A Day in the Life of President Bush (for GretchenM): 8-1-07

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[silent_jonny]

Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

[silent_jonny]

Quote of the Day:

GretchenM (May 18, 2007): All of life is full of crazies. FR, when I came upon it in 1998, had a craziness to it because of everything Clinton was doing to put it to the American people. FR had wild arguments, stupid accusations, massive anger, and thousands of truly ignorant people who were also belligerent, just as there are today. I come here for the news and to enjoy interacting with people whose posts stand out to me. I don't have the constitution for the rough and tumble, so I have avoided it.

The craziness created by Clinton passed as the course of time allowed us to clean the excrement from the Oval Office and the things Clinton did to soil the presidency, and the American culture.

I am counting on the same result here. In the interim, conservatives need a place where they can get information and post their thoughts. Just as every unit of society has its crazies and its injustices, so does FR. Wise visitors will be able to sort the wheat and chaff. This forum is widely read by people in every strata of political life and party. I don't understand much about what is going on here, except for this: The place is under attack and I will not abandon ship in this storm. I fully expect that this, too, shall pass, and until then, the conservative cause needs little old me to keep rowing with my one little oar. I believe I must know our enemy and stand to the ranks or risk being run over by those whose ideologies are repugnant to me, and, I believe, detrimental to this nation I love.

Photo of the Day:

President Bush walks from the White House to Blair House for a going away party for budget director Rob Portman in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007.

[STARWISE]

Sad.

[Jemian]

Good evening. Pray for those in Minneapolis.

[silent_jonny]

Special Dose Ping!

Please wait for the "All Clear" before posting or reposting pictures and graphics.

[Bahbah]

What a perfect thing to do, jonny.

[silent_jonny]

Special Dose Ping!

Please wait for the "All Clear" before posting or reposting pictures and graphics.

[silent_jonny]

The toaster is yours tonight, Starwise :)

(borrowing Gretchen's congratulations gif)

[silent_jonny]

President George W. Bush talks with Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki of Iraq via a video teleconference Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, in the Situation Room of the White House.

[Kaslin]

Good evening! Sad day here on the dose. We lost one of our best

[STARWISE]

Westminster Choir ~~ On Eagle's Wings

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks for this thread, silent_jonny. I only knew GretchenM briefly, but found her to be a person of great kindness. We will all miss her dearly.

[silent_jonny]

Mrs. Laura Bush views photographs Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, during her visit to the National Gallery of Art exhibit, FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945. Mrs. Bush toured the exhibit with Mrs. Náda P. Simonyi, wife of Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi.

Mrs. Laura Bush and Mrs. Náda P. Simonyi, wife of Hungarian Ambassador András Simonyi, talk to members of the media after they viewed photographs Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, at the National Gallery of Art exhibit, FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945.

[SnarlinCubBear]

Yes, sad. I cannot believe how this has affected my emotions. I have never met GEM, but I KNEW her and I miss her. I loved her. As I would miss many of you. My heart is broken for her family, and our loss. She is in a far better place, where tears are wiped away, sorrows banished, and love rules, bodies healed. I know we can rejoice for her, but for us, it is deep loss. We need the Comforter. Thank you for this dose honoring her.

[STARWISE]

Thanks, jonny .. still can’t believe it.

[silent_jonny]

First lady Laura Bush and Nada P. Simonyi, wife of Hungary's ambassador to the U.S., Andras Simonyi, visit the National Gallery of Art's exhibition 'Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945', in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. The exhibit, sponsored by the Central Bank of Hungary, examines the period of photography's phenomenal success in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Austria during a time of social and political upheaval.

[SevenofNine]

Rack the photos

I never met Gretchen one thing for sure I always look for her post on Daily dose or Canteen

RIP Gretchen

[lysie]

Thank you for this special Dose.

[Jewels1091]

i knew she had some health issues, but what did she have??? Prayers to her family!!!!

[silent_jonny]

Yesterday

Vice President Dick Cheney leaves a Republican Senatorial luncheon, Tuesday, July 31, 2007, on Capitol Hill in Washington.