Posted on 12/05/2005 6:22:28 PM PST by snugs
Yesterday evening the President and his wife along with the Vice President and his wife attended a Gala at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts prior to the gala a reception for those honoured at this gala was held at the White House.
The annual children's holiday reception and performance was held in the East Room of the White House today, the President and the first lady attended the performance.
Today the President visited John Deere-Hitachi factory in NC and gave a speech on the economy and Tax Relief he also talked about pensions and social security
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice read a prepared statement to reporters before flying to Europe, she arrived in Germany this evening.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech on 'The Future of Iraq' at John Hopkins, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington and also met Philippine Secretary of the National Defense Avelino Cruz at the Pentagon
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
Except it didn't have the picture of President Bush behind it and the letters at the beginning weren't bolded. It was apparently a big controversy in Pakistan.
preview is my friend pork not port though port does sound nice LOL
Absolutely, snugs-- port did sound nice!!
That is a great picture snagged.
I guess his leftist evil finally caught up with him. He looks horrible now.
At heart I think the President LOL
LOVE the photos today, particularly those featuring our fun-loving President and the children of our brave troops!
MILITARY KIDS SEE THE NUTCRACKER WITH BUSH
By Nedra Pickler
WASHINGTON (AP) - Santa Claus was there, too, but three children who attended a holiday reception at the White House on Monday preferred to climb up on a chair with President Bush and the first lady.
The children were among the 150 fourth graders - most of them sons and daughters of troops fighting overseas - who had an audience with the Bushes, Santa and dancers from the American Ballet Theatre who performed parts of The Nutcracker in the East Room.
Bush welcomed the children by telling them that Americans are very proud of the parents for serving in the military.
"I know it's hard when they're away," he told the students, who sat cross-legged on the East Room floor. "This has got to be a difficult time for you. But we really want you to know that they're doing important work. They're not only protecting the country, but they're helping other boys and girls live in freedom like we do here in the United States."
The president and first lady then sat on a love seat near the back of the room while performers playing the roles of little Clara, the Prince and dancers from around the world put on a 25-minute show.
You can read the rest of the article at
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2005/dec/05/120505867.html
You will find local video and photos of the President's trip to North Carolina at the following website:
http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-120505-al-bush.3f77cfce.html
I wish we could find out who wrote that. That's a really clever poem. I've written poems before but I've never written anything about the President.
Thanks for your links, just seen a brief clip of the event at White House on FNC the bit where the President waves it was cute.
Thanks for posting it
gotta have one first. :)
Tapping fingers impatiently still waiting for one of you to answer my quiz question. Where are the fashion experts tonight.
In case you missed it when did Lynne Cheney wear the outfit she wore last night before?
You are right.. she has a great body & outstanding legs & this outfit is plain dowdy on her.. Seems something a little more conservative than her "norm" yet with the flair that symbolizes her ... would have been better
Does anyone happen to have the picture of Nancy Reagan sitting on Ronnie's lap while he's dressed as santa?
Good evening, snugs. Hope all is well with your dad. Will check in tomorrow; off to bed.
MUST READS:
PRESIDENT BUSH JOB APPROVAL
Rasmussen
Monday December 05, 2005--Forty-eight percent (48%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. That's the President's highest rating since October 8.
The President earns Approval from 80% of Republicans, 20% of Democrats, and 41% of those not affiliated with either major party. Fifty percent (50%) of men approve of the President's job performance along with 46% of women.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
GETTING SPECIFIC
By Michael Barone
Meat and potatoes. Metrics and specifics. That's what George W. Bush provided, finally, for the American people in his speech last week at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Metrics: "80 Iraqi battalions are fighting side by side with coalition forces," "30 Iraqi Army battalions have assumed primary control of their own areas of responsibility," "3,500 new police officers every 10 weeks." Specifics: "Regional support units and base support units have been created across the country"; "an Iraqi military academy, a noncommissioned officer academy, a military police school, a bomb disposal school" ; "Iraqi battalions have taken over . . . the area around Baghdad's Haifa Street."
