Posted on 07/29/2004 7:03:36 PM PDT by skyman
bttt
Last Wed we were in Colo Springs for the AF Academy graduation; featured speaker was George W Bush. A little long winded, but the speech was punctuated with a lot of applauses, which suggested that a lot of the military brass in attendance support him. However, what was more impressive to me was the fact that he personally saluted and congratulated every single cadet that crossed the stage, my son included.
There were nearly 1000 cadets and this process took 1 hour, 40 minutes. I watched him through my zoom, and he displayed the personal touch all the way through: every cadet was saluted; the men were then given a hand shake and often a pat on the shoulder with his left hand or some other personal words; the women were all given a hug and some of the women cadets also gave him a kiss on the check. Occasionally a cadet would ask for a "wave to my parents" and then the cadet and the president would turn to the crowd and wave in the correct direction. He showed as much enthusiasm to the middle and last cadets as to the first ones -- in fact, he looked like he was enjoying himself!
At the Academy graduation, the "top 10%" are noted as Distinguished Graduates (known as "DG's" -- the Academy doesn't have summa, magna cum laude, etc.) and they graduate first. The rest of the graduates walk across by squadron (36 squadrons). 5 years ago when Clinton was there, he only personally congratulated the DG's (takes about 10 minutes) and then he sat down.
Bush was offered the same option, but refused - said he wanted to recognize every single graduate.
This is the stuff about what the man does that never makes the news....
Rush should complete class while rising in defense of our men and women in service.
O'Reilly owes them an apology.
Rush really hit this one right out of the ballpark. Well done.
He does read FR. I daw it on the DittoCam one day. He had FR up briefly diring a commercial.
ping
should=showed
LOL! What a difference a word makes! I thought you were knocking Old El Rushbo. "He needs to go back to school!"
Thanks skyman. I'm sure wives and husbands and parents didn't send their loved ones to work on 911 to die either. Same goes for all of our citizens who have died at the hands of terrorists around the world. This article says it all. At least W is actively trying to keep this from happening again......more than I can say for,ahem, the previous administration and I'm sure that every precious soldier that dies for this cause affects him deeply.
I emailed O'Reilly this very thing before Rush ever said it. I think Rush said it because it was so OBVIOUS. O'Reilly screwed up bigtime.
TALKING POINTS SAYS O'REILLY CAN'T INTERVIEW WITHOUT SCRIPTED NOTES.
As always Rush hits a grand slam when it is most needed. Way to go Rush.
The classic reply to this question comes from a paraphrase of Gen. Patton:
I, Pres. Bush, Bill O. doesn't send my sons , your sons or anybody's sons into battle in Iraq, or anywhere to die or sacrifice their lives for their country or any other cause no matter how just. We send them into battle to make the enemy sacrifice THEIR lives and the lives of THEIR sons for their principles. Our military trains and fights to kill and destroy the enemy; NOT to die and sacrifice their lives.
I'd love to see that blowhard Moore go head-to-head with Rush. I don't think Rush would be caught off guard like O'Reilly was during that interview.
Moore's allegation is that President Bush lied about WMD's in Iraq. His proof of this is that before the invasion President Bush claimed that Iraq had WMD's but since then we have not found any therefore Bush lied. Pretty silly argument and I think O'reilly could have argued much more effectively against this sort nonsense:
1) One of Moore's main claims in F911 is that the Saudis control Bush - that Bush wakes up in the morning thinking of how he can serve his Saudis masters. If this is the case then one must wonder why on Earth Bush would make up lies about WMD's in Iraq in order to justify the invasion since the Saudis strongly opposed said invasion.
2) The UN, CIA and most other major intelligence agencies all agreed that Iraq possesed WMDs.
3) Recent reports, both stateside and from Europe, indicate that President Bush's statement about Iraq attempts to purchase yellowcake were indeed well founded.
4) Senate investigation report into Iraq intelligence concluded that there even though the intelligence was flawed there was no effort to distort that information. Similar conclusion were made concerning British intelligence.
5) Isaac Newton discovered and presented his theory of gravity/force/motion to the world. Of course Albert Einstien found that Newton overlooked a very important aspect of the theory. Yes, what Newton stated was untrue, but it was the best that he knew at that time. Can we conclude therefore that Isaac Newton was a liar?
I'd love to see that blowhard Moore go head-to-head with Ann Coulter. She'd rip him a new one!
As for O'Reilly, he's so busy trying to prove to everyone that he's not a conservative, he only hits softballs to libs these days. I've just about quit watching him.
O'Reilly really blew the MM interview.
Fantastic. God Bless you Rush Limbaugh!
ping
ping
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.