A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day...1-31-06...Ladies & Gentlemen, the President of the United States

Billie

[luvie]

Awesome! I would give a lot to see him in person. Maybe when he gets out of office and visits West Texas to see family I'll get my chance. I have met Mr. and Mrs. Don Evans when they shopped in my store. That was neat!

[GodBlessUSA]

I look so forward to tonight. :) I have to make dinner early and get everything set and done so I won't have an interruption during the SOTU. :)

Justice Alito will be there. Woo HOO!!

[luvie]

I am, too. I think I'll get hubby to bring pizza home so I don't have to be interrupted. Also have to watch NCIS at 7, so I can't go ANYWHERE tonight! LOL!

[GodBlessUSA]

I told Booboo that when the President speaks tonight, I'm all his. LOL :) My son will watch with me too.

When President Bush was first elected, Booboo wanted to marry him. I had to explain the age difference and that he is so in love with First Lady Laura. :)LOL

[Billie]

Well, there's never been any love lost between any of the Bushes and the media - they were so ugly to his father and Barbara, too. I will NEVER forget an interview that Paula Zahn had with them when she was co-anchor at CBS Morning News (or whichever network it was) She was so snide and patronizing - I hated her for that. I still can't look at her with anything but disgust.

[luvie]

Booboo is so cute...she has good taste!

It will be nice to watch with your son. I hope he grows up (well he's just about grown) to be just like GW..and his dad, of course.

[Billie]

[Might happen tonight!!]

I'm counting on it. He never misses a chance when the whole world is watching. *THAT* is one great advantage he has over the Dirty Dawg Dems - he *commands* an audience way bigger than they can get. :)

[luvie]

I've noticed that Paula Zahn is always condesending towards anyone who is conservative. I have nothing but contempt for her...and all the Has-been media types like her!

[Billie]

I do so appreciate your posting that here, Julie. The pundits would all have us believe that Presidents always get a big bounce after the SOTU - just so they can make it look bad for Bush if his numbers *don't* rise.

[LadyX]

I know just how you feel, Your Honor!!

Since some posters are fairly new here, I went to to my Finest Feature of 03-21-03 Mama_Bear posted, to copy my experiences with being close to (and actually touching!) two presidents:

"LadyX counts among her most treasured moments meeting two Presidents! In North Carolina, President Gerald Ford made an appearance at a mall in Winston-Salem, and she and her 12-year old daughter positioned themselves where he was likely to come along the rope line.

Young Jennifer, very short, tugged on his coat sleeve as others reached over them to shake hands, and the President looked down at her and asked, "How're you doin', Sweetie?" !! (The Secret Service Agent's reflex action came within an inch of chopping off her arm for touching his President!) President Ford shook hands with LadyX, too, and then angled to the podium to speak."

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"In February 2002, after his defeat in New Hampshire, candidate George W. Bush stopped in her small, wonderfully conservative South Carolina town to speak.

Creating on the computer lapel signs for herself and her husband that said VETERAN for BUSH - she chose a spot a mere 12' from where he was to speak from the back of a pickup truck in the town circle, separated from him only by grass, and was thus able to get several photographs, one shown here...

When he finished speaking, she managed to have him sign her invitation to the event, and then positioned herself in front of him where she could shake his hand. Pointing to her lapel sign, about to relate she had made it for him (as opposed to McCain), he interrupted her, and said pointedly,
"I NOTICED IT EARLIER" and whipped up his pen and signed it on her body!
(And no, unlike the gal whose top was signed by WJC, she did not at the time take it off to look at the autograph!)

LadyX handing George W. Bush her
invitation for him to autograph.

The last photo was snapped by her husband. A shot of this was on Fox News Channel coverage, shown two days later, and the local paper mentioned her twice in addition to an article about her.

That Saturday, the South Carolina Primary handed President Bush his first win on the road to the nomination for and winning of the Office of the President of the United States. "An' ah helped...as goes the old Shake & Bake commercial..:)" says LadyX."

Needless to say, both these events were highlights of my life!
God blessed me enormously, knowing my love and appreciation of this country.

I also *came within a whisker* of meeting President Truman in 1947, as well.
Representing Florida in the 1947 National Spelling Bee, we contestants were taken to the White House to meet him, but during the night his mother in Missouri had fallen ill, and he had flown out there.

[luvie]

THUD!!!
Great story, Lady.

[Billie]

This is my favorite pic of all of them, he was looking right at me. : )

Then so was Jenna! And that guy in the sunglasses behind her. :)

[Billie]

They can't fake that happiness and love. It's so beautiful to see them together. :)

It sure is. :)

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

The thread about the "Pooping On Pillow Chipmunks" is here...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1141644/posts?q=1&&page=1

[Diva Betsy Ross]

You are too cool.. I will scan it for the funniest parts...That was the first day I had found the Finest.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Oops- sorry I mispoke- the first day I had found Amys. And it had been on the Home page all that time? I know, I know- Duh to me! Hehe.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

No, I just put it there a few minutes ago.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Hey Dolly, you might want to go to post #114, it has a link for animal stuff (and laughs!)

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Hey, I stayed after here at work to find that stuff & post it, so I gotta go!

My co-worker was gone today so I wasn't here much.

Maybe she'll be here tomorrow and I can come out and play.

Have an enjoyable evening everyone!

[LadyX]

That cartoon character created by Al Capp was always one of my very favorites!

Actually thought he "guided my activities" now and then.
Consider this:

* In 1964, I experienced The Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska,
the strongest ever in North America.

* In Ohio I had the two fronts of The Blizzard of '78
converge on the corner of my upper bedroom window with
70 mph winds at 0100, and the town was by law confined
to our homes for 4 days while they cleared that snow,
which had fallen on the accumulated snow of 3 storms the previous week!

* Growing up in Florida, I had many hurricanes brush by/pass over me -
at Parris Island, SC in 1952, had 2 hurricanes creep by,
our barracks 2 blocks from the Atlantic Ocean.

* Living in Virginia in 1955, had to evacuate Chincoteague
(an island 2 x 7 miles small sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay)
with only 1 wooden bridge to the mainland
when two hurricanes came right by it.

Living in North and South Carolina, had remnants of several hurricanes visit my aode.
One 3 years ago dumped 10" of rain between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. right on my front yard, creating a lake I measured as one foot deep!

I thus suspected Joe had briefly joined my body - or else I am secretly his sister?
LOL