Posted on 09/17/2007 6:02:47 PM PDT by snugs
The President and the first lady spent the weekend at Camp David returning to the White House on Sunday and welcomed author Khaled Hosseini to the White House for a screening of the film adaptation of Hosseini's novel, "The Kite Runner," a fictional story of the friendship between Amir, a privileged boy, and Hassan, the son of his father's servant, in Afghanistan during the last days of the monarchy through the rule of the Taliban. Guests at the screening included amongst others Vice President Dick Cheney; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Today the President nominated Judge Michael Mukasey to be U.S. Attorney General
He also participated in a video teleconference with Iraq Provincial Reconstruction team leaders and brigade combat commanders.
The President also met with Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Sócrates in the Oval Office
On a lighter note he also met 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion Evan O'Dorney
Today the Vice President spoke at a fund raiser for Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., in Kansas
Today Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete at a hotel in Washington.
Dana Perino gave her first Press Briefing since becoming Press Secretary officially taking over from Tony Snow today.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
President Bush, left, accompanied by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, makes a statement to reporters during a video conference with Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Team Leaders and Brigade Combat Commanders, seen on screen rear, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House
President Bush, center, seated with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, left, makes a statement to reporters while having a video conference with Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Team Leaders and Brigade Combat Commanders, seen on screen rear, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in the Roosevelt Room
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, has a word with Portugal's Foreign Minister Luis Amado, as President Bush meets with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, both not pictured, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, in the Oval Office of the White House
President George W. Bush meets with Portugal's Prime Minister Jose Sócrates in the Oval Office, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007. President Bush congratulated Prime Minister Sócrates, who will serve as President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union for the second half of 2007. White House photo by Eric Draper
Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., right, listens to Vice President Cheney during a speech in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, Sept. 17, 2007.
Vice President Cheney speaks during a fund raiser for Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, Sept. 17, 2007.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, meets with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, at a hotel in Washington
I just turned my TV off, because all you hear is about OJ. It's getting really old.
I love pizza, can I have a slice?
Yeah, but Mark Furman is on (hubby is a former policeman) and we LOVE him!
Thanks for your kind words about my Mom!
Thanks for yet another great job, snugs!
snugs: Thank you for posting the DOSE tonight . . . I’m quite impressed with the President’s choice for AG . . . Would you believe that he’s only six years older than our boyishly handsome President?!
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MUST READ . . .
MILBLOGGERS MEET THE PRESIDENT
Last Friday, several prominent milbloggers in the US and Iraq met with the President . . . BlackFive describes this AWESOME experience at the link below . . . The following comment was written in response:
“God is so GOOD.
I don’t think I’ve ever comment in here, but I have to share this:
We just last weekend had our 4th annual Tribute to the Troops mc ride and benefit concert here in MN, what we do is spend two days riding our bikes (the kind with engines) right to the homes of the families that have lost a soldier so we can thank them for their sacrifice and give them a hug, we also raise money to benefit our military and the families behind them, (some of you may have heard of us).
I was visiting with one of “the mothers” last Sunday night after the concert and she related to me the following: While she and her husband were in Washington D.C. for the memorial of their son she “just decided” she wanted to talk to the President, so she called the White House switchboard from her hotel room and asked if she could talk with President Bush. After the operator and her had a nice little chuckle about such a notion, she was connected with another operator and, well, through a small series of miracles she got her wish. This mother found herself sitting with him that day in his oval office, and they had a visit! Among other things they talked about, she said that she told Pres. Bush that she was completely behind him in his decision to go to into Iraq, and that her son did not die in vain, nor have any of our heros who have given it all. She told me he was visibly emotional during parts of their conversation. After they talked for awhile she shared a couple verses from scripture and prayed with him.
Reading the words you wrote here to describe President Bush really struck me because they are the exact words she used to describe him and her visit with him: “warm” “genuine” “intelligent” “emotional” - she also said her time with him was sincere and un-staged. (Of course, it was completely unplanned).
So, whether we may agree with him or not on every issue, our President is-who-he-is whether it be in a private meeting or a public setting. This is a man with true integrity.
There’s a verse in Proverbs that I think sort of speaks to people who jump to conclusions rather than take a moment to step back and observe, and even gather facts:
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Pro 14:15
Thanks again to all of you bunches and bunches for what you do and report in here!!
And especially Thank You to those who serve, or have served, Thank You so much for your service to this great country.
God Bless you all,
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/09/the-day-i-met-t.html
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BUSH WON, MOVEON LOST
By Rich Galen
CNSNews.com Commentary
* Last week could not have gone better for the re-configured Bush White House on Iraq
You can read the entire commentary here:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200709/COM20070917c.html
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SINKING IN THE POLLS (Al Qaeda)
By Karen P. Hughes
Monday, September 17, 2007; Page A19
The video reappearance of Osama bin Laden is a reminder that extremists with murderous methods continue to threaten innocent people worldwide. His emergence after three years of hiding also provides an opportunity to take stock of how differently the world now views the terrorist leader — and that view is turning darker than bin Laden’s newly dyed beard.
People in America and many other Western nations have expressed strong disapproval of bin Laden and al-Qaeda since the Sept. 11 attacks. What’s new is the dramatic decline in his standing in majority-Muslim countries. Polls in the two nations that have suffered some of the worst of al-Qaeda’s violence — Afghanistan and Iraq — show that more than 90 percent of those populations have unfavorable views of al-Qaeda and of bin Laden himself.
You can read the entire editorial here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091600909.html
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‘YOU HAVE LIBERATED A PEOPLE’
Iraqis of all sects report progress, not “civil war.”
BY FOUAD AJAMI
Sunday, September 16, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
BAGHDAD—”We liberated the Anbar, we defeated al Qaeda by denying it religious cover,” Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Reisha said with a touch of pride and impatience. This was the dashing tribal leader who emerged as the face of the new Sunni accommodation with American power, and who was assassinated by al Qaeda last week. I had not been ready for his youth (born in 1971), nor for his flamboyance. Sir David Lean, the legendary director of “Lawrence of Arabia,” would have savored encountering this man. There was style, and an awareness of it, in Abu Reisha: his brown abaya bordered with gold thread, a neat white dishdasha, and a matching headdress. “Our American friends had not understood us when they came, they were proud, stubborn people and so were we. They worked with the opportunists, now they have turned to the tribes, and this is as it should be. The tribes hate religious parties and religious fakers.”
You can read the entire commentary here:
http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010610
I just heard that x42 is in our fair city....just great...we’ll all need showers...maybe THAT’s why the weather reporters are calling for rain by Thursday!
Toaster winner I know you will want an orange one but what photo do you want on it.
Hi Kas
Good evening
With all the rough hurly burly daily political turmoil I thought that it would be good to have the photo of the day on a lighter note.
hmm....I’m lookin’ around...and yes, the orange toaster idea is PERFECT!
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