Wolfstar:
AWESOME photos — The President and First Lady REALLY seemed to enjoy themselves today! [BTW: Thank you for giving us a ‘sneak peak’ into the President’s schedule for next week — the Bush-Blair press conference should be one for the history books!]
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C-SPAN WILL RE-BROADCAST THE PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO JAMESTOWN AT 2 AM EST! I highly recommend that you either watch or record the event — it was AWESOME . . . The LARGE crowd of several thousand greeted the President with an enthusiastic standing ovation and responded to his speech (it was one of his best) with an even longer, more enthusiastic standing ‘O’!! . . . His impromptu ‘maestro’ moment was CLASSIC — and it all happened because Laura didn’t hear him say it was time to go (and went off in another direction) so he decided to busy himself with the orchestra . . . I JUST LOVE THESE TWO!!
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BEST ‘AWWWWWW’ ARTICLE FROM THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH AT ST VINCENT COLLEGE:
ST. VINCENT PRESIDENT EXTENDS INVITATION TO BUSH FAN
By Jennifer Reeger
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Beverly Summa figured she’d sit at home Friday, watching President George W. Bush deliver the commencement address at St. Vincent College on television.
But a phone call two days before graduation changed that, and Summa attended commencement as a guest of St. Vincent President H. James Towey.
“I got to see him,” Summa said of Bush. “It was like seeing an old friend because I watch him all the time.”
Towey called Summa, 68, of Hannastown, Hempfield, to extend the invitation, after reading a story about her in the Tribune-Review.
Summa, a registered Democrat, said she loves President Bush so much [YEP, ANOTHER BUSH BABE!] that she placed a classified ad looking for somebody willing to sell her a ticket to commencement.
“I said, ‘She’s got to be in the building,’” Towey said yesterday.
So he made the invitation. Even the White House called him to make sure Summa got a ticket.
Summa had gotten two phone calls from people willing to sell her a ticket for $100 to an overflow area, where people gathered to watch the ceremony on television.
She declined, and got the better offer from Towey.
Summa attended the events with relatives of Kathleen Pantalone, the college’s director of events. They even picked her up.
She had an aisle seat, on the floor, behind the graduates and faculty.
“I thought it was great,” she said of Bush’s speech. “I thought it was very nice and it wasn’t too long and he made everybody comfortable, but he has that way.”
Summa said she’ll take care to always cherish the day.
“I’ll write it down, all the things I’ll remember,” she said.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_507370.html
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BLAME-BUSH BUFFOONERY
Tim Schieferecke
Hi, my name is Tim Schieferecke and I’m a native western Kansas farmboy. No, I don’t know anyone from Greensburg as I’m from northwest Kansas, but I do know what rural folks from anywhere in Kansas are like. Apparently my current leftist Governor Kathleen Sebelius doesn’t though, nor does she comprehend the availability of heavy equipment assets.
It was hard for me to hold my lunch down when I heard her craft an anti-Bush spin on the disaster that befell the good people of Greensburg. Slow recovery? This statement is disingenuous at best but in local lingo better understood as a downright lie.
You can read the rest of this ‘rant’ here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/05/blamebush_buffoonery.html
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A DR DEB RANT:
The President’s ENTHUSIASTIC reception by ‘the folks’ at three disparate events this past week once again gives lie to the DEMONCRAT/MSM poll-manufactured montra that President Bush is an ‘unpopular’ president.
During his visit to Greensburg, KS (an area that elected a DEMOCRAT congressman), the President was uniformly greeted by cheering residents practically gushing in their effusive praise for his visit (and his personal warmth)!
During his supposedly controversial visit to St. Vincent College in BLUE Pennsylvania (the center of MAD Murtha’s congressional district) . . . The President was greeted by such an enthusiastic and prolonged ovation that he was initially abit stunned . . . The local/national press searched and searched but couldn’t find one person in a crowd of thousands that offered anything but praise for the President and his speech!
And today, in Jamestown, VA (yes, the state/area in which our president is supposed to be so unpopular — so says one of our cowardly RINOs), the President received an uproariously enthusiastic standing ovation both before and after his speech . . . THE CROWD OF THOUSANDS LOVED HIM — and they REALLY loved his maestro moment!
Bottom line: The next time you hear the media trumpeting one of its ‘manufactured’ polls, just remember this past week!
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a VERY insightful read:
GONE-ZALES?
There may be a good reason Bush hangs on to his attorney general.
by Tod Lindberg
Three weeks ago, when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush administration’s firing of several U.S. attorneys and did so to bad reviews even from conservatives, most of official Washington figured he was a goner. When President Bush stepped out at the end of the day to say a good word for his embattled AG, the general reaction was that Bush had demonstrated yet again how out of touch he is.
Now, following Gonzales’s May 10 appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, it looks instead like he’s going to be around for the duration. It’s no defense of Gonzales himself, or of the administration’s handling of the firings, or even of Bush’s penchant for placing longtime loyalists in positions where they find themselves in over their heads, to acknowledge that if Gonzales does indeed stay, it will be an important political victory for the administration-in that the alternative, Gonzales’s departure under fire, would have been a catastrophic defeat.
Washington often gets focused on what happens next: Will Gonzales stay or will he go? But the real action is what happens after what happens next. In the case of a Gonzales departure, the president would face the extremely dodgy problem of getting a new attorney general confirmed.
Democrats with good memories, such as former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, who served on the House Judiciary Committee when it voted to impeach Richard Nixon in 1974, recall with precision the sequence of events that led to the resignation of the 37th president
of the United States.
You can read the rest of this VERY INFORMATIVE commentary here:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/637ntzjr.asp?pg=1
Hi Deb. You are most welcome. Yes, I'll be at work at the time, but I hope to see it on C-SPAN later that evening.
I know that as a member of the Labour Party, Tony Blair is a Leftist on many issues. I don't think that he was good for Britain on many domestic issues. But regarding the War on Terrorism, he was as staunch an ally as we could have ever hoped for in these times. For that, and for his befriending our President, I will always be grateful to Tony Blair.
However, in retirement, he is planning to turn "Algore" on us. :(
I LOVED YOUR RANT!!!
Thanks for your earlier ping I got to watch most of the speech and the conducting.
Thanks for the message about the replay of the Jamestown celebration at 2am.
I had checked cspan, and did not find the posting. So I just went back to the “earlier today” section to see if they had posted the live event. They had.
Then I went back to tonight’s schedule and discovered that if we do math looking for ‘unposted minutes’ this is what we find:
12:30 AM EDT
1:25 (est.) Video Magazine
Road to the White House
C-SPAN
02:41 AM EDT
1:52 (est.)
House Committee
Wounded and Returning Veterans
Veterans Affairs
Robert Filner , D-CA
R. James Nicholson , Department of Veterans Affairs
12:30 + 1:25 = 1:55 [end of posted program]
1:55 + 45 {the time noted at the noon live broadcast] = 2:40 which just happens to be the time posted for their next scheduled program.
No one at cspan will ever convince me that this is inadvertant or a coincidence. They deliberately refuse to post the President’s appearances whenever they can get away with it.
I am going to try to call in tomorrow morning during open phones to see if I can point out this bias on-air.
Great links as always. Thanks.