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.
She's grown... isn't she a cutie! What a great picture!
Howdy, I was watching the White House Photographers Dinner
Im still laughing over the Cheney bit....someone at the WH likes Monty Python..
That was a hilarious slide show.
Y'know how we say we can't understand how anyone cannot like W - I think the photographers in that room who might be of a more liberal bent, had to laugh in spite of themselves. W did get a standing-O
So was I (through the computer - cannot get Cspan on the TV)
"President George W. Bush greets members of the 50th anniversary class (now elderly) of Calvin College. "
Now elderly??? No, I think they are probably only about 71 years old!!!!
Does anyone else think that W affects his Texas drawl at will? He sounded like a Yankee tonight!
It was a great skit
I think W's spoof on his parents were also a riot.
"That was so funny....what a treat.."
That was FUN . . . our President is quite the comedian (although that fall on his bike looked nasty)!
I think that was the fall that he scruffed up his face..
I bet it was . . . it certainly was a 'header'!!!
Eric is a married man by now...I wonder how OWF is doing?...
I think you are right I can remember seeing that clip before on FNC and then the next time we saw a photo of him you could see the scuffs on his face
I liked the photo of the "4 presidents" - the distance between Clinton & Carter, is to make room for JEB! LOL, we can dream!
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