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.
He wears more makeup than an old french whore.
Oh wait, he is an old french whore.
Great report! I'm so glad you had the opportunity to get up close. As I noted somewhere, we had family obligations Saturday and couldn't attend the rally that was fewer than 20 miles from our home, but it was good to see such support in our heavily Dem community, as in Cleveland. I expect Pa., Ohio and W.Va. will be seeing much more of the president and vice president in the next few months.
HLL - I think your answers, as edited, are good.
LOL! I think his tie has tiny little French flags on it.
Two men of the people, yes indeedy. Oh if someone would ask John - John, how many uninsured children could the sale of just one estate from each of you insure?
American and Iraqi joint patrols, along with U.S. Special Operations teams, captured two men with explosives in Baghdad on Monday who identified themselves as Iranian intelligence officers, FOX News has confirmed.There's more...read it all.Senior officials said it was previously believed that Iran had officers inside Iraq stirring up violence, but this is the first time that self-proclaimed Iranian intelligence agents have been captured within the country.
The Defense officials also confirmed to FOX News that in recent days there has been significant success in tracking down "known bad guys" based on information from local citizens.
New nickname for Kerry and Edwards: "Waffles and Grits."
No "Sore/Loserman", but not bad.
My mom, who is a very proper lady indeed, calls her children 'smart a**' whenever we get one over her. It's the only off-color thing I've ever heard her say. I'm sure the twins were a pain, aren't most teenage girls? :)
And I usually enjoy Marianne Means' editorials, but she had an editorial a couple of days ago that made me retch. Basically, Dick Cheney using the f word on the floor of the Senate will make the Presidential race uncivil. And it's ALL the Republicans fault. I'm writing a letter to the editor right now, I was seeing red. I do not agree with Cheney's choice of words, but please, the lack of civility went away a long long time ago. Let's see, one expletive by Cheney and months and months of lies, smears, and comparisons of bush to Hitler and Stalin, and making PResident Bush sound worse than Hussein? Yeah, that's real civil.
Heeeere's Waffles!
Let's go have a look for Grits.
I said in a post that I liked Marianne Means' columns. Actually I mixed her up with someone else. I really think Marianne and her beliefs are out in lala land somewhere...
I see the Pubbie photographer has been at it again. Unbeleivable.
Victor Davis Hanson brings us back to reality...with a thud.
Hanson is the most "thinking" columnist out there today. A must read.
When pubbies start on Edwards as a "trial lawyer", we can assume the donkeys will come back with sob stories about his clients' misfortunes.
Question: Are atty's fees part of the public record? If he says he "won" $30 million for the plaintiff, did he get $10 million of it? That's info the pubbies should have on hand.
I'm headed to the beach for a few days. We've rented 3 houses at Orange Beach for a family reunion. Everyone will be there except Stew & Lisa...he's playing in a tourney and the kids are in camp this week. But there will be plenty of other little cousins, so we'll have lots of fun. We'll have 3 boats and Saturday we'll be out in the Gulf watching the Blue Angels show.
There's no TV and no computer. Will y'all ping me to any important developments, please?!! I'll catch up on my return. Thanks.
That's some "farm", Johnny. And coincidentally most of your blue collar constituents had veal tenderloin last night too, I'm sure.
Hoosiermama has a fantastic idea,,,, and I'll bet the Guild could help out.
She wants people to check the property tax rolls of all the homes owned by the John/Johns and total up all their toilets,,,
Her theme: How many johns do the John/Johns own,, 'cause the John/Johns do own johns.
LOL
Who can help her out,,, and who can keep track of the results? Please keep me posted.
forgot to ad the link to her post where the effort is laid out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1166918/posts
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