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Bush Photo With Teen Becomes Internet Phenomenon
The Washington Dispatch ^ | June 14, 2004 | CK Rairden

Posted on 06/24/2004 9:34:32 PM PDT by anymouse

This is a story of how powerful the new media has become. A phenomenon of sorts has grown from a picture of a 15-year old girl named Ashley Faulkner in a warm embrace with President Bush. It all began in early May. President George W. Bush was on the campaign trail in Ohio and one of his stops for the day was at the Golden Lamb Inn in Lebanon, Ohio. In this Cincinnati suburb awaited Ashley Faulkner and her father Lynn. They had arrived early with their friend Linda Prince to get a spot in the front of the line hoping to get to meet the president. As the campaign event wound down they would indeed get to see President George W. Bush up close and personal.

Mr. Bush worked the line, shook Mr. Faulkner’s hand and then proceeded until Linda Prince spoke up. “This girl lost her mother on 9/11,” Prince told the president. With that proclamation the president changed from the leader of the free world to a father and a husband. According to Mr. Faulkner, “The president’s entire expression transformed and he turned and came back against the flow and his eyes locked on Ashley’s.” The president took the time to talk to Mr. Faulkner’s daughter Ashley and give her a warm hug. Mr. Faulkner told me he debated before taking this now famous picture, wondering if he was invading a very private and special moment between his daughter and the most powerful man in the world. He decided to snap the picture you see here, the only one taken of this incredible moment of compassion by President Bush.

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It is said that character is measured by what you do when no one is looking. President Bush warmed Ashley Faulkner’s heart and took the time to comfort her when he believed no one was looking. But with one fortunate click of a digital camera, now the world gets to look.

Perhaps they were wrong in the nineties--- maybe character does matter.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtondispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: ashley; ashleysstory; bush; campaign; godblessthisman
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To: nutmeg

bttt


61 posted on 06/24/2004 10:47:18 PM PDT by nutmeg (God bless President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tamsey

One picture.... saying more than all the words in an app. 950 page book.

Mr. President, policy disagreements aside, your Christian beliefs, character, compassion.... you now have my total vote of confidence.

That picture truly helped restore a tired, tattered soul. Thanks.


62 posted on 06/24/2004 11:00:57 PM PDT by snickeroon (Character is defined by what you do when no one's looking)
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To: anymouse

Thanks!


63 posted on 06/24/2004 11:01:54 PM PDT by Kate of Spice Island ('Effin the ineffible since '91." (VS with writing))
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To: Moonmad27
It reminds me how I can't understand why so many people refuse to see his innate goodness and honesty, and hate him so passionately.

Perhaps that's why.

Look at it this way. It's not really Bush that they hate. It's anything that is honorable and good that they hate. Since his character is the polar opposite of theirs, they curse him.


$710.96... The price of freedom.

64 posted on 06/24/2004 11:09:09 PM PDT by rdb3 (When I reached the fork in the road, I drove straight.)
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To: snickeroon

Your post was the most sincere and heartening one I think I've ever read here... thank you for that.


65 posted on 06/24/2004 11:14:29 PM PDT by Tamzee (Noonan on Reagan, "...his leadership changed the world... As president, he was a giant.")
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To: anymouse

Genuine.


66 posted on 06/24/2004 11:24:31 PM PDT by ChiMark
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To: Freesofar

No


67 posted on 06/24/2004 11:50:55 PM PDT by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
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To: rdb3

read that multi-chaptered book about the greatest man who ever walked the earth...each time he healed, the "elites" plotted how to kill him...

...not much has changed in 2000 years...


68 posted on 06/24/2004 11:53:19 PM PDT by Keith (IT'S ABOUT THE JUDGES)
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To: Keith
Oh yeah. You mean that one book that has sixty-six books, the vast majority of which have multiple chapters, right?

How could I forget?


$710.96... The price of freedom.

69 posted on 06/25/2004 12:14:00 AM PDT by rdb3 (When I reached the fork in the road, I drove straight.)
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To: anymouse
Quite simply, our President is the best!
70 posted on 06/25/2004 12:21:06 AM PDT by Aracelis
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To: anymouse

President Bush does this sort of thing spontaneaously, instead of setting up these things as photo ops. Of course, this photo will never be seen on the alphabet networks.


71 posted on 06/25/2004 1:07:44 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Do Chernobyl restaurants serve Curied chicken?)
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To: anymouse
Our President's sensitivity to an innocent little girl speaks loudly to the Democratic Party that has no regard for those babies bulldozed in the killing fields of Cambodia and Iraq. Their insensitivity has no remorse for the lives of their fellow Americans killed in Afghanistan and Iraq unless it is for the raw quest of political advantage. Their pursuit for power has no regard for the jeapardy they place on our nation's security and the loss of innocent human life that that numb quest for power affords.
72 posted on 06/25/2004 1:23:58 AM PDT by jonrick46 (jonrick46)
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To: anymouse
Greetings anymouse. There was another picture and story posted a few weeks ago of President Bush jogging with a soldier who had lost his leg in either Iraq or Afganistan...I wish I had bookmarked it...do you or does anyone have a link to it?

Best Regards.

74 posted on 06/25/2004 6:52:29 AM PDT by scoopscandal
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To: anymouse

What's interesting to me is that picture almost doesn't look like GWB. I think due to how close the lens is when the picture is snapped, there is some "fisheye" distortion. But additionally he is transformed by his grief and has completely stepped out of his public personae. I think this is one reason the photo is so powerful. We know we are seeing him as he really is by how different he looks from the staged photo-ops.


75 posted on 06/25/2004 6:59:39 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Southack

PLEASE, bump to the top!


76 posted on 06/25/2004 7:54:34 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: anymouse

Tears!

I love this man!


77 posted on 06/25/2004 7:57:31 AM PDT by diamond6
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To: Moonmad27

People hated and plotted against Christ EVEN AFTER they personally saw him raise someone from the dead. I believe there are some people so consumed with hatred that they are too far gone for rational thinking, or human decency for that matter.


78 posted on 06/25/2004 8:00:24 AM PDT by diamond6
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To: anymouse

Call the president's comment line, tell him how much you apppreciate him: 202-456-2461

He surely needs it right now! Also, lots of prayer needs to go up for him while he's in Turkey, I'm really worried for his safety!


79 posted on 06/25/2004 8:04:39 AM PDT by diamond6
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To: Eagle9

Definite BUMP for later! I remember when this first happened, and I am as heartened now as I was then.

When President Bush is re-elected, I am planning the "roadie" of my lifetime--a trip to D.C. in January, to see it in person. Any Freeper suggestions about lodging and Freeper meeting places? Wasn't there some kind of "Freepers Inaugural Ball" in 2001?

Please "ping" me with details, if known.


80 posted on 06/25/2004 10:07:39 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (I approve this message: character and integrity matter. Bush/Cheney '04)
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