Posted on 05/04/2007 5:02:16 PM PDT by silent_jonny
President Bush met today with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the Oval Office. (Transcript)
Later, the president hosted a Cinco de Mayo celebration in the Rose Garden (Transcript)
Vice President Dick Cheney welcomed Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to America and escorted the Queen on a tour of Jamestown, Virginia, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the first English settlement. (Transcript)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continued her meeting with the Iraq conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheik in Egypt.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates traveled to Fort Polk, Louisiana to observe soldiers of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team 101st Airborne, Golf Company as they trained at the Joint Readiness Training Center.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
LOL! I looked for him too. Maybe he was lagging in the back somewhere.
Thanks, Sleuth :)
Thanks for the dose Jonny - I especially enjoy it since my trip back last May.
So happy about the “staying and praying” part too!
The Queen gets better with age. She looks adorable!
GretchenM!!!!
Well said.
Thanks for re-posting it jonny
I love you tag line!
And thanks - he is just such a joy to see with those little ones!
And thank you.
(((hugs jonny)))
So happy about the “staying and praying” part too!
:)
See Post above GEM, sorry, I goofed and didn’t send to you!
So VERY excited for him snugs.
The Queen will be in D.C. on Monday and will stay at the Blair House. White tie state dinner on Monday night. Look forward to photos and guest list for that event.
She certainly doesn't look like she's in her 80s.
As they say ... I’m dealing with it .. ;) PS .. I’ll ping you to some military pics I’m about to post with some tunes on the Canteen.
BTW, I LOVE the speech VP Cheney gave. Thank you! It’s truly
amazing, when you really think about those beginnings.
silent_jonny:
Thank you for posting this AWESOME DOSE tonight — photos of the President with a (beautiful) child and the Vice President with a Queen . . . it doesn’t get much better than that! [BTW: I think it’s great that our ‘W’ gave the DIMS/MSM the equivalent of an ‘up yours’ by sitting next to and smiling with AG Gonzales today!]
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MUST READ . . .
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DON’T ABANDON US
By Hoshyar Zebari
Friday, May 4, 2007; Page A23
Last weekend a traffic jam several miles long snaked out of the Mansour district in western Baghdad. The delay stemmed not from a car bomb closing the road but from a queue to enter the city’s central amusement park. The line became so long some families left their cars and walked to enjoy picnics, fairground rides and soccer, the Iraqi national obsession.
Across the city, restaurants are slowly filling and shops are reopening. The streets are busy. Iraqis are not cowering indoors. The appalling death tolls from suicide attacks are often high because of crowding at markets. These days you are as likely to hear complaints about traffic congestion as about the security situation. Across Baghdad there is a cacophony of sirens from ambulances, firefighters and police providing public services. You cannot even escape the curse of traffic wardens ticketing illegally parked cars.
These small but significant snippets of normality are overshadowed by acts of gross violence, which fuel the opinion of some that Iraq is in a downward spiral. The Iraqi people are indeed suffering tremendous hardships and making grave sacrifices — but daily life goes on for 7 million Baghdadis struggling to take back their capital and country.
. . . Iraqis are standing up every day, and we persevere because there is no other option. We will not surrender our country to terrorists. They have failed to cripple the elected government, and they have failed to intimidate us into submission. Iraqis reject their vision of a future whose hallmarks are bloodshed and hatred.
. . . Iraqis, for all our determination and courage, cannot succeed alone. . . Only with continued international commitment and deeper engagement from our neighbors can we establish a stable democratic, federal and united Iraq. The world should not abandon us.
You can read the entire commentary here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050301548.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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RASMUSSEN
Despite constant attack (left and right) and high gas prices, the President continues to boast an almost 80% approval rating among Republicans — an amazing achievement for a second term president in the throws of a HOT war! [Our presidential contenders for ‘08 had best remember this rating . . . I’m already tired of McCain, et al, sniping at the President for purely political reasons. FYI: Any of our candidates who feel they must ridicule/abandon our President in their hubris-ridden drive for the White House can forget about earning the votes of me and mine!!]
Today’s overall JA rating (Rasmussen): 40%
OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!
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