Posted on 01/04/2009 9:47:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“Thank you President Bush God Bless” is what 14-year-old Chrissy Doolittle’s sign read.
The Leesburg resident stood holding her sign by the Washington Monument for nearly an hour and a half Saturday afternoon with her mother and grandmother to thank President George W. Bush for his eight years in office.
Chrissy’s family was part of a group of around 150 people – the majority of them from Loudoun County – who wanted to make sure that their voices of gratitude were heard, even as Bush’s approval ratings hover around 30 percent and the area and nation turn their focus toward Barack Obama’s inauguration, just a little more than two weeks away.
“We will continue to pray for him as we always do every night, and that God will continue to use him,” said Chrissy’s mother, Annabelle Doolittle, who found a flyer about the rally on her car.
The noon rally on the National Mall was organized by Ashburn resident Shannon Tercero and included a small stage and microphone for individuals to express their messages of thanks. The demonstrators also sang “God Bless America” and listened to a tribute to President Bush by Jerry Alway, pastor of Grace Tabernacle Church in Berryville.
During the rally, a few people passing by saw the signs and joined the group. “They were really happy we were having it,” Alway said of the spectators. “One child was approached by two men who said they were anti-Bush, but there were definitely more positive than negative [reactions].”
Saturday’s rally was the second pro-Bush rally that Tercero has planned. The first was on Nov. 22 at Lafayette Park.
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Awesome Post, 2ndDivisionVet, and Thank you for the Ping, STARWISE!
And maybe if you’re still here on earth for 6 more years, and IF your CA surrounds haven’t been thrown into chaos by a devastating terrorist attack, you might mature enough to realize just how much Pres. Bush did to save even your ungrateful butt.
I can hope.
Yeah...and on a pro Bush thread, once more you have made sure your opinion is heard. It’s greatly appreciated...NOT!
Thanks, Starwise.
I really wish there could be another purge on Free Republic...this time with a purpose, to get rid of all the depressing people who come on every post to say how disappointed they are about this and that, and basically, these people do not have a clue, yet they continue to be simultaneously self-righteous and irritating.
I have to say, they have almost ruined Free Republic for me. I am very careful about what posts and comments I read.
I know the feeling, my FRiend, but remember ..
word is there’s a lot of disruptors, probably
paid Obamatons and others, purposely out there
whose purpose is to dispirit and demoralize
conservative hangouts.
So, they’ll change my mind or bring me down,
when snowballs freeze in Hell............ LOL.
They show no class or manners, which is a sure
sign they should be ignored, and their vapid
immaturity and negativity shows more their weak
character and backwater breeding than any real
impact of their posted vitriol from the safety
of their living rooms, thanks to Pres. George W.
Bush and our awesome military.
I’ll never stop praising them, so the idiots can
just get over that.
Don’t let the turkeys get ya down. There’s enough
trouble coming to our White House and our precious
America to make all of us sit up and get our
priorities straight.
Just keep praying for our nation and our troops.
Hopefully, the Mods will find more time to step in
when necessary, but the best policy is probably
ignoring the crude and nasty posters.
The man has virtually guaranteed the financial destruction of our country.
I despise the man. Ronald Reagan doubled goverment spending in his 8 years and also doubled the national debt. Do you hate him too?
Reagan promised to cut the size of the federal goverment and reduce the number of departments. He never cut one department in his entire 8 years and doubled government spending.
At least for the extra money, Reagan rebuilt the military, and defeated the Soviet Union without firing a shot. He also gave us Star Wars. He also put into effect the first law limiting immigration, which then was not enforced by Congress or succeeding Presidents, including Bush the elder.
After seven years, we still don’t have Obama. We are year eight of the war in Afghanistan and soon will have completed six years in Iraq. Plus we had virtually unlimited immigration in the last eight years.
One accomplishment: no large scale terror attacks on US soil since 9/11/01. Notice I said large scale, because we had the anthrax attacks in 2001—still not solved—and the DC snipers in 2002.
We have a bloated Federal bureaucracy, the Fed has put into circulation anywhere from 600 million to over 1 trillion dollars, we pissed away 350 billion of the TARP money to date.
Bush also, with his brand of compassionate conservatism, completely gutted conservatives from the GOP party even though we were responsible for his victories in 2000 and 2004. He couldn’t be bothered to defend himself or the GOP from eight years of scurrilous attacks that completely branded the GOP as a bunch of horrible people, and destroyed the GOP brand in politics. He could not even defend himself against Valerie Plame, being blamed for Katrina, yellow cake, or be bothered to even use the bully pulpit to communicate with the American people, except to say: “See you at the signing.”
The GOP has been so assimiliated with RINOs that we got the idiot McCain as our candidate. We are now seeing just how insane that whole campaign was, and now we also see what we are facing with Obama and the damage to our country that will result, because the damn GOP couldn’t even beat a candidate with no accomplishments.
I’ll give Bush credit for the response after 9/11/01, for taking out Saddam, for stopping Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, and for protecting the country since 9/11/01.
