Posted on 05/21/2005 2:18:17 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: While his wife was traveling in the Middle East, President Bush addressed the 2005 commencement at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., today. Bush gave his first graduation speech of the year addressing the Christian liberal arts college.
PRESIDENTIAL SCHEDULE: White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan gave the commencement speech at the University of Texas, his alma mater, on Friday. So no week-ahead schedule was announced. (If I find anything while scanning the WH website tomorrow, I'll post it on the Sunday thread.)
The President will welcome German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to the White House for a meeting and working lunch on June 27, 2005.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: From the President's commencement speech at Calvin College today.
The immigrants who founded Calvin College came to America for the freedom to worship, and they built this great school on the sturdy ground of liberty. They saw in the American "experiment" the world's best hope for freedom -- and they weren't the only ones excited by what they saw. In 1835, a young civil servant and aristocrat from France, named Alexis de Tocqueville, would publish a book about America that still resonates today.
The book is called "Democracy in America," and in it this young Frenchman said that the secret to America's success was our talent for bringing people together for the common good. De Tocqueville wrote that tyrants maintained their power by "isolating" their citizens -- and that Americans guaranteed their freedom by their remarkable ability to band together without any direction from government. The America he described offered the world something it had never seen before: a working model of a thriving democracy where opportunity was unbounded, where virtue was strong, and where citizens took responsibility for their neighbors.
Tocqueville's account is not just the observations of one man -- it is the story of our founding. It is not just a description of America at a point in time -- it is an agenda for our time. Our Founders rejected both a radical individualism that makes no room for others, and the dreary collectivism that crushes the individual. They gave us instead a society where individual freedom is anchored in communities. And in this hopeful new century, we have a great goal: to renew this spirit of community and thereby renew the character and compassion of our nation.
Ahhh I got it now
LOLOL. I will follow your orders to the letter.
Yea! Look at those eyes and ears! He really took it to them!
Good evening
Oh my goodness!! What a cutie!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!
What a truly gallant horse Afleet Alex is to have done what he did. And his jockey must have been amazing, too. I'll bet he had to clean out his drawers after that race, both he and horse came very close to being killed.
Did you understand what I was trying to explain to you about posting the picture this is the URL for the picture that I posted above, as you can see I deleted everything after jpg extension then it posts OK.
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050521/i/r1280316589.jpg
They have just shown a clip of it on FNC.
everything after the jpg? Oh! ok
W and a tux - don't get me started! lol
ea, the jockey said he was too scared to fall off
Are you trying to watch it on C-Span or TV . . . my computer always has difficulty with C-Span's video links!
Great photo of Alex, snugs - look at those EARS!
"W and a tux - don't get me started! lol"
Triple fan alert!!
Hi snugs, how is your weekend going? Relaxing after your resounding success of Thursday evening?
I am watching it on the computer. It is coming in now, but apparently it is a little slower than the tv
Great pics, Laura sure is beautiful
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