They confiscated his spike bracelet.
So tell your mom for any future trips, no to the spike jewerly.
Don't know about the chicken/broccoli yet, FIL ended up in the hospital yesterday. He had a bad cold, was trying to do too much (mowing the yard and such!!) and was having trouble breathing, Mr. B is over there today. The hospital will keep him for a couple of days.
John Kerry Prefaces Langston Hughes Book
NEW YORK - Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites), who has been quoting from the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again" during campaign appearances, has contributed a preface to a short collection of verse by the Harlem Renaissance writer.
"While it is the litany of the great promise of opportunity that has drawn so many of the worlds disaffected to our shores, the poem is also a call to make that promise real for all Americans," writes Kerry.
The book, for which Kerry received no fee, will be called "Let America Be America Again" and features the title poem and eight other pieces. Vintage Books will publish the collection Aug. 10.
Hughes wrote "Let America" in 1938, during the Great Depression. It's a plaintive, ironic call for the country to live up to its own promise of freedom. "Let America be America again/Let it be the dream it used to be." Hughes writes, then adds: "America never was America to me."
Good thing he has money.
Do we know if Teresa's a drinker of adult beverages? Chris' eyes look kinda far apart, a telltale sign of consuming too much alcohol while pregnant.
Beautiful!
Golly gee! I hope it wasn't the squash! Tell FIL he has to take it easy in this hot, humid weather. I can hardly make it to the mailbox and back without feeling like I'm going to faint. An exaggeration, of course, but it sure does sap you fast.
Paula Jones will be on Prime Time Live (ABC) tonight at 10 pm eastern. From the write up on their website it's not clear whether Kathleen Wiley and Jennifer Flowers will also be on the program. But I love their headline: "Jones: 'It started with me'". The angle of the story is that the VRWC did, indeed, use Jones to further their anti-Clinton agenda. Deliciously, though, she turns the Toon's own foolish words back on him. "Just because he could". Jones says that's exactly why he did what he did to her. LOL!
A SHOCKING image of a blood-spattered President Bush devouring a headless child is causing an uproar. The drawing by sculptor Richard Serra, based on a painting by Goya, is being used to promote pleasevote.com, billed as "a call to vote the Bush administration out of office." It appears on the back cover of The Nation's July 5 issue. Ironically, Serra, a past recipient of NEA grants, was once praised by First Lady Laura Bush in a White House press release about one of his pieces at a Texas museum. His "Tilted Arc" once graced (or defaced) Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan until it was destroyed in 1989. Pundit Andrew Sullivan labeled the Bush image "an obscenity" and "simple demonization."
It amazes me how the democratic party has abandoned the legitimate concept of shame to embrace leftists who have none, including that alleged "centrist" Bill Clinton.
The democratic party is completely off the rails because it has embraced leftists and their anti-American agenda.
There is a real battle for the soul of this country going on now. Are we going to let the extremist views perpetrated by the likes of the ACLU succeed when they demand the cross be removed from the LA shield? Are we going to let the Judeo-Christian values this country was founded upon be superceded by the notion of "diversity" as defined by the likes of those who insist that we stand for an "inclusiveness" that robs us of the fundamental values and moral authority upon which America is based? Will we allow the ruse of the political correctness doctrine to destroy our ability to protect our shores and our countrymen from terrorists who seek to penetrate our borders and wreak the havoc of terrorism against us?
To me, these are the questions which define the upcoming election. The democrats, by embracing extremists, have defined themselves as cohorts in crime with the Left. It's time for the RNC and Bush campaign to start trumpeting the Left's own statements as proof of who they really are, and let Americans decide whether they want to be ruled by nebulous, feel-good ideology or by the defined guidance of a man ruled by principles understood by all.
Good news for the Cheneys-their fourth grandchild is a boy...they have three granddaughters.PHILLIP RICHARD PERRY
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) and his wife Lynne hold their fourth grandchild, Philip Richard Perry, in Washington, July 2, 2004. The child weighed eight pounds, six ounces. His parents are Elizabeth Cheney and Phil Perry, the daughter and son-in-law of the Cheneys.
Very well put - I agree wholeheartedly. I think we can't wait and hope for the RNC to say the things that need to be said, and therefore will repeat my call for letters to the editors. Newspaper readers really do read the letters, and some well-reasoned opinion, like your post, is what is needed.
OK, you and Endeavor have inspired me on this Independence Weekend.
I wrote the Florida GOP today and volunteered to shuttle voters, man phones, anything they need me to do on election day or earlier. GWB's victory is assured here in Alabama and I'm only an hour away from the Pensacola, Fla. area. I can easily vote here then drive to FLA for the rest of the day...well, let's hope the election ends in one day this time!
I've even mulled over "moving" to Florida that week so I can register to vote there. Who's to say anything if my "plans change" the next week and I "move back" to Alabama?
Manly man, coming through.
My task for this weekend is to draft a few letters, so as to put my money where my mouth is. Of course, I'll have to send them to newspapers other than the one that occasionally pays me to write for it, but that's no big deal.
Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass. waves as he gets off his bus to greet supporters during an unscheduled stop in Superior, Wis. on Friday, July 2, 2004 (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
It's hard to believe, but I'm beginning to think there are a few Pubbie news photographers out there,,, as well as at least one Pubbie photo editor.
Some of these photos are 'choice' to say the least.
No wonder he spends so much time on the ground.
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