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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!