A day (actually 2 yrs) in the life of President Bush (8/6/05): many photos

WhiteHouse.gov ^ | 8/6/05

[Wolfstar]

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: With the President, First Lady and the dogs relaxing at the ranch this weekend, there are no new photos to post. So I've selected a theme -- GWB and our Armed Forces -- and found many photos to let us enjoy a walk down memory lane. The theme photos are all from early in his presidency. They show GWB's closeness with our military both before and after 9/11/01.

THE WEEK AHEAD:

Monday, the President travels to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He will be touring the Sandia Laboratory there, and then will be making remarks after signing the comprehensive energy legislation that passed recently.

Tuesday, the President is going to have his economic advisors to the ranch. He will participate in a briefing with them on the state of our economy. Afterwards, GWB will make some remarks and participate in a press availability.

Wednesday, President Bush will traveling to Aurora, Illinois, where he will sign the transportation legislation. Aurora is the largest town in the north-central Illinois congressional district of House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Saturday, tentative, but the President usually participates in an RNC event in August at the ranch. As of yesterday, the President's schedule was not firmed up beyond Wednesday.

QUOTE OF THE DAY Excerpt from the presidential radio address, Saturday, August 6, 2005:

As families across the country enjoy the summer, Americans can be optimistic about our economic future. In the past four years, our economy has been through a lot: we faced a stock market decline, a recession, corporate scandals, an attack on our homeland, and the demands of an ongoing war on terror.

To grow the economy and help American families, we acted by passing the largest tax relief in a generation. And today, thanks to the tax relief and the efforts of America's workers and entrepreneurs, our economy is strong and growing stronger.

This past week, we learned that America added over 200,000 new jobs in July. Since May of 2003, we've added nearly 4 million new jobs. The unemployment rate is down to 5 percent, below the average of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. And more Americans are working today than ever before in our nation's history.

We need to make the tax relief permanent, end the death tax forever, and make our tax code simpler, fairer and more pro-growth.

[silent_jonny]

Wayne looked at the man, turned as though to leave, then backhanded the bodyguard, who fell to the floor, where Wayne knocked him out by crashing a chair on top of him. The party noise stopped.

LOL! I can almost see it :)

I didn't know Wayne and Sinatra didn't like each other. Hm.

[snugs]

Have you heard that the Sunday Times are running an article tomorrow that Bill Clinton is encouraging Cherie Blair to run as a MP. Apparently he has offered to help campaign for her if she decides to run.

[STARWISE]

Wolf --- just fabulous Dose .. thank you SO much for all that work .. just an amazing journey. And it has always been so obvious that W just loves the troops, and what's more: they love, honor and respect HIM!

I had no idea that babies and children died in the Pentagon attack .. how much more sad.

jonny -- great post! I think anything named for that unmentionable could reasonably be called

And that's how little he has in brains, character, integrity, motives and patriotism. He's a disgrace to these United States of America.

This is an even better namesake vessel ...

Wolfie, btt -- snugs is hopefully out having a good time at her boss's party ... let me know if you'd like me to select a toaster or other virtual fantasy that's NOT embellished with a picture. I have no idea how to do that ;).

[CyberAnt]

I haven't been downtown since her first arrival .. but I believe she's out on sea trials at the moment. I have no idea when she will be back in port for a few weeks before heading out on her first deployment.

You're right - that is a "cool photo".

[STARWISE]

AWESOME!!! How're your artistic pursuits going??

[Wolfstar]

The Academy gets it wrong more often then it gets it right when it comes to awarding Oscars. Around the World was an entertaining travelogue, nothing more. Cary Grant never won an Oscar, yet at the end of the 20th Century, he was named the #2 greatest film actor of all time by the American Film Institute.

Bogart was #1 and Stewart was #3; if it was up to me, James Stewart would have been #1. When you think of the incredible depth and breath of Stewarts' work, from Destry, to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, to Philadelphia Story, to It's a Wonderful Life, to Harvey, to Winchester 73 and his other great westerns, to Vertigo and Rear Window, no other actor played such a wide range of roles and movie genres so superbly and so convincingly.

[SW6906]

Maybe we should send this link to Carolyn?

[Wolfstar]

Thanks for the Reagon info, Pol.

[SoCalPol]

In '41 my grandfather was 36, draftcard with two minor
sons. My dad joined in '44 age 17.

After Pearl Harbor, some of the kids that were in my
dad's classes never showed up the next day.
They were the Japanese FDR rounded up and put in camps.
Most if not all were good citizens and sons were in WWII

[CyberAnt]

And .. one of those little boats following the carrier belongs to a member of my chapter - he's a former seal and has a good sized boat. There were 3-4 other members of the chapter out there to greet her as she came into port.

[silent_jonny]

The fact remains that the man who came to symbolize American patriotism and pride had a chance to do more than just act the part, and he let it pass

Hm. I don't agree with that. Wayne was far more effective on screen than he would've been on the battlefield. He was always loyal to the military in spirit. He even made a pro-military movie during the height of Vietnam, "The Green Berets", for which he was ridiculed and laughed at. His response: "Somebody's got to stand up for those guys", meaning the US soldiers. And he did so at a time when it was not popular.

[SoCalPol]

Bill Clinton is encouraging Cherie Blair to run as a MP. Apparently he has offered to help campaign for her if she decides to run.

That is ugly. His wife will be running for prez,
his girl friend was running for PM in Canada and now
the clintoon is butting into England's business.

[mystery-ak]

No...I don't like anything Wayne did if it was not military or western....

[SoCalPol]

Wouldn't that be Travis

[silent_jonny]

How're your artistic pursuits going??

Okay, I guess :) Hopefully I'll have a new picture ready next week. I don't really like the one I have up now. It's too flat and stiff.

[mystery-ak]

It is on the digital package, but we cancelled it when we ordered broadband....we never watched it anyways..

[Wolfstar]

I had no idea that babies and children died in the Pentagon attack .. how much more sad.

Hi, STARWISE. Glad you enjoyed this selection of photos. Yep, thanks to our ever-vigilant media (barf) most Americans are unaware that infants and children were among those who were killed in those attacks. There were children aboard at least two of the four hijacked planes. There was a group of middle school children from the Washington, DC area on board the flight that hit the Pentagon. They were on a school trip of some kind.

The baby-killer Islamofreaks about those planes showed the infants and kids no mercy. We should remember that the next the the media whines about panties on heads, or conditions at Gitmo, or about how we have to "understand the root causes."

The only good Islamofreak is a dead one as far as I'm concerned.

[CyberAnt]

That would be Travis!!

[mystery-ak]

I just watched the H&M on AMC...had't seen it for 25-30 years(I feel so old)...it wasn't as good as I remembered it, but worth seeing Wayne slap Robert Stack...LOL

[silent_jonny]

Aw, give McQ a chance! :)

You can't appreciate The Duke until you see him behind the wheel of a Pontiac Bonneville :-D