And answers to the question: Why didn't we achieve this progress earlier? "Because we learned from our earlier experiences and made changes in the way we help train Iraqi troops." Less time in lectures and more training in small arms. More firepower and training for the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps. Redirecting Iraqi Army units from border control to internal policing. Bush's critics have long pressed him to admit mistakes. He has been reluctant, for fear critics would pounce on any concession. But now he is saying that our military has been doing what every competent military does: learn from mistakes and adapt to circumstances. Franklin Roosevelt's military learned from setbacks and blunders in the Philippines and North Africa. Bush's military has been learning similarly, and arguably more quickly, in Iraq
You can read the rest of the commentary at
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_5_05_MB.html
'IT WILL BE OK,' BUSH TOLD ME IN MY DARKEST HOUR: KERIK
By Murray Weiss
December 5, 2005 -- IT WAS just before 8 a.m. when Bernard Kerik got the call.
On what would have been an otherwise mundane day of chores at his Franklin Lakes, N.J., home, Kerik had been summoned by the office of White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card.
The president wanted to see him right away.
So Kerik hopped into his car and drove to Washington. He made it by 2 p.m.
As he threw down his bags in the J.W. Marriott hotel, Kerik recalls, he heard four military helicopters roaring overhead. He had beaten the president by minutes.
Kerik donned a baseball cap and shades and slipped undetected into the White House for a secret meeting with the president involving one of the nation’s most important posts.
The meeting a year ago would forever change his life — and in ways he never imagined.
He had prepared for a barrage of questions on the nation’s efforts at security after 9/11. Instead, President Bush got right to the point.
“I am looking for a new secretary of homeland,” Bush told the former NYPD commissioner, whom he initially met at smoldering Ground Zero after 9/11.
“Congratulations,” the president said. “It’s yours.”
You can read the rest of the article at
http://www.nypost.com/commentary/58314.htm
JOURNALISM'S MORAL COLLAPSE
By Ralph Peters
December 5, 2005 -- A SPECTER is haunting journalism: the specter of Watergate.
Three decades ago, two young reporters became the story and crippled American journalism.
Budding yuppies who avoided inconvenient service to the state needed heroes they could call their own. And they got them.
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman played Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on-screen. It was as if Mike Bloomberg was portrayed by Brad Pitt. Overnight, journalism became an upwardly mobile profession — and our country is much the worse for it.
In place of the old healthy skepticism, we have arrogant cynicism. The highest echelons of the media and government became preserves for America's most-privileged. An Ivy League degree was the ticket to a reporting job on a major daily. And incest produced the usual ugly results.
"Mainstream" newspapers lost touch with American workers because the new breed of journalists didn't know any workers.
After journalists became matinee idols, every bright young reporter had a new career goal. Forget honest, get-at-the-facts reporting. Henceforth the crowning ambition in the field was to bring down a president — especially one who wasn't "our kind."
You can read the rest of the commentary at
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/58336.htm
GAINING GROUND
By Peter Brookes
December 5, 2005 -- THE "Cut and Run Crowd" are proving to be the worst kind of pessimists on Iraq — refusing to see the significant evidence that things are starting to go our way militarily.
No, no one should be turning cartwheels just yet over security and stability in Iraq — there is still a lot to be done. But several favorable developments should make even the "Doom-n-Gloomers" take note.
* The U.S. military is having significant success securing the Syrian border — previously a sieve for Iraqi and foreign insurgents/ terrorists seeping into Iraq. Result: It's tougher for Syria-based Sunni insurgents to orchestrate or support attacks in Iraq. Suicide bombings are down 30 percent since the October referendum.
International pressure on the Syrian regime — including the possibility of punitive U.N. economic sanctions over the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri — may also be "encouraging" Damascus to decrease its support for the Iraqi insurgency.
* Abu Musab al Zarqawi's cast of al Qaeda killers seems to be in increasing disarray. Recent intelligence reports suggest near-mutiny in al Qaeda's ranks — most likely thanks to U.S. forces capturing/killing operatives in large numbers, cash crunches and an influx of "green" recruits.
The American military's new "Clear, Hold and Build" strategy is plainly putting the squeeze on al Qaeda. It improves upon the "Whack a Mole" (i.e., random search-and-destroy) strategy by establishing a permanent Iraqi security presence that makes it harder for the insurgents to return once they've been evicted.
You can read the rest of the commentary at
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/58343.htm
Isn't that what we see happening to a lot of other far out there dems. Their ugliness really shows through!
Great articles, Thank You
no! never even seen it.It must be great!
. please ping me if anyone finds it.. been a long several days here & I am crashing.. night all.. {{{{ dose friends }}}}
Was this televised last night or will it be shown later in the month?
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