[onyx]

The heart felt comments by both of you have made me teary-eyed. It's a joyful, crying day. I am so happy and so proud of our President George Walker Bush for standing steadfast, for promoting his core beliefs and for appointing Judge Pickering. Pass me more tissue, please.

[woodyinscc]

You are absolutely right, they were both great posts, and we all should be proud that they are posting in this forum.

President Bush has now answered over six months of a constant negative barrage, by the left. He has answered with a broadside, and is now on his way to a second term. Let us still be vigilant, after all, we are dealing with rats.

[Wolfstar]

M2C, you said it beautifully. "He is a giant while everyone else is a pigmy." That, in my opinion, is part of the problem. Some people just think too small and/or too low to see beyond their narrow concerns. And, before someone misunderstands, I don't mean to say that an issue like illegal immigration is a narrow concern. Rather that some matters are so vast in importance that they even dwarf issues like immigration, prescription drugs, and such.

Hi, onyx. Good to "speak" with you today. I know what you mean about tearing up. What I've been seeing on these boards lately, while not unexpected, is deeply disturbing. Although I moved here to L.A. in 1976, my roots will always be in the New York metro area. The ground on which the WTC stood is ground I walked on countless times in my childhood and young adulthood, both before and after the towers were built. When the President went there the Friday after the attacks, climbed on that smoking pile and said: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who brought these buildings down will hear all of us soon," he spoke for me in the most personal way any President of the United States ever did.

Nothing else trumps that. Nothing.

We know we can be hit again anytime. That we haven't is a tribute to his leadership, of course, but even he knows the next attack could be just around the corner. Heck, he and his Laura have lived in a big white bullseye since 9/11. Yet he chooses to spend most of his time there. That anyone — ANYONE — calling themselves a Republican and/or conservative is capable of losing sight of this reality is just stunning to me.