quite a while ago now, [notice the ANS clip] I had to take this photo
I had a feeling it would come in handy one day ... LOL
Posted on 03/11/2007 3:10:54 PM PDT by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush arrived in Bogota, Columbia today. His visit is a show of support for the Columbia, which is a staunch ally of the United States. The following AP/USA Today piece summarizes the visit.
Bush pays brief call on Colombia
Updated 41 mins. agoBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — President Bush renewed U.S. support to Colombia, a strong but drug and violence-plagued U.S. ally which receives more U.S. aid than any country outside the Middle East and Afghanistan. Bush arrived in the nation's capital on Sunday to meet with President Alvaro Uribe in a show of confidence for Uribe and Colombia's battle against narcoterrorists. But the stop was clouded by a political scandal involving Uribe, and security jitters had Bush staying only about six hours.
Colombia was the third country on the president's five-nation tour of Latin America. He began his journey in Brazil, flew here from Uruguay and was headed later Sunday to Guatemala. Bush last stops in Mexico before returning to Washington Wednesday.
It was Bogota's first visit from a sitting president since Ronald Reagan in 1982. Some 20,000 police and heavily armed troops will virtually shut off downtown Bogota to guard against a possible rebel attack.
PRESIDENTIAL SCHEDULE:
— Mar. 14, President and Mrs. Bush arrive back in Washington from their trip to South America and Mexico.— Mar. 15, House GOP Leader John Boehner (R-OH) chairs the NRCC March Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, headlined by President Bush.
— Mar. 16, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern will meet in the White House with President Bush to discuss bilateral issues and Northern Ireland, and to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with their annual "Shamrock Ceremony."
Oh that's right --- NASCAR!
Repeal international aid to Columbia Day!
Congratulations!!
Did you fake out BSF again??
LOL! I buy The Globe and The Examiner and The National Enquirer because I find it a lot of fun to read them. (No one has ever accused me of being sane!)
In the latest Globe, Laura gets a ginormous house, a full staff and lots and lots of money from the divorce when they leave the WH. AND, they won't mention that there's any trouble and have told everybody they know not to discuss it. How conveeeenient!
LOL...I think that is so funny.
But, unfortunately, people that buy that rag, VOTE!! I am pretty sure they don't vote for who I vote for..:o)
Last Sat night my 84yo mother called me after she returned from Mass.....the woman who took her to church(flaming rat)told her about this article in the Globe gleefully....my mother was very upset and nearly in tears when she called....I re-assured her that I thought it was bunk and for her not to listen to this idiot woman anymore who hates the Bushs with a passion.
Big time! LOL I even warned him to make sure I didn't win.
Is this the story that has CONDI being 'the other woman'?
*chuckle*
Thanks for the Sunday Dose and all the great pics...
LOL...you are just too funny.
BTW....The dems have been making a big deal about how Pres. Bush has "ignored" South America...and yet I saw a blurb on Fox today that said that Pres. Bush is the first POTUS to visit Columbia since Ronald Reagan...
HMMMMMMMM...so WHO ignored our ally to the south??
Thanks for the dose
Toaster winner
President Bush stands head and shoulders over everyone in the line and he stands head and shoulders over a lot of people.
Is that right? He's the first to visit Colombia? I have been outside and not watching news, except for this afternoon and I am monitoring the CA fire. I also watched Fred Thompson on the Fox Sunday show -- but I had it TIVO'd.
Yep, I bested BigSkyFreeper ---lol. I had him distracted. :0)
Lucky you that you Tivoed it.
I won't get to see it, I guess.
This fire is awful...I wonder if we have any freepers in that area.
Anaheim, Orange County, Corona County..
We have several in SoCA, but none that I know of in the immediate area of this fire.
Wolfstar:
Thank you for posting these AWESOME photos of our visionary President and his beautiful First Lady!
MUST, MUST, MUST READ (and save) . . .