But I won’t miss his incompetent administration as executive, his ability to spend like there is no tomorrow, for not getting his tax cuts put into law without sunsetting, for telling me that Islam is a Religion of Peace—piss be on Allah—and for dissing the SwiftBoat Vets who almost singlehandedly turned the election in 2004 to his favor. His constant playing kissyface with Dem leaders who were out to destroy him, for all the bloated highway and agriculural bills, for the insane prescription drug bill, for the ridiculous Education bill sop to the drunk Ted Kennedy, for his love of all things Mexican and immigrant instead of taking care of citizens first and stopping the Mexican and Central American invasion, for his refusal to free Ramos and Compean and to exonerate Scooter Libby—no, for those things, I won’t be sorry to see him go.
For the last four years, I wondered what the hell side he was really on.
So please, don’t compare him to Reagan.
Because there is no comparison.
Reagan signed the law but he refused to enforce it.
Like President George W. Bush today, Reagan had the good sense and compassion to see illegal immigrants not as criminals but as human beings striving to build better lives through honest work. In a radio address in 1977, Reagan noted that apples were rotting on trees in New England because no Americans were willing to pick them. "It makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do?" Reagan asked. "One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the fields for lack of harvesters."
In Reagan's farewell address to the nation in January 1989, Reagan beautifully wove his view of free trade and immigration into his vision of a free society: "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get here."
As Reagan biographer Lou Cannon points out in this book (pg. 119), Reagan proposed a treaty allowing for full freedom of movement for all workers throughout North America in his November 1979 speech announcing his candidacy for the presidency.
In fact during his last year in office Reagan only implemented one part of the immigration act. That was the part that granted 2.8 million illegals the right to stay in the United States. He did nothing to close the border with Mexico. Neither did Bush 41, Clinton, or Bush 43.
You may think you can get away with posting untruths about Reagan... but Reagan's record is clear. Reagan did sign the immigration bill, but only after he had demanded that congress water it down and give the 3 million illegals then in the contry legal status. Reagan wanted our border with Mexico to have the same rules as our border with Canada. Any canadian can come to the USA to work and stay as long as that person wishes. All that is required is a Canadian birth certificate or proof of Canadian citizenship. Reagan pushed for the same rules for the Mexican border but he could not get it done.
Reagan did take down the Soviet Union, but Bush has taken down Saddam and the Taliban and freed 50 million people. But the Soviet Union never once fired a weapon at the USA. But the Muslims in the Middle East attacked us and Bush took preemptive action to protect us. The preemtive policies were Bush creations. There is no punishment for a terrorist who flies an airplane into a building or blows himself up on a crowded street.
Reagan on the other hand only followed the same foreign policies of two geat Democrat Presidents ... Harry Truman and John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... in his 1980 campaign Reagan proposed to follow both the domestic and foreign policies of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. If Reagan was a true conservative then so were FDR, Harry Truman, and JFK.
During his years in the office of president not once did Reagan ever invite Barry Goldwater to the White House for any reason. Democrat Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil was a weekly visitor ... Tip and Reagan were buddies.
In the 1980 campaign the press had a pool that would be won by the first reporter who could get Reagan to say the words "Barry Goldwater". No matter what the question or how it was asked Reagan would not even mention Barry Goldwater by name. The closest any of us ever got was Reagan did mention "The Senator from Arizona."
Everything Reagan did in office was a continuation or reimplementation of a policy orginated by a Democrat president.
Oh and the initial funds to rebuild the miltary was passed during the last year Jimmy Carter was president. It went into the 1980, 1981 budgets. The build up of the military had been proposed to congress by Jimmy Carter.
But back to immigration in 2004 Bush got about 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. 14.5 percent of voters in the USA are Hispanic. That percentage had grown from 20 percent in the early 1990s. At the rate of change it was expected that over 50 percent of Hispanics would be voting Republican in 2008.
The media had to fix that ... because once a majority of Hipanics voted Republican it would be many decades before a Democrat won the presidency again.
That is when the media started the illegal Mexican stories on TV and Radio. They knew that many on the right had enough racial prejudice to drive Hispanics back into the Democratic party.
It worked.
The Democrats have the 12 percent of the population that is black and are rapidly gaining ground on the 14.5 percent that are Hispanic. Soon the combination black and Hispanic votes will start a Democrat for the presidency with about 25 percent of the total vote.That is 1/2 the votes they need to win. Thus Democrats to win the presidency will only need 1/3 of the white vote.
That also means that Republicans will have to win 67 percent of the white vote in order to win.
Republicans are not likely to get that done any time soon. Conservatives can't even win the Republican nomination for president.
This last Presidential election resulted in a far left liberal winning the biggest victory since 1988. The losing party ALWAYS moves in the direction of the winning party.
It is amusing to watch Republicans tell us that what is wrong with the Republican party is it did not stay to the right. We are expected to believe that when the Republican party did not offer the voters a conservative enough candidate they voted for a far more liberal one instead. The other option is that since McCain was not a true conservative, Conservatives did not vote. But the turn out in 2008 was 132 million.. compared to 122 million in 2004, 105 million in 2000 and 96 million in 1996.
There were no voters sitting on the sidelines in 2008 and even if they were, they will likley sit on the sidelines in 2012.
The object of elections is to win the support of those that vote. Getting the support of non-voters is worthless on election day. The Republican party will move to the left... where the majority of the voters are ... or it will lose, lose, lose.
PING!
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