[nwrep]

Extraordinarily pro-Bush story from Newsweek

[SuziQ]

Ascione is just over five feet; her late brother was 6 feet 7. "My whole life, he used to put his hand on the top of my head and just hold it there, and it drove me crazy," she says. When Bush saw that she was crying, he leaned over and put his hand on the top of her head and drew her to him. "It was just like my brother used to do," she says, beginning to cry at the memory.

Maybe the Lord was trying to soften her hardened heart by putting it in the President's mind to touch her in that way. He could have touched her arm or her hand, or even her face, but it's interesting that that touch seemed to be just what she needed.

A very good story that shows just how petty Cindy Sheehan is being. She's trying to paint the President as someone who doesn't care about the men and women he sends into harm's way, and this shows that it is just not true.

[lawgirl]

It's ProBush for Newsweek, but there is still veiled stuff in there.

More complicated is the question of whether Bush's suffering is essentially sympathetic, or whether he is agonizing over the war that he chose to start.

Bush didn't start the war. The terrorists did. This could have been two presidential terms arguing about education and taxes. 19 men on 9/11/01 decided to change that, not W.

[marblehead17]

ping

[The South Texan]

I'm Shocked!!! We'll that must be NewsweAk's token good story for the year on Bush so they can say "hey, we're objective."

[Theresawithanh]

What an article! Thanks for posting. This President is an amazing, compassionate man.

Bump for more to read.

[freema]

The events of the last week have so snowballed in the last 3 days, I can not get thru all of the posts.

Overcome with emotion right now, reading this article.
I will need to stop reading, and go do something else.
As an active duty Marine mother, thank you all-
I don't know what I'd have done these past three days without you.

[velocityguy]

Wow, I cannot believe Newsweek publishing an impartial and insightful story on President Bush.

[festus]

[longtermmemmory]

Newsweak must be trying to "buy" redemption for its earlier Goebles efforts (remember they had to dump one issue this year to save money because of circulation problems).

Newsweak sees the writing on the wall that the Sheehan story is sinking very fast. Rats leaving a sinking ship.

[aculeus]

Newsweek worried about circulation?

But bump-worthy regardless of motivation.

[mewzilla]

Extraordinarily pro-Bush story from Newsweek

Betcha something additional about Sheehan and/or her handlers is about to break and the rag wants to distance itself from Sheehan.

[Tennessean4Bush]

That was extremely difficult to take, given the criticism Sheehan has leveled against him.

[Doc Savage]

Newsweek is as close to a Communist propaganda rag as I have ever seen. I refuse to read this tripe!