I agree. But of course they will not admit it or call it that.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Posted on 11/03/2008 4:34:10 AM PST by lewisglad
The greatest thing about GWB is his complete and total disdain for the MSM. He tried to do what was right. I think he was ill served by some advisors, including his father, and too many RINO’s in Congress. HE defended this nation. Killed many of our enemies. Protected this nation from further attack. Put 2 solid conservatives on the Supreme Court. Restored honor and decency to the Oval office, previously known as the “Oral” office. PREDICTION: In the next couple years we will look back on these past 8 years as the “good old days”.
Someone posted recently that for the last eight years the democrats and their dupes in the media stuck out their foot to trip President Bush and then accuse him of falling. I think that’s a good description. I don’t think it is out of line to call his treatment by many democrats, a few republicans and most of the American press treasonous. Considering either of his possible successors, he will be missed. JMHO.
I agree. But of course they will not admit it or call it that.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
True but way too much on social b.s. and give aways.
I agree, I would not want the job.
I also still think he is infinatley better than algore or john freakin kerry.
Good for you, Andrew, for writing this. President Bush kept us safe, and, whether the polls reflect it or not, a lot of us out here appreciate that very much.
THANK YOU AND GODSPEED-—— PRESIDENT BUSH AND FAMILY.
YOT TRIED TO KEEP US SAFE IN OUR MOTHERS’ WOMBS, IN OUR HOMELAND, AND OVERSEAS.
NOW IT IS TIME FOR US TO GO TO THE POLLS AND MAKE SURE YOUR SO-CALLED “LEGACY” IS VINDICATED.
ANY REPUBLICAN WHO WALKED AWAY FROM YOU AND OUR TROOPS WILL NEVER GET MY VOTE.
President George W. Bush is my guy. He did his best for ALL the American people, not just those who favored him. He is an honest leader and a very fine man. God Bless him.
Does anybody remember the harsh criticism of Mr. Bush when he honestly answered a question as to who he considered to be a great political philosopher?
A thoughtful reading of President Thomas Jefferson's works would reveal a set of beliefs that are much nearer those of George W. Bush than Bush's critics among both Republicans and Democrats of the Far Left would imagine or admit.
In his first campaign, they mocked Bush for his answer to the question about his favorite political philosopher.
Bush's answer was simple and honest.
Over two centuries before, the same Jefferson who believed that each should use reason to question even the existence of God, also penned our Declaration of Independence which, he wrote, reflected "the American mind" of the time and included references to God in four distinct manifestations.
In others of his writings he stated that Jesus "preached philanthropy and universal charity and benevolence," that "a system of morals is presented to us [by Jesus], which, if filled up in the style and spirit of the rich fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by man."
He wrote, "His moral doctrines...were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers...and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids," which, Jefferson said, "will evince the peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others."
Comparing the Hebrew code which, according to Jefferson, "laid hold of actions only," "He [Jesus] pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head."
That Jefferson cut out the statements which he believed to be directly attributable to Jesus, pasted them into a little book which he kept by his bed and, by his own words, read from them daily, might lead one to conclude that his political philosophy probably was influenced by what he considered to be the superiority of the "philosophy" of Jesus.
It is unlikely that any person alive today has read the writings of as many of the great philosophers as Jefferson. His talents and abilities were legend. His devotion to liberty and to the ideas essential to liberty were based on simple principles, some of which, undoubtedly, came from his understanding of the basic law underlying all valid human law: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Perhaps George W. Bush understood what Jefferson understood: that the philosophy capsulated in that idea has the power to make people in a society more individually benevolent, more loving, more caring, and more willing to take care of each other.
There is a sharp contrast between a philosophy of love and the politics of hate which motivate the radical Islamic terrorists, as well as the radical Left which now spouts its version of government-enforced "helping" in our partisan politics. Thomas Jefferson summarized an idea that tyrants of all political persuasions deny: "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
I agree! I miss him already.
Gracias! Viva El Presidente Jorge Boosh!! Viva!
Se, from all 20 million of us
THANK YOU President Bush.
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