A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos) - July 23, 2003

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[ohioWfan]

President Bush, flanked by Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Richard B. Myers, and U.S. Administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, spoke this morning in the White House Rose Garden regarding the killing of the monstrous sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay yesterday, and the positive effect it would have on the Iraqi people, and citing the great progress that has been made by the Coalition Forces in Iraq.

Later in the morning he welcomed former President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, and Argentine President Nestor Kirchner in the Oval Office. He also found time to honor the Presidential Medal of Honor recipients in the East Room, including Vaclav Havel, Van Cliburn, John Wooden, Roberto Clemente, Dave Thomas and Charleston Heston.

There are lots of pictures today, so enjoy your ample Daily Dose of Dubya!!

[Fawnn]

Rummy is quite the hunk.

Hey! I even checked his bio to ascertain his marital status. Ditto, Rove at one point ages ago. ;)

(FYI: Both are married, for those who don't know. I think Condi is the only single person working in our President's White House.)

[homeschool mama]

Jeez. This is a can of worms, isn't it? Good riddance to bad rubbish.

There's much I don't understand about how this will/should all pan out. I'm a willing learner though!

[prairiebreeze]

Is it very painful? It's like you have something in your eye. Day of sugery (yesterday)I only took extra strength Tylenol. It wasn't incapacitating or anything. Today it just feels like I have dirty contacts in that I keep wanting to take out! LOL! Sorta weird, but really quite tolerable. I'll have to wear reading glasses they tell me. Those kind that you buy at the drug store they say. But even if my prescription can be less than it was, I'll be happy. Thanks so much for the prayers. My brother passed away earlier this month and I debated whether to go ahead with the surgery but since it was already scheduled I just stayed with it. Prairie

[ohioWfan]

They have refrigeration now, and I've been sending him all kinds of drinks, including his favorite, Vanilla Coke.

He said there's nothing better than sipping an ice cold bottle of pop! And Vanilla Coke is so popular that he was able to trade one bottle for two bottles of regular Coke!

He still spends as much time as possible in their 'pool.' The moment he gets out of the water is the only moment of 'cool' he experiences! He's going to freeze when he gets back to Ohio!

[homeschool mama]

I'm sorry to hear about your brother's passing, p. ((hugs))

I'd love to see w/o corrective lenses. I wear contacts usually and need reading glasses over those. My eyesight is pretty bad though...

[ThePythonicCow]

Thanks, OhioWfan!!

Another great Dose, the finest place on the Web.

General Meyer sure looks tight lipped in these pictures. I wonder what he's thinking.

[ohioWfan]

He's in a water SUPPLY unit, Gramma.......he's got plenty! :o)

[Inspectorette]

I most certainly do remember drive-in movies.

I'll never forget the last time I went to a drive-in, I was still living in New England. I had a crummy old '76 Chevette, and brought my two daughters and two of their friends. They all decided to watch the movie from the ROOF of the Chevette. I had brought a gallon cooler of lemonade, and as I sat in the driver's seat watching the movie, somebody on the roof knocked over the lemonade and there it was pouring down the windshield. (My helpful daughter said, "Well, Mom - just turn on the wipers" ;-)

[Fawnn]

133 degrees? Dear God...and here I am complaining about 105. It's like a perpetual hot flash. ugh.

I just grabbed my close-at-hand squirt bottle and hosed myself down out of sympathy! (And it's dropped into the 60's here after the last thunderstorm!) Power of suggestion, I guess.

(LOL re the perpetual hot flash though.)

[homeschool mama]

What an amazing blessing to these fine men...to have refrigeration! WOW!

[prairiebreeze]

Best of Luck to you. And thanks!

Prairie

[Brad’s Gramma]

I KNOW THAT!

I was just having fun. Kool-aid NEEDS water to make it taste good....

[Brad’s Gramma]

[ohioWfan]

You're welcome, Cow! And you're right about this being the greatest place on the web!

(How you coming with your 'holiness' today? ;o)

[potlatch]

PING

[homeschool mama]

60's??????????????????????????

I'm on my way for a month long visit. The couch is fine. Bringing my own pillow.

[Fawnn]

A trolly scary thought. ;)

[Inspectorette]

My brother passed away earlier this month

Sympathies to you on the loss of your brother. I lost my big brother in 1997, and I still miss him a lot.

I'm gonna have to wear reading glasses too, but I don't care. My thing was that I literally can't see to find my glasses if I forget where I put them. My poor hubby has to find them for me. (He's bought me a couple of those chains that you hang your glasses from, but I refuse to wear them ;-)

[DrDeb]

The President looked and sounded great today! It makes me feel incredibly secure knowing that he, Rummy, General Myers, and Paul Bremer are LEADING our efforts in Iraq (love the pix of the 4 of them together!).

GREAT article from Tony Blankley today, PARTICULARLY HIS LAST PARAGRAPH!!!:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0703/blankley.html

Excerpts [I added the 'all caps' for emphasis!]:

It is not yet thunder on the right, but President Bush should begin to keep a weather watch for a potentially unstable storm front forming on his right flank. Of course, conservatism is a house of many mansions, and it is a LOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY to have policies that satisfy us all. Conservatives are both muscular military interventionists and isolationists; free traders and protectionists; libertarians and cultural traditionalists.

. . . But, crosscutting all these varieties of American conservatism is a deeply visceral distaste for political compromise and expediency. And that distaste turns quickly to distrust of conservative leaders when they reach the national governing level.

That instinct is the most dangerous phenomena for elected conservative leaders. A PROMINENT CONSERVATIVE ACCUSED RONALD REAGAN OF SELLING OUT THE REAGAN REVOLUTION in the spring of 1981 (he had only been in office a few months).

. . . only about 35 percent of American voters are conservatives, President Bush needs to pick up the difference through some combination of: the strength of his personality, leadership, policy compromises and shrewd campaigning. Conservatives (both rank-and-file and activist) tend to think that leadership should be sufficient to that end. Professional political advisors almost invariably lean hard toward policy compromise. A successful conservative elected leader must not listen too much to either of those siren songs.

. . . But on the war front, he should not compromise an iota. He must do what he judges to be in the national interest, whatever the electoral effect. Not that he needs my advice on that point. He is a patriot and would gladly sacrifice his career, and even his life, on behalf of his nation's safety. That is why, as a conservative, I will vote for him, no matter what. We are damned lucky to have this man at the helm in these perilous times.

EVERYONE AT FR NEEDS TO RE-READ THIS LAST PARAGRAPH EVERY SINGLE DAY BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER 2004!

[I believe Mr. Blankley is also the editor of the "Washington Times"!]

[prairiebreeze]

My eyesight is pretty bad though

Mine too esp. in one eye which they don't think even the laser will be able to correct to 20/20. Probably only 20/40 at best for it, hence the required reading glasses in the future. Prairie