A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos) - 3.11.04

WhiteHouse.gov, Yahoo.com | 3.11.04 | ohioWfan

[ohioWfan]

President Bush traveled to New York today to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Nassau County 9/11 Memorial in Eisenhower Park, Long Island, being built in memory of the 281 residents of Nassau County who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks, and visited with families of the victims. Before he left, he made a statement to the press regarding the terrorist attack in Madrid, Spain.

He also visited USA Industries, an automotive parts manufacturing company in Bay Shore, New York, and spoke to workers about the economy and jobs training. He then attended a fund raiser with Rudy Giuliani and Governor Pataki.

There are lots of fabulous pictures today, so enjoy your trip to Sanity Island on the Daily Dose !!

[ThePythonicCow]

many pictures and ink cartridges later

Hewlett Packard should be making some large donations to the Campaign to Re-elect Bush. If that other wannabe won, then their ink cartridge sales could take a dive, big time.

[mike1sg]

You did good, a lot of good that stuff is. I will tell all the other civil servants here about it.

Alright ladies lets put all of my credit cards away, I may have MJ's nose, but not his money.

[ReaganandDubyaForever]

**Hewlett Packard should be making some large donations to the Campaign to Re-elect Bush.**

They already are. To my Bush Scrapbook Campaign anyway.:)

[GretchenEE]

Oh Nancy, what a miserable thing, and the timing! I will pray for all to go expeditiously. Thank the good Lord he got an accurate diagnosis. I have heard the same thing as you wrote, that this is very treatable.

God speed to him in the treatment and all his movements to get home, and may God lighten the load on his mind about what others will need to do in his absence.

[visualops]

You put the html file rather than the image file as the image source.
Here's the pic:

[STARWISE]

Mystery and Mike .. God Bless You in this unforeseen challenge. Basal cell is very common .. just has to be attended to now, which I'm sure the military docs will do. Won't be a bad idea to have a plastic surgeon involved. After all, you're getting ready for a spectacular homecoming pretty soon ;-) ... and you just don't wanna mess with your hunky mug now. This time .. just let the docs give YOU the orders, OK??? And .. follow their guidance. God Bless You for all you and all the troops are doing for US .. and Godspeed, Mike ... make sunscreen your constant companion. Hang in there, Mystery .. all will be fine.

[mystery-ak]

Patty is going to buy you those Groucho Marx's glasses with the nose....LOL.....SSgt told me to tell you to tell the other guys not to take it out for 2 months..

[GretchenEE]

This brings tears to my eyes -- that little, little boy with the photo.

THESE families don't seem to mind their loved ones being REMEMBERED.

[ThePythonicCow]

I have another possibility for posting your pictures, that I've been experimenting with.

Perhaps we can try it with a couple of them.

Go to my profile page ThePythonicCow, and scroll to the very last section. There it explains a way that you could make pictures on your disk available from a public web site (using Yahoo!) that I've setup, so that I or some other person with web space could then get the pictures and put them on a server that we can link to.

Yahoo! has done a pretty good job (so far as I can tell, but then again I'm a computer nerd) of making it easy to upload pictures. If you want to try the instructions there, and upload a couple of pictures, I will then copy the pictures to a public server we can link to, for our shared enjoyment.

[mike1sg]

Gotcha, just leave it alone, reinstate when we get back to work.

[mystery-ak]

I know, that pix breaks my heart...he's so proud of his daddy, waiting to show the President....sigh!

[ReaganandDubyaForever]

I imagine this little girl throwing her arms around his neck right after this was taken...

[GretchenEE]

I kept waiting for my local news to identify the Congressmen/women who had hired this alleged spy, but all they named was her being a "distant relative" of Andy Card.

Sometimes I just want to throw up watching this fetid swirling mess called "news reporting."

[ReaganandDubyaForever]

Night all..see ya tomorrow.

I'll be praying for you Mike.

[ThePythonicCow]

Let me guess -- you were really imagining yourself as that little girl ??

[texasflower]

We will be praying for Mike. Hopefully they will be able to take care of it in Balad.

[mike1sg]

Good Night, and Thank You.

[DrDeb]

POLLING UPDATE
[While polls at this point are meaningless, I am providing the following data to let you know that the President is doing just fine!]

NBC NEWS / WALLSTREET JOURNAL
Approval Rating
03/06-08/04 50% approve 46% disapprove
09/20-22/03 49% approve 45% disapprove
[Even though the President's approval rating is lower than it was immediately after the capture of Saddam, it's still at 50% and no lower than it was in September!]

Deserves Re-election
3/6-8/04 48% deserves 48% does not deserve
12/03/03 47% deserves 46% does not deserve
[Despite relentless attacks AND a less than stellar jobs report, the President's re-elect numbers remain unchanged!]

Head-to-Head Match Up
GWB 47% Kerry 45% (+2)
This number represents a 10 POINT SWING from Gallup's -8 match-up and an 11 POINT SWING from ABCNews/WashingtonPost's -9 match-up!!! It also matches NPR's results!

What distinguishes the WallStreetJournal and NPR polls from the other two? The former polls are conducted by bipartisan (Democrat and Republican) pollsters; the latter are NOT!!!!

FYI: Rasmussen's poll from today still puts the President's approval rating at 53% and the head-to-head match-up at 46%-46%!

THE PRESIDENT'S RATINGS/MATCH-UPS WILL REMAIN VOLATILE FOR THE REST OF THE MONTH; HOWEVER, THE PRESIDENT'S BASE IS STICKING WITH HIM DESPITE THE RELENTLESS MEDIA/RAT ATTACKS AND ECONOMIC WORRIES!!! WE'RE IN GREAT SHAPE GOING INTO SPRING!


OTHER GOOD NEWS FROM THE ECONOMIC FRONT TODAY:

1.) jobless claims DOWN
2.) retail sales UP
3.) Greenspan says jobs 'just around the corner'

Greenspan: Employment Will Increase, Trade Barriers Not Answer to Job Loss

In congressional testimony this morning, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that "employment will begin to increase more quickly before long," and that the policies of economic isolation being proposed by Democrats, “would make matters worse rather than better."

"As our economy exhibits increasing signals of recovery, jobs loss continues to diminish," he said in testimony to the House Education and Workforce Committee. "In all likelihood, employment will begin to increase more quickly before long." …

Greenspan said that the extended period of job losses has heightened fears that U.S. workers are losing out to foreign competition and spurred a number of proposals to erect protectionist trade barriers.

Greenspan did not name those who are pushing such trade barriers, but Sen. John Kerry, the expected Democratic presidential candidate, has attacked the Bush administration's free-trade policies and promised to review all trade proposals to make sure they contain protections for American workers.

Greenspan said a "new round of protectionist steps" represented "alleged cures" which he said "would make matters worse rather than better."

…Greenspan said the answer to these job stresses was not to resort to raising trade barriers to keep foreign goods out of the country because this would remove the pressure for U.S. companies to become more competitive and push America's standard of living lower.

"Time and again through our history, we have discovered that attempting merely to preserve the comfortable features of the present, rather than reaching for new levels of prosperity, is a sure path to stagnation," Greenspan said.

http://www.georgewbush.com/blog/


Night All!!

[altura]

Mike is already in my daily prayers for getting home safely.

He needs to get out of that sun!!!

Fortunately, skin cancer is very treatable now.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hey you two! I lurked quietly in the shadows for a bit tonight...but I NEED to tell you that I'll be praying for you, Mike!

Hang in there, LISTEN TO THE DOCTOR, and especially, listen to your lovely and gracious and kind and beautiful and charming wife.