Posted on 11/05/2007 6:54:09 PM PST by snugs
The President and the First Lady spent the weekend at Camp David, Sunday was the First Lady's 61st birthday.
Today the President presented several Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He also met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office
The President also with the 2007 US Walker Cup team.
Today the Vice President was in South Dakota for his annual pheasant hunting trip.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the middle east
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in China
The President's daughter Jenna was at a book signing at De La Salle high school in New Orleans
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
All clear please feel free to post any photos or graphics in the spirit of this thread
Thank you, Snugs, for all that work.
Thanks for this snugs - uber thread with mega photos!
They are all lovely, esp your collage.
And doesn’t Jenna look sweet?
Thanks, snugs ... W looked relaxed
and bright today. He was especially
kind to Harper Lee.
Luvvie .. the video is at the top right
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071105-1.html#
President and Mrs. Bush!!!
Thanks, Starwise! I’ll check it out! I hate always having
to miss the good speeches.
snugs: THANK YOU so much for posting this very special DOSE tonight. I just LOVE your photo tribute both to Laura for her 61st birthday and to our First Couple for their 30th wedding anniversary!
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IT’S ALL (PRESIDENT) BUSH’S FAULT . . .
REMEMBERING BISCET, &c.
By Jay Nordlinger
As you may have heard, George W. Bush gave Oscar Biscet the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That is, he will present it to him on Monday. Or rather: He will give it to him in absentia. Dr. Biscet is a political prisoner in Cuba.
I have been yelling about him ever since this column began, I believe — and that was in March 2001. (I think it was March.) He is one of the bravest and most inspired of the Cuban political prisoners. He is a physician, an “Afro-Cuban,” a follower of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King. If he were a prisoner of anyone but Castro — a Communist dictator — he’d be world-famous. If he were a South African, under apartheid, he’d be on the stamps of virtually every country in the world.
Let me continue in this vein: If he were a prisoner under a right-wing dictatorship, he’d be featured on 60 Minutes every week. He’d be on the cover of Time magazine every week. College campuses would hold sit-ins. Biscet’s face would adorn posters and T-shirts. Etc., etc.
You will find a website dedicated to him here.
In awarding this medal, PRESIDENT BUSH — NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME — HAS SHOWN HUGE BRASS ONES. How many other presidents would have done this? I can’t think of any (save our boy, the 40th). And don’t hold your breath for a president in the future who will act this way.
As I said in a recent column, conservatives are down on President Bush, blaming him for everything under the sun, picking at him. Sure, he’s made mistakes. But he also has greatness in him. And this was a great act. In bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Oscar Biscet — an all-but-forgotten and all-but-helpless man in a Cuban dungeon — George Bush has done an incredibly large-hearted and important thing.
Do not think it’s merely symbolic: This award has rocketed through dissident circles, and nerved Cubans and their well-wishers everywhere.
http://http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Nzc2ZDk5M2NjYTI4MWM5OWMxZjkzMzM1MDZhZTdkOWQ=
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DEATH RATE FOR AFGHAN KIDS DROPS
By Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer
Sun Nov 4, 1:22 PM ET
KABUL, Afghanistan - Six years after the Taliban’s ouster, medical care in Afghanistan has improved such that nearly 90,000 children who would have died before age 5 in 2001 will survive this year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.
Saddled for years with one of the world’s worst records on child health, Afghanistan has seen access to health care rise dramatically since the U.S.-led invasion.
. . . President Hamid Karzai, surrounded by smiling Afghan children at a news conference in Kabul, thanked aid organizations and health workers for their work. He said 89,000 children will be saved each year because of the improved health care.
[A beautiful photo is featured here:]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_re_as/afghan_child_health_3
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You will find another AWESOME anniversary tribute here:
http://www.wideawakes.net/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=25552&page=1
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. . . and a VIDEO tribute here:
http://noteiverse.phanfare.com/album/472208#imageID=30685916
Well, this is NOT the place to be expressing your ill feelings!
I would suggest you leave and let those of us who enjoy looking at them to look in peace especially on the occasion of the Bush’s 30th anniversary.
Not on these threads, thanks.
WOW .. that last one is something.
May they have 30 more healthy, wonderful years.
Howdy snugs, How Ya’ll in England?? This is one of the best Doses ever. What great pictures all the way through. Awesome job! The Freedom Awards are amazing as well as the great shots of Laura. Well done.
Pray for W and Our British Allied Troops
I love Harper Lee!
My favorite movie of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird!
Wow! a boatload of outstanding pix tonight.. and I love both of your collages/cards.. you really went the extra mile today..
Great Dose! Laura looks gorgeous.. She was a knockout in her 30s when she married him (and looked much younger) and is simply a beautiful woman today..
Now our POTUS isn’t bad either !!!
Thank you for all the work you did. It is so easy to take for granted, because you all do so well.. It is not easy & it is time consuming!
HUGS SWEET ELEANOR! & hello to all the Dosers. I am going to crash soon.. Been up & hoping since 4 AM & busy tomorrow.
The card arrived (Love it ) and all the goodies are great.. Thank you ...
Thank you for all the great links and comments.
I will check them out when I can have some quiet time!
I was wondering the same thing
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