Posted on 11/08/2001 8:08:01 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:03:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Like Britain in 1939, we're at war but not yet in it.
That was an interesting speech President Bush gave last night in Georgia. Its subject was homeland security, and in terms of content, style and tone it seemed to be, essentially, nothing new. And yet by the end and after reading it, I thought: He's telling us a great deal here.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Yes. She wrote the "Boys of Point Du Hoc" speech that Reagan gave at Normandy on the 40th anniversary of the Invasion.
One of the best lines she ever wrote.
--Boris
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Peggy Noonan has written some excellent articles in the past.
I deem this to be one of her CLASSICS!
You are welcome, MeeknMing!
With the new "re-count reports" coming out, it appears that I may need to dust off my PREVIOUS favorite from Peggy, to remind those who may have forgotten about what REALLY happened in the Great Attempted Election Theft of 2000.
See:
The Greenwood Position (LONG, BUT WORTH IT)
Posted on 11/23/2000 08:02:08 PST by IGOTMINE
"...There was a national election on Tuesday, Nov. 7. The presidential race was close, and would be decided by the state of Florida. The state's votes were counted. At the end it was close, but George W. Bush won. A statewide recount was immediately and appropriately called. At the end it was close, but Mr. Bush won.Please go there, bookmark it - and read it again - as an inoculation against the spin that is to come.But the higher reaches of the Democratic Party had a game plan for what to do in case of a close vote in a key state, and their machine went into motion while Republicans slept. Even before the recount was over the outcome was contested.
On the afternoon of Election Day a Texas telemarketing firm is hired to call Democratic voters in Palm Beach County and gin up a protest. They had been disenfranchised. By Wednesday there are charges that a "butterfly" ballot, designed and approved by Democrats and published to no protest in the press, was confusing and thus unfair...
I disagree. It is like music to my ears everytime I hear him talk about faith, and I personally can't get enough of it after 8 years of Baccus in the White House.
This war happens to be the reason he is president: because something big and bad and dark was coming, and he was the man to lead us through it.
Bingo, Peggy. Nice catch.
My sense is that he walked into office knowing huge history was coming but not knowing when, what, where. Now he knows. I can quite imagine him thinking, This is the reason I'm here.
well, there have been several reports of people saying he has directly said this. Also, there was a thing I saw not too long ago that was a tape of W before he even decided to run on a TV show talking to a minister where he said he just felt this really strong urge to run. At that time he hadn't decided what to do, but he really felt like the Holy Spirit was working in him to run. At the time (I was not yet a Bush Babe **gasp**) I thought "what a convenient thing to say" but now I see that he really had those feelings, and I also feel that he was absolutely designed by God to be our president during this time.
Most interestingly, I thought, he seemed to suggest along the way that Sept. 11 has given us as a people an opportunity to revisit our long history, and understand better what it is we are fighting for. "Ours is a great story, and we must tell it," he said. I suspect very soon now he will be expanding on that thought, and asking our public schools to return to the old history curriculum, the one that told our story from prerevolutionary days through the Civil War through the age of invention to all the great social and moral movements that have swept the past century. Our children, that is, for the first time in 25 years, may be taught our history again. What a boon this would be for our country.
Excellent article, Ron. Thanks so much for the flag.
While Mr. Bush was saying "We are at War", the day prior to that event, I was dreaming that we were at war and I was saying those same words to a stranger behind me in my dream.
Excellent article, Ron. Thanks so much for the flag.
You are welcome!
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(Hugh opened today's show reading from this article - after some "Bubba at Georgetown" sound bites, comparing them to sound bites of the REAL President's marvelous speech.)
That is the incredible part of the article. I would also add that when Bush speaks, he is so resolute. Quite a contrast from Clinton years.
I guess God had bigger plans for him. Pray for GW.
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