Posted on 01/01/2007 5:18:02 PM PST by snugs
The President and First Lady spent the New Year weekend at their ranch in Crawford Texas returning today to Washington where they paid their respects to former President Ford whose body is laying in State in the Rotunda. Later on he and the First lady visited Mrs Ford at Blair House.
The President's father also paid his respects to President Ford today as did Donald Rumsfeld
On Saturday Vice President Cheney attended and spoke at the State Funeral of Gerald Ford
Enjoy your bonus visit to Sanity Island
Rummy looks upset. Mrs. Rummy looks concerned.
That's okay, Snugs :) I'm sure you were wiped out after the double Dose yesterday. Take your time.
And thank you again :)
;)
Thanks! :)
In 2000, Baker was a lawyer representing a client. Actually the law firm in which he is a partner represented Bush-Cheney. Nothing more, nothing less. It had nothing whatsoever to do with loyalty. You could say, well...he didn't have to take the case. True, but NO lawyer would turn down such a case.
He doesn't confuse me. Simpson is a gadfly from the go-along-to-get-along wing of the Republican Party. His kind are more interested in being invited to all the right parties and in being liked than in doing what's best for the American people, even when what's best is very hard.
There is a reason Republicans were in the minority from 1932-1994. They had no fight. No spunk. They actually liked being in the minority. During the era Simpson was in the Senate, the House Mintority Leader of the time was a guy by the name of Bob Michael. He actually used to advise incoming freshmen Republican representatives to quickly get used to and enjoy the "benefits" of being in the minority.
Today, Bob Michael is best known for being a nice guy and for having a great singing voice.
Barf!!!!
Wish someone had called in and told Simpson to sit down and shut up. He had his day in the Senate and didn't lead. His day is past.
Amen. My opinion is actually far stronger than what I've expressed on this thread, but some things are best left unsaid in certain settings.
But I can't resist pointing out that Bush 41 went to the Ford funeral with Baker and Simpson, not with his own son.
I don't ascribe anything negative to that. I don't believe he was there with #43 at Ronald Reagan's funeral, either. #43 was doing his official duty as President. #41 is always careful not to inpinge on that. He respects the Office of the Presidency, and doesn't impose his fatherly affections on that, at all. The 9/11 Memorial service was a departure from that, even though his gesture was a small one in reaching for the President's hand in pride and love after #43 finished his remarkable speech.
Why don't you let us know how you really feel, Wolfstar?! :)
I searched a bit online today, and it as far as I can tell he was not educated in the states. He did go to school in India, which I found interesting. Also, his father was murdered, probably by the Taliban, which I don't think I had heard before. He obviously has used his English with some Americans to have learned that colloquialism. I am assuming that is an American expression--or am I wrong? Do you use that, Snugs? Here in the south, they use "y'all" and not "you guys." (At least for the most part.)
If I did on this subject, I could never return to the Dose. Suffice it to say that Rush Limbaugh is right when he talks about Republican politicians whose first desire is to be liked well enough to be invited to all the right parties.
One only has to look at the press coverage of Abraham Lincoln to see how wrong the press can be. But it is not just the case of the press attacking Lincoln that proves my point.
Today it is agreed by both Republicans and Democrats that Harry Truman saved the world from Communism. While FDR gladly gave Eastern Europe to his Uncle Joe Stalin, it was Truman who stopped the Soviet Union in its tracks. Yes, FDR referred to Stalin... as Uncle Joe. Truman saw through Stalin the first time he met him. And even with Churchill defeated and off the world stage, Truman stopped much of the expansion of the Soviet Union. The press, at the time, was more biased against Truman than any president since Lincoln. I still remember H.V.Kaltenborn, the Walter Cronkite of his day, saying at 6:00Am on the day after the 1948 election, and I quote. "While Truman holds a slight lead in the popular vote, there is no doubt when the final vote tallies cities come in, Thomas Dewey will be elected president."
H.V. did not even believe the returns. Every one was aware that the big cities were Democratic strongholds and there was next to no chance at that point that Truman would lose. The media called the 1948 race wrong a lot more than they called the 2000 race wrong.
