Good riddance. Now he can go back to Dallas and hire illegals to cut his lawn.
Posted on 01/16/2009 8:19:48 AM PST by Kaslin
There is a number of ways to describe how it feels to sit a few feet from the leader of the free world in the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in an informal, free-wheeling meeting with the President.
Overwhelming. Surreal. Amazing. Educational. Inspirational.
Most of all, one is consumed with a feeling of incredible gratitude that this privilege and opportunity has been extended.
I suppose the only thing more thrilling than spending an hour and fifteen minutes with a handful of my talk radio colleagues in the Oval Office this week for a combination on-the-record/off-the-record visit with the President is that it was the second time I’ve been fortunate enough to be invited to such a meeting.
Much has been written about the history of that office and building, but for me, this was a time to listen and watch and observe and speak with the man who has been in the center of one of the most tumultuous eight-year periods in our nations’ existence.
The first time I left the White House after a similar meeting, I remember talking to my friend Sean Hannity about how different things would be if President Bush’s enemies and critics could be exposed to him in the same setting.
No where is the bumbling, fumbling, absent-minded frat boy. The idea that Bush is somehow disconnected and dense is a complete and utter fabrication, a narrative told by people with an agenda, or individuals who think they have him figured out and yet are positively clueless.
Oliver Stone might think he’s a guy who chews with his mouth open and yells at the hired help, but the George W. Bush I’ve spent nearly three hours with is a warm, funny, smart, engaged, compassionate, patriotic, decent and honorable man.
In both of our meetings, roughly three years apart, the President continually hammered home the point that he simply was not going to allow another terror attack on American soil to happen on his watch after 9/11. It consumed him. He spent mornings, noons and nights plotting, studying, worrying and figuring ways to keep Americans from being slaughtered at the hands of radical Islamists.
And when the history books are written, generations will be reminded that he succeeded.
We covered a variety of topics during this visit. And I had made a personal promise to ask the President about border patrol agents Ramos and Compean, two men who are rotting in jail because they shot a confirmed, filthy drug smuggler in the butt at the border and evidently, made some procedural mistakes after the shooting occurred.
Our government went into Mexico, where the wounded criminal fled, and brought him back to our country giving him free medical care, cash money, and a promise of immunity as long as he would testify against these two border patrol agents.
He did. And they were convicted of covering up the shooting. They were marched off to prison, sentenced for many years. The drug smuggler, free as a bird, went on to smuggle more drugs across our border and continue to break the law, leaving the feds with a ton of egg on their faces.
For millions of Americans, the continued incarceration of Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos is a grim reminder of everything that has gone wrong with border security. And there is a fervent prayer in America that these men will have their sentences commuted by this good and decent man, George W. Bush.
For someone like me who has such admiration for a man like Bush, it took all I could muster to likely break protocols and procedures and ask him about this issue.
But I did.
I cannot tell you what the President said. I’ll respect the rules of that off-the-record conversation.
But it’s safe to say that the President is totally aware of their case. And at least one big-mouthed talk radio host named Gallagher bugged him about it during one of the final interviews of his presidency.
I’m hoping the President commutes their sentences. But whatever happens, I will nonetheless be forever grateful for the determined leadership the man gave his country.
As noted British historian Andrew Roberts noted this week, history will show that this was a good president, a man whose decisions and direction kept this country safe after 9/11.
And I look forward to the day when I can tell my granddaughter, Lily Denise, all about my visits with George W. Bush.
If I have that experience a week from today, I'll know the exact right word: nauseating.
As we watched GWBs’ farewell speech last night, I told my husband that we were watching the last of a free America. God bless President Bush and keep him safe from his enemies. I, for one, am grateful to him for keeping my family safe among many other things he did for this nation. We are in Gods Hands now.
President Bush has boofed on many decisions during his term, but made many more right ones. I do believe his heart is in the right place. Regardless of our impressions of him, his shining achievement has been keeping the post-9-11 war against terrorists on THEIR home ground.
I have no doubt that battle is very soon going to come to our city streets. Too bad a majority of American voters, in a misguided rush for “change,” has rolled the dice and bet on a neophyte who hasn’t a clue about keeping this nation secure.
We are indeed in for dark, sad times.
I had tears in my eyes when I watched his farewell address
I started to compose a response to your post wanting to rip you for your words.
Then I read it again and did the Math, Doc. ;>)
Indeed, however bad things are today, they will be far worse a week from now.
Bump
Three speeches of President Bush have moved me to tears:
His moving speech at the National Cathedral after 9/11,
His State of the Union Address when he called the regime of the mullahs ruling Iran as what they are, an axis of evil,
And last night’s farewell speech.
It is truly hard to accept that he will be gone in a weeks time and that man, Obama, will take his place.
(There is nothing honest and truthful and genuine about Obama down to the letter-writing to his children which of course had to be publicized for all. It’s all a horse and pony show with this guy, why can’t the public see it???
Because they are blinded by the empty suit
“...we must reject isolationism and its companion, protectionism.”
Good riddance. Now he can go back to Dallas and hire illegals to cut his lawn.
“As noted British historian Andrew Roberts noted this week, history will show that this was a good president, a man whose decisions and direction kept this country safe after 9/11.
And I look forward to the day when I can ...tell about what a honorable, good, decent man, father, Commander-in-Chief, leader of the free world He is?was.
ME too. We in Texas are strongly supportive of him ... except ...
He spent far to lavishly on programs for America, the war, contributing monies for foreign aid, etc. To a fault. But from a compassionate heart. Immigration?????
Well, that is another story.
I suggest you go back to DU , or crawl back under your rock from which you crawled out from
Bush basher..go to DU.
Oh, and thank Reagen for the illegals mess he left us with!
And why would anyone from DU troll over here? W is the best thing to happen to the Donks since Hoover.
Like I said, crawl back under your rock
Bush is a personable nice man who did the bidding of the elite. He failed them by not doing his duty on immigration and failed US citizens by being bound to the passing of the torch.
I like him as a man and will not miss him either. He could have taken a different road. It would have been a big price, though.
Shame on you Bush, by looking at you I think you know what I mean.
Now do me a favor and get off my thread
Yeah, I bet you gonna be real happy with 0bama /s>
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