CHEERLEADER IN CHIEF
Bush keeps White House spirits up.
by Fred Barnes
03/19/2007, Volume 012, Issue 26
The White House staff reflects the president. This is obvious to the point of being a truism. Yet it needs to be remembered in the context of a Bush presidency smacked by Scooter Libby's felony conviction, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal, and the overblown flap over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. And of course there's still the war in Iraq, which remains unpopular. Given all this, why hasn't the president's staff drifted into despair and gloom and given up? Because President Bush hasn't.
BUSH'S RELENTLESSLY UPBEAT DEMEANOR, which he flaunts at press conferences and other public events, INFURIATES HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS and much of the mainstream media. THEY WANT HIM TO ACT LIKE THE BROKEN MAN THEY THINK HE SHOULD BE. SORRY, BUT HE'S A HEALTHY MAN, MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY. HE'S BOLSTERED BY HIS RELIGIOUS FAITH, HIS SENSE OF MISSION, HIS SCORN FOR ELITE OPINION, AND WHAT AN AIDE CALLS "HIS REALLY GOOD PHYSICAL SHAPE." Exercise and sleep help to "keep his spirits high," the aide says.
Bush has retained, despite low approval ratings and fierce criticism, a capacity for enthusiasm. In early March, he spent 45 minutes in the Oval Office in a one-on-one conversation with British historian Andrew Roberts. He had read Roberts's new book, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (see review on page 29).
Roberts is a Thatcherite. He's strongly pro-American and pro-Iraq war. Among other things, Bush and Roberts talked about the decline of Europe and the role in this played by the shrunken influence of Christianity. By the time they broke for lunch, the president was "revved up," an aide says.
You can read the rest of this INSPIRING and UPLIFTING commentary here: [The President inspires me every day . . . If he can keep a positive attitude despite the constant and unfair criticism, then so can we!!!]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/392vfocu.asp
VIVA BUSH
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S LATIN AMERICA TRIP
By Ralph Peters
AS our president arrived in Brazil last week, the U.S. media made it sound as if Latin America had erupted in flames. TV news featured flying tear-gas canisters; a typical newspaper headline read, "Angry Crowds Rally Against President in Brazil."
Message: Bush is hated. He's ruined our relations with the hemisphere. Nobody loves us anymore - and it's all his fault.
Well, venceremos, muchachos, and no pasdaran!
You can read the entire commentary here:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03112007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/viva_bush_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm
THE 'SURGE' IS SUCCEEDING
By Robert Kagan
Sunday, March 11, 2007; Page B07
A front-page story in The Post last week suggested that the Bush administration has no backup plan in case the surge in Iraq doesn't work. I wonder if The Post and other newspapers have a backup plan in case it does.
Leading journalists have been reporting for some time that the war was hopeless, a fiasco that could not be salvaged by more troops and a new counterinsurgency strategy. The conventional wisdom in December held that sending more troops was politically impossible after the antiwar tenor of the midterm elections. It was practically impossible because the extra troops didn't exist. Even if the troops did exist, they could not make a difference.
Four months later, the once insurmountable political opposition has been surmounted. The nonexistent troops are flowing into Iraq. And though it is still early and horrible acts of violence continue, there is substantial evidence that the new counterinsurgency strategy, backed by the infusion of new forces, is having a significant effect.
Some observers are reporting the shift. Iraqi bloggers Mohammed and Omar Fadhil, widely respected for their straight talk, say that "early signs are encouraging." The first impact of the "surge," they write, was psychological. Both friends and foes in Iraq had been convinced, in no small part by the American media, that the United States was preparing to pull out. When the opposite occurred, this alone shifted the dynamic.
You can read the rest of this VERY IMPORTANT commentary here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901839.html
MUST VIEW . . .
GRETTA V will air an exclusive interview with the President tomorrow night on her 10 PM EST show (FoxNews).
I'm off to run my daughter and her friends all over the planet . . . Will return 'abit later!
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