Posted on 07/17/2006 6:36:54 PM PDT by snugs
The President and the first lady spent the weekend in in Russian where the President was attending the G8 Conference which concluded today.
Today the President attended the sumit and also had some side line meetings.
They arrived back in Washington this afternoon
The Vice President attended a Fund Raiser on Friday for state Sen, Ray Meier, in Utica, N.Y.
Today the Vice President spoke at a luncheon fund raiser for Jeff Lamberti, GOP candidate in the 3rd Congressional District, at the Wakonda Club in Des Moines, Iowa.
Today the Vice President also spoke to and met National Guard troops during a visit to Camp Dodge in Johnston, Iowa
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
Doesn't GWB just seem to be in charge in these photos? What a strong leader he is--and it also seemed like he had a good time. I also loved it when he gave Chancellor Merkel a hand when she was stepping into the photo. He looked so confident, happy, and strong.
President George W. Bush speaks with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (L) following a group picture of G8 leaders and outreach leaders at the G8 Summit in St Petersburg, Russia July 17, 2006
LOL, all that was needed was the "S" removed from his chest and replaced with "UN"
The G8 leaders, invited leaders and heads of international organizations pose for a group photo, after the final session of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg July 17, 2006. Pictured are (front L-R) UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan , Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev, Chinese President Hu Jintao , French President Jacques Chirac , Russian President Vladimir Putin , German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President George W. Bush , Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, and (rear L-R) WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, IAEA Director-General Mohamed Elbaradei, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair , South African President Thabo Mbeki, Mexican President Vicente Fox , Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, IIEA Exective Director Claude Mandil and WHO Acting Director-General Anders Nordstrom. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is not in the picture
Hi snugs, thanks for tonight's DOSE!
From the photos I'd say Ms.Merkel has a large crush on our GWB! If so who can blame her?!
LOL! Our president knows how to have fun wherever he goes. God bless him.
WOW! What a great collection of pics. Thanks for the hard work tonight.
President George W. Bush (L) speaking privately to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during lunch at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in St. Petersburg, July 17, 2006
President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are seen here at the G8 Summit. Bush "rolled his eyes and laughed" after being told that his unguarded comments about Israeli attacks on Lebanese militants had been broadcast to the world, the White House said
Thanks for the Dose, snugs!!
What a President! What a couple!!
President George W. Bush salutes U.S. Air Force personnel as he steps off Air Force One returning to the United States from Russia at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, July 17, 2006
---Still recalling PM Singh's 45 minute speech to our Congress, and how eloquent he was....
A wonderful photo display!
Thank so much, snugs.
Thank you
Well said, Mike!!!
I just knew you would like that photo it just had to be photo of the day
There, fixed it.
LOVE the photos, and LOVED the President's FRANK assessment of Hezbellah, et al, during a 'private' conversation with Tony Blair!!
MUST READS:
BUSH LAUGHED AWAY SUMMIT GAFFE
WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush "rolled his eyes and laughed" after being told that his unguarded comments about Israeli attacks on Lebanese militants had been broadcast to the world, the White House said.
Bush's private conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair was caught on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Saint Petersburg.
The US president told Blair that Hezbollah must "stop doing this sh**" -- carrying out attacks on Israel -- for the violence to end. He also said that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would soon tour the Middle East.
Asked what Bush felt when told about the broadcast of the comments, White House spokesman Tony Snow said: "His reaction first was, 'what did it say?' So we showed him the transcript, then he rolled his eyes and laughed."
You can read the entire article at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060717/pl_afp/g8summitmideast_060717222745
PLEASE, SOMEONE SEND THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE TO SEAN HANNITY:
THE REAGAN MYTH
The Gipper's record is being distorted to make President Bush look bad.
BY FRED BARNES
Monday, July 17, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
I was recently asked about President Bush's chances of a political resurgence. Might Mr. Bush be able to recover as strongly as President Reagan did from a slump in his second term in the 1980s? My response was, Reagan recovery? What Reagan recovery?
Though he continued his ultimately successful fight to win the Cold War, Reagan achieved nothing new--practically nothing--after the Iran-contra scandal broke in 1986. His presidency was crippled. The Republicans had lost the Senate. His nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987 was defeated, partly because of feeble White House support. His veto of a transportation bill was overridden.
The question was innocent enough, but it reflected a broader pattern of misrepresentation of Ronald Reagan's record in the White House that has become not only widespread but widely accepted. Reagan was, I believe, one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century, but many of the things that both liberals and conservatives now credit to his presidency simply never were. And there's a political purpose behind this Reagan revisionism. He is cited mostly to criticize Mr. Bush and congressional Republicans for falling short of some mythical Reagan standard.
You can read this entire RIGHT ON commentary at
http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008665
I'm off to the grocery store . . . It certainly is tough to keep food in the house during the summer when the kids (and their friends) are at home during the day!
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