And heaven wept

RenewAmerica ^ | 09-14-09 | Karen H. Pittman

[mlizzy]

Down it poured — a nerve-scalping war dance of rain, pummeling its drums and refusing to let up. Like a tribe of ghouls, the uninvited gusts howled around the pit. If, as the Native Americans believed, the wind really is an instrument through which the souls of the dead commune with the living, what, then, on this day of all days, was it trying so hard to say?

Friday marked the passing of the first anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks without George Bush. The man who for seven years stood strong as our graying father figure and Condoler-in-Chief was nowhere to be seen, though he was with us in spirit, to be sure.

And I don't think it was just me. Surely it was obvious to anyone who was paying attention: something crucial to the ritual was missing. There was a palpable absence, a great gaping hole in the day, reminiscent of the holes left in the ground in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. Throughout, the ghost of George Walker Bush hung like a pall over Barack Hussein Obama's bony shoulders. It stalked him as he strode with chin held high onto the White House lawn, bowing his glistening head a hair too late; and it towered over him as he stepped up to the podium at the Pentagon to deliver his strangely tearless yet dripping eulogy. Afterwards it over-shadowed him as he shook survivors' hands — smiling a mite too broadly for my taste.

[mlizzy]

"Instead, the otherwise-omnipresent Obama chose to keep himself scarce, for once, deigning to touch down only momentarily at the Pentagon Memorial, where his soulless speech offered slim comfort to the grief-soaked crowd."

[Senator Goldwater]

Georeg W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani both showed great leadership in the aftermath of Sept 11th, and history will record it as such despite the caterwauling on the Left.

[not2worry]

President Bush will always be my hero. I know he wasn’t the perfect President but he was a President who was always there when the Country needed him.

Thank you President Bush. Job well done.

[mlizzy]

This is such an extraordinary article ... I’ve not only read it once, but have gone back to read it again ...

[Former MSM Viewer]

A beautiful nod to the dignity President Bush brought to the Office. The manner in which he comforted families at Ground Zero will never be forgotten.

President Bush’s tears and emotions were real, not like the phony we have now...

God Bless President Bush

[Coldwater Creek]

I saw a great window sticker on a car the other day that said simply, Thank You President Bush.

[Qwackertoo]

I think 9/11 hit me a little harder this year. And I felt many of the things mentioned in this article that day.

[LetMarch]

Yes, I give thanks for President Bush & Gov. Rudy Giuliani for leadership and courageous stand on 9/11.

Yet I cannot forget Sen. Hilliary Clinton,and her co-harts, glaring at our then President, as if , you should not be up there, I should be.

May those pictures continue to run, and be rerun!!!!

[Joe 6-pack]

"...and history will record it as such..."

From your lips to God's ears. Much is made about the ongoing "culture war," but I suspect it all boils down to a war over history. The left is hell bent on writing the history of their choosing and pushing it on our youth like crystal meth.

Orwell's "memory hole" is up and running and too many on the right have become complicit through the self-hypnosis induced by steady repetition of the mantra, "it can't happen here."

[Judith Anne]

This is amazing. I had never heard about the open Bible, before, and I’m so glad I read this...I didn’t know that Obama didn’t go to Ground Zero that day, and even though it’s a grim piece of knowledge, I’m glad I have it. Funny, the media didn’t mention it that I heard of—why did Obama stay away?

I did hear Obama’s Pentagon Memorial speech, and it didn’t have any meaning to me. I, too, thought he was passing out a campaign mode smile as he shook hands with people. The whole thing seemed insincere.

[Christian4Bush]

bump

[BamaDi]

I have a friend who was just commenting on Friday that she was absolutely livid that The Punk could find the time for a date night in NYC but couldn’t find the time to fly up for 9/11 remembrances....I detest him....I nearly lost it when the idiot VP compared himself to those survivors as a a fellow member of the “fraternity” who have lost a spouse or child...what a jerk....I’ve emailed this article to about 90 folks.....

[GOP Poet]

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[mlizzy]

I have a friend who was just commenting on Friday that she was absolutely livid that The Punk could find the time for a date night in NYC but couldn’t find the time to fly up for 9/11 remembrances......I’ve emailed this article to about 90 folks.....

Thanks for e-mailing this article along ... when I was reading it this morning, I had the goosebumps and was hoping that people would read it all the way through ... and I have to tell you, that every single day I become so upset (and livid actually) regarding this administration, that I have to take a few breaths and walk away from the computer (and pray!) before typing a comment, because what I'm thinking ... well, I'd make Serena look tame.

[mlizzy]

This is amazing. I had never heard about the open Bible, before, and I’m so glad I read this...I didn’t know that Obama didn’t go to Ground Zero that day, and even though it’s a grim piece of knowledge, I’m glad I have it. Funny, the media didn’t mention it that I heard of—why did Obama stay away? ...

I had read about the opened Bible a long time ago, but had forgotten about it, so it was good to read about it again. As far as Obama staying away, I haven't heard the whys or wherefores, but he sure seems to be "absent" a lot.