Jonny, thanks for pinging me to that extraordinary photo. I'm sitting here trying to decided exactly what I want to say about it. Lots of thoughts running through my head, but nothing quite captures what my eyes see and my heart feels.
I thought of President Reagan -- what a great president he was, and how much I love and respect him. And yet GWB towers above him for me in a way I'll never be able to express.
I thought -- how can such a genuinely good human being like our Dubya be so reviled, but the answer came immediately. It's isn't him so much as it is a bitter clash of the petty ideologues on both sides who infest much of politics these days. They hate him, I believe, because he's what they are not. He's courageous while they are cowards. He truly is not in this for the aphrodisiac of power. They are. He is a genuine man of the people. They are pretenders. He genuinely believes in a higher power and the desire of people everywhere to be free. They fear him because of his convictions.
As for me, I love him precisely because of the qualities others hate about him.
That's it exactly. Everything they accuse him of doing is what they would do themselves.
That was outstanding post, Wolfstar. I'm going to save it for future use :)
How wonderfully put Wolfie I agree