Good night and God Bless you all and thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers for mum.
Posted on 11/04/2005 5:48:48 PM PST by MJY1288
Today the President is in Argentina for the "Summit of the Americas" where the leaders of the Central American Nations are discussing a possible CAFTA agreement. Today he met with the President of Argentina, Nestor Carlos Kirchner, and he also held a brief Presser with the Travel Pool. The President and the First Lady are celebrating her Birthday in Argentina
Hello how are you great to see you tonight
It's one of my favorites
Eternal pessimists. Don't worry about them. Their motto is "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!". They can't get to you if you don't let them. There are plenty of us "optimists". Keep smiling. :-)
A beautiful Dose tonight, Mike. Thank you.
Ohio, the picture of Laura sitting on the couch is SO glamorous. She puts today's movie stars to shame. In many ways.
The Birthday Dose is awesome, Mike. Sorry you had problems but it was well worth the effort.
Lovely group of photos
Prayers for your mother. Have been following your reports.
Thank you much appreciated.
Double duty Prayers up for the President and First Lady while in Argentina.
I missed the news about riots in Argentina? Are they rioting because the President is there?
Hello! I can't believe I got here this soon. Those "peace" protestors are rioting because they think our president is too violent. Hahahahaha :O) They are destroying their own country because of it. Whatta bunch of loosers!
Hi snugs, thinking of your mum. Hope things level out for her and you and your dad can feel more at ease.
Thanks for posting all the great photos of Laura. There were a few I hadn't seen before. Thanks for sharing :-)
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Bush!
You are simply the best!
Thank you and the others that posted all of the wonderful pictures of our great President and First Lady tonight! Their inner 'beauty' really shines through!
Pardon my being a bit negative on such a lovely thread, the picture of Vincente Fox and Paul Martin w our President - - what a couple of back-stabbing suck-ups. He's too polite to give them a piece of his mind, wish I could give them a piece of my mind for him.
I believe they are primarily rioting against the free trade initiative CAFTA that GWB is promoting at the summit their holding down there, so yes it is against GWB. Me worries.
Good night and God Bless you all and thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers for mum.
When reading all the nonsense about the President's current job approval ratings just remember the following:
IT'S THE PERSONAL APPROVAL RATING THAT COUNTS!
"While the President's job approval is upside down by net 10 points, the PERSONAL APPROVAL of George W Bush is still running 2 to 1 net positive. Whether voters approve or disapprove of the way George W Bush is handling his job as President, they were asked what their impression was of him as a person. Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters approve of President Bush personally, while thirty-one percent (31%) disapprove of him. There is also positive intensity to voters' response to this question. Forty-three percent (43%) of voters "strongly" approve of the president personally, while only twenty-four percent (24%) "strongly" disapprove of the President on a personal level. IT IS THIS LIKEABILITY FACTOR OF GEORGE W BUSH THAT PROVIDES THE PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICANS WITH A ROADMAP TO REBUILD THEIR SUPPORT AMONG THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE.
Ed Goeas
Torrance Battleground Poll 2006
10/25/05
IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE:
--According to Gallup, the President's lowest JA rating to date was 39% (it's currently at 41%).
Presidential Lows:
35% Reagan
29% Bush 41
37% Clinton
39% Bush 43
--According to Gallup, the President earned the HIGHEST JA rating ever recorded, ''90%'' in 2001. Clinton's highest: 73%; Reagan's highest: 65%.
The President also maintained JA ratings in the 70s and 80s longer than any other president in history!!! [Bottomline: GWB knows what it means to be 'popular', yet he sacrificed it all in an effort to do the RIGHT thing relative to our War on Terrorism -- something most presidents (e.g., Clinton) would never dream of doing!]
--According to Gallup, the President's JA rating has yet to fall below 50% for an entire year (although it will probably do so this year). In contrast, both Clinton and Reagan posted THREE years below 50%.
In fact, for two consecutive years Reagan's JA average was a meager ''44%''!
Given what the Democrats/MSM/uber-cons are saying about the President now, can you imagine what the same cabal was saying about Reagan in late 1981, 1982, 1983, and into 1984? [Keep in mind that as late as April/May of 1984, Reagan trailed Gary Hart in head:head polls; fortunately, Hart self-destructed!]
--According to Gallup, the President's average JA rating for his first (almost) 5 years in office is ''60%'' vs 51% for Clinton and 52% for Reagan -- have you heard this any where?!
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME:
THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY FADES INTO IT'S TWILIGHT
CQ Weekly October 17, 1987
. . . It was vintage Reagan: flinty-eyed, sure of his aces. The terse words evoked the "make my day" challenge he had once used to wither Democratic talk of tax increases.
But this time it boomeranged. BORK'S nomination quickly plunged toward a resounding and stunning defeat, and much of the commentary that followed had the pall of a post-mortem on Reagan's political career.
This was not just any lost cause. It had been Reagan's self-proclaimed "No. 1 domestic priority." And it had been a cause that most thought Reagan could have won -- and should have won.
The label of "lame duck" which some had tried to paste on Reagan just days after his landslide re-election in 1984, seemed at long last to stick. Reaganism . . . now clearly seems to be a spent force.
. . . "It's variable when lame-ducking begins," notes Nelson W. Polsby, professor of political science at the University of Califronia at Berkeley. "With Reagan, you would have thought it would be later. But it began with Iran-contra."
Following revelations of arms sales to Iran . . . Reagan's Gallup Poll ratings took a 23-point nose dive. It was said to be the most precipitous decline in a president's approval rating since Gallup began asking questions.
. . . Democrats were quick to cite Reykjavik as evidence that Reagan was out of touch with, even uncomprehending of, the details of his administration.
That portrait was vividly reinforced by the Iran-contra revelations and even by the Bork episode, in which Reagan lost not only his confrontation with the Senate but his control of the situation. He stood by seeming helpless while a defeated Bork refused to withdraw, prolonging the embarrassment and delaying the choice of another nominee."
. . . Failing in the legislative branch, many social-agenda conservatives have come to see Reagan's choices for the judicial branch as their hope. After all, decisions from the bench -- particularly the Supreme Court -- have been their nemesis.
"The failure on this (Bork) nomination is very significant," says Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn. "This is where the President (was supposed to) deliver on the social agenda." . . . "
DEJA VU! . . . BTW: Polls mean so much in determining a President's legacy -- NOT!!
REMEMBER, LEADERS LEAD; LOSERS READ POLLS!
Is there a birthday thread for Laura? Or is this it?
All I know is that he PERSONALLY rates at the very top with me, and that is the only poll I care about! He is doing his work and not letting the polsters do it for him, and I thank him for it!
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