YEP!
Posted on 01/03/2003 9:47:41 PM PST by rintense
President Bush headed to Ft. Hood, Texas today to rally and to thank the many troops who serve from their home base. Bush used the opportunity to tout the military spending bill, as well as to once again assure all that we will win the war on terror. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!
Well with BG you never know .. LOL
I did luck out and got to see the President's speech rerun on C-Span last night at 8:30. He was wonderful. He seems to be so energized when he's with the troops or when he's with children. It seems as if he can feel their love and their respect. Heck, even I can feel the love and respect they have for him just watching it.
It's wonderful to have friends who are happy for me and shared in my excitement, even though you have no connection to the school or the team. That's what friends are for!
You guys are TOO cool!! And the ohioWfan family is still really happy! :o)
Yes, even I can be a gracious loser- but don't tell anyone. ;)
The boys bought National Championship shirts tonight.....shall I get one for you?!
I LOVE Day in the Life
Thanks so much.
I am feeling so satisfied, so secure, so very full of the warm flow of positive emotions I so often discover here.
Rintense-I cannot thank you enough for this effort. You bring me close to our President and his activities and in doing so, inspire my hope for the future so important to all of us.
Mike-your remarks about the President's speech at Fort Hood elevated my respect for our President to a new high. Never thought that was possible. (It is almost the exact opposite of my lack of respect for bill klinton because just when I think my opinion of that slug can go no lower-he does something horrendous, says something heartbreaking or spirit crunching in is divisivness, and lower goes my loathing, easily.)
I loved your words because I understand them so deeply. Like a poet who touches you with words you have felt yet never expressed, so your words impacted me thusly. And I gather from reading the comments above-others had the same reaction. Ya have to work to not feel a kinship of the kindred spirits who frequent this thread. I pray, Mike, that I will be able to see a re-run of this speech and am wondering now if it will replace, in my heart, the speech he made at the National Cathedral service in DC post 9/11. Certainly, his words, and your impression, made this heart sing.
I trust our President. Like many of you, I wish I could tell him this...I wish I could hold his hand and somehow pass on to him, in one split second, what his leadership had meant to this family on a personal level.
And Mike-I will be on bended knee tonight, probably weeping, in gratitude and complete fullness of love to our Father we share, for the blessing our nation has received in having President Bush as our leader. Isn't God's timing perfect? He knew just who we needed at this moment in time.
Ohio-congrats on the Ohio State win. It was the game of games. Just got back from Ohio today (home to take down Christmas decorations in my parents home and celebrate at luncheon with friends at the Golden Lamb restaurant and hotel in Lebabnon, Ohio. Ever been there? It is fantastic.
Happy New Year to everyone. God Bless America, God keep our nation safe, God help us to liberate the Iraqi people (that will be a GREAT DAY!), God help those in Afganistan and protect them from harm, God Bless our military and their families, and God Bless the wonderful, richly patriotic and compassionate folks who haunt the FR boards!
So while you were reveling (or crying).....we were REALLY hearing it from him.
I told him we'd start taping them from now on, and fill up a whole tape in case this ever happens again.
Guenevere, WELCOME! Rintense is absolutely WONDERFUL to do this for us everyday. She paid me to say that.
YEP!
Kewl to discover that someone else knows what a treasure the Golden Lamb is. I had never seen the place decked out for Christmas (the decorations go down tomorrow) and was charmed by the attention to detail. As for the food- the salmon w/mixed veggies is to die for! hehe (or...oink! oink!) The wine was superb, the service extraordinary. It always seems like a genuine treat to dine there, imho! And I know Waynesville, well. Love that smallish place-more shops in Lebanon but I used to go swimming in Waynesville as a kid and hold fond memories of that countryside town. The whole area is beautiful. I grew up in Xenia, Ohio-about 20-25 mins directly east of Dayton, but was born in Cincy, and now live near Indianapolis.
Muggs, Freeper extraordinaire, and Timestax (we have traveled to DC to Freep together-are March for Justice cohorts!) also live just outside Cincy
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