I invite you to consider the coverage of Jimmy Carter. That failed misfit got his rump covered by the media when they excused his terrible mistakes by putting out the word that the presidency was far to big a job for any one man to handle. They told us that if any one man could handle most of the job, that man was Jimmy Carter.
I would note that in retrospect there was never a doubt that Reagan could handle the entire job of President and did. I remember arguing with a liberal who was decrying that Reagan slept through cabinet meetings. I replied to his tirade by commenting... "You mean to tell me that Reagan has produced this fantastic economy and world peace while asleep? My God, what couldn't he accomplish if he were dead."
I remember the media trashing Reagan over his so called "Star Wars" policy. When Reagan refused to trade Star Wars for a reduction in nuclear missiles, the press was vicious in its attack. Yet today history shows that it was that decision that resulted in the fall of the Soviet Union.
The media today tells us how great men like Truman and Reagan were.. they never tell us how wrong they were about those men and many others. They also try to paint the history of failures like Carter and LBJ as men who could have been great if not for the opposition of Republicans.
Most of the media people I have met whose goals in life were to be media stars, have always been at heart people who wanted to be elected officials but failed to have the skills to gain elected office.
Yet those same people who failed to earn enough support to even try a political career, think they are bright enough and skilled enough to judge those that do earn the greatest office in the land.
It is my belief that the media is made up of a political meritocracy. They are want to be players who never got to play in the game. It should not surprise us that they most praise and favor those who have little more talent and skill than they do.
As we look back on the last 75 years .. the period of the rise of the media, it is easy to determine that the presidents they fostered and supported were failures and the presidents they vilified and trashed were the success stories of the last 25 years.
We need to remind everyone just how failed the media has always been.
I do not fear for President George W. Bush's place in history.
I'd like to share an incident that JUST happened to me...
I was at the post office (they have an ATM like machine that allows you to print out your own labels, and charge your postage, etc.). Many walked into the post office dumbfounded as to why they were closed. I told them it was due to former President Ford's death. Some grumbled. I said, "Welcome to working for the government ;-)." One rather tall and muscular man ACTUALLY said, "I wish it were this President, so we wouldn't have to fight his stupid war."
THIS WAS NOT A GOOD THING TO DO IN MY PRESENCE.
I whipped my head around with the speed of Linda Blair and proudly told him how very much I disagreed. He told me he used to be in the service. I immediately said, "God Bless you and thank you so much for your service to our Country," and reached out to him to shake his hand. He looked at me like he either never expected my reaction, or he'd never been thanked before. Thinking it was the latter, I told him that my brother was in Vietnam and those Vets never were thanked properly or enough. He said, "We should have never gone to war in Vietnam." I said quite firmly, and within a split second of his last word, "We could have WON in Vietnam if it weren't for those like Mr. Kerry." He said, "We should just take care of the good 'ol U S of A." I said, "You of all people should know that freedom isn't free, and how would it be if the entire world's economy collapses because of bad guys having control over all that oil? How fast would you suppose it would involve the good 'ol US of A and change YOUR life? Those people are beheading innocent people over there and I don't want them doing that kind of weird crap over here---we're not talking about normal individuals, you know." He grumbled. I said, "Well, we're just going to have to agree to disagree, but I don't think that things like you said should ever be said about a President of the United States; Happy New Year; and thank you again for your service....and I left.
I was shaking, I was so mad!!!
see my tagline....grrrrh!!!!
NordP
GOOD on you, Nord P!
You did us ALL proud!
Bless you, dear FRiend!!!!!
IT'S UP TO THE WINTER WARRIORS!!!
Reading your comments made me feel like I was right there with you. You did GOOD!
OMG, you were wonderful!!! I can not THINK that fast, esp under pressure with a curmudgeon.
I know you gave him a lot to think about, and maybe, just maybe he will soften his tone.
You did good....I had something similar happen to me in Krogers parking lot the summer before last.....I'm proud of you!
Doing the right thing isn't always easy, but it's always right.
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