PERILOUS JOURNEY PLANE-LY PROVES PREZ HAS RIGHT STUFF

New York Post ^ | 11/28/03 | DEBORAH ORIN

[kattracks]

November 28, 2003 -- IT WAS the right thing to do - and it was a risky thing to do. There was no better way for President Bush to show a commander in chief's support for his troops than to put himself at risk and fly to Iraq, knowing full well that he's the No. 1 target for Saddam Hussein's thugs.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'd love to have been aboard Air Force One on the trip home. Must've been one heck of a good feeling.

[CaptRon]

Not to mention he was in little more than a tent not far from some people who do not exactly wish him a long life.

[bvw]

Will we be seeing such celebratory headlines and threads for every planeload of soldiers, airmen and rgeular citizens landing there? Or did we recast the Presidency and now are become an Imperial Monarchy!

Remember one thing, please -- Mr. Bush is a man in a nation of men. He is neither greater nor lesser than any. He has his duty, we have ours.

[TexasCajun]

Hey! Bill Clinton!

Are you watching and learning how a real man in the White House acts!

[boxerblues]

Oh please it has bumped Kobe, Laci & Michael the lastest dirtbag off of the airways for a while. Do you have any idea what this has done for the morale of the troops in Iraq? Now the Dims really have something to harp about about. Bush really did lie to the press corp and only took those he knew could be trusted.

[ErnBatavia]

Remember all of those dangerous trips that Clinton took to Martha's Vineyard?

The most dangerous thing Bill ever did was target Monica's tonsils at about 35 mph...

[TexasCajun]

LOL, it was a political mission to top Hitlery's visit to Afghanistan.

Hitlery had to have White House approval, right.
Maybe the White House told her she couldn't go to Iraq(too dangerous and unstable), but she could go to Afghanistan.

Only to be upstaged later when the President landed in Bagdad himself!
I love it!!

[bvw]

Good for all that. Now tone it down unless you wish turn a Free Republic -- the US, into an imperial monarchy. Not like we are almost so already ... from FDR on, yet still the ideals of a representative Republic of free people of mighty scale are a golden heriatge to all of us, and not to be treated lightly for the sake of the pleasant and cared-for feelings such celebrations of a decent and bold leader have taken on.

Bush may be a good man, a great one, yet he is only the ruler now -- the powers he subsumes, assumes and captures to his position in this time of honest good-feeling will be a burden to us, an affliction when a man or woman like a Clinton arises later.

[boxerblues]

Don't like our ideas, and want partake in our happiness wonder over to DU they'd be glad hear you say we are turning Imperialist

[Alas Babylon!]

Will we be seeing such celebratory headlines and threads for every planeload of soldiers, airmen and rgeular citizens landing there?

I hope so. I know I do.

Or did we recast the Presidency and now are become an Imperial Monarchy!

Is this a question or a statement? He is the Commander-in-Chief of all US forces. This has been true since Washington.

Remember one thing, please -- Mr. Bush is a man in a nation of men. He is neither greater nor lesser than any.

True. Are you saying FReepers are elevating him beyond his stature? He was elected (not selected!) to lead our country. When his term is up he leaves, just like President's have been doing since 1796.

He has his duty, we have ours.

Yup. To be Commander-in-Chief. His duty--not ours. Lead our troops. Sometimes visit them, even in perilous places. I salute his decision. He didn't have to go.

[bvw]

"Our ideas" --

My ideals are what the Founding Fathers worked for and fought for ... the Declartation, the Constitution and the Republic. If those our not amoung YOUR ideas, than perhaps you might move on.

[boxerblues]

seems to me that you are in the minority today. Si it is "ours" at least for today

[bvw]

His visit under the same level of peril and danger tens of thousands of others make to go there, and even a similar level many encounter everyday in their life or duties. To play it up as if he is the Sun King deigned to endeavor the danger eating at the table in front of us ... that is and can be too much. And dangerous for the same reason men and women called for Wahington to be King, that we might by such over-lauding, create a King.

[freeperfromnj]

The President has had the right stuff since day one. From the day he stood atop the rubble at the World Trade Center...... to throwing out the first pitch at the Yankee game -- and especially yesterday -- by visting the troops on Thanksgiving. He has always shown courage and leadership and tried to bring the country together. Too bad the rats and the media can't see past their own hatred to realize it.

[jetson]

" Chomp...burp..slobber...By the way, did I ever tell you how I loathe the military...burp.."

[Alas Babylon!]

Ok. I understand where you're coming from. I do disagree, however. But I think today you're going to be a very lone voice crying in the wilderness. I think it was a masterful stroke from a great commander-in-chief. Bush is not going to assume the mantle of American Dictator because of it, though, no matter how many FReepers applaud him for it, LoL!!!!

When 2008 comes (he will win next year), he'll retire to Texas, and you can then fret about someone else seizing all power in Washington, D.C. If it is Hillary, then I'll even join you!

[Ghengis]

Granted, President Bush is not a "Sun King" or anything of the sort. But, he undertook a morale boosting mission that not many Presidents in our time would have risked.

The impact of losing President GWB at this point in time would be more than our losing a person undertaking "same level of peril and danger tens of thousands of others make to go there, and even a similar level many encounter everyday in their life or duties." Somehow I do believe it would change the course of our nation for longer than any of our own lives would last.

[bvw]

Ghengis, I am happy for your response, and for the latter part of it. Keeping Mr. Bush is a great priority, and a loss of any man of his character is ever a monumental tragedy. Yet we must have a greater optimism and faith in our countrymen and nation than to imagine that we would be lost without him. We DO have the great and heroic national character to sustain such a hit, simply, we must have.

[pizzalady]

"....Remember one thing, please -- Mr. Bush is a man in a nation of men. He is neither greater nor lesser than any. He has his duty, we have ours...."

Well bvw, President Bush IS a man in a nation of men. BUT this nation just happens to designate that our PRESIDENT, while in office, is also Commander-in-Chief of all the branches of the military. And President Bush continually proves himself worthy of the Title.

So yes, as a man, non is greater or lesser than another, but until YOU become Commander-in-Chief, I will continue to applaud President Bush and the job he is doing in office.

As President, He represents every citizen of the U.S. and as Commander-in-Chief, he represents every planeload of soldiers who land there.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

He's always had the 'Right Stuff'.