Posted on 08/08/2006 3:37:24 PM PDT by ohioWfan
There are no new pictures of the President or First Lady today, since they are spending some time together at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, but we know full well that there are no 'vacations' for this President, and that he is hard at work protecting America from danger.
So.......since there are no new photos, I'm posting several of my favorite ranch pictures just for fun, and will give my report on my husband's and my personal encounter with the President last week, and will post the photos taken from our very own camera.
Enjoy your trip to Sanity Island on this slow August Daily Dose!
Hope you don't mind that I incorporated it into my story. :)
There's not much you can do when you fill up a gazillion lanes with traffic, but when you have only three and the same number of cars it gives one pause.
BUILD ANOTHER LANE!!
Lol well, I'm working at the Pentagon so I doubt Karl hangs out there much.
If Blackwell wins, I think he will be a President in the future.. IMHO...
Your story brought tears to my eyes. Print this and put it with your pictures, it was so well written. What a wonderful experience. Thank you for sharing. :)
they should LOVE that story...what an opportunity...
BTW, Ben Stein says, when asked why these Israeli atrocities weren't well know, that
"The atrocities were widely reported after the '73 and '67 wars...."
I completely agree with your assessment. He's presidential material, for sure.
He'll never tell us...I've been trying for months....
(I guess I should have supplied tissues with the Dose tonight. ;)
I have said this many times.. The first female and/or minority President will be from the GOP.. I could be wrong..
If you said it, I missed it. Are these retrospective pictures? Any new ones? Thanks for posting the dose tonight.
WOW ohio... just WOW. I really enjoyed reading your account of meeting our beloved President. Well done my FRiend!!
Whoops, I forgot to use my new tagline idea...
Mark Noonan gets it right!
STANDING FIRM WITH ISRAEL
By Mark Noonan at 09:22 AM
There has been a lot of worry-wortism on the right these days about whether or not President Bush will stand tough with Israel...this is rather surprising considering the fact that President Bush is standing firm in Iraq which has cost him far more politically than any stand with Israel would ever cost him. At all events, yesterday President Bush once again laid down his terms - which really amount to his terms for Hezbollah's unconditional surrender:
Q Mr. President, in the last couple of weeks, every time the question was asked why not get an immediate cessation and then build a sustainable -- terms for a sustainable cease-fire after you get the hostilities stopped, it was categorically rejected. Yet, a few weeks later, here we are. Can you explain why this wasn't done a couple weeks ago?
THE PRESIDENT: Sure. Because, first of all, the international community hadn't come together on a concept of how to address the root cause of the problem, Jim.
Part of the problem in the past in the Middle East is people would paper over the root cause of the problem, and therefore the situation would seemingly be quiet, and then lo and behold, there'd be another crisis. And innocent people would suffer. And so our strategy all along has been, of course we want to have a cessation of hostilities, but what we want to do in the same time is to make sure that there is a way forward for the Lebanese government to secure its own country so that there's peace in the region.
And that deals with an international peacekeeping force to complement a Lebanese army moving into the south to make sure that Resolution 1559, passed two years ago by the U.N., was fully upheld. Had the parties involved fully implemented 1559, which called for the disarmament of Hezbollah, we would not be in the situation we're in today.
President Bush has an excellent ability to get to the heart of the problem and then stake out the irreducible minimum position acceptable - the root of the problem is the fact that Hezbollah has been allowed to arm itself via Iran and Syria outside of the control of the legitimate government of Lebanon. The solution to the problem is that Hezbollah be rendered incapable of armed action against Israel. All the rest is just fluff - anything which doesn't have at its center the disarmament of Hezbollah is a worthless agreement, and President Bush isn't going to sign on to it. Better that the battle go on for six more months than to enter in to an agreement which allows Hezbollah to continued as an armed force on Israel's northern border...to do that would be to just kick the can down the road a bit. The really dangerous part of that equation, these days, is that the next time Hezbollah launches rockets in to Israel, they might have WMDs on them, courtesy of Iran and Syria.
Everyone who wishes decent people well in this world must hang tough - with our troops, with our Israeli allies, and with our President.
http://blogsforbush.com/
Great photos wonderful expressions as usual
He'll never tell us...I've been trying for months....
And that makes it all the more frustrating!!! :) Now I HAVE to know. :)
Michelob? Milk of Magnesia? Morning glory????
Please freep me with the link - thanks
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