Posted on 08/22/2007 10:31:19 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Would you believe he wasn’t going to take a camera????
Tears were shed.
I can imagine it being exciting there. What an honor to be in attendance for one of the best of President Bush’s speeches and then to be able to get photos like that. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity.
*sigh*
2 passes for McCain and Hillary
1 for GWB
My heartaches.
Honestly though, I am thrilled he got to go. Last August our son was in DC and got chosen to lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. That was a real honor as well.
What a great honor for your son, he’ll remember that the rest of his life. I was there and witnessed the changing of the guard as a teenager in ‘56 and will never forget even that. He must be very proud to have laid the wreath.
Thanks. I’m working on a few more with HG.
I think DC is best visited as a teen. Younger kids don’t care and forget what they see.
LOL they skipped the pandas.
“There are other critics, believe it or not, that argue that democracy could not succeed in Japan because the national religion — Shinto — was too fanatical and rooted in the Emperor. Senator Richard Russell denounced the Japanese faith, and said that if we did not put the Emperor on trial, “any steps we may take to create democracy are doomed to failure.” The State Department’s man in Tokyo put it bluntly: “The Emperor system must disappear if Japan is ever really to be democratic.”
Those who said Shinto was incompatible with democracy were mistaken, and fortunately, Americans and Japanese leaders recognized it at the time, because instead of suppressing the Shinto faith, American authorities worked with the Japanese to institute religious freedom for all faiths. Instead of abolishing the imperial throne, Americans and Japanese worked together to find a place for the Emperor in the democratic political system.”
Memo to the nuke Mecca crowd.
Read and heed.
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We’ll know for certain in 25 years whether this Iraq experiment was a good idea or not. In the meantime, everything else is just political posturing and short term opportunism.
And they are amazingly lucky to have you.
Now, if I could just get your husband to make me look that good..... or at least like a POTUS ;~)
Yes : )
The Department of the Navy loves you. GWB fears you?
; )
Well the only thing YOU need to do to look like a President is to wear a suit and get some friends (big) and get them each some official looking ear pieces.
Fears me? Wasn’t that your lipstick on him? You are busted now.
They were putting their spin on it. Hence the use of their word, quagmire. Dolts.
Another measure of the power of yesterday’s speech. It has been dropped down the memory hole of journalistic comment. It is as if it never took place!
God Bless W and God Bless our Troops.
All they’re pushing now is this intelligence report about the Iraqi gov’t, and big mouth John Warner’s call for President Bush to start withdrawing troops by announcing dates for a few thousand, then a few thousand more, etc. It’s time Warner paid for his big mouth and for trying to put himself in the President’s place.
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