Posted on 04/12/2006 3:01:29 PM PDT by GretchenM
The president met with Ghana's president John Kufour, and in Virginia, talked about the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit.
Condi Rice denounced Iran 's successful enrichment of uranium as unacceptable to the international community. Among others, she met with Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, and addressed the global travel and tourism summit in Washington.
Welcome to Sanity Island!
It just seems to bring out her features so well.
What happened at 62?
Thanks for tonight's Dose of sanity!
great Condi "growing up" pix.
You are so thoughtful and it was such a lovely surprise!!!
MUST READS:
ADMIRERS LAUD BUSH AS A MAN OF CONVICTION
There's some criticism but mostly adoration of the president at the Nussle fundraising event.
By Kevin Dobbs
Seven-year-old Clara Johnson, wearing a smile as wide as her face, described how she met President Bush on Tuesday.
She walked up to him, with her father at her side, and handed the president an Easter card. "He said, 'Is this for me?' and then put it in his pocket," she explained. "He smiled."
That came moments after Bush, in a 5 p.m. speech, praised U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle as a "straight-talking" leader with "unflinching resolve" who deserves to be Iowa's next governor. Bush spoke to an estimated crowd of 1,000 Republican faithful who filed into Hy-Vee Hall in downtown Des Moines to raise an estimated $1 million for Nussle's gubernatorial campaign, according to a spokeswoman for the Republican congressman.
Wearing mostly business suits and dresses, the all-ages crowd dined on roasted chicken and cheesecake, and they sipped white wine and coffee. Spread out among more than 80 tables in the cavernous exhibition hall, they swarmed around the president as he left the stage after his 20-minute speech, seeking handshakes, hugs and, in at least one case, a kiss [OhioWfan were you in Iowa?!].
You can read the rest of the article at
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060412/NEWS09/604120372/1001/NEWS
Lots of articles and a few more photos from the President's visit to Missouri yesterday:
http://www.newstribune.com/breaking_news/
http://www.newstribune.com/breaking_news/
MEDIA SELECTIVELY RECYCLES OLD NEWS
By Jack Kelly
We journalists are environmentally friendly. We recycle. We've been recycling old news all weekend, without, of course, telling you it's old news.
"A senior administration official confirmed for the first time on Sunday that President Bush had ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in an effort to rebut critics who said the administration had exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein," reported David Sanger and David Johnston in the New York Times Monday.
For the first time? Here's the AP's Tom Raum on July 20, 2003: "The White House declassified portions of an October, 2002 intelligence report to demonstrate that President Bush had ample reason to believe Iraq was reconstituting a nuclear weapons program."
"The unusual decision to declassify a major intelligence report was a bid by the White House to quiet a growing controversy over Bush's allegations about Iraq's weapons programs," wrote Dana Milbank and Dana Priest in the Washington Post the day before.
Mr. Sanger and Mr. Johnston must have slept through that month. Why the recycling? In a court filing April 5, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reported that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, told the grand jury that Mr. Cheney had authorized him to disclose portions of the National Intelligence Estimate to Judith Miller of the New York Times a couple of weeks before its general release.
You can read the entire commentary at
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/04/media_selectively_recycles_old.html
THE MINORITY REPORT
Captain's Quarter Blog
The Washington Post runs a deceptive and dishonest report about the evaluation of the Iraqi trailers that had been identified as biological weapons labs prior to the invasion in March 2003. Their front-page story announces breathlessly that the Bush administration ignored the findings of a team of experts who concluded that the trailers could not have acted as portable bioweapons platforms prior to a Bush announcement of exactly the opposite -- but below the fold, they tell a different story.
You can read the entire post at
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006736.php#comments
THE SADDAM FILES (continued)
The treasure trove of captured documents from Saddam Hussein’s regime collectively known as Harmony, which are now available for translation by anyone with access to the internet, continues to yield indications of WMD programs. As much of the press continues to pick around at intelligence assessments and analyses pre- and post- war which were in error, it is carfeully averting its eyes from evidence that Saddam was hiding the illegal weapons he had, was working closely with terrorists and had every intention of continuing to produce WMDs as soon as the sanctions program -already weakened-was over. The bloggers are not ignoring the captured documents which contain this evidence. JVeritas, a Free Republic poster has taken on the arduous task of translating and posting these documents. Here’s the latest:
Read the entire commentary at
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=4862
I hope not on the same plate LOL.
Thank you Dr. Deb.....
I am just about to the point that I have to swear off radio talk shows....the hosts just seem to delight in showing how they aren't "shills for Bush"....
Some are even complaining that he is lazy, or hiding from America...
All of these speeches and Q&A's sure don't seem like he is lazy OR hiding from anyone, or anything.
A question to all Bushbabes: Does anyone know why GWH Bush choose to live in such an regular home? Surely, with the Bush money they could have lived in a more exclusive home. Did Prescott Bush keep tight reins on the family money? Was GWH determined to make his own money and not be beholden to dad?
Also, does anyone know what kind of house GWB and Laura lived in before he became governor? Has the ranch in Midland been their primary home since marriage?
Any plans over the Easter break?
"I am just about to the point that I have to swear off radio talk shows....the hosts just seem to delight in showing how they aren't "shills for Bush".... "
They've all been 'Wiener-ized'!! . . . They're also playing to the lowest common demoninator -- BIG MISTAKE! While the 'trashers and bashers' will listen and call for a brief period, they will eventually get bored and leave; in the mean time, however, they (the bashers) will have driven away 'en masse' the sane listeners (like you and me) who want REASONED and REASONABLE discourse not 'finger in the wind' pseudo-populism that focuses its anger not at our genuine enemies (foreign and domestic) but at our Commander in Chief -- who just happens to be quite busy prosecuting a war (and trying to protect our collective butts)!!
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