[lysie]

Infuriates me to the point of tears because I know no matter what this good man does, the hateful crowd will continue to spread lies.

[snugs]

Indeed it is the same with the Vice President the media and many of the Democrats paint him as this evil dark figure when IMHO all he has ever wanted to do is serve his country to the best of his ability. These people do not understand men who want to serve they are always looking for ulterior motives and if they cannot find them they invent them.

[Cobra64]

Infuriates me to the point of tears because I know no matter what this good man does, the hateful crowd will continue to spread lies.

I agree. And I'm a guy. (We're not supposed to have emotions....).

[Wolfstar]

...no matter what this good man does, the hateful crowd will continue to spread lies...

Yes, but we in the grassroots here on FR and elsewhere can help to spread the truth.

[ThePythonicCow]

no matter what this good man does, the hateful crowd will continue to spread lies

Their lies speak the truth - of themselves. The evil they see in Bush actually lives in their own hearts, but they lack the courage to overcome it, the insight to recognize it, or the responsibility to own it.

[GretchenM]

I just finished an amazing book, Private Yankee Doodle, Sgt. Joseph Plumb Martin's memoirs (not his title; this is an editor's title) of the Revolutionary War, in which he recounts, 50 years after the fact, how the Continental American army was abused by many colonists during and after the war. I am going to put some extracts together and let folks see for themselves today how far we have or have not come in honoring the honorable among us.

The most poignant of his remarks (and it is a fascinating memoir; he served for all but about six months of the whole war, being about 16 when he enlisted) is toward the end, when he said that he always fulfilled his duty and obligations to his country, even if she did not fulfill all hers to him, but, he wrote, "I forgive her, and hope she will do better in future."

No matter what a good person does, there will be those to speak against it, even try to crush it. W has that same forittude and personal sense of knowing he is fulfilling his duty, even if some among us are trying to destroy the works he is building. They are building castles in the air and will find themselves unable to support them in the long run, however. W is building on the Rock.