Posted on 02/03/2005 9:45:17 PM PST by the conservative bean
As soon as the President finished his last sentence and began greeting the legislators, my phone didn't stop ringing. From Baghdad, Beirut, Europe, and many U.S. cities, many of my Arab and Middle Eastern colleagues expressed their gratitude and confidence. They told me they wept when they saw one of their own – Iraqi female voter Safia Taleb al-Suhail – raising her hand to show the blue ink on her finger. They, and all Americans, were moved when she embraced the mother of the U.S. soldier killed in Fallujah. They cried even more when they saw the standing ovation celebrating the "courage of the Iraqi people, challenging the terrorists last Sunday."
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
"President Bush also crossed other lines last night. By asking Egypt to lead the Arab world towards democracy as it led it towards peace, the president responded to those who accused him of being one-sided in his call for change. For years, on al-Jazeera and scores of fundamentalists and anti-American commentators pounded America with a familiar accusation: the U.S. wants freedom for its enemies, but not for its allies. Last night, tBush's answer fell hard on the Arab world's inquisitors. The American president coaxed his own Arab allies to move towards democracy. More importantly, he defied policies established by the previous State Department, which barred touching the Wahhabi Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as it is the chief provider of our oil. The president spoke directly to them: Riyadh must open up its system, emancipate women, and move out of the Middle Ages with respect to human rights."
Agree with him or not (and I do) we must admit this guy dreams BIG.
This is a wonderful column.
Damn pity our press can't see as clearly.
I know, I know, our press has their left-wing,
anti-Bush agenda to push.
You'd have to be dead in the heart or brain to have that moment not affect you.
A lot of Dims are heartless and brain-dead.....or angry that they felt something that they wished they hadn't...in denial. Truth unmasking lies in their souls.
Historical way-point.
you'd have to be dead in the heart or brain....
wow so you know sissy matthews personally?
:-D
I read the story twice.....it was that good.
I've noticed a lot of folks cutting psychological ties to the Dims as a result of this 'dissing'. Rational folks always got it....the 'moment' was just a physical manifestation of the truth and sentiments already perceived; and the cognitively misled, though moral ones among the useful Dim idiot crowd, had flakes fall from their eyes. Many of my work acquaintances, Libs, are badmouthing their former heroes and cheering GW.
This is hugh. My daughter found out today that a friend from college was killed in a chopper crash in Iraq. We've always spoken of the cost of freedom, but this is where she feels pain. I need to show her this photo and tell her the story. I don't think she saw the speech.
Thanks.
You'll be disgusted.
yes he did.
he claims that the "hug" was staged by the evil
conservatives to tug at americas heartstrings.
well it did tug at mine and darn near tore it out.
and i believe it to have been completely genuine.
yes do tell her the story.
this had the same huge impact that ashleys photo had.
the power of such a simple act manifesting itself into the american psyche is beyond anything i can imagine.
and the fact that our great leader was having trouble keeping composure during the hug makes me love him more.
where US oil comes from:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
*LOL* Bush is no Reagan.
When 500 members of the greatest legislative branch on earth, from both parties, champion freedom for Syria's people, expect millions of men and women to take to the streets in Damascus when the time comes. My Iranian friends were in disbelief when they heard the American president committing America to stand with "the democrats of Iran, if they stand for themselves." Tehran’s despots cannot expect to oppress their people much longer. "Even if nothing else happens after this speech,” an Iranian activist told me over the phone, "I feel I had enough of human recognition." He and his fellow reformers have not been so recognized by any administration in the past.I wish I could have watched the speech. The VCR has some problems, and I couldn't tape it while at work, nor did I have time to go into the lounge to watch it. I guess I'll look for a streaming video of it.
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Bush just might turn out to be better. I loved Reagan, but I can't forget that Reagan was an actor.
He knew how to make us feel great about ourselves. That is a huge part of what attracts us to a person.
Don't get me wrong, I think he was very sincere in what he did and said, but he was able to do it with the flair of an actor